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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.176
যে-কালে দ্বিভুজ, নাম — বৈভবপ্রকাশ ।
চতুর্ভুজ হৈলে, নাম — প্রাভবপ্রকাশ ॥ ১৭৬ ॥
ye-kāle dvibhuja, nāma — vaibhava-prakāśa
caturbhuja haile, nāma — prābhava-prakāśa
“When the Lord is two-handed He is called vaibhava-prakāśa, and when He is four-handed He is called prābhava-prakāśa.
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When the Lord is two-handed, He is called vaibhava-prakāśa.
When the Lord is four-handed, He is called prābhava-prakāśa.
The verse distinguishes these two manifestations by the number of the Lord’s hands.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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:
While discussing the Absolute Truth, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Lord analyzed Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān, as well as the expansions of the Lord called svayaṁ-rūpa, tad-ekātma and āveśa, which are divided into various branches known as vaibhava and prābhava. Thus the Lord described the many forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can you connect each name with the form it describes?
Write the two terms side by side, with “two-handed” and “four-handed” beneath the appropriate names.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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