Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Ādi 7.113
Spiritual Nature Has Varieties
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full of spiritual potencies. Therefore His body, name, fame and entourage are all spiritual. The Māyāvādī philosopher, due to ignorance, says that these are all merely transformations of the material mode of goodness.
What the purport teaches
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full of spiritual potencies. His body, name, fame and entourage are all spiritual.
- The Bhagavad-gītā and Viṣṇu Purāṇa distinguish between material and spiritual energies. The purport explains that Māyāvādī philosophers do not understand these two natures.
- The Lord’s spiritual features are not transformations of material goodness. The varieties and activities of material nature give no reason to deny spiritual varieties.
Try this today
List the Lord’s body, name, fame and entourage, and write “spiritual” beside each.
Ask yourself
How does distinguishing spiritual nature from material nature help you understand the Lord’s name and form?
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.