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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 3.43
‘ন্যগ্রোধপরিমণ্ডল’ হয় তাঁর নাম ।
ন্যগ্রোধপরিমণ্ডল–তনু চৈতন্য গুণধাম ॥ ৪৩ ॥
‘nyagrodha-parimaṇḍala’ haya tāṅra nāma
nyagrodha-parimaṇḍala-tanu caitanya guṇa-dhāma
Such a person is called nyagrodha-parimaṇḍala. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who personifies all good qualities, has the body of a nyagrodha-parimaṇḍala.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personifies all good qualities and has the body of a nyagrodha-parimaṇḍala.
Only the Supreme Lord Himself, who has engaged the conditioned souls by His own illusory energy, can possess these bodily features.
These features certainly indicate an incarnation of Viṣṇu and no one else.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Compassion and urgency. The holy name is offered for the age; divine love moves outward toward others.
The mood of Ādi 3 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 has described bodily symptoms in Lord Caitanya that are visible only in the person of the Supreme Lord, and he has proved that Lord Caitanya appeared with His personal associates — Śrī Nityānanda, Advaita, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa and other devotees — to preach the special significance of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. The appearance of Lord Caitanya is both significant and confidential.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 3
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How does the purport guide your understanding of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's bodily features?
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