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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.52
তার তলে ‘বাহ্যাবাস’ বিরজার পার ।
অনন্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড যাহাঁ কোঠরি অপার ॥ ৫২ ॥
tāra tale ‘bāhyāvāsa’ virajāra pāra
ananta brahmāṇḍa yāhāṅ koṭhari apāra
“On the other side of the river Virajā is the external abode, which is full of unlimited universes, each containing unlimited atmospheres.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The external abode lies on the other side of the river Virajā.
This external abode is full of unlimited universes.
Each of these universes contains unlimited atmospheres.
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.
How does this description affect your sense of the external abode’s vastness?
Read the translation slowly, noticing both the unlimited universes and the unlimited atmospheres within each.
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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