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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.297
লীলাবতার কৃষ্ণের না যায় গণন ।
প্রধান করিয়া কহি দিগ্দরশন ॥ ২৯৭ ॥
līlāvatāra kṛṣṇera nā yāya gaṇana
pradhāna kariyā kahi dig-daraśana
“No one can count the innumerable pastime incarnations of Lord Kṛṣṇa, but I shall describe the principal ones.
Read this verse on Vedabase.ioThis verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.
Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Kṛṣṇa has innumerable pastime incarnations.
No one can count all these incarnations.
The teaching will describe the principal pastime incarnations rather than every one.
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:
He also described the incarnations of God within the material world, incarnations such as the puruṣa-avatāras, manvantara-avatāras, guṇa-avatāras and śaktyāveśa-avatāras. The Lord also discussed the divisions of Kṛṣṇa’s different ages, such as bālya and paugaṇḍa, and the different pastimes of the different ages.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.
What does the impossibility of counting Kṛṣṇa’s incarnations invite you to reflect on?
Write one reminder in your notes: the principal incarnations do not exhaust Kṛṣṇa’s innumerable pastime incarnations.
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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