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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.152
ষড়ৈশ্বর্যপূর্ণানন্দ-বিগ্রহ যাঁহার ।
হেন-ভগবানে তুমি কহ নিরাকার? ॥ ১৫২ ॥
ṣaḍ-aiśvarya-pūrṇānanda-vigraha yāṅhāra
hena-bhagavāne tumi kaha nirākāra?
“Are you describing as formless that Supreme Personality of Godhead whose transcendental form is complete with six transcendental opulences?
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Supreme Lord has an eternal personal form, complete with six transcendental opulences.
His ability to walk very fast and accept offerings challenges the claim that He is formless. The Māyāvādī philosophers reject the direct meaning of the Vedic mantras to establish that claim.
The Absolute Truth is not without potency. The Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad clearly states that He has multipotencies.
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:
It is also accepted that the Absolute Truth has His transcendental, blissful, eternal form. According to the Vedas, the Lord and the living entity are equal in quality but different quantitatively.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the Lord’s ability to act and accept offerings deepen your understanding of His personal form?
Write down two affirmations from this teaching: the Lord has an eternal personal form, and He has many potencies.
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