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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 1.75
অনেকত্র প্রকটতা রূপস্যৈকস্য যৈকদা ।
সর্বথা তৎস্বরূপৈব স প্রকাশ ইতীর্যতে ॥ ৭৫ ॥
anekatra prakaṭatā
rūpasyaikasya yaikadā
sarvathā tat-svarūpaiva
sa prakāśa itīryate
“If numerous forms, all equal in their features, are displayed simultaneously, such forms are called prakāśa-vigrahas of the Lord.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord’s numerous forms are called prakāśa-vigrahas when they have equal features and are displayed simultaneously.
Both equality of features and simultaneous manifestation are part of this definition.
This definition is quoted from the Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta, compiled by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The energy and energetic are fundamentally one, but since their functions are differently exhibited, they are simultaneously different also. Thus the Absolute Truth is manifested in diversity in one unit.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 1
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What two characteristics help you recognize prakāśa-vigrahas?
Write the term prakāśa-vigrahas and, beside it, the two defining characteristics given here.
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