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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 21.84
কৃষ্ণ কহে, “এই ব্রহ্মাণ্ড পঞ্চাশৎ কোটি যোজন ।
অতি ক্ষুদ্র, তাতে তোমার চারি বদন ॥ ৮৪ ॥
kṛṣṇa kahe, “ei brahmāṇḍa pañcāśat koṭi yojana
ati kṣudra, tāte tomāra cāri vadana
“Kṛṣṇa said, ‘Your particular universe has a diameter of four billion miles; therefore it is the smallest of all the universes. Consequently you have only four heads.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa describes Brahmā’s particular universe as four billion miles in diameter, the smallest of all the universes. He connects this with Brahmā having only four heads.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura gives information from the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi that this universe measures 18,712,069,200,000,000 × 8 miles in circumference.
The purport adds that, according to some, this measurement is only half the circumference.
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:
There is also a description of one of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes with Brahmā. In this chapter the author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta has presented some nice poems about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa’s superexcellent beauty.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.
What stands out to you about Kṛṣṇa calling this universe the smallest?
Make two brief notes today: what the translation says about diameter and what the purport says about circumference.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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