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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.398
ব্রজে কৃষ্ণ — সর্বৈশ্বর্যপ্ৰকাশে ‘পূর্ণতম’ ।
পুরীদ্বয়ে, পরব্যোমে — ‘পূর্ণতর,’ ‘পূর্ণ’ ॥ ৩৯৮ ॥
vraje kṛṣṇa — sarvaiśvarya-prakāśe ‘pūrṇatama’
purī-dvaye, paravyome — ‘pūrṇatara’, ‘pūrṇa’
“Kṛṣṇa is complete in the spiritual sky [Vaikuṇṭha], He is more complete in Mathurā and Dvārakā, and He is most complete in Vṛndāvana, Vraja, due to His manifesting all His opulences.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa is complete in the spiritual sky, Vaikuṇṭha.
He is more complete in Mathurā and Dvārakā.
He is most complete in Vṛndāvana, Vraja, because He manifests all His opulences there. The purport notes that the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu confirms this teaching.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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 explained how Kṛṣṇa attained His permanent form when He reached youth. In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained and described everything to Sanātana Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
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: “vṛndāvana”, “vraja”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What reason does this verse give for calling Kṛṣṇa most complete in Vṛndāvana?
Write the three descriptions—complete, more complete and most complete—with the places named for each.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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