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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.23
এক কৃষ্ণদেহ হৈতে সবার প্রকাশে ।
ক্ষণেকে সবাই সেই শরীরে প্রবেশে ॥ ২৩ ॥
eka kṛṣṇa-deha haite sabāra prakāśe
kṣaṇeke sabāi sei śarīre praveśe
“All these transcendental bodies emanated from the body of Kṛṣṇa, and within a second They all entered again into His body.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
All these bodies were transcendental.
They all emanated from the body of Kṛṣṇa.
Within a second, They all entered again into His body.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does their emanating from and returning to Kṛṣṇa help me appreciate about Him?
Read the verse slowly, giving equal attention to the bodies emanating from Kṛṣṇa and entering Him again.
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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