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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 7.10
একলে ঈশ্বর–তত্ত্ব চৈতন্য–ঈশ্বর ।
ভক্তভাবময় তাঁর শুদ্ধ কলেবর ॥ ১০ ॥
ekale īśvara-tattva caitanya-īśvara
bhakta-bhāvamaya tāṅra śuddha kalevara
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the supreme controller, the one Personality of Godhead, has ecstatically become a devotee, yet His body is transcendental and not materially tinged.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the supreme controller, the one Personality of Godhead. He ecstatically becomes a devotee, yet His body remains transcendental.
The Supreme Lord and the living entities are both eternal living forces. The living entities are very minute, whereas He is the supreme living force.
The supreme eternal never accepts a temporary material body, although living entities are prone to do so. He remains the supreme master of innumerable living entities.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.
The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What distinction does this teaching help you see between the Supreme Lord and the living entities?
Write one sentence explaining why Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s body is not material.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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