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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.126
এইত’ মহিমা — তোমার ‘তটস্থ’-লক্ষণ ।
‘স্বরূপ’-লক্ষণে তুমি — ‘ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন’ ॥ ১২৬ ॥
eita’ mahimā — tomāra ‘taṭastha’-lakṣaṇa
‘svarūpa’-lakṣaṇe tumi — ‘vrajendra-nandana’
“These glories of Yours are only marginal. Originally You are the son of Mahārāja Nanda.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The original characteristics of a substance are called svarūpa. Its subsequent corollaries are called taṭastha-lakṣaṇa, or marginal characteristics.
The Lord's described glories are marginal characteristics that prove Him to be the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the son of Mahārāja Nanda.
Understanding this leads one to accept Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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:
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took His bath at Akrūra-ghāṭa, He submerged Himself in the water for a long time. Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya decided to take Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to Prayāga after visiting the holy place known as Soro-kṣetra.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “nanda”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does knowing His original identity deepen my understanding of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's glories?
Read the translation once more, then recall its conclusion: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself.
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