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How to study this verse, in six steps
  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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.124

অবিচিন্ত্য–শক্তিযুক্ত শ্রীভগবান্‌ ।

ইচ্ছায় জগদ্‌রূপে পায় পরিণাম ॥ ১২৪ ॥

avicintya-śakti-yukta śrī-bhagavān

icchāya jagad-rūpe pāya pariṇāma

Translation

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is opulent in all respects. Therefore by His inconceivable energies He has transformed the material cosmic manifestation.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord Acts Through Inconceivable Energies

  1. 1

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead is opulent in all respects.

  2. 2

    His energies are inconceivable.

  3. 3

    Through these inconceivable energies, He has transformed the material cosmic manifestation.

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. avicintyainconceivable
  2. śaktipotency
  3. yuktapossessed of
  4. śrīthe affluent
  5. bhagavānPersonality of Godhead
  6. icchāyaby His wish
  7. jagat-rūpein the form of the cosmic manifestation
  8. pāyabecomes
  9. pariṇāmatransformed by His energy
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Key ideas in this 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”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does acknowledging the Lord’s inconceivable energies shape my understanding of the material manifestation?

Practice

Read the translation slowly, then name its three teachings: the Lord’s opulence, His inconceivable energies and their transformation of the material manifestation.

Live this todayThe Lord Acts Through Inconceivable EnergiesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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