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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.6.25

यदुवंशेऽवतीर्णस्य भवत: पुरुषोत्तम । शरच्छतं व्यतीयाय पञ्चविंशाधिकं प्रभो ॥ २५ ॥
yadu-vaṁśe ’vatīrṇasya
[yadu-vamshe ’vateernasya]
bhavataḥ puruṣottama
[bhavatah purushottama]
śarac-chataṁ vyatīyāya
[sharach-chatam vyateeyaaya]
pañca-viṁśādhikaṁ prabho
[pancha-vimshaadhikam prabho]
Word-for-word
yadu-vaṁśe — in the family of the Yadus avatīrṇasya — who has descended bhavataḥ — of Yourself puruṣa-uttama — O Supreme Person śarat-śatam — one hundred autumns vyatīyāya — having passed pañca-viṁśa — by twenty-five adhikam — more prabho — O Lord.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
yadu-vaṁśe ’vatīrṇasya
yadu-vaṁśe
in the family of the Yadus
bhavataḥ puruṣottama
avatīrṇasya
who has descended
śarac-chataṁ vyatīyāya
pañca-viṁśādhikaṁ prabho
bhavataḥ
of Yourself
puruṣa-uttama
O Supreme Person
śarat-śatam
one hundred autumns
vyatīyāya
having passed
pañca-viṁśa
by twenty-five
adhikam
more
prabho
O Lord.
O Supreme Personality of Godhead, O my Lord, You have descended into the Yadu dynasty, and thus You have spent one hundred twenty-five autumns with Your devotees.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
O Supreme Lord! O master! Descending in the Yadu dynasty, you have passed one hundred and twenty-five years. Śarac-chatam means one hundred years.
Personal Guidance
Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, descended into the Yadu dynasty and spent 125 autumns with His devotees — His presence is the gift, not a metaphor.
Practical Applications
  • Today, read or hear one passage about Kṛṣṇa's personal descent into the Yadu line and refuse to abstract Him into a symbol.
  • Mark on the calendar that you, like the Yadus, have a finite span with Kṛṣṇa's saṅga in this life — and spend one block of time accordingly.
  • Speak to Kṛṣṇa directly, by name, once today, the way the Yadus addressed Him as Puruṣottama and Prabho.
Reflection Questions
  • If Kṛṣṇa actually descended and spent 125 autumns with His devotees, what in my life shows that I take that historical fact seriously?
  • Where am I treating association with Kṛṣṇa as infinite and renewable, instead of as the bounded gift the Yadus knew it to be?
For Each Age Group
youth
  • Treat your four years of college, or this one season of friendships, as a Yadu-like window — bounded, not infinite — and choose one association accordingly today.
  • When a class or post tells you God is just "the universe" or "your higher self," notice the reduction and read one śloka that addresses Kṛṣṇa as Puruṣottama instead.
  • Put your phone down for the length of one āratī and address Kṛṣṇa by name, the way the Yadus addressed Him as Prabho.
householder
  • Calculate honestly how many autumns you likely have left with your parents, spouse, or children, and let that number reshape one decision this week.
  • In family worship tonight, address Kṛṣṇa personally — by name, as Puruṣottama — so your children hear surrender directed to a Person, not a concept.
  • Refuse the workplace habit of speaking of "the universe" or "energy" when you mean Kṛṣṇa; correct it gently in your own speech first.
senior
  • Count your remaining autumns the way the Yadus counted 125, and let that count, not your fears, govern how you spend this week.
  • Tell one younger devotee a true thing about Kṛṣṇa as a Person — not as the Self — so the personalist line passes through you intact.
  • Loosen one attachment today that assumes you have unlimited time with a particular body, relationship, or role.
Common Pitfalls
  • Reading the 125 autumns as poetic exaggeration rather than as the literal span of Kṛṣṇa's manifest pastimes.
  • Dissolving Puruṣottama into an impersonal Absolute, so the verse becomes about "presence" instead of about a Person.
  • Romanticizing the Yadus' association while ignoring that even they had a finite window — and so do I.
Discussion Prompts
  • What does it change for you to address Kṛṣṇa as Puruṣottama — the Supreme Person — rather than as the Self or consciousness?
  • The Yadus had 125 autumns with Him in person; we have books, the holy name, and devotees. Is that less, equal, or in some way more — and defend your answer.
  • Where in your life are you behaving as if Kṛṣṇa's nearness is permanent and unearned, and where are you behaving as if it is precious and bounded?
Role Play

A senior devotee tells a new student, "Kṛṣṇa's 125 years in Dvārakā are just a story — what matters is the inner Self." The student feels something is wrong but cannot articulate why. Pair up: one plays the senior, one the student, and work through the response a Gauḍīya teacher would want the student to arrive at.

Objections & Responses
  • 125 autumns is obviously mythological exaggeration — taking it literally is naïve.
    The Gauḍīya line receives the Bhāgavatam as historical revelation, not mythology. Kṛṣṇa's descent into the Yadu dynasty, His pastimes, and their duration are factual; treating them as symbol is precisely the impersonalism the verse resists by naming Him Puruṣottama and Prabho.
  • Why does it matter whether Kṛṣṇa is a Person? Isn't surrender to the Absolute the same either way?
    It is not the same. You cannot address, serve, or love an abstraction; the Yadus did not pray to a principle, they prayed to Him — bhavataḥ, You. Surrender becomes real only when the One you surrender to is a Person who can receive it.
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