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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 2.10
প্রকাশবিশেষে তেঁহ ধরে তিন নাম ।
ব্রহ্ম, পরমাত্মা আর স্বয়ং–ভগবান্ ॥ ১০ ॥
prakāśa-viśeṣe teṅha dhare tina nāma
brahma, paramātmā āra svayaṁ-bhagavān
In terms of His various manifestations, He is known in three features, called the impersonal Brahman, the localized Paramātmā and the original Personality of Godhead.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord is known as impersonal Brahman, localized Paramātmā and the original Personality of Godhead. The Personality of Godhead possesses all conceivable and inconceivable potencies.
The word bhagavān includes the meanings of sustainer, protector, leader and creator. All living beings dwell in the Supreme Lord, and He dwells within every living being’s heart.
The unlimited planets are sustained by the Supreme Lord’s energy and superior intelligence. Their arrangement illustrates His inconceivable strength.
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The purport of CC Ādi 2.10 quotesBG 15.13
This subject is clearly dealt with in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.13), where the Personality of Godhead says, “I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit.”
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Revelatory awe. The identity of Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa is established; wonder becomes theological confidence.
The mood of Ādi 2 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:
Therefore, the Brahman effulgence is the bodily luster of Lord Caitanya, and the localized Supersoul situated in the heart of every living entity is His partial representation. The puruṣa-avatāras are also explained in this connection.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the Lord’s role as sustainer and protector mean to you?
Look at the sky for a moment today and reflect on the Lord’s energy sustaining the planets.
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