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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 7.111
‘ব্রহ্ম’–শব্দে মুখ্য অর্থে কহে—‘ভগবান্’ ।
চিদৈশ্বর্য–পরিপূর্ণ, অনূর্ধ্বসমান ॥ ১১১ ॥
‘brahma’-śabde mukhya arthe kahe — ‘bhagavān’
cid-aiśvarya-paripūrṇa, anūrdhva-samāna
“According to direct understanding, the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has all spiritual opulences. No one can be equal to or greater than Him.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
According to direct understanding, the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
He possesses all spiritual opulences.
No one can be equal to or greater than Him. The purport states that Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam confirms this teaching of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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 7.111 quotesSB 1.2.11
This statement by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.11):
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
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.
How does understanding the Absolute Truth as the Supreme Person shape your understanding of God?
Read the translation slowly and pause to reflect on the words “No one can be equal to or greater than Him.”
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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