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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.26
এই যে তোমার অনন্ত বৈভবামৃতসিন্ধু ।
মোর বাঙ্মনোগম্য নহে এক বিন্দু ॥ ২৬ ॥
ei ye tomāra ananta vaibhavāmṛta-sindhu
mora vāṅ-mano-gamya nahe eka bindu
“ ‘My Lord, Your opulence is like an unlimited ocean of nectar, and it is verbally and mentally impossible for me to realize even a drop of that ocean.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord’s opulence is compared to an unlimited ocean of nectar.
Brahmā says that he cannot mentally realize even a drop of that ocean.
He also acknowledges that words cannot express even that tiny measure of the Lord’s opulence.
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 the image of an unlimited ocean of nectar help me appreciate?
Read the translation slowly, then spend a moment reflecting on the contrast between one drop and an unlimited ocean.
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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