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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 7.140
তাঁরে ‘নির্বিশেষ’ কহি, চিচ্ছক্তি না মানি ।
অর্ধস্বরূপ না মানিলে পূর্ণতা হয় হানি ॥ ১৪০ ॥
tāṅre ‘nirviśeṣa’ kahi, cic-chakti nā māni
ardha-svarūpa nā mānile pūrṇatā haya hāni
“When we speak of the Supreme as impersonal, we deny His spiritual potencies. Logically, if you accept half of the truth, you cannot understand the whole.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Speaking of the Supreme as impersonal denies His spiritual potencies.
Such an understanding accepts only half of the truth.
By accepting half of the truth, one cannot understand the whole.
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.
Does my understanding of the Supreme allow for His spiritual potencies?
Pause over the phrase “His spiritual potencies” and note what an impersonal understanding leaves out.
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