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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse
Madhya 24.74Madhya 24.76

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.75

সেই অদ্বয়-তত্ত্ব কৃষ্ণ — স্বয়ং-ভগবান্‌ ।

তিনকালে সত্য তিঁহো — শাস্ত্র-প্রমাণ ॥ ৭৫ ॥

sei advaya-tattva kṛṣṇa — svayaṁ-bhagavān

tina-kāle satya tiṅho — śāstra-pramāṇa

Translation

“That Absolute Truth without a second is Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the supreme truth in the past, present and future. That is the evidence of all revealed scriptures.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa Is the Eternal Supreme Truth

  1. 1

    The Absolute Truth without a second is Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

  2. 2

    He is the supreme truth in the past, present and future.

  3. 3

    The verse presents this conclusion as the evidence of all revealed scriptures.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

He explained this verse in sixty-one different ways. He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. seithat
  2. advaya-tattvaAbsolute Truth without a second
  3. kṛṣṇaLord Kṛṣṇa
  4. svayam-bhagavānthe Supreme Personality of Godhead
  5. tina-kālein three phases of time (past, present and future)
  6. satyatruth
  7. tiṅhoHe
  8. śāstra-pramāṇathe verdict of all Vedic literatures
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does remembering Kṛṣṇa as the supreme truth in every time affect your outlook today?

Practice

Pause for a moment and recall: Kṛṣṇa is the supreme truth in the past, present and future.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa Is the Eternal Supreme TruthThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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