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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.100

এই ছয়–রূপে হয় অনন্ত বিভেদ ।

অনন্তরূপে একরূপ, নাহি কিছু ভেদ ॥ ১০০ ॥

ei chaya-rūpe haya ananta vibheda

ananta-rūpe eka-rūpa, nāhi kichu bheda

Translation

“In these six kinds of forms there are innumerable varieties. Although they are many, they are all one: there is no difference between them.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

1
The six features are prābhava, vaibhava, empowered incarnations, partial incarnations, childhood and boyhood.
2
Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose permanent feature is adolescence, performs pastimes in these six forms. Their varieties are innumerable, yet they are all one.
3
The jīvas, or living beings, are differentiated parts and parcels of the Lord. They are diversities of the one without a second, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Key points from the purport

The Personality of Godhead manifests Himself in six different features: (1) prābhava, (2) vaibhava, (3) empowered incarnations, (4) partial incarnations, (5) childhood and (6) boyhood.
The Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose permanent feature is adolescence, enjoys His transcendental proclivities by performing pastimes in these six forms.
In these six features there are unlimited divisions of the Personality of Godhead’s forms.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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:

He is eternal, and His form is spiritual. Lord Caitanya is directly the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, as the evidence of authoritative scriptures proves.

Learn the words of the verse.

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

How does the description of living beings as differentiated parts and parcels help you understand your relationship with the Lord?

List the six features, then note that their innumerable forms belong to the one Personality of Godhead.

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