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  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features
Ādi 7.112Ādi 7.114

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.113

চিদানন্দ—তেঁহো, তাঁর স্থান, পরিবার ।

তাঁরে কহে—প্রাকৃত–সত্ত্বের বিকার ॥ ১১৩ ॥

cid-ānanda — teṅho, tāṅra sthāna, parivāra

tāṅre kahe — prākṛta-sattvera vikāra

Translation

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full of spiritual potencies. Therefore His body, name, fame and entourage are all spiritual. The Māyāvādī philosopher, due to ignorance, says that these are all merely transformations of the material mode of goodness.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Spiritual Nature Has Varieties

  1. 1

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead is full of spiritual potencies. His body, name, fame and entourage are all spiritual.

  2. 2

    The Bhagavad-gītā and Viṣṇu Purāṇa distinguish between material and spiritual energies. The purport explains that Māyāvādī philosophers do not understand these two natures.

  3. 3

    The Lord’s spiritual features are not transformations of material goodness. The varieties and activities of material nature give no reason to deny spiritual varieties.

Key points from the purport
  • In the Seventh chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā the Supreme Personality of Godhead has classified His energies in two distinct divisions — namely, prākṛta and aprākṛta, or parā-prakṛti and aparā-prakṛti.
  • The Māyāvādī philosophers cannot understand these two prakṛtis, or natures — material and spiritual — but one who is actually intelligent can understand them.
  • Considering the many varieties and activities in material nature, why should the Māyāvādī philosophers deny the spiritual varieties of the spiritual world?

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Ādi 7.113 quotesSB 10.2.32

The Bhāgavatam (10.2.32) says:

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How it feels

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

Further reading

Ādi 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features

Back to this verse in Ādi 7
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. cit-ānandaspiritual bliss
  2. teṅhoHe is personally
  3. tāṅraHis
  4. sthānaabode
  5. parivāraentourage
  6. tāṅreunto Him
  7. kahesomeone says
  8. prākṛtamaterial
  9. sattveragoodness
  10. vikāratransformation
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does distinguishing spiritual nature from material nature help you understand the Lord’s name and form?

Practice

List the Lord’s body, name, fame and entourage, and write “spiritual” beside each.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

2 lectures given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Live this todaySpiritual Nature Has VarietiesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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