5.13

mayatite vyapi-vaikuntha-loke

purnaisvarye sri-catur-vyuha-madhye

rupam yasyodbhati sankarsanakhyam

tam sri-nityananda-ramam prapadye

SYNONYMS

maya-atite—beyond the material creation; vyapi—all-expanding; vaikuntha-loke—in Vaikunthaloka, the spiritual world; purna-aisvarye—endowed with full opulence; sri-catuh-vyuha-madhye—in the quadruple expansions (Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha); rupam—form; yasya—whose; udbhati—appears; sankarsana-akhyam—known as Sankarsana; tam—to Him; sri-nityananda-ramam—to Lord Balarama in the form of Lord Nityananda; prapadye—I surrender.

I surrender unto the lotus feet of Sri Nityananda Rama, who is known as Sankarsana in the midst of the catur-vyuha (consisting of Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha).

He possesses full opulences and resides in Vaikunthaloka, far beyond the material creation.

PURPORT

This is a verse from Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami’s diary.

It appears as the eighth of the first fourteen verses of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta.