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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.117
জীবতত্ত্ব—শক্তি, কৃষ্ণতত্ত্ব—শক্তিমান্ ।
গীতা–বিষ্ণুপুরাণাদি তাহাতে প্রমাণ ॥ ১১৭ ॥
jīva-tattva — śakti, kṛṣṇa-tattva — śaktimān
gītā-viṣṇupurāṇādi tāhāte pramāṇa
“The living entities are energies, not the energetic. The energetic is Kṛṣṇa. This is very vividly described in the Bhagavad-gītā, the Viṣṇu Purāṇa and other Vedic literatures.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Living entities are energies, not the energetic source. Kṛṣṇa is the energetic, as described in the Bhagavad-gītā, Viṣṇu Purāṇa and other Vedic literatures.
The three paths of scriptural evidence are nyāya-prasthāna, śruti-prasthāna and smṛti-prasthāna. Smṛti presents conclusions drawn from Vedic evidence.
One who believes in Vedic literature must accept all the texts recognized by the great ācāryas, rather than selectively rejecting some. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu cites smṛti evidence, whose statements clearly establish the Personality of Godhead.
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 7.117 quotesBG 7.5
Lord Caitanya therefore quotes a passage from the Bhagavad-gītā (7.5).
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.
Are you willing to consider scriptural conclusions that challenge your existing ideas?
Write the distinction clearly: “Living entities are Kṛṣṇa’s energies; Kṛṣṇa is their energetic source.”
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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