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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 21: The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Madhya 21.14Madhya 21.16

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.15

দ্যুপতয় এব তে ন যযুরন্তমনন্ততয়া

ত্বমপি যদন্তরাণ্ডনিচয়া ননু সাবরণাঃ ।

খ ইব রজাংসি বান্তি বয়সা সহ যচ্ছ্রুতয়-

স্ত্বয়ি হি ফলন্ত্যতন্নিরসনেন ভবন্নিধনাঃ ॥ ১৫ ॥

dyu-pataya eva te na yayur antam anantatayā

tvam api yad-antarāṇḍa-nicayā nanu sāvaraṇāḥ

kha iva rajāṁsi vānti vayasā saha yac chrutayas

tvayi hi phalanty atan-nirasanena bhavan-nidhanāḥ

Translation

“ ‘My Lord, You are unlimited. Even the predominating deities of the higher planetary systems, including Lord Brahmā, cannot find Your limitations. Nor can You Yourself ascertain the limit of Your qualities. Like atoms in the sky, there are multi-universes with seven coverings, and these are rotating in due course of time. All the experts in Vedic understanding are searching for You by eliminating the material elements. In this way, searching and searching, they come to the conclusion that everything is complete in You. Thus You are the resort of everything. This is the conclusion of all Vedic experts.’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Everything Is Complete in the Unlimited Lord

  1. 1

    The Lord is unlimited: even Lord Brahmā and the other predominating deities cannot find His limitations. Nor can the Lord Himself ascertain the limit of His qualities.

  2. 2

    Like atoms in the sky, there are many universes with seven coverings, rotating in due course of time.

  3. 3

    Vedic experts search for the Lord by eliminating the material elements. They conclude that everything is complete in Him and that He is the resort of everything.

Key points from the purport
  • This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.87.41), which was spoken by the personified Vedas, is confirmed by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.19):

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Connected verses· 2

The purport of CC Madhya 21.15 quotesSB 10.87.41

This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.87.41), which was spoken by the personified Vedas, is confirmed by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.19):

The purport of CC Madhya 21.15 quotesBG 7.19

This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.87.41), which was spoken by the personified Vedas, is confirmed by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.19):

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Awe becoming attraction. The Lord’s vast opulence is placed beside the intimate sweetness of Kṛṣṇa.

The mood of Madhya 21 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 21: The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

In this chapter Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fully describes Kṛṣṇaloka, the spiritual sky, the Causal Ocean and the material world, which consists of innumerable universes. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then describes Lord Brahmā’s interview with Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā and the Lord’s curbing the pride of Brahmā.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 21
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. dyu-patayaḥthe predominating deities of higher planetary systems (Lord Brahmā and others)
  2. evaalso
  3. teYour
  4. na yayuḥcannot reach
  5. antamthe limit of transcendental qualities
  6. anantatayādue to being unlimited
  7. tvam apiYou also
  8. yatsince
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does it mean to me that everything is complete in the Lord?

Practice

Write down “You are the resort of everything” and spend a quiet minute reflecting on it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Live this todayEverything Is Complete in the Unlimited LordThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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