Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 20.356
Understand Through Two Kinds of Characteristics
“By two symptoms — personal characteristics and marginal characteristics — the great sages can understand an object.
What the purport teaches
- The great sages can understand an object through its characteristics.
- Personal characteristics are one kind of symptom they consider.
- Marginal characteristics are the other kind. The teaching names both kinds as means of understanding.
Try this today
Write two headings in your study notes: “Personal characteristics” and “Marginal characteristics.”
Ask yourself
Am I attentive to both kinds of characteristics named in this teaching?
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.