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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.53
‘দেবীধাম’ নাম তার, জীব যার বাসী ।
জগল্লক্ষ্মী রাখি’ রহে যাহাঁ মায়া দাসী ॥ ৫৩ ॥
‘devī-dhāma’ nāma tāra, jīva yāra vāsī
jagal-lakṣmī rākhi’ rahe yāhāṅ māyā dāsī
“The abode of the external energy is called Devī-dhāma, and its inhabitants are the conditioned souls. It is there that the material energy, Durgā, resides with many opulent maidservants.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The conditioned soul wants to enjoy material energy and is allowed to reside in Devī-dhāma. There Durgā carries out the Supreme Lord’s orders as His maidservant.
Durgā protects the bewildered conditioned souls and is known as the material mother. The material world is like a great fort where they remain under her care.
Durgā supplies material facilities to those who seek to please her for them. Allured by these facilities, conditioned souls do not wish to leave and keep planning to live here peacefully and happily.
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:
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.
Which material facility most encourages you to seek lasting happiness in this world?
Notice one desire for material comfort today and write how it strengthens your attachment to material life.
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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