Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 1.69-70
Prakāśa Forms Have Identical Features
“When the Personality of Godhead expands Himself in many forms, all nondifferent in Their features, as Lord Kṛṣṇa did when He married sixteen thousand queens and when He performed His rāsa dance, such forms of the Lord are called manifested forms [prakāśa-vigrahas].”
What the purport teaches
- The Personality of Godhead can expand Himself into many forms whose features are all nondifferent.
- Lord Kṛṣṇa displayed such forms when He married sixteen thousand queens and when He performed His rāsa dance.
- These forms of the Lord are called manifested forms, or prakāśa-vigrahas.
Try this today
Read the translation again and identify the feature shared by all these manifested forms.
Ask yourself
How do the two pastimes mentioned here illustrate prakāśa-vigrahas?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.