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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 2.65
অদ্বয়জ্ঞান তত্ত্ববস্তু কৃষ্ণের স্বরূপ ।
ব্রহ্ম, আত্মা, ভগবান্—তিন তাঁর রূপ ॥ ৬৫ ॥
advaya-jñāna tattva-vastu kṛṣṇera svarūpa
brahma, ātmā, bhagavān — tina tāṅra rūpa
Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself is the one undivided Absolute Truth, the ultimate reality. He manifests Himself in three features — as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself is the one undivided Absolute Truth, the ultimate reality.
Bhagavān indicates the Personality of Godhead. Brahman and Paramātmā are features understood from that Absolute Personality.
Śrī Kṛṣṇa manifests as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. These three features are identical, though the Personality of Godhead is the principal 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.
The purport of CC Ādi 2.65 quotesSB 1.2.11
In the verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam cited above, the principal word, bhagavān, indicates the Personality of Godhead, and Brahman and Paramātmā are concomitants deduced from the Absolute Personality, as a government and its ministers are deductions from the supreme executive head.
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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:
Mahā-Viṣṇu is the reservoir of all conditioned souls, but, as confirmed in the authoritative scriptures, Lord Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate fountainhead, the source of numerous plenary expansions, including Nārāyaṇa, who is generally accepted by Māyāvādī philosophers to be the Absolute Truth. The Lord’s manifestation of prābhava and vaibhava expansions, as well as partial incarnations and incarnations with delegated powers, are also explained.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 2
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How does understanding one Absolute Truth help me relate these three features?
Write the names Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān, and note that they are three features of the one Absolute Truth, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
Quoted in 1 lecture. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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