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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 21.85
কোন ব্রহ্মাণ্ড শতকোটি, কোন লক্ষকোটি ।
কোন নিযুতকোটি, কোন কোটি-কোটি ॥ ৮৫ ॥
kona brahmāṇḍa śata-koṭi, kona lakṣa-koṭi
kona niyuta-koṭi, kona koṭi-koṭi
“ ‘Some of the universes are one billion yojanas in diameter, some one trillion, some ten trillion and some one hundred trillion yojanas. Thus they are almost unlimited in area.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa describes universes with diameters of one billion, one trillion, ten trillion, and one hundred trillion yojanas.
These universes are described as almost unlimited in area.
The purport explains that one yojana equals eight miles.
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.
How does this range of sizes affect your sense of the vastness described here?
Convert the smallest diameter listed here into miles using the purport’s definition of a yojana.
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