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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.402
এই কৃষ্ণ — ব্রজে ‘পূর্ণতম’ ভগবান্ ।
আর সব স্বরূপ — ‘পূর্ণতর’ ‘পূর্ণ’ নাম ॥ ৪০২ ॥
ei kṛṣṇa — vraje ‘pūrṇatama’ bhagavān
āra saba svarūpa — ‘pūrṇatara’ ‘pūrṇa’ nāma
“Lord Kṛṣṇa is the most complete Supreme Personality of Godhead in Vṛndāvana. Elsewhere all His expansions are either complete or more complete.
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Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
In Vṛndāvana, He is the most complete Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Elsewhere, all His expansions are either complete or more complete.
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: “vṛndāvana”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What distinction does this verse make between Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana and His expansions elsewhere?
Spend a quiet moment remembering Lord Kṛṣṇa as the most complete Supreme Personality of Godhead in Vṛndāvana.
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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