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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.141
‘নির্বিশেষ’ তাঁরে কহে যেই শ্রুতিগণ ।
‘প্রাকৃত’ নিষেধি করে ‘অপ্রাকৃত’ স্থাপন ॥ ১৪১ ॥
‘nirviśeṣa’ tāṅre kahe yei śruti-gaṇa
‘prākṛta’ niṣedhi kare ‘aprākṛta’ sthāpana
“Wherever there is an impersonal description in the Vedas, the Vedas mean to establish that everything belonging to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental and free of mundane characteristics.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Vedas contain impersonal descriptions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
These descriptions establish that everything belonging to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental.
They show that He is free of mundane characteristics, rather than denying His personal nature.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
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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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