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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.190
তোমার শাস্ত্রে কহে শেষে ‘একই ঈশ্বর’ ।
‘সর্বৈশ্বর্যপূর্ণ তেঁহো — শ্যাম-কলেবর ॥ ১৯০ ॥
tomāra śāstre kahe śeṣe ‘eka-i īśvara’
‘sarvaiśvarya-pūrṇa teṅho — śyāma-kalevara
“The Koran accepts the fact that ultimately there is only one God. He is full of opulence, and His bodily complexion is blackish.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that the Koran accepts one God, full of opulence, whose bodily complexion is blackish.
The purport identifies the Koran as the revealed scripture of the Muslims. It describes the Sufis as a Muslim sampradāya accepting impersonalism and the oneness of the living entity with the Absolute Truth.
The purport gives the Sufis’ supreme slogan as “analahak.” It states that the Sufi sampradāya was derived from Śaṅkarācārya’s impersonalists.
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:
From the Koran, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu established devotional service to Kṛṣṇa. Thus the leader of the soldiers, named Vijulī Khān, surrendered to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and he and his party became devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the description of God’s opulence and bodily complexion differ from an impersonal conception?
Write down the three features of God stated in the translation: He is one, full of opulence, and blackish in complexion.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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