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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 5.70
গবাক্ষের রন্ধ্রে যেন ত্রসরেণু চলে ।
পুরুষের লোমকূপে ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের জালে ॥ ৭০ ॥
gavākṣera randhre yena trasareṇu cale
puruṣera loma-kūpe brahmāṇḍera jāle
Just as atomic particles of dust pass through the openings of a window, so the networks of universes pass through the pores of the skin of the puruṣa.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Atomic particles of dust pass through the openings of a window.
Networks of universes similarly pass through the pores of the puruṣa’s skin.
The comparison describes entire networks of universes as passing like tiny dust particles.
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:
In the Causal Ocean is Mahā-Viṣṇu, the original puruṣa expansion from Saṅkarṣaṇa. Mahā-Viṣṇu places His glance over the material energy, and by a reflection of His transcendental body He amalgamates Himself within the material elements.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 5
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the image of dust particles help me reflect on the scale of the universes and the puruṣa?
Look at a window today and recall the verse’s comparison of universes to passing dust particles.
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