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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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Antya-līlā · Chapter 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya
Antya 5.123Antya 5.126

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Antya 5.124-125

নাতঃ পরং পরম যদ্ভবতঃ স্বরূপ- মানন্দমাত্রমবিকল্পমবিদ্ধবর্চঃ ।

পশ্যামি বিশ্বসৃজমেকমবিশ্বমাত্মন্ ভূতেন্দ্রিয়াত্মকমদস্ত উপাশ্রিতোঽস্মি ॥ ১২৪ ॥

nātaḥ paraṁ parama yad bhavataḥ svarūpam

ānanda-mātram avikalpam aviddha-varcaḥ

paśyāmi viśva-sṛjam ekam aviśvam ātman

bhūtendriyātmaka-madas ta upāśrito ’smi

Translation

“ ‘O my Lord, I do not see a form superior to Your present form of eternal bliss and knowledge. In Your impersonal Brahman effulgence in the spiritual sky, there is no occasional change and no deterioration of internal potency. I surrender unto You because, whereas I am proud of my material body and senses, Your Lordship is the cause of the cosmic manifestation. Yet You are untouched by matter.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Surrender to the Lord’s Eternal Personal Form

  1. 1

    The prayer sees no form superior to the Lord’s form of eternal bliss and knowledge. His impersonal Brahman effulgence has no occasional change or deterioration of internal potency.

  2. 2

    The speaker acknowledges pride in the material body and senses and surrenders to the Lord. Although the Lord causes the cosmic manifestation, He remains untouched by matter.

  3. 3

    Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s personal form and His expanded transcendental forms are equally auspicious for all universes. Devotees meditate on His eternal form, while neglecting it through material speculation leads toward a hellish destination.

Key points from the purport
  • Since You have manifested this eternal personal form, upon whom Your devotees meditate, I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
  • Those who are destined to be dispatched to the path of hell neglect Your personal form because of speculating on material topics.’

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

How it feels

Humility and discernment. The Lord directs a seeker to Rāmānanda and clarifies genuine spiritual qualification.

The mood of Antya 5 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 5: How Pradyumna Miśra Received Instructions from Rāmānanda Rāya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

A brāhmaṇa from Bengal composed a drama about the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and went to Jagannātha Purī to show it to the associates of the Lord. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s secretary, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, heard the drama, he discerned a tinge of Māyāvāda philosophy and pointed it out to the author.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 5
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. nado not
  2. ataḥ paramhere after
  3. paramaO Supreme
  4. yatthat which
  5. bhavataḥof Your Lordship
  6. svarūpameternal form
  7. ānanda-mātramimpersonal Brahman effulgence
  8. avikalpamwithout changes
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Śaraṇāgati · Taking shelter

    Turning toward Kṛṣṇa through shelter, surrender, dependence on guru, and unconditional devotional fidelity. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “surrender”, “surrenders”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can I turn pride in my body and senses into a humble wish to surrender?

Practice

Offer respectful obeisances to the Lord and briefly meditate on His eternal form of bliss and knowledge.

Live this todaySurrender to the Lord’s Eternal Personal FormThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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