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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.112
তাঁহার বিভূতি, দেহ,—সব চিদাকার ।
চিদ্বিভূতি আচ্ছাদি’ তাঁরে কহে ‘নিরাকার’ ॥ ১১২ ॥
tāṅhāra vibhūti, deha, — saba cid-ākāra
cid-vibhūti ācchādi’ tāṅre kahe ‘nirākāra’
“Everything about the Supreme Personality of Godhead is spiritual, including His body, opulence and paraphernalia. Māyāvāda philosophy, however, covering His spiritual opulence, advocates the theory of impersonalism.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Everything about the Supreme Personality of Godhead is spiritual, including His body, opulence and paraphernalia. Māyāvāda philosophy covers His spiritual opulence by advocating impersonalism.
Kṛṣṇa’s spiritual body is full of knowledge, eternity and bliss. Material bodies, by contrast, are temporary, full of ignorance and full of misery.
When the Lord is described as nirākāra, it means that He does not have a material body like ours.
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.
Do you sometimes imagine the Lord’s body as having the limitations of your own?
Write down the three qualities of Kṛṣṇa’s spiritual body: knowledge, eternity and bliss.
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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