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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 7.123
বস্তুতঃ পরিণাম–বাদ—সেই সে প্রমাণ ।
দেহে আত্মবুদ্ধি—এই বিবর্তের স্থান ॥ ১২৩ ॥
vastutaḥ pariṇāma-vāda — sei se pramāṇa
dehe ātma-buddhi — ei vivartera sthāna
“Transformation of energy is a proven fact. It is the false bodily conception of the self that is an illusion.
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The jīva is a spiritual spark, part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thinking the body to be the self is a misunderstanding.
Vivarta means accepting untruth as truth. This illusion does not change the spirit soul’s identity; it is the mistaken bodily conception of the self.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not change when His external material energy acts and reacts in different phases.
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.
When do I most readily think of my body as my whole identity?
Pause once today and reflect: “The body is not the self; I am a spiritual spark, part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
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