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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.240
‘স্বয়ং ভগবান্’, আর ‘লীলা-পুরুষোত্তম’ ।
এই দুই নাম ধরে ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন ॥ ২৪০ ॥
‘svayaṁ bhagavān’, āra ‘līlā-puruṣottama’
ei dui nāma dhare vrajendra-nandana
“Kṛṣṇa, the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, indicated as the son of Mahārāja Nanda, has two names. One is svayaṁ bhagavān, and the other is līlā-puruṣottama.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead.
He is identified here as the son of Mahārāja Nanda.
His two names given here are svayaṁ bhagavān and līlā-puruṣottama.
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:
Thus the Lord described the many forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He also described the incarnations of God within the material world, incarnations such as the puruṣa-avatāras, manvantara-avatāras, guṇa-avatāras and śaktyāveśa-avatāras.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
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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”
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How does this verse clarify who Kṛṣṇa is?
Write down Kṛṣṇa’s two names from this verse beside the words “original Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
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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