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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 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
Madhya 6.107Madhya 6.109

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.108

যচ্ছক্তয়ো বদতাং বাদিনাং বৈ, বিবাদ-সংবাদ-ভুবো ভবন্তি ।

কুর্বন্তি চৈষাং মুহুরাত্মমোহং, তস্মৈ নমোঽনন্তগুণায় ভূম্নে ॥ ১০৮ ॥

yac-chaktayo vadatāṁ vādināṁ vai

vivāda-saṁvāda-bhuvo bhavanti

kurvanti caiṣāṁ muhur ātma-mohaṁ

tasmai namo ’nanta-guṇāya bhūmne

Translation

“ ‘I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full of unlimited qualities and whose different potencies bring about agreement and disagreement between disputants. Thus the illusory energy again and again covers the self-realization of both disputants.’

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Illusion Can Cover Both Sides

  1. 1

    The prayer offers respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has unlimited qualities.

  2. 2

    His different potencies bring about agreement and disagreement between disputants.

  3. 3

    The illusory energy repeatedly covers the self-realization of both disputants.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Madhya 6.108 quotesSB 6.4.31

This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (6.4.31).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

How it feels

Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.

The mood of Madhya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

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

The Bhaṭṭācārya was an impersonalist, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu proved that the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He proved that the conceptions of the Māyāvādī philosophers concerning the impersonal Absolute Truth are incorrect.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. yatwhose
  2. śaktayaḥpotencies
  3. vadatāmcontending
  4. vādināmof the opposing disputants
  5. vaiindeed
  6. vivādaof opposition
  7. saṁvādaof agreement
  8. bhuvaḥobjects
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

When I disagree with someone, do I consider that illusion may affect both of us?

Practice

Before responding to a disagreement today, pause and remember that neither side is automatically free from illusion.

Live this todayIllusion Can Cover Both SidesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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