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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 5.136
বৃষ হঞা কৃষ্ণসনে মাথামাথি রণ ।
কভু কৃষ্ণ করে তাঁর পাদ–সম্বাহন ॥ ১৩৬ ॥
vṛṣa hañā kṛṣṇa-sane māthā-māthi raṇa
kabhu kṛṣṇa kare tāṅra pāda-saṁvāhana
Playing like a bull, Lord Balarāma fights with Kṛṣṇa head to head. And sometimes Lord Kṛṣṇa massages the feet of Lord Balarāma.
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Lord Balarāma plays like a bull.
In this play, He fights with Kṛṣṇa head to head.
Sometimes Lord Kṛṣṇa massages the feet of Lord Balarāma.
Shelter and wonder. The glory of Nityānanda reveals the intimate support behind the descent.
The mood of Ādi 5 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Mahā-Viṣṇu again enters every universe as the reservoir of all living entities, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. From Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu expands Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the Supersoul of every living entity.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice when you consider the head-to-head play alongside Kṛṣṇa’s massage of Balarāma’s feet?
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