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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 7.127
প্রাকৃত–বস্তুতে যদি অচিন্ত্যশক্তি হয় ।
ঈশ্বরের অচিন্ত্যশক্তি,—ইথে কি বিস্ময় ॥ ১২৭ ॥
prākṛta-vastute yadi acintya-śakti haya
īśvarera acintya-śakti, — ithe ki vismaya
“If there is such inconceivable potency in material objects, why should we not believe in the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The sun gives off vast amounts of heat and light without decreasing in power. This helps us consider the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The sun is only a medium, not the original cause of creation. It is itself created by the supreme energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Material things can transform their energy and yet remain as they are. Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead need not change when His energies change.
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.
How does the example of the sun help you consider the Lord’s inconceivable potency?
Notice something growing in sunlight today, and reflect on the sun as a medium of the Lord’s energy.
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