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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.24
বেদ, ভাগবত, উপনিষৎ, আগম ।
‘পূর্ণতত্ত্ব’ যাঁরে কহে, নাহি যাঁর সম ॥ ২৪ ॥
veda, bhāgavata, upaniṣat, āgama
‘pūrṇa-tattva’ yāṅre kahe, nāhi yāṅra sama
The Personality of Godhead is He who is described as the Absolute Whole in the Vedas, Bhāgavatam, Upaniṣads and other transcendental literatures. No one is equal to Him.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Personality of Godhead is described as the Absolute Whole in the Vedas, Bhāgavatam, Upaniṣads and other transcendental literatures.
No one is equal to the Personality of Godhead.
The Vedas contain innumerable authoritative statements about the personal feature of the Absolute Truth.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
This chapter explains that Lord Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa Himself. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this verse help me understand the Absolute Truth as personal?
Write down this teaching today: “The Personality of Godhead is the Absolute Whole; no one is equal to Him.”
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