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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.6
অনন্ত বৈকুণ্ঠ এক এক দেশে যার ।
সেই পরব্যোম-ধামের কে করু বিস্তার ॥ ৬ ॥
ananta vaikuṇṭha eka eka deśe yāra
sei paravyoma-dhāmera ke karu vistāra
“Since all the Vaikuṇṭha planets are located in a certain corner of the spiritual sky, who can measure the spiritual sky?
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
All the Vaikuṇṭha planets are located in the spiritual sky.
Together, they occupy only a certain corner of that sky.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asks who can measure such a spiritual sky.
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
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In this verse: “together”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does it suggest to me that all the Vaikuṇṭha planets occupy only a corner of the spiritual sky?
Spend a quiet minute considering the verse’s question: “Who can measure the spiritual sky?”
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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