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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.77
জীবেষ্বেতে বসন্তোঽপি বিন্দুবিন্দুতয়া ক্বচিৎ ।
পরিপূর্ণতয়া ভান্তি তত্রৈব পুরুষোত্তমে ॥ ৭৭ ॥
jīveṣv ete vasanto ’pi
bindu-bindutayā kvacit
paripūrṇatayā bhānti
tatraiva puruṣottame
“ ‘These qualities are sometimes very minutely exhibited in living beings, but they are fully manifested in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Living entities are parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
These qualities are sometimes exhibited very minutely in living beings.
The same qualities are fully manifested in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 23.77 quotesBG 15.7
As Lord Kṛṣṇa states in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.7):
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Theological emotional crescendo. Bhāva, prema, the devotional rasas, and mahābhāva are systematically expounded.
The mood of Madhya 23 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:
There is also a description of the sixty-four transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa and the twenty-five transcendental qualities of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then describes those candidates who are eligible to taste the mellows of devotional service.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 23
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this distinction help you understand your relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
Write one sentence contrasting the minute expression of these qualities in living beings with their fullness in the Lord.
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