Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 7.112
The Lord’s Body Is Entirely Spiritual
“Everything about the Supreme Personality of Godhead is spiritual, including His body, opulence and paraphernalia. Māyāvāda philosophy, however, covering His spiritual opulence, advocates the theory of impersonalism.
What the purport teaches
- Everything about the Supreme Personality of Godhead is spiritual, including His body, opulence and paraphernalia. Māyāvāda philosophy covers His spiritual opulence by advocating impersonalism.
- Kṛṣṇa’s spiritual body is full of knowledge, eternity and bliss. Material bodies, by contrast, are temporary, full of ignorance and full of misery.
- When the Lord is described as nirākāra, it means that He does not have a material body like ours.
Try this today
Write down the three qualities of Kṛṣṇa’s spiritual body: knowledge, eternity and bliss.
Ask yourself
Do you sometimes imagine the Lord’s body as having the limitations of your own?
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.