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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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Ādi-līlā · Chapter 7: Lord Caitanya in Five Features
Ādi 7.28Ādi 7.31-32

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Ādi 7.29-30

মায়াবাদী, কর্মনিষ্ঠ, কুতার্কিকগন ।

নিন্দক, পাষণ্ডী, যত পড়ুয়া অধম ॥ ২৯ ॥

সেই সব মহাদক্ষ ধাঞা পলাইল ।

সেই বন্যা তা–সবারে ছুঁইতে নারিল ॥ ৩০ ॥

māyāvādī, karma-niṣṭha kutārkika-gaṇa

nindaka, pāsaṇḍī yata paḍuyā adhama

Translation

The impersonalists, fruitive workers, false logicians, blasphemers, nondevotees and lowest among the student community are very expert in avoiding the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and therefore the inundation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot touch them.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Misconceptions Can Obstruct Kṛṣṇa Consciousness

  1. 1

    Those described in the translation expertly avoid the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. By avoiding it, they remain untouched by its inundation.

  2. 2

    Impersonalists consider the material world false and cannot understand how it can be used in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They mistake spiritual variety for material variety.

  3. 3

    Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is spiritual and beyond material illusion. Yet Māyāvādī philosophers regard Him as an ordinary human being when He appears personally or as a devotee.

Key points from the purport
  • Like Māyāvādī philosophers in the past such as Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī of Benares, modern impersonalists are not interested in Lord Caitanya’s Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
  • They do not know the value of this material world; they consider it false and cannot understand how the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement can utilize it.
  • Because they do not know anything beyond their misconception of the brahmajyoti, they cannot understand that Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is spiritual and therefore beyond the conception of material illusion.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Ādi 7.29-30 quotesBG 9.11

This is condemned in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.11):

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

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. māyāvādīthe impersonalist philosophers
  2. karma-niṣṭhathe fruitive workers
  3. kutārkika-gaṇathe false logicians
  4. nindakathe blasphemers
  5. pāṣaṇḍīnondevotees
  6. yataall
  7. paḍuyāstudents
  8. adhamathe lowest class
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Dainya & humility · Making room for grace

    The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “lowest”

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What assumptions might keep me from understanding Kṛṣṇa as spiritual and beyond material illusion?

Practice

Write down this teaching and read it slowly: “Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is spiritual and beyond material illusion.”

Live this todayMisconceptions Can Obstruct Kṛṣṇa ConsciousnessThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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