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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.38
এ সামান্য, ত্র্যধীশ্বরের শুন অর্থ আর ।
জগৎকারণ তিন পুরুষাবতার ॥ ৩৮ ॥
e sāmānya, tryadhīśvarera śuna artha āra
jagat-kāraṇa tina puruṣāvatāra
“This is only a general description. Please try to understand another meaning of tryadhīśa. The three puruṣa incarnations of Viṣṇu are the original cause of the material creation.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The description given so far is only a general description.
The reader is invited to understand another meaning of tryadhīśa.
The three puruṣa incarnations of Viṣṇu are the original cause of the material creation.
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.
Am I willing to study further when a general description does not yet give the full meaning?
Write down tryadhīśa and the teaching given here about the three puruṣa incarnations of Viṣṇu.
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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