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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 Antya 6.125

সর্বত্র ‘ব্যাপক’ প্রভুর সদা সর্বত্র বাস ।

ইহাতে সংশয় যার, সেই যায় নাশ ॥ ১২৫ ॥

sarvatra ‘vyāpaka’ prabhura sadā sarvatra vāsa

ihāte saṁśaya yāra, sei yāya nāśa

Translation

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is all-pervasive, and therefore He resides everywhere. Anyone who doubts this will be annihilated.

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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 Supreme Lord Resides Everywhere

  1. 1

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead is all-pervasive.

  2. 2

    Because He is all-pervasive, He resides everywhere.

  3. 3

    The verse gives a severe warning: anyone who doubts this will be annihilated.

How it feels

Longing fulfilled. Raghunātha’s sustained desire for the Lord culminates in arrival, shelter, and renunciation.

The mood of Antya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 6: The Meeting of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī

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

Therefore another name for Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī is Svarūpera Raghu, or the Raghunātha of Svarūpa Dāmodara. For five days Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī took prasādam at the temple, but later he would stand at the Siṁha-dvāra gate and eat only whatever he could gather by alms.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. sarvatraeverywhere
  2. vyāpakapervading
  3. prabhuraof the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  4. sadāalways
  5. sarvatraeverywhere
  6. vāsaresidence
  7. ihāteabout this
  8. saṁśayadoubt
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How might remembering the Lord’s presence everywhere change my attention today?

Practice

When you enter a different place today, pause and remember that the Supreme Personality of Godhead resides there too.

Live this todayThe Supreme Lord Resides EverywhereThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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