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CC Madhya 20.167 (1975)



His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 167

'prābhava-vaibhava'-rūpe dvividha prakāśe
eka-vapu bahu rūpa yaiche haila rāse


SYNONYMS

prābhava—prābhava; vaibhava—vaibhava; rūpe—in forms; dvi-vidha pra-kāśe—twofold manifestations; eka-vapu—the same original form; bahu rūpa—expanded into unlimited numbers; yaiche—like; haila—it was; rāse—while dancing in the rāsa dance with the gopīs.


TRANSLATION

"In His original form, Kṛṣṇa manifests Himself in two features-prābhava and vaibhava. He expands His one original form into many, as He did during the rāsa-līlā dance.