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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.233
আজি সে খণ্ডিল তোমার দেহাদি-বন্ধন ।
আজি তুমি ছিন্ন কৈলে মায়ার বন্ধন ॥ ২৩৩ ॥
āji se khaṇḍila tomāra dehādi-bandhana
āji tumi chinna kaile māyāra bandhana
“My dear Bhaṭṭācārya, today you have been released from material bondage in the bodily conception of life; you have cut to pieces the shackles of the illusory energy.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Lord told Bhaṭṭācārya that he had been released from material bondage.
He described this bondage as the bodily conception of life.
Bhaṭṭācārya had cut to pieces the shackles of the illusory energy.
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 greatest mistake made by the Māyāvādī philosophers is in conceiving the Absolute Truth to be impersonal and without energy. In all the Vedas, the unlimited energies of the Absolute Truth have been accepted.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.
Where do you notice the bodily conception of life shaping your sense of who you are?
Write down one way you define yourself in bodily terms, and reflect on the freedom described here.
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