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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.42
এই অর্থ — মধ্যম, শুন ‘গূঢ়’ অর্থ আর ।
তিন আবাস-স্থান কৃষ্ণের শাস্ত্রে খ্যাতি যার ॥ ৪২ ॥
ei artha — madhyama, śuna ‘gūḍha’ artha āra
tina āvāsa-sthāna kṛṣṇera śāstre khyāti yāra
“This is the middle meaning. Now please hear the confidential meaning. Lord Kṛṣṇa has three places of residence, which are well known from the revealed scriptures.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The teaching now moves from the middle meaning to the confidential meaning. Kṛṣṇa’s three residences are known from the revealed scriptures.
His internal abode is Goloka Vṛndāvana, and His intermediate abode is the spiritual sky.
His external abode is this material world.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then describes Lord Brahmā’s interview with Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā and the Lord’s curbing the pride of Brahmā. There is also a description of one of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes with 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: “vṛndāvana”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can you distinguish Kṛṣṇa’s internal, intermediate and external abodes?
Write down the three abodes with their descriptions: internal, intermediate and external.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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