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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 1.3

যদদ্বৈতং ব্রহ্মোপনিষদি তদপ্যস্য তনুভা

য আত্মান্তর্যামী পুরুষ ইতি সোঽস্যাংশবিভবঃ ।

ষড়ৈশ্বর্যেঃ পূর্ণো য ইহ ভগবান্‌ স স্বয়ময়ং

ন চৈতন্যাৎ কৃষ্ণাজ্জগতি পরতত্ত্বং পরমিহ ॥ ৩ ॥

yad advaitaṁ brahmopaniṣadi tad apy asya tanu-bhā

ya ātmāntar-yāmī puruṣa iti so ’syāṁśa-vibhavaḥ

ṣaḍ-aiśvaryaiḥ pūrṇo ya iha bhagavān sa svayam ayaṁ

na caitanyāt krṣṇāj jagati para-tattvaṁ param iha

Translation

What the Upaniṣads describe as the impersonal Brahman is but the effulgence of His body, and the Lord known as the Supersoul is but His localized plenary portion. Lord Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa Himself, full with six opulences. He is the Absolute Truth, and no other truth is greater than or equal to Him.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Lord Caitanya Is Kṛṣṇa Himself

  1. 1

    The impersonal Brahman described in the Upaniṣads is the effulgence of His body. The Supersoul is His localized plenary portion.

  2. 2

    Lord Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa Himself, full with six opulences.

  3. 3

    He is the Absolute Truth. No other truth is greater than or equal to Him.

Connected verses· 2

Quoted in the purport ofSB 10.13.52

Sad-aiśvaryaiḥ pūrṇo ya iha bhagavān. The word ajā means māyā, or mystic power.

Quoted in the purport ofSB 11.3.37

The subject matter is summarized in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 1.3): ya ātmāntaryāmī puruṣa iti so ’syāṁśa-vibhavaḥ

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Reverence and gratitude. The narrator takes shelter of the guru-paramparā; receptivity begins with humility.

The mood of Ādi 1 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Ādi 1: The Spiritual Masters

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī are the two principal followers of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, who acted as the most confidential servitor of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, known as Viśvambhara in His early life. A direct disciple of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. yatthat which
  2. advaitamnondual
  3. brahmathe impersonal Brahman
  4. upaniṣadiin the Upaniṣads
  5. tatthat
  6. apicertainly
  7. asyaHis
  8. tanu-bhāthe effulgence of His transcendental body
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this translation deepen your understanding of who Lord Caitanya is?

Practice

Read aloud the sentence identifying Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa Himself, and pause to reflect on it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

1 lecture given on it · quoted in 4 more lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Quoted in 4 other lectures

In each of these he quotes this verse while speaking on another verse or subject. "Find the quote" opens the transcript at that spot.

Live this todayLord Caitanya Is Kṛṣṇa HimselfThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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