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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.165
অপরেয়মিতস্ত্বন্যাং প্ৰকৃতিং বিদ্ধি মে পরাম্ ।
জীবভূতাং মহাবাহো যয়েদং ধার্যতে জগৎ ॥ ১৬৫ ॥
apareyam itas tv anyāṁ
prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām
jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho
yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat
“ ‘Besides these inferior energies, which are material, there is another energy, a spiritual energy, and this is the living being, O mighty-armed one. The entire material world is sustained by the living entities.’
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The material energies are described as inferior energies.
Besides these material energies, there is spiritual energy: the living being.
The entire material world is sustained by the living entities.
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The purport of CC Madhya 6.165 quotesBG 7.4
Verses 164 and 165 are quotations from the Bhagavad-gītā (7.4-5).
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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:
In all the Vedas, the unlimited energies of the Absolute Truth have been accepted. It is also accepted that the Absolute Truth has His transcendental, blissful, eternal form.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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What does identifying the living being as spiritual energy help you understand about yourself?
Write down the verse’s distinction between material energy and the spiritual energy that is the living being.
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