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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 19.138
এইত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড ভরি’ অনন্ত জীবগণ ।
চৌরাশী-লক্ষ যোনিতে করয়ে ভ্রমণ ॥ ১৩৮ ॥
eita brahmāṇḍa bhari’ ananta jīva-gaṇa
caurāśī-lakṣa yonite karaye bhramaṇa
“In this universe there are limitless living entities in 8,400,000 species, and all are wandering within this universe.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes limitless living entities wandering within the universe in 8,400,000 different forms.
The purport explains that living entities are sarva-gata: they can go anywhere. According to the Vedic literatures, they exist throughout the universe in all types of material elements.
Living conditions and forms differ according to circumstances, just as land animals differ from aquatics. The purport challenges the assumption that life elsewhere must resemble life on earth.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 19.138 quotesBG 2.24
In the Bhagavad-gītā (2.24) we find that the living entities are sarva-gata, which means that they can go anywhere.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 4.29.18-20
As stated in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 19.138): The living entity is wandering throughout the entire universe and taking birth in different species on different planets.
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Empowerment and hope. The seed of bhakti is received, planted, and watered; intimate realization becomes transmissible.
The mood of Madhya 19 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:
Kavirāja Gosvāmī then extensively describes the living condition of Śrī Rūpa and Sanātana at Vṛndāvana. During the ten days at Prayāga, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was instructed by the Lord, who gave him the basic principles of the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 19
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this teaching challenge my assumptions about the forms and conditions in which life can exist?
Observe one land animal and recall one aquatic animal today, noting how their forms suit different living conditions.
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