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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.367
শক্ত্যাবেশাবতার কৃষ্ণের অসংখ্য গণন ।
দিগ্দরশন করি মুখ্য মুখ্য জন ॥ ৩৬৭ ॥
śaktyāveśāvatāra kṛṣṇera asaṅkhya gaṇana
dig-daraśana kari mukhya mukhya jana
“There are unlimited śaktyāveśa-avatāras of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Let Me describe the chief among them.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
There are unlimited śaktyāveśa-avatāras of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
The teaching introduces the chief among these empowered incarnations.
Describing the chief incarnations does not mean describing them all.
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.
How does knowing that Kṛṣṇa’s empowered incarnations are unlimited shape your understanding of Him?
Read the translation aloud once, paying attention to the words “unlimited” and “chief.”
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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