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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.19
“কৃষ্ণবৎসৈরসংখ্যাতৈঃ” — শুকদেব-বাণী ।
কৃষ্ণ-সঙ্গে কত গোপ — সংখ্যা নাহি জানি ॥ ১৯ ॥
“kṛṣṇa-vatsair asaṅkhyātaiḥ” — śukadeva-vāṇī
kṛṣṇa-saṅge kata gopa — saṅkhyā nāhi jāni
“According to Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Kṛṣṇa had unlimited calves and cowherd boys with Him. No one could count their actual number.
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Śukadeva Gosvāmī describes Kṛṣṇa as having unlimited calves with Him.
Kṛṣṇa also had unlimited cowherd boys with Him.
No one could count the actual number of these calves and cowherd boys.
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
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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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: “cowherd”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this description challenge my habit of thinking in countable quantities?
Spend a quiet moment reflecting on Kṛṣṇa surrounded by calves and cowherd boys beyond counting.
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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