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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.115
যেই মূঢ় কহে, — জীব ঈশ্বর হয় ‘সম’ ।
সেইত ‘পাষণ্ডী’ হয়, দণ্ডে তারে যম ॥ ১১৫ ॥
yei mūḍha kahe, — jīva īśvara haya ‘sama’
seita ‘pāṣaṇḍī’ haya, daṇḍe tāre yama
“A foolish person who says that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the same as the living entity is an atheist, and he becomes subject to punishment by the superintendent of death, Yamarāja.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The living entity is under the control of the illusory energy, while the Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental to all material qualities. The verse warns that equating them brings punishment by Yamarāja.
The purport also calls one who denies the spirit soul a pāṣaṇḍī. Such a person does not distinguish between spirit and matter.
Blaspheming the Vedic literature is an offense against chanting the holy names. Considering the body to be the self and becoming overly absorbed in bodily necessities are also described as offensive.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
In this way, their Kṛṣṇa consciousness was awakened, and they could understand that a sannyāsī is simply a living entity and not the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took His bath at Akrūra-ghāṭa, He submerged Himself in the water for a long time.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
When do you find yourself thinking of the body as your whole identity?
Before attending to one bodily need today, pause and remind yourself that the body is not the self.
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