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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.170
‘পরিণাম-বাদ’ — ব্যাস-সূত্রের সম্মত ।
অচিন্ত্যশক্তি ঈশ্বর জগদ্রূপে পরিণত ॥ ১৭০ ॥
‘pariṇāma-vāda’ — vyāsa-sūtrera sammata
acintya-śakti īśvara jagad-rūpe pariṇata
“The Vedānta-sūtra aims at establishing that the cosmic manifestation has come into being by the transformation of the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Vedānta-sūtra explains how the cosmic manifestation comes into being.
The cosmic manifestation arises through a transformation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s potency.
This potency is described as inconceivable.
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:
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 remembering the Lord’s inconceivable potency affect your view of the cosmic manifestation?
Look at something in the world around you and recall that the cosmic manifestation arises through the Lord’s inconceivable potency.
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