Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 5.13

māyātīte vyāpi-vaikuṇṭha-loke

pūrṇaiśvarye śrī-catur-vyūha-madhye

rūpaḿ yasyodbhāti sańkarṣaṇākhyaḿ

taḿ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaḿ prapadye

SYNONYMS

māyā-atīte — beyond the material creation; vyāpi — all-expanding; vaikuṇṭha-loke — in Vaikuṇṭhaloka, the spiritual world; pūrṇa-aiśvarye — endowed with full opulence; śrī-catuḥ-vyūha-madhye — in the quadruple expansions (Vāsudeva, Sańkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha); rūpam — form; yasya — whose; udbhāti — appears; sańkarṣaṇa-ākhyam — known as Sańkarṣaṇa; tam — to Him; śrī-nityānanda-rāmam — to Lord Balarāma in the form of Lord Nityānanda; prapadye — I surrender.

TRANSLATION

I surrender unto the lotus feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, who is known as Sańkarṣaṇa in the midst of the catur-vyūha [consisting of Vāsudeva, Sańkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha]. He possesses full opulences and resides in Vaikuṇṭhaloka, far beyond the material creation.

PURPORT

This is a verse from Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī's diary. It appears as the eighth of the first fourteen verses of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.

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