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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 6.153
স্বাভাবিক তিন শক্তি যেই ব্রহ্মে হয় ।
‘নিঃশক্তিক’ করি’ তাঁরে করহ নিশ্চয়? ১৫৩ ॥
svābhāvika tina śakti yei brahme haya
‘niḥśaktika’ kari’ tāṅre karaha niścaya?
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead has three primary potencies. Are you trying to prove that He has no potencies?
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has three primary potencies.
The translation challenges the attempt to prove that He has no potencies.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu introduces four verses from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa to explain the Lord’s different potencies.
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 does accepting the Lord’s potencies affect your understanding of Him?
Before continuing your study, write this heading in your notes: “The Lord’s three primary potencies.”
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