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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.163
গীতাশাস্ত্রে জীবরূপ ‘শক্তি’ করি’ মানে ।
হেন জীবে ‘ভেদ’ কর ঈশ্বরের সনে ॥ ১৬৩ ॥
gītā-śāstre jīva-rūpa ‘śakti’ kari’ māne
hena jīve ‘bheda’ kara īśvarera sane
“In the Bhagavad-gītā the living entity is established as the marginal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yet you say that the living entity is completely different from the Lord.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Bhagavad-gītā establishes the living entity as the marginal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The living entity and the Supreme Lord are one in quality but different in quantity.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s philosophy of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva accepts this oneness and difference at the same time.
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:
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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How does being one in quality yet different in quantity help you understand your relationship with the Lord?
Write one sentence explaining the distinction between oneness in quality and difference in quantity.
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