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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.78
‘ভট্টাচার্য তুমি ইঁহার না জান মহিমা ।
ভগবত্তা-লক্ষণের ইঁহাতেই সীমা ॥ ৭৮ ॥
‘bhaṭṭācārya’ tumi iṅhāra nā jāna mahimā
bhagavattā-lakṣaṇera iṅhātei sīmā
“My dear Bhaṭṭācārya, you do not know the greatness of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. All the symptoms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are found in Him to the highest degree.”
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Gopīnātha Ācārya tells the Bhaṭṭācārya that he does not know Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s greatness. All the symptoms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are present in Him to the highest degree.
As an impersonalist, the Bhaṭṭācārya had no idea of the Absolute Truth beyond the impersonal effulgence.
Gopīnātha Ācārya identifies Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The purport also states that those who know the Absolute Truth know it in three phases.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 6.78 quotesSB 1.2.11
Those who know the Absolute Truth know it in three phases, as explained in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.2.11):
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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:
However, Gopīnātha Ācārya convinced Sārvabhauma that no one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead without being favored by Him. He proved by śāstric quotation, quotations from the revealed scriptures, that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was Kṛṣṇa Himself in person.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīnātha”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What limitation in the Bhaṭṭācārya’s understanding does Gopīnātha Ācārya point out?
Spend a minute reflecting on the statement that the Supreme Lord’s symptoms are present in Mahāprabhu to the highest degree.
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