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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 Madhya 15.180

জয় জয় জহ্যজামজিত দোষগৃভীতগুণাং

ত্বমসি যদাত্মনা সমবরুদ্ধসমস্তভগঃ ।

অগজগদোকসামখিলশক্ত্যববোধক তে

ক্বচিদজয়াত্মনা চ চরতোঽনুচরেন্নিগমঃ ॥” ১৮০ ॥

jaya jaya jahy ajām ajita doṣa-gṛbhīta-guṇāṁ

tvam asi yad ātmanā samavaruddha-samasta-bhagaḥ

aga-jagad-okasām akhila-śakty-avabodhaka te

kvacid ajayātmanā ca carato ’nucaren nigamaḥ”

Translation

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “ ‘O my Lord, O unconquerable one, O master of all potencies, please exhibit Your internal potency to conquer the nescience of all moving and inert living entities. Due to nescience, they accept all kinds of faulty things, thus provoking a fearful situation. O Lord, please show Your glories! You can do this very easily, for Your internal potency is beyond the external potency, and You are the reservoir of all opulence. You are also the demonstrator of the material potency. You are also always engaged in Your pastimes in the spiritual world, where You exhibit Your reserved, internal potency, and sometimes You exhibit the external potency by glancing over it. Thus You manifest Your pastimes. The Vedas confirm Your two potencies and accept both types of pastimes due to them.’”

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

The Lord’s Internal Potency Conquers Ignorance

  1. 1

    The personified Vedas glorify the Lord in this prayer. They ask Him to exhibit His internal potency to overcome the ignorance of moving and inert living entities.

  2. 2

    Through ignorance, living entities accept faulty things and create a fearful situation. The Lord can easily overcome this ignorance because His internal potency is beyond His external potency.

  3. 3

    The Lord is the reservoir of all opulence and is always engaged in pastimes in the spiritual world. The Vedas affirm both His internal and external potencies and the pastimes manifested through them.

Key points from the purport
  • It is from the prayers of the śruti-gaṇa, the personified Vedas, who glorify the Lord.

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 Madhya 15.180 quotesSB 10.87.14

This verse is taken from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.87.14).

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

Festive affection and reconciliation. Festivals, reciprocal hospitality, and the deliverance of Amogha show affectionate grace.

The mood of Madhya 15 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 15: The Lord Accepts Prasādam at the House of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

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

Then Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, with great humility, sent some Jagannātha prasādam and a cloth from Lord Jagannātha to His mother through Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura. When the Lord bade farewell to Rāghava Paṇḍita, Vāsudeva Datta, the residents of Kulīna-grāma and other devotees, He praised them for their transcendental qualities.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 15
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. jaya jayakindly exhibit Your glory
  2. jahiplease conquer
  3. ajāmnescience, māyā
  4. ajitaO unconquerable one
  5. doṣafaulty
  6. gṛbhīta-guṇāmby which the qualities are accepted
  7. tvamYou
  8. asiare
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What faulty thing might I be accepting through ignorance?

Practice

Offer a brief prayer asking the Lord to overcome your ignorance through His internal potency.

Live this todayThe Lord’s Internal Potency Conquers IgnoranceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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