148 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
sri-krsna-dkhyam— known as Lord Sri Krsna; param—supreme; dhama—abode; jagat-
dhama—the abode of the universes; namami—| offer my obeisances; tat—to Him.
TRANSLATION
“The Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam reveals the tenth object, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, who is the shelter of all surrendered souls. He is known as
Sri Krsna, and He is the ultimate source of all the universes. Let me offer my
obeisances unto Him.”
PURPORT
This quotation comes from Sridhara Svami's commentary on the first verse of
the Tenth Canto, Chapter One, of Srimad-Bhdgavatam.
TEXT 96
SCBA BHA, Vis MfaT-VVig |
Ata Bz, Sta ae sree sesia i dwt
krsnera svariipa, ara saktitraya-jfiana
yanra haya, tanra nahi krsnete ajnana
SYNONYMS
krsnera—of Lord Krsna; sva-rijpa—the real nature; gra—and; sakti-traya—of the
three energies; /fidna—knowledge; yanra—whose; haya—there is; tanra—of him; nahi
—there is not; Arsnete—in Lord Krsna; ajfidna—ignorance.
TRANSLATION
One who knows the real feature of Sri Krsna and His three different energies
cannot remain ignorant about Him.
PURPORT
Srila Jiva Gosvami states in his Bhagavat-sandarbha (16) that by His potencies,
which act in natural sequences beyond the scope of the speculative human mind,
the Supreme Transcendence, the summum bonum, eternally and simultaneously
exists in four transcendental features: His personality, His impersonal effulgence,
His potential parts and parcels (the living beings), and the principal cause of all
causes. The Supreme Whole is compared to the sun, which also exists in four
features, namely the personality of the sun-god, the glare of his glowing sphere,
the sun rays inside the sun planet, and the sun’s reflections in many other objects.
The ambition to corroborate the existence of the transcendental Absolute Truth
by limited conjectural endeavers cannot be fulfilled, because He is beyond the
scope of our limited speculative minds. In an honest search for truth, we must
admit that His powers are inconceivable to our tiny brains. The exploration of
