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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.144
‘অপাদান’, ‘করণ’ এবং ‘অধিকরণ’-কারক তিন ।
ভগবানের সবিশেষে এই তিন চিহ্ন ॥ ১৪৪ ॥
‘apādāna,’ ‘karaṇa,’ ‘adhikaraṇa’-kāraka tina
bhagavānera saviśeṣe ei tina cihna
“The personal features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are categorized in three cases — namely ablative, instrumental and locative.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The whole cosmic manifestation emanates from the Supreme Brahman. This is described through the ablative case: from whom everything comes.
Creation subsists by the energy of the Supreme Brahman. This is described through the instrumental case: by whom it is sustained.
After annihilation, creation merges into the Supreme Brahman, expressed through the locative case. These three cases establish the personal nature 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.
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
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do creation’s origin, support and final resting place help me understand the Absolute Truth as personal?
Write three short phrases: “From Him creation comes; by His energy it subsists; into Him it merges.”
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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