1 · Learn4 of 6 · 5 min
Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.120
হেন জীবতত্ত্ব লঞা লিখি’ পরতত্ত্ব ।
আচ্ছন্ন করিল শ্রেষ্ঠ ঈশ্বর–মহত্ত্ব ॥ ১২০ ॥
hena jīva-tattva lañā likhi’ para-tattva
ācchanna karila śreṣṭha īśvara-mahattva
“The Māyāvāda philosophy is so degraded that it has taken the insignificant living entities to be the Lord, the Supreme Truth, thus covering the glory and supremacy of the Absolute Truth with monism.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The living entities are one of the Lord’s energies. Each is a minute, infinitesimal spark of the Supreme, not the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The purport explains that equating the living entity with the Supreme is a misunderstanding. Such monism covers the glory and supremacy of the Absolute Truth.
The mission of human life is to surrender unto the Supreme Lord and become His devotee. Claiming to be the Supreme Lord misdirects that mission.
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “insignificant”
Śaraṇāgati · Taking shelter
Turning toward Kṛṣṇa through shelter, surrender, dependence on guru, and unconditional devotional fidelity. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “surrender”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does seeing myself as a minute spark of the Supreme encourage surrender?
Offer a brief prayer expressing your wish to surrender to the Supreme Lord and become His devotee.
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.
Ask Caitanya CaritamrtaHave a question about CC Ādi 7.120? Get an answer from the verses themselves.