śukla-rakta-kṛṣṇa-pÄŤta — krame cāri varṇa
cāri varṇa dhari' kṛṣṇa karena yuga-dharma

 Ĺ›ukla - white; rakta - red; kṛṣṇa - black; pÄŤta - yellow; krame - one after another; cāri varṇa - four colors; cāri varṇa dhari' - accepting these four colors; kṛṣṇa - Lord Kṛṣṇa; karena yuga-dharma - manifests His pastimes in different millenniums.


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“In the four yugas — Satya, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali — the Lord incarnates in four colors: white, red, black and yellow respectively. These are the colors of the incarnations in different millenniums.

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