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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.167
শ্রীবিগ্রহ যে না মানে, সেই ত’ পাষণ্ডী ।
অদৃশ্য অস্পৃশ্য, সেই হয় যমদণ্ডী ॥ ১৬৭ ॥
śrī-vigraha ye nā māne, sei ta’ pāṣaṇḍī
adṛśya aspṛśya, sei haya yama-daṇḍī
“One who does not accept the transcendental form of the Lord is certainly an agnostic. Such a person should be neither seen nor touched. Indeed, he is subject to be punished by Yamarāja.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
According to Vedic instructions, the Lord’s transcendental form is eternal, always blissful and full of knowledge.
Beyond material nature is spiritual nature. There are spiritual forms in the spiritual world, just as there are material forms here.
Spiritual forms have nothing to do with a negative conception of formlessness. The purport calls refusal to worship the Lord’s transcendental form agnosticism.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do you tend to think of spiritual existence as formless, and how does this teaching challenge that idea?
Take a quiet moment to offer respect to the Lord’s eternal, blissful form, full of knowledge.
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