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  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 6.155Madhya 6.157

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.156

তয়া তিরোহিতত্বাচ্চ শক্তিঃ ক্ষেত্রজ্ঞসংজ্ঞিতা ।

সর্বভূতেষু ভূপাল তারতম্যেন বর্ততে ॥ ১৫৬ ॥

tayā tirohitatvāc ca

śaktiḥ kṣetra-jña-saṁjñitā

sarva-bhūteṣu bhū-pāla

tāratamyena vartate

Translation

“ ‘This living entity, covered by the influence of nescience, exists in different forms in the material condition. O King, he is thus proportionately freed from the influence of material energy, to a greater or lesser degree.’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Awakening Spiritual Consciousness Beyond Material Covering

  1. 1

    Material energy acts on the living entity in different degrees, according to association with the three modes of material nature.

  2. 2

    The 8,400,000 species of life have different degrees of material covering. Spiritual consciousness is almost nonexistent in lower categories, comparatively awakened in human life, and fully awakened in superior life forms.

  3. 3

    With awakened spiritual consciousness, the living entity understands his real position. He tries to escape material energy’s influence by developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Key points from the purport
  • The material energy acts on the living entity in different degrees, according to how he acquires the association of the three modes of material nature.
  • In the superior life forms, spiritual consciousness is fully awakened.
  • Then the living entity understands his real position and tries to escape the influence of material energy by developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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:

According to the Vedas, the Lord and the living entity are equal in quality but different quantitatively. The real philosophy of the Absolute Truth states that the Lord and His creation are inconceivably and simultaneously one and different.
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. tayāby her
  2. tirohitatvātfrom being freed from the influence
  3. caalso
  4. śaktiḥthe potency
  5. kṣetra-jñakṣetra-jña
  6. saṁjñitāknown by the name
  7. sarva-bhūteṣuin different types of bodies
  8. bhū-pālaO King
  9. tāratamyenain different degrees
  10. vartateexists
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association

    Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “association”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can you make use of the spiritual awareness available in human life?

Practice

Set aside two minutes today to reflect on developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness rather than remaining under material energy’s influence.

Live this todayAwakening Spiritual Consciousness Beyond Material CoveringThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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