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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.32
ভাগবতের এই শ্লোক পড়িলা আপনে ।
অর্থ আস্বাদিতে সুখে করেন ব্যাখ্যানে ॥ ৩২ ॥
bhāgavatera ei śloka paḍilā āpane
artha āsvādite sukhe karena vyākhyāne
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally recited the following verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and to relish the meaning, He began to explain it Himself.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally recited a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
He wished to relish the meaning of the verse.
To relish that meaning, He began to explain the verse Himself.
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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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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