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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 22.7
অদ্বয়জ্ঞান-তত্ত্ব কৃষ্ণ — স্বয়ং ভগবান্ ।
‘স্বরূপ-শক্তি’রূপে তাঁর হয় অবস্থান ॥ ৭ ॥
advaya-jñāna-tattva kṛṣṇa — svayaṁ bhagavān
‘svarūpa-śakti’ rūpe tāṅra haya avasthāna
“Kṛṣṇa is the nondual Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although He is one, He maintains different personal expansions and energies for His pastimes.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa is the nondual Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although one, He maintains different personal expansions and energies for His pastimes.
The Lord is the source of all potencies and is nondifferent from them. The potencies and the potent cannot be separated.
His internal, spiritual potencies are always engaged in His personal service and differ from His external, material potency. Kṛṣṇa and His internal potency are always identical.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Trust and resolution. Devotional practice and association offer a steady path for awakening love.
The mood of Madhya 22 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 the beginning He describes the truth about the living entity and the superexcellence of devotional service. He then describes the uselessness of mental speculation and mystic yoga.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 22
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
Vipralambha · Love in separation
Separation that intensifies remembrance and longing; especially central to the confidential pastimes at Purī. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “separated”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does understanding Kṛṣṇa as the source of all potencies deepen your appreciation of Him?
Write down the distinction given here between Kṛṣṇa’s internal and external potencies.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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