Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 5.76
The Puruṣa Acts Without Material Contamination
“Garbhodaśāyī and Kṣīrodaśāyī are both called puruṣas. They are plenary portions of Kāraṇodaśāyī Viṣṇu, the first puruṣa, who is the abode of all the universes.”
What the purport teaches
- Garbhodaśāyī and Kṣīrodaśāyī are plenary portions of Kāraṇodaśāyī Viṣṇu, the first puruṣa and the abode of all the universes.
- Lord Kṛṣṇa is always free from material contamination. His plenary expansion, Mahā-Viṣṇu, glances over matter to create the cosmic manifestation.
- Rūpa Gosvāmī concludes that the plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who acts in cooperation with material energy is called the puruṣa.
Try this today
Offer respectful obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa, remembering His eternally spiritual, blissful, transcendental form.
Ask yourself
How does this purport help you distinguish acting upon material energy from being contaminated by it?
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.