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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.243
প্রকাশ-বিলাসের এই কৈলুঁ বিবরণ ।
স্বাংশের ভেদ এবে শুন, সনাতন ॥ ২৪৩ ॥
prakāśa-vilāsera ei kailuṅ vivaraṇa
svāṁśera bheda ebe śuna, sanātana
“I have already described the pastime and prakāśa forms. Now please hear about the different personal expansions.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The pastime forms have already been described.
The prakāśa forms have also already been described.
The teaching now turns to the different personal expansions, with an invitation to hear.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can I give careful attention as the teaching moves to personal expansions?
Before continuing your study, pause briefly and note the new topic: personal expansions.
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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