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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
Madhya 6.180Madhya 6.182

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.181

স্বাগমৈঃ কল্পিতৈস্ত্বঞ্চ জনান্ মদ্বিমুখান্ কুরু ।

মাঞ্চ গোপয় যেন স্যাৎ সৃষ্টিরেষোত্তরোত্তরা ॥ ১৮১ ॥

svāgamaiḥ kalpitais tvaṁ ca

janān mad-vimukhān kuru

māṁ ca gopaya yena syāt

sṛṣṭir eṣottarottarā

Translation

“[Addressing Lord Śiva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said:] ‘Please make the general populace averse to Me by imagining your own interpretation of the Vedas. Also, cover Me in such a way that people will take more interest in advancing material civilization just to propagate a population bereft of spiritual knowledge.’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Imagined Interpretations Cover Knowledge of the Lord

  1. 1

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead addresses Lord Śiva, asking him to imagine an interpretation of the Vedas that makes people averse to Him.

  2. 2

    The instruction is to cover the Lord so that people become more interested in advancing material civilization.

  3. 3

    The stated result is a population bereft of spiritual knowledge. The purport identifies this statement as a quotation from the Padma Purāṇa, Uttara-khaṇḍa.

Key points from the purport
  • This is a quotation from the Padma Purāṇa, Uttara-khaṇḍa (62.31).

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. sva-āgamaiḥwith your own theses
  2. kalpitaiḥimagined
  3. tvamyou
  4. caalso
  5. janānthe people in general
  6. mat-vimukhānaverse to Me and addicted to fruitive activities and speculative knowledge
  7. kurumake
  8. māmMe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Is my interest in material advancement crowding out my attention to spiritual knowledge?

Practice

Set aside five minutes today for spiritual study rather than material planning.

Live this todayImagined Interpretations Cover Knowledge of the LordThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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