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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 7.60
বসিয়া করিলা কিছু ঐশ্বর্য প্রকাশ ।
মহাতেজোময় বপু কোটিসূর্যাভাস ॥ ৬০ ॥
vasiyā karilā kichu aiśvarya prakāśa
mahātejomaya vapu koṭi-sūryābhāsa
After sitting on the ground, Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited His mystic power by manifesting an effulgence as brilliant as the illumination of millions of suns.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sitting on the ground, Caitanya Mahāprabhu manifested an effulgence as brilliant as millions of suns.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa and is full of all potencies. Such illumination is therefore not remarkable for Him.
Śrī Kṛṣṇa is Yogeśvara, the master of all mystic powers. Because Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, He can exhibit any mystic power.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.
The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does knowing that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa Himself shape my understanding of His effulgence?
Spend one minute reflecting on the statement: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, full of all potencies.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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