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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 7.122
পরিণাম–বাদে ঈশ্বর হয়েন বিকারী ।
এত কহি’ ‘বিবর্ত’–বাদ স্থাপনা যে করি ॥ ১২২ ॥
pariṇāma-vāde īśvara hayena vikārī
eta kahi’ ‘vivarta’-vāda sthāpanā ye kari
“According to Śaṅkarācārya, by accepting the theory of the transformation of the energy of the Lord, one creates an illusion by indirectly accepting that the Absolute Truth is transformed.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Pariṇāma-vāda means transformation of energy. Without understanding it clearly, one misunderstands the material cosmic manifestation and the living entities.
The material world and the living entities are separate beings and are eternally true, not false.
Fearing that transformation of energy would transform Brahman, Śaṅkarācārya presents the world and individual identities as illusory. The purport rejects this conclusion.
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.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “transformed”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Why is it important not to confuse transformation of energy with the loss of real individuality?
Write the meaning of pariṇāma-vāda, then note that it does not mean the living entities are false.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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