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1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.

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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya

Madhya 8.135 Madhya 8.137

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.136

সচ্চিদানন্দ-তনু, ব্রজেন্দ্রনন্দন ।

সর্বৈশ্বর্য-সর্বশক্তি-সর্বরস-পূর্ণ ॥ ১৩৬ ॥

sac-cid-ānanda-tanu, vrajendra-nandana

sarvaiśvarya-sarvaśakti-sarvarasa-pūrṇa

Translation

“The transcendental body of Śrī Kṛṣṇa is eternal and full of bliss and knowledge. He is the son of Nanda Mahārāja. He is full of all opulences and potencies, as well as all spiritual mellows.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa’s Body Is Eternal and Blissful

1
Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental body is eternal and full of bliss and knowledge.
2
He is the son of Nanda Mahārāja.
3
He is full of all opulences and potencies, as well as all spiritual mellows.

How it feels

Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.

The mood of Madhya 8 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Madhya 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

He next described the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the transcendental mellows of love of God. Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya then recited a verse of his own concerning the platform of ecstatic vision, technically called prema-vilāsa-vivarta.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

sat-cit-ānanda-tanuKṛṣṇa’s body is transcendental, full of knowledge, bliss and eternity
vrajendra-nandanathe son of Mahārāja Nanda
sarva-aiśvaryaall opulences
sarva-śaktiall potencies
sarva-rasa-pūrṇathe reservoir of all transcendental mellows

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellows”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “nanda”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which description of Kṛṣṇa in this verse would I like to remember more deeply?

Practice

Write down one description of Kṛṣṇa from this verse and read it again later today.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa’s Body Is Eternal and BlissfulThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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