Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 2.100
Innumerable Forms, One Personality of Godhead
“In these six kinds of forms there are innumerable varieties. Although they are many, they are all one: there is no difference between them.
What the purport teaches
- The six features are prābhava, vaibhava, empowered incarnations, partial incarnations, childhood and boyhood.
- Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose permanent feature is adolescence, performs pastimes in these six forms. Their varieties are innumerable, yet they are all one.
- The jīvas, or living beings, are differentiated parts and parcels of the Lord. They are diversities of the one without a second, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Try this today
List the six features, then note that their innumerable forms belong to the one Personality of Godhead.
Ask yourself
How does the description of living beings as differentiated parts and parcels help you understand your relationship with the Lord?
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.