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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 5.90
অচিন্ত্য ঐশ্বর্য এই জানিহ আমার ।
এই ত’ গীতার অর্থ কৈল পরচার ॥ ৯০ ॥
acintya aiśvarya ei jāniha āmāra
ei ta’ gītāra artha kaila paracāra
“O Arjuna, you should know this as My inconceivable opulence.” This is the meaning propagated by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Kṛṣṇa addresses Arjuna and asks him to understand His opulence.
Kṛṣṇa describes this opulence as inconceivable.
This is the meaning Lord Kṛṣṇa teaches in the Bhagavad-gītā.
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:
Outside of the Vaikuṇṭha planets is the impersonal manifestation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, which is known as Brahmaloka. On the other side of Brahmaloka is the spiritual kāraṇa-samudra, or Causal Ocean.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 Kṛṣṇa’s description of His opulence as inconceivable shape your approach to understanding Him?
Read Kṛṣṇa’s statement slowly, pausing over the words “My inconceivable opulence.”
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