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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.285
‘আত্মা’-শব্দে কহে — সর্ববিধ ভগবান্ ।
এক ‘স্বয়ং ভগবান্’, আর ‘ভগবান্’-আখ্যান ॥ ২৮৫ ॥
‘ātmā’-śabde kahe — sarva-vidha bhagavān
eka ‘svayaṁ bhagavān’, āra ‘bhagavān’-ākhyāna
“The word ‘ātmā’ refers to all the different Personalities of Godhead. One of them is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Kṛṣṇa, and the others are different incarnations or expansions of Kṛṣṇa.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The word ātmā refers to all the different Personalities of Godhead.
Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. The others are His different incarnations or expansions.
The purport explains that ātmā includes all personalities known as Bhagavān. Kṛṣṇa’s expansions are unlimited.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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 then concluded that different classes of transcendentalists ( jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs ) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning of the verse.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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How does this explanation broaden your understanding of the word ātmā?
Write down this meaning of ātmā, noting that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself and has unlimited expansions.
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