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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.35
চিদানন্দ কৃষ্ণবিগ্রহ ‘মায়িক’ করি’ মানি ।
এই বড় ‘পাপ’, — সত্য চৈতন্যের বাণী ॥ ৩৫ ॥
cid-ānanda kṛṣṇa-vigraha ‘māyika’ kari’ māni
ei baḍa ‘pāpa’, — satya caitanyera vāṇī
“The Māyāvādīs do not recognize the personal form of the Lord as spiritual and full of bliss. This is a great sin. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s statements are actually factual.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s movement especially aims at defeating the Māyāvāda conclusion about the Absolute Truth.
The Māyāvādīs mistakenly consider the Lord’s form material, like the bodies of other living beings. The text calls this a great offense at His lotus feet.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explains that Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s form is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. All Vaiṣṇava ācāryas accept this as the proper understanding of the Absolute Truth.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Reconciliation and broad mercy. Opponents turn toward bhakti; the Lord returns to Purī and embraces devotees.
The mood of Madhya 25 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 was always very happy to hear the glories of the Lord, and it was by his arrangement that all the sannyāsīs of Vārāṇasī became devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He invited all the sannyāsīs to his house to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and this incident has been described in the seventh chapter of the Ādi-līlā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 25
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “lotus feet”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I understand Kṛṣṇa’s personal form as spiritual rather than as a material covering?
Spend one quiet minute reflecting on Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s eternal, blissful form, full of knowledge.
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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