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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 5.4
সর্ব–অবতারী কৃষ্ণ স্বয়ং ভগবান্ ।
তাঁহার দ্বিতীয় দেহ শ্রীবলরাম ॥ ৪ ॥
sarva-avatārī kṛṣṇa svayaṁ bhagavān
tāṅhāra dvitīya deha śrī-balarāma
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the fountainhead of all incarnations. Lord Balarāma is His second body.
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Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the primeval Lord, the original form of Godhead and the fountainhead of all incarnations.
Śrī Balarāma is His first expansion, described as His second body.
The Personality of Godhead can expand Himself in innumerable forms. Forms with unlimited potency are called svāṁśa, while the living entities, with limited potencies, are called vibhinnāṁśa.
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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:
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the absolute Personality of Godhead, and His first expansion in a form for pastimes is Śrī Balarāma. Beyond the limitation of this material world is the spiritual sky, paravyoma, which has many spiritual planets, the supreme of which is called Kṛṣṇaloka.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
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How does the distinction between unlimited divine potency and my limited potency shape my understanding of myself?
Write down the terms svāṁśa and vibhinnāṁśa, with the meaning of each given here.
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