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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.357
আকৃতি, প্রকৃতি, স্বরূপ, — স্বরূপ-লক্ষণ ।
কার্যদ্বারা জ্ঞান, — এই তটস্থ-লক্ষণ ॥ ৩৫৭ ॥
ākṛti, prakṛti, svarūpa, — svarūpa-lakṣaṇa
kārya-dvārā jñāna, — ei taṭastha-lakṣaṇa
“Bodily features, nature and form are the personal characteristics. Knowledge of His activities provides the marginal characteristics.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Bodily features are included among personal characteristics.
Nature and form are also personal characteristics.
Knowledge of His activities provides the marginal characteristics.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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:
He explained how Kṛṣṇa attained His permanent form when He reached youth. In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained and described everything to Sanātana Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I explain the difference between personal and marginal characteristics in my own words?
Make two short lists: personal—bodily features, nature and form; marginal—activities.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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