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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 21: The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Madhya 21.49Madhya 21.51

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.50

প্রধান-পরমব্যোম্নোরন্তরে বিরজা নদী ।

বেদাঙ্গস্বেদজনিতৈস্তোয়ৈঃ প্রস্রাবিতা শুভা ॥ ৫০ ॥

pradhāna-parama-vyomnor

antare virajā nadī

vedāṅga-sveda-janitais

toyaiḥ prasrāvitā śubhā

Translation

“ ‘Between the spiritual and the material world is a body of water known as the river Virajā. This water is generated from the bodily perspiration of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Vedāṅga. Thus the river flows.’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Virajā Lies Between the Two Worlds

  1. 1

    The river Virajā is a body of water between the spiritual and material worlds.

  2. 2

    Its water is generated from the bodily perspiration of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, known as Vedāṅga.

  3. 3

    This description of the river comes from the Padma Purāṇa.

Key points from the purport
  • This verse and the following verse are from the Padma Purāṇa.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 21: The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. pradhāna-parama-vyomnoḥ antarebetween the material world and the spiritual world
  2. virajā nadīis a river known as Virajā
  3. veda-aṅgaof the transcendental body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  4. sveda-janitaiḥproduced from the perspiration
  5. toyaiḥwith water
  6. prasrāvitāflowing
  7. śubhāall-auspicious
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What does this description teach you about the source of the river Virajā?

Practice

Write one sentence identifying where Virajā flows and where its water comes from.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Live this todayVirajā Lies Between the Two WorldsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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