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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.175
‘তত্ত্বমসি’ — জীব-হেতু প্রাদেশিক বাক্য ।
প্রণব না মানি’ তারে কহে মহাবাক্য ॥” ১৭৫ ॥
‘tat tvam asi’ — jīva-hetu prādeśika vākya
praṇava nā māni’ tāre kahe mahā-vākya
“The subsidiary vibration tat tvam asi [“you are the same”] is meant for the understanding of the living entity, but the principal vibration is oṁkāra. Not caring for oṁkāra, Śaṅkarācārya has stressed the vibration tat tvam asi.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Oṁkāra, also called praṇava, is the principal Vedic vibration and the transcendental sound incarnation of the Lord’s holy name. Tat tvam asi is subordinate.
Tat tvam asi warns the conditioned living entity not to mistake the body for the self. Śaṅkarācārya minimized oṁkāra by treating this subordinate vibration as primary.
Chanting oṁkāra or the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is the occupation of liberated souls. The purport describes such chanting as free from material desire and contamination.
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The purport of CC Madhya 6.175 quotesSB 10.1.4
Similarly, Parīkṣit Mahārāja says, nivṛtta-tarṣair upagīyamānāt. The holy name of the Lord can be chanted by those who have fully satisfied their material desires or who are fully situated on the transcendental platform and devoid of material desire.
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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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “chanting”, “holy name”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What material desires distract me from giving the holy name my attention?
Set aside one minute to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, without asking for material gain.
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