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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 1,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.1",
"devanagari": "वन्दे ऽनन्ताद्भुतैश्वर्यं श्रीनित्यानन्दमीश्वरम्\nयस्येच्छया तत्स्वरूपमज्ञेनापि निरूप्यते",
"bengali": "বন্দে ঽনন্তাদ্ভুতৈশ্বর্যং শ্রীনিত্যানন্দমীশ্বরম্\nযস্যেচ্ছযা তত্স্বরূপমজ্ঞেনাপি নিরূপ্যতে",
"transliteration": "vande 'nantādbhutaiśvaryaṁ\nśrī-nityānandam īśvaram\nyasyecchayā tat-svarūpam\najñenāpi nirūpyate",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vande",
"meanings": [
"let me offer my obeisances"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta",
"meanings": [
"unlimited"
]
},
{
"word": "adbhuta",
"meanings": [
"and wonderful"
]
},
{
"word": "aiśvaryam",
"meanings": [
"whose opulence"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-nityānandam",
"meanings": [
"unto Lord Nityānanda"
]
},
{
"word": "īśvaram",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "yasya",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "icchayā",
"meanings": [
"by the will"
]
},
{
"word": "tat-svarūpam",
"meanings": [
"His identity"
]
},
{
"word": "ajñena",
"meanings": [
"by the ignorant"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"even"
]
},
{
"word": "nirūpyate",
"meanings": [
"can be ascertained."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Let me offer my obeisances to Lord Śrī Nityānanda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose opulence is wonderful and unlimited. By His will, even a fool can understand His identity.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 2,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.2",
"devanagari": "जय जय श्रीचैतन्य जय नित्यानन्द जयाद्वैतचन्द्र जय गौरभक्तवृन्द",
"bengali": "জয জয শ্রীচৈতন্য জয নিত্যানন্দ জযাদ্বৈতচন্দ্র জয গৌরভক্তবৃন্দ",
"transliteration": "jaya jaya śrī-caitanya jaya nityānanda\njayādvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vṛnda",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "jaya jaya",
"meanings": [
"all glories"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-caitanya",
"meanings": [
"to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu"
]
},
{
"word": "jaya nityānanda",
"meanings": [
"all glories to Lord Nityānanda"
]
},
{
"word": "jaya advaita-candra",
"meanings": [
"all glories to Advaita Ācārya"
]
},
{
"word": "jayagaura-bhakta-vṛnda",
"meanings": [
"all glories to the devotees of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>All glories to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. All glories to Lord Nityānanda. All glories to Advaita Ācārya. And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 3,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.3",
"devanagari": "एइ षट्श्लोके कहिल कृष्णचैतन्यमहिमा पंचश्लोके कहि नित्यानन्दतत्त्वसीमा",
"bengali": "এই ষট্শ্লোকে কহিল কৃষ্ণচৈতন্যমহিমা পংচশ্লোকে কহি নিত্যানন্দতত্ত্বসীমা",
"transliteration": "ei ṣaṭ-śloke kahila kṛṣṇa-caitanya-mahimā\npañca-śloke kahi nityānanda-tattva-sīmā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ei",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "ṣaṭ-śloke",
"meanings": [
"in six verses"
]
},
{
"word": "kahila",
"meanings": [
"described"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-caitanya-mahimā",
"meanings": [
"the glories of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu"
]
},
{
"word": "pañca-śloke",
"meanings": [
"in five verses"
]
},
{
"word": "kahi",
"meanings": [
"let me explain"
]
},
{
"word": "nityānanda",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Nityānanda"
]
},
{
"word": "tattva",
"meanings": [
"of the truth"
]
},
{
"word": "sīmā",
"meanings": [
"the limitation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I have described the glory of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya in six verses. Now, in five verses, I shall describe the glory of Lord Nityānanda.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 4,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.4",
"devanagari": "सर्वअवतारी कृष्ण स्वयं भगवान्ताङ्हार द्वितीय देह श्रीबलराम",
"bengali": "সর্বঅবতারী কৃষ্ণ স্বযং ভগবান্তাঙ্হার দ্বিতীয দেহ শ্রীবলরাম",
"transliteration": "sarva-avatārī kṛṣṇa svayaṁ bhagavān\ntāṅhāra dvitīya deha śrī-balarāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sarva-avatārī",
"meanings": [
"the source of all incarnations"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "svayam",
"meanings": [
"personally"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅhāra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "dvitīya",
"meanings": [
"second"
]
},
{
"word": "deha",
"meanings": [
"expansion of the body"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-balarāma",
"meanings": [
"Lord Balarāma."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the fountainhead of all incarnations. Lord Balarāma is His second body.</b>",
"purport": [
"Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the absolute Personality of Godhead, is the primeval Lord, the original form of Godhead, and His first expansion is Śrī Balarāma. The Personality of Godhead can expand Himself in innumerable forms. The forms that have unlimited potency are called <i>svāṁśa,</i> and forms that have limited potencies (the living entities) are called <i>vibhinnāṁśa.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 5,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.5",
"devanagari": "एकै स्वरूप दोङ्हे, भिन्नमात्र काय आद्य कायव्यूह, कृष्णलीलार सहाय",
"bengali": "একৈ স্বরূপ দোঙ্হে, ভিন্নমাত্র কায আদ্য কাযব্যূহ, কৃষ্ণলীলার সহায",
"transliteration": "eka-i svarūpa doṅhe, bhinna-mātra kāya\nādya kāya-vyūha, kṛṣṇa-līlāra sahāya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "eka-i",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "svarūpa",
"meanings": [
"identity"
]
},
{
"word": "doṅhe",
"meanings": [
"both of Them"
]
},
{
"word": "bhinna-mātra kāya",
"meanings": [
"only two different bodies"
]
},
{
"word": "ādya",
"meanings": [
"original"
]
},
{
"word": "kāya-vyūha",
"meanings": [
"quadruple expansions"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-līlāra",
"meanings": [
"in the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "sahāya",
"meanings": [
"assistance."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>They are both one and the same identity. They differ only in form. He is the first bodily expansion of Kṛṣṇa, and He assists in Lord Kṛṣṇa's transcendental pastimes.</b>",
"purport": [
"Balarāma is a <i>svāṁśa</i> expansion of the Lord, and therefore there is no difference in potency between Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. The only difference is in Their bodily structure. As the first expansion of Godhead, Balarāma is the chief Deity among the first quadruple forms, and He is the foremost assistant of Śrī Kṛṣṇa in His transcendental activities."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 6,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.6",
"devanagari": "सेइ कृष्ण—नवद्वीपे श्रीचैतन्यचन्द्र सेइ बलराम—संगे श्रीनित्यानन्द",
"bengali": "সেই কৃষ্ণ—নবদ্বীপে শ্রীচৈতন্যচন্দ্র সেই বলরাম—সংগে শ্রীনিত্যানন্দ",
"transliteration": "sei kṛṣṇa—nava-dvīpe śrī-caitanya-candra\nsei balarāma—saṅge śrī-nityānanda",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sei kṛṣṇa",
"meanings": [
"that original Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "nava-dvīpe",
"meanings": [
"at Navadvīpa"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-caitanya-candra",
"meanings": [
"Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu"
]
},
{
"word": "sei balarāma",
"meanings": [
"that Lord Balarāma"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅge",
"meanings": [
"with Him"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-nityānanda",
"meanings": [
"Lord Nityānanda."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That original Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared in Navadvīpa as Lord Caitanya, and Balarāma appeared with Him as Lord Nityānanda.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 7,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.7",
"devanagari": "संकर्षणः कारणतोयशायी गर्भोदशायी च पयोब्धिशायी\nशेषश्च यस्यांशकलाः स नित्या नन्दाख्यरामः शरणं ममास्तु",
"bengali": "সংকর্ষণঃ কারণতোযশাযী গর্ভোদশাযী চ পযোব্ধিশাযী\nশেষশ্চ যস্যাংশকলাঃ স নিত্যা নন্দাখ্যরামঃ শরণং মমাস্তু",
"transliteration": "saṅkarṣaṇaḥ kāraṇa-toya-śāyī\ngarbhoda-śāyī ca payobdhi-śāyī\nśeṣaś ca yasyāṁśa-kalāḥ sa nityā-\nnandākhya-rāmaḥ śaraṇaṁ mamāstu",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "saṅkarṣaṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa in the spiritual sky"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa-toya-śāyī",
"meanings": [
"Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who lies in the Causal Ocean"
]
},
{
"word": "garbha-uda-śāyī",
"meanings": [
"Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who lies in the Garbhodaka Ocean of the universe"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "payaḥ-abdhi-śāyī",
"meanings": [
"Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who lies in the ocean of milk"
]
},
{
"word": "śeṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Śeṣa Nāga, the couch of Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "yasya",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśa",
"meanings": [
"plenary portions"
]
},
{
"word": "kalāḥ",
"meanings": [
"and parts of the plenary portions"
]
},
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"He"
]
},
{
"word": "nityānanda-ākhya",
"meanings": [
"known as Lord Nityānanda"
]
},
{
"word": "rāmaḥ",
"meanings": [
"Lord Balarāma"
]
},
{
"word": "śaraṇam",
"meanings": [
"shelter"
]
},
{
"word": "mama",
"meanings": [
"my"
]
},
{
"word": "astu",
"meanings": [
"let there be."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>May Śrī Nityānanda Rāma be the object of my constant remembrance. Saṅkarṣaṇa, Śeṣa Nāga and the Viṣṇus who lie on the Kāraṇa Ocean, Garbha Ocean and ocean of milk are His plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions.</b>",
"purport": [
"Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has recorded this verse in his diary to offer his respectful obeisances to Lord Nityānanda Prabhu. This verse also appears as the seventh of the first fourteen verses of <i>Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 8,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.8",
"devanagari": "श्रीबलराम गोसाञि मूलसंकर्षण पंचरूप धरिऽ करेन कृष्णेर सेवन",
"bengali": "শ্রীবলরাম গোসাঞি মূলসংকর্ষণ পংচরূপ ধরিঽ করেন কৃষ্ণের সেবন",
"transliteration": "śrī-balarāma gosāñi mūla-saṅkarṣaṇa\npañca-rūpa dhari' karena kṛṣṇera sevana",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "śrī-balarāma",
"meanings": [
"Balarāma"
]
},
{
"word": "gosāñi",
"meanings": [
"the Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "mūla-saṅkarṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"the original Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "pañca-rūpa dhari'",
"meanings": [
"accepting five bodies"
]
},
{
"word": "karena",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇera",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "sevana",
"meanings": [
"service."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Lord Balarāma is the original Saṅkarṣaṇa. He assumes five other forms to serve Lord Kṛṣṇa.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 9,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.9",
"devanagari": "आपने करेन कृष्णलीलार सहाय सृष्टिलीलाकार्य करे धरिऽ चारि काय",
"bengali": "আপনে করেন কৃষ্ণলীলার সহায সৃষ্টিলীলাকার্য করে ধরিঽ চারি কায",
"transliteration": "āpane karena kṛṣṇa-līlāra sahāya\nsṛṣṭi-līlā-kārya kare dhari' cāri kāya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "āpane",
"meanings": [
"personally"
]
},
{
"word": "karena",
"meanings": [
"performs"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-līlāra sahāya",
"meanings": [
"assistance in the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "sṛṣṭi-līlā",
"meanings": [
"of the pastimes of creation"
]
},
{
"word": "kārya",
"meanings": [
"the work"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "dhari'",
"meanings": [
"accepting"
]
},
{
"word": "cāri kāya",
"meanings": [
"four bodies."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>He Himself helps in the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and He does the work of creation in four other forms.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 10,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.10",
"devanagari": "सृष्ट्यादिक सेवा,—ताङ्र आज्ञार पालन ऽशेषऽरूपे करे कृष्णेर विविध सेवन",
"bengali": "সৃষ্ট্যাদিক সেবা,—তাঙ্র আজ্ঞার পালন ঽশেষঽরূপে করে কৃষ্ণের বিবিধ সেবন",
"transliteration": "sṛṣṭy-ādika sevā,—tāṅra ājñāra pālana\n'śeṣa'-rūpe kare kṛṣṇera vividha sevana",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sṛṣṭi-ādika sevā",
"meanings": [
"service in the matter of creation"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "ājñāra",
"meanings": [
"of the order"
]
},
{
"word": "pālana",
"meanings": [
"execution"
]
},
{
"word": "śeṣa-rūpe",
"meanings": [
"the form of Lord Śeṣa"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇera",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "vividha sevana",
"meanings": [
"varieties of service."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>He executes the orders of Lord Kṛṣṇa in the work of creation, and in the form of Lord Śeṣa He serves Kṛṣṇa in various ways.</b>",
"purport": [
"According to expert opinion, Balarāma, as the chief of the original quadruple forms, is also the original Saṅkarṣaṇa. Balarāma, the first expansion of Kṛṣṇa, expands Himself in five forms: (1) Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa, (2) Kāraṇābdhiśāyī, (3) Garbhodakaśāyī, (4) Kṣīrodakaśāyī, and (5) Śeṣa. These five plenary portions are responsible for both the spiritual and material cosmic manifestations. In these five forms Lord Balarāma assists Lord Kṛṣṇa in His activities. The first four of these forms are responsible for the cosmic manifestations, whereas Śeṣa is responsible for personal service to the Lord. Śeṣa is called Ananta, or unlimited, because He assists the Personality of Godhead in His unlimited expansions by performing an unlimited variety of services. Śrī Balarāma is the servitor Godhead who serves Lord Kṛṣṇa in all affairs of existence and knowledge. Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, who is the same servitor Godhead, Balarāma, performs the same service to Lord Gaurāṅga by constant association."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 11,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.11",
"devanagari": "सर्वरूपे आस्वादये कृष्णसेवानन्द सेइ बलराम—गौरसंगे नित्यानन्द",
"bengali": "সর্বরূপে আস্বাদযে কৃষ্ণসেবানন্দ সেই বলরাম—গৌরসংগে নিত্যানন্দ",
"transliteration": "sarva-rūpe āsvādaye kṛṣṇa-sevānanda\nsei balarāma—gaura-saṅge nityānanda",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sarva-rūpe",
"meanings": [
"in all these forms"
]
},
{
"word": "āsvādaye",
"meanings": [
"tastes"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-sevā-ānanda",
"meanings": [
"the transcendental bliss of serving Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "sei balarāma",
"meanings": [
"that Lord Balarāma"
]
},
{
"word": "gaura-saṅge",
"meanings": [
"with Gaurasundara"
]
},
{
"word": "nityānanda",
"meanings": [
"Lord Nityānanda."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>In all the forms He tastes the transcendental bliss of serving Kṛṣṇa. That same Balarāma is Lord Nityānanda, the companion of Lord Gaurasundara.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 12,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.12",
"devanagari": "सप्तम श्लोकेर अर्थ करि चारिश्लोके याते नित्यानन्दतत्त्व जाने सर्वलोके",
"bengali": "সপ্তম শ্লোকের অর্থ করি চারিশ্লোকে যাতে নিত্যানন্দতত্ত্ব জানে সর্বলোকে",
"transliteration": "saptama ślokera artha kari cāri-śloke\nyāte nityānanda-tattva jāne sarva-loke",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "saptama ślokera",
"meanings": [
"of the seventh verse"
]
},
{
"word": "artha",
"meanings": [
"the meaning"
]
},
{
"word": "kari",
"meanings": [
"I do"
]
},
{
"word": "cāri-śloke",
"meanings": [
"in four verses"
]
},
{
"word": "yāte",
"meanings": [
"in which"
]
},
{
"word": "nityānanda-tattva",
"meanings": [
"the truth of Lord Nityānanda"
]
},
{
"word": "jāne",
"meanings": [
"one knows"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva-loke",
"meanings": [
"all over the world."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I have explained this seventh verse in four subsequent verses. By these verses all the world can know the truth about Lord Nityānanda.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 13,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.13",
"devanagari": "मायातीते व्यापिवैकुण्ठलोके पूर्णैश्वर्ये श्रीचतुर्व्यूहमध्ये\nरूपं यस्योद्भाति संकर्षणाख्यं तं श्रीनित्यानन्दरामं प्रपद्ये",
"bengali": "মাযাতীতে ব্যাপিবৈকুণ্ঠলোকে পূর্ণৈশ্বর্যে শ্রীচতুর্ব্যূহমধ্যে\nরূপং যস্যোদ্ভাতি সংকর্ষণাখ্যং তং শ্রীনিত্যানন্দরামং প্রপদ্যে",
"transliteration": "māyātīte vyāpi-vaikuṇṭha-loke\npūrṇaiśvarye śrī-catur-vyūha-madhye\nrūpaṁ yasyodbhāti saṅkarṣaṇākhyaṁ\ntaṁ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaṁ prapadye",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "māyā-atīte",
"meanings": [
"beyond the material creation"
]
},
{
"word": "vyāpi",
"meanings": [
"all expanding"
]
},
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭha-loke",
"meanings": [
"in Vaikuṇṭhaloka, the spiritual world"
]
},
{
"word": "pūrṇa-aiśvarye",
"meanings": [
"endowed with full opulence"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-catuḥ-vyūha-madhye",
"meanings": [
"in the quadruple expansions (Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha)"
]
},
{
"word": "rūpam",
"meanings": [
"form"
]
},
{
"word": "yasya",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "udbhāti",
"meanings": [
"appears"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkarṣaṇa-ākhyam",
"meanings": [
"known as Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"to Him"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-nityānanda-rāmam",
"meanings": [
"to Lord Balarāma in the form of Lord Nityānanda"
]
},
{
"word": "prapadye",
"meanings": [
"I surrender."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I surrender unto the lotus feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, who is known as Saṅkarṣaṇa in the midst of the catur-vyūha [consisting of Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha]. He possesses full opulences and resides in Vaikuṇṭhaloka, far beyond the material creation.</b>",
"purport": [
"This is a verse from Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī's diary. It appears as the eighth of the first fourteen verses of <i>Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 14,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.14",
"devanagari": "प्रकृतिर पार ऽपरव्योमऽनामे धाम कृष्णविग्रह यैछे विभूत्यादिगुणवान्",
"bengali": "প্রকৃতির পার ঽপরব্যোমঽনামে ধাম কৃষ্ণবিগ্রহ যৈছে বিভূত্যাদিগুণবান্",
"transliteration": "prakṛtira pāra 'paravyoma'-nāme dhāma\nkṛṣṇa-vigraha yaiche vibhūty-ādi-guṇavān",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "prakṛtira",
"meanings": [
"the material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "pāra",
"meanings": [
"beyond"
]
},
{
"word": "para-vyoma",
"meanings": [
"the spiritual sky"
]
},
{
"word": "nāme",
"meanings": [
"in name"
]
},
{
"word": "dhāma",
"meanings": [
"the place"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-vigraha",
"meanings": [
"the form of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "yaiche",
"meanings": [
"just as"
]
},
{
"word": "vibhūti-ādi",
"meanings": [
"like the six opulences"
]
},
{
"word": "guṇa-vān",
"meanings": [
"full with transcendental attributes."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Beyond the material nature lies the realm known as paravyoma, the spiritual sky. Like Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, it possesses all transcendental attributes, such as the six opulences.</b>",
"purport": [
"According to Sāṅkhya philosophy, the material cosmos is composed of twenty-four elements: the five gross material elements, the three subtle material elements, the five knowledge-acquiring senses, the five active senses, the five objects of sense pleasure, and the <i>mahat-tattva</i> (the total material energy). Empiric philosophers, unable to go beyond these elements, speculate that anything beyond them must be <i>avyakta,</i> or inexplicable. But the world beyond the twenty-four elements is not inexplicable, for it is explained in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> as the eternal (<i>sanātana</i>) nature. Beyond the manifested and unmanifested existence of material nature (<i>vyaktāvyakta</i>) is the <i>sanātana</i> nature, which is called the <i>paravyoma,</i> or the spiritual sky. Since that nature is spiritual in quality, there are no qualitative differences there; everything there is spiritual, everything is good, and everything possesses the spiritual form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. That spiritual sky is the manifested internal potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa; it is distinct from the material sky manifested by His external potency.",
"The all-pervading Brahman, the impersonal glowing ray of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, exists in the spiritual world with the Vaikuṇṭha planets. We can get some idea of that spiritual sky by a comparison to the material sky, for the rays of the sun in the material sky can be compared to the <i>brahmajyoti,</i> the glowing ray of the Personality of Godhead. In the <i>brahmajyoti</i> there are unlimited Vaikuṇṭha planets, which are spiritual and therefore self-luminous, with a glow many times greater than that of the sun. The Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa, His innumerable plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions dominate each Vaikuṇṭha planet. In the highest region of the spiritual sky is the planet called Kṛṣṇaloka, which has three divisions, namely Dvārakā, Mathurā and Goloka.",
"To a gross materialist this kingdom of God, Vaikuṇṭha, is certainly a mystery. But to an ignorant man everything is a mystery for want of sufficient knowledge. The kingdom of God is not a myth. Even the material planets, which float over our heads in the millions and billions, are still a mystery to the ignorant. Material scientists are now attempting to penetrate this mystery, and a day may come when the people of this earth will be able to travel in outer space and see the variegatedness of these millions of planets with their own eyes. In every planet there is as much material variegatedness as we find in our own planet.",
"This planet earth is but an insignificant spot in the cosmic structure. Yet foolish men, puffed up by a false sense of scientific advancement, have concentrated their energy in a pursuit of so-called economic development on this planet, not knowing of the variegated economic facilities available on other planets. According to modern astronomy, the gravity of the moon is different from that of earth. Therefore if one goes to the moon he will be able to pick up large weights and jump vast distances. In the <i>Rāmāyaṇa,</i> Hanumān is described as being able to lift huge weights as heavy as hills and jump over the ocean. Modern astronomy has confirmed that this is indeed possible.",
"The disease of the modern civilized man is his disbelief of everything in the revealed scriptures. Faithless nonbelievers cannot make progress in spiritual realization, for they cannot understand the spiritual potency. The small fruit of a banyan contains hundreds of seeds, and in each seed is the potency to produce another banyan tree with the potency to produce millions more of such fruits. This law of nature is visible before us, although how it works is beyond our understanding. This is but an insignificant example of the potency of Godhead; there are many similar phenomena that no scientist can explain.",
"Everything, in fact, is inconceivable, for the truth is revealed only to the proper persons. Although there are varieties of personalities, from Brahmā down to the insignificant ant, all of whom are living beings, their development of knowledge is different. Therefore we have to gather knowledge from the right source. Indeed, we can get knowledge in reality only from the Vedic sources. The four <i>Vedas,</i> with their supplementary <i>Purāṇas,</i> the <i>Mahābhārata,</i> the <i>Rāmāyaṇa</i> and their corollaries, which are known as <i>smṛtis,</i> are all authorized sources of knowledge. If we are at all to gather knowledge, we must gather it from these sources without hesitation.",
"Revealed knowledge may in the beginning be unbelievable because of our paradoxical desire to verify everything with our tiny brains, but the speculative means of attaining knowledge is always imperfect. The perfect knowledge propounded in the revealed scriptures is confirmed by the great <i>ācāryas,</i> who have left ample commentations upon them; none of these <i>ācāryas</i> has disbelieved in the <i>śāstras.</i> One who disbelieves in the <i>śāstras</i> is an atheist, and we should not consult an atheist, however great he may be. A staunch believer in the <i>śāstras,</i> with all their diversities, is the right person from whom to gather real knowledge. Such knowledge may seem inconceivable in the beginning, but when put forward by the proper authority its meaning is revealed, and then one no longer has any doubts about it."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 15,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.15",
"devanagari": "सर्वग, अनन्त, विभु—वैकुण्ठादि धाम कृष्ण, कृष्णअवतारेर ताहाञि विश्राम",
"bengali": "সর্বগ, অনন্ত, বিভু—বৈকুণ্ঠাদি ধাম কৃষ্ণ, কৃষ্ণঅবতারের তাহাঞি বিশ্রাম",
"transliteration": "sarvaga, ananta, vibhu—vaikuṇṭhādi dhāma\nkṛṣṇa, kṛṣṇa-avatārera tāhāñi viśrāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sarva-ga",
"meanings": [
"all-pervading"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta",
"meanings": [
"unlimited"
]
},
{
"word": "vibhu",
"meanings": [
"greatest"
]
},
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭha-ādi dhāma",
"meanings": [
"all the places known as Vaikuṇṭhaloka"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-avatārera",
"meanings": [
"of the incarnations of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "tāhāñi",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "viśrāma",
"meanings": [
"the residence."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That Vaikuṇṭha region is all-pervading, infinite and supreme. It is the residence of Lord Kṛṣṇa and His incarnations.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 16,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.16",
"devanagari": "ताहार उपरिभागे ऽकृष्णलोकऽख्याति द्वारकामथुरागोकुल—त्रिविधत्वे स्थिति",
"bengali": "তাহার উপরিভাগে ঽকৃষ্ণলোকঽখ্যাতি দ্বারকামথুরাগোকুল—ত্রিবিধত্বে স্থিতি",
"transliteration": "tāhāra upari-bhāge 'kṛṣṇa-loka'-khyāti\ndvārakā-mathurā-gokula—tri-vidhatve sthiti",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tāhāra",
"meanings": [
"of all of them"
]
},
{
"word": "upari-bhāge",
"meanings": [
"on the top"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-loka-khyāti",
"meanings": [
"the planet known as Kṛṣṇaloka"
]
},
{
"word": "dvārakā-mathurā-gokula",
"meanings": [
"the three places known as Dvārakā, Mathurā and Vṛndāvana"
]
},
{
"word": "tri-vidhatve",
"meanings": [
"in three departments"
]
},
{
"word": "sthiti",
"meanings": [
"situated."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>In the highest region of that spiritual sky is the spiritual planet called Kṛṣṇaloka. It has three divisions—Dvārakā, Mathurā, and Gokula.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 17,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.17",
"devanagari": "सर्वोपरि श्रीगोकुल—व्रजलोकधाम श्रीगोलोक, श्वेतद्वीप, वृन्दावन नाम",
"bengali": "সর্বোপরি শ্রীগোকুল—ব্রজলোকধাম শ্রীগোলোক, শ্বেতদ্বীপ, বৃন্দাবন নাম",
"transliteration": "sarvopari śrī-gokula—vrajaloka-dhāma\nśrī-goloka, śveta-dvīpa, vṛndāvana nāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sarva-upari",
"meanings": [
"above all of them"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-gokula",
"meanings": [
"the place known as Gokula"
]
},
{
"word": "vraja-loka-dhāma",
"meanings": [
"the place of Vraja"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-goloka",
"meanings": [
"the place named Goloka"
]
},
{
"word": "śveta-dvīpa",
"meanings": [
"the white island"
]
},
{
"word": "vṛndāvana nāma",
"meanings": [
"also named Vṛndāvana."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Śrī Gokula, the highest of all, is also called Vraja, Goloka, Śvetadvīpa and Vṛndāvana.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 18,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.18",
"devanagari": "सर्वग, अनन्त, विभु, कृष्णतनुसम उपर्यधो व्यापियाछे, नाहिक नियम",
"bengali": "সর্বগ, অনন্ত, বিভু, কৃষ্ণতনুসম উপর্যধো ব্যাপিযাছে, নাহিক নিযম",
"transliteration": "sarvaga, ananta, vibhu, kṛṣṇa-tanu-sama\nupary-adho vyāpiyāche, nāhika niyama",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sarva-ga",
"meanings": [
"all-pervading"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta",
"meanings": [
"unlimited"
]
},
{
"word": "vibhu",
"meanings": [
"the greatest"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-tanu-sama",
"meanings": [
"exactly like the transcendental body of Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "upari-adhaḥ",
"meanings": [
"up and down"
]
},
{
"word": "vyāpiyāche",
"meanings": [
"expanded"
]
},
{
"word": "nāhika",
"meanings": [
"there is no"
]
},
{
"word": "niyama",
"meanings": [
"regulation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Like the transcendental body of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Gokula is all-pervading, infinite and supreme. It expands both above and below, without any restriction.</b>",
"purport": [
"Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, the great authority and philosopher in the line of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, has discussed the abode of Kṛṣṇa in his <i>Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha.</i> In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> the Lord refers to \"My abode.\" Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, examining the nature of Kṛṣṇa's abode, refers to the <i>Skanda Purāṇa,</i> which states:",
"<i>yā yathā bhuvi vartante<br/> puryo bhagavataḥ priyāḥ<br/> tās tathā santi vaikuṇṭhe<br/> tat-tal-līlārtham ādṛtāḥ</i>",
"\"The abodes of Godhead in the material world, such as Dvārakā, Mathurā and Goloka, are facsimiles representing the abodes of Godhead in the kingdom of God, Vaikuṇṭha-dhāma.\" The unlimited spiritual atmosphere of that Vaikuṇṭha-dhāma is far above and beyond the material cosmos. This is confirmed in the <i>Svāyambhuva-</i>tantra in a discussion between Lord Śiva and Pārvatī regarding the effect of chanting the <i>mantra</i> of fourteen syllables. There it is stated:",
"<i>nānā-kalpa-latākīrṇaṁ<br/> vaikuṇṭhaṁ vyāpakaṁ smaret<br/> adhaḥ sāmyaṁ guṇānāṁ ca<br/> prakṛtiḥ sarva-kāraṇam</i>",
"\"While chanting the <i>mantra,</i> one should always remember the spiritual world, which is very extensive and full of desire trees that can yield anything one desires. Below that Vaikuṇṭha region is the potential material energy, which causes the material manifestation.\" The places of the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa, such as Dvārakā, Mathurā and Vṛndāvana, eternally and independently exist in Kṛṣṇaloka. They are the actual abode of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and there is no doubt that they are situated above the material cosmic manifestation.",
"The abode known as Vṛndāvana or Gokula is also known as Goloka. The <i>Brahma-saṁhitā</i> describes that Gokula, the highest region of the kingdom of God, resembles a lotus flower with thousands of petals. The outer portion of that lotus-like planet is a square place known as Śvetadvīpa. In the inner portion of Gokula there is an elaborate arrangement for Śrī Kṛṣṇa's residence with His eternal associates such as Nanda and Yaśodā. That transcendental abode exists by the energy of Śrī Baladeva, who is the original whole of Śeṣa, or Ananta. The <i>tantras</i> also confirm this description by stating that the abode of Śrī Anantadeva, the plenary portion of Baladeva, is called the kingdom of God. Vṛndāvana-dhāma is the innermost abode within the quadrangular realm of Śvetadvīpa, which lies outside of the boundary of Gokula Vṛndāvana.",
"According to Jīva Gosvāmī, Vaikuṇṭha is also called Brahmaloka. The <i>Nārada-pañcarātra,</i> in a statement concerning the mystery of Vijaya, describes:",
"<i>tat sarvopari goloke<br/> tatra lokopari svayam<br/> viharet paramānandī<br/> govindo 'tula-nāyakaḥ</i>",
"\"The predominator of the <i>gopīs,</i> Govinda, the principal Deity of Gokula, always enjoys Himself in a place called Goloka in the topmost part of the spiritual sky.\"",
"From the authoritative evidence cited by Jīva Gosvāmī we may conclude that Kṛṣṇaloka is the supreme planet in the spiritual sky, which is far beyond the material cosmos. For the enjoyment of transcendental variety, the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa there have three divisions, and these pastimes are performed in the three abodes Dvārakā, Mathurā and Gokula. When Kṛṣṇa descends to this universe, He enjoys the pastimes in places of the same name. These places on earth are nondifferent from those original abodes, for they are facsimiles of those original holy places in the transcendental world. They are as good as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself and are equally worshipable. Lord Caitanya declared that Lord Kṛṣṇa, who presents Himself as the son of the King of Vraja, is worshipable, and Vṛndāvana-dhāma is equally worshipable."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 19,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.19",
"devanagari": "ब्रह्माण्डे प्रकाश तार कृष्णेर इच्छाय एकै स्वरूप तार, नाहि दुइ काय",
"bengali": "ব্রহ্মাণ্ডে প্রকাশ তার কৃষ্ণের ইচ্ছায একৈ স্বরূপ তার, নাহি দুই কায",
"transliteration": "brahmāṇḍe prakāśa tāra kṛṣṇera icchāya\neka-i svarūpa tāra, nāhi dui kāya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brahmāṇḍe",
"meanings": [
"within the material world"
]
},
{
"word": "prakāśa",
"meanings": [
"manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "tāra",
"meanings": [
"of it"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇera icchāya",
"meanings": [
"by the supreme will of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "eka-i",
"meanings": [
"it is the same"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-rūpa",
"meanings": [
"identity"
]
},
{
"word": "tāra",
"meanings": [
"of it"
]
},
{
"word": "nāhi",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "dui",
"meanings": [
"two"
]
},
{
"word": "kāya",
"meanings": [
"bodies."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That abode is manifested within the material world by the will of Lord Kṛṣṇa. It is identical to that original Gokula; they are not two different bodies.</b>",
"purport": [
"The above-mentioned <i>dhāmas</i> are movable, by the omnipotent will of Lord Kṛṣṇa. When Śrī Kṛṣṇa appears on the face of the earth, He can also make His <i>dhāmas</i> appear, without changing their original structure. One should not discriminate between the <i>dhāmas</i> on the earth and those in the spiritual sky, thinking those on earth to be material and the original abodes to be spiritual. All of them are spiritual. Only for us, who cannot experience anything beyond matter in our present conditioned state, do the <i>dhāmas</i> and the Lord Himself, in His <i>arcā</i> form, appear before us resembling matter to give us the facility to see spirit with material eyes. In the beginning this may be difficult for a neophyte to understand, but in due course, when one is advanced in devotional service, it will be easier, and he will appreciate the Lord's presence in these tangible forms."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 20,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.20",
"devanagari": "चिन्तामणिभूमि, कल्पवृक्षमय वन चर्मचक्षे देखे तारे प्रपंचेर सम",
"bengali": "চিন্তামণিভূমি, কল্পবৃক্ষময বন চর্মচক্ষে দেখে তারে প্রপংচের সম",
"transliteration": "cintāmaṇi-bhūmi, kalpa-vṛkṣa-maya vana\ncarma-cakṣe dekhe tāre prapañcera sama",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cintāmaṇi-bhūmi",
"meanings": [
"the land of touchstone"
]
},
{
"word": "kalpa-vṛkṣa-maya",
"meanings": [
"full of desire trees"
]
},
{
"word": "vana",
"meanings": [
"forests"
]
},
{
"word": "carma-cakṣe",
"meanings": [
"the material eyes"
]
},
{
"word": "dekhe",
"meanings": [
"see"
]
},
{
"word": "tāre",
"meanings": [
"it"
]
},
{
"word": "prapañcera sama",
"meanings": [
"equal to the material creation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The land there is touchstone [cintāmaṇi], and the forests abound with desire trees. Material eyes see it as an ordinary place.</b>",
"purport": [
"By the grace of the Lord His <i>dhāmas</i> and He Himself can all be present simultaneously, without losing their original importance. Only when one fully develops in affection and love of Godhead can one see those <i>dhāmas</i> in their original appearance.",
"Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, a great <i>ācārya</i> in the preceptorial line of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, has said for our benefit that one can perfectly see the <i>dhāmas</i> only when one completely gives up the mentality of lording it over material nature. One's spiritual vision develops proportionately to one's giving up the debased mentality of unnecessarily enjoying matter. A diseased person who has become diseased because of a certain bad habit must be ready to follow the advice of the physician, and as a natural sequence he must attempt to give up the cause of the disease. The patient cannot indulge in the bad habit and at the same time expect to be cured by the physician. Modern material civilization, however, is maintaining a diseased atmosphere. The living being is a spiritual spark, as spiritual as the Lord Himself. The only difference is that the Lord is great and the living being is small. Qualitatively they are one, but quantitatively they are different. Therefore, since the living being is spiritual in constitution, he can be happy only in the spiritual sky, where there are unlimited spiritual spheres called Vaikuṇṭhas. A spiritual being conditioned by a material body must therefore try to get rid of his disease instead of developing the cause of the disease.",
"Foolish persons engrossed in their material assets are unnecessarily proud of being leaders of the people, but they ignore the spiritual value of man. Such illusioned leaders make plans covering any number of years, but they can hardly make humanity happy in a state conditioned by threefold miseries inflicted by material nature. One cannot control the laws of nature by any amount of struggling. One must at last be subject to death, nature's ultimate law. Death, birth, old age and illness are symptoms of the diseased condition of the living being. The highest aim of human life should therefore be to get free from these miseries and go back home, back to Godhead."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 21,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.21",
"devanagari": "प्रेमनेत्रे देखे तार स्वरूपप्रकाश गोपगोपीसंगे याङ्हा कृष्णेर विलास",
"bengali": "প্রেমনেত্রে দেখে তার স্বরূপপ্রকাশ গোপগোপীসংগে যাঙ্হা কৃষ্ণের বিলাস",
"transliteration": "prema-netre dekhe tāra svarūpa-prakāśa\ngopa-gopī-saṅge yāṅhā kṛṣṇera vilāsa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "prema-netre",
"meanings": [
"with the eyes of love of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "dekhe",
"meanings": [
"one sees"
]
},
{
"word": "tāra",
"meanings": [
"its"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-rūpa-prakāśa",
"meanings": [
"manifestation of identity"
]
},
{
"word": "gopa",
"meanings": [
"cowherd boys"
]
},
{
"word": "gopī-saṅge",
"meanings": [
"with the cowherd damsels"
]
},
{
"word": "yāṅhā",
"meanings": [
"where"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇera vilāsa",
"meanings": [
"the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>But with the eyes of love of Godhead one can see its real identity as the place where Lord Kṛṣṇa performs His pastimes with the cowherd boys and cowherd girls.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 22,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.22",
"devanagari": "चिन्तामणिप्रकरसद्मसु कल्पवृक्ष लक्षावृतेषु सुरभीरभिपालयन्तम्\nलक्ष्मीसहस्रशतसम्भ्रमसेव्यमानं गोविन्दमादिपुरुषं तमहं भजामि",
"bengali": "চিন্তামণিপ্রকরসদ্মসু কল্পবৃক্ষ লক্ষাবৃতেষু সুরভীরভিপালযন্তম্\nলক্ষ্মীসহস্রশতসম্ভ্রমসেব্যমানং গোবিন্দমাদিপুরুষং তমহং ভজামি",
"transliteration": "cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-\nlakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam\nlakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cintāmaṇi",
"meanings": [
"touchstone"
]
},
{
"word": "prakara",
"meanings": [
"groups made of"
]
},
{
"word": "sadmasu",
"meanings": [
"in abodes"
]
},
{
"word": "kalpa-vṛkṣa",
"meanings": [
"of desire trees"
]
},
{
"word": "lakṣa",
"meanings": [
"by millions"
]
},
{
"word": "āvṛteṣu",
"meanings": [
"surrounded"
]
},
{
"word": "surabhīḥ",
"meanings": [
"surabhi cows"
]
},
{
"word": "abhipālayantam",
"meanings": [
"tending"
]
},
{
"word": "lakṣmī",
"meanings": [
"of goddesses of fortune"
]
},
{
"word": "sahasra",
"meanings": [
"of thousands"
]
},
{
"word": "śata",
"meanings": [
"by hundreds"
]
},
{
"word": "sambhrama",
"meanings": [
"with great respect"
]
},
{
"word": "sevyamānam",
"meanings": [
"being served"
]
},
{
"word": "govindam",
"meanings": [
"Govinda"
]
},
{
"word": "ādi-puruṣam",
"meanings": [
"the original person"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"Him"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "bhajāmi",
"meanings": [
"worship."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows, yielding all desires, in abodes built with spiritual gems and surrounded by millions of purpose trees. He is always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"This is a verse from <i>Brahma-saṁhitā</i> (5.29). This description of the abode of Kṛṣṇa gives us definite information of the transcendental place where not only is life eternal, blissful and full of knowledge, but there are ample vegetables, milk, jewels, and beautiful homes and gardens tended by lovely damsels who are all goddesses of fortune. Kṛṣṇaloka is the topmost planet in the spiritual sky, and below it are innumerable spheres, a description of which can be found in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</i> In the beginning of Lord Brahmā's self-realization he was shown a transcendental vision of the Vaikuṇṭha spheres by the grace of Nārāyaṇa. Later, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, he was shown a transcendental vision of Kṛṣṇaloka. This transcendental vision is like the reception of television from the moon via a mechanical system for receiving modulated waves, but it is achieved by penance and meditation within oneself.",
"The <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (Second Canto) states that in Vaikuṇṭhaloka the material modes of nature, represented by the qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance, have no influence. In the material world the highest qualitative manifestation is goodness, which is characterized by truthfulness, mental equilibrium, cleanliness, control of the senses, simplicity, essential knowledge, faith in God, scientific knowledge and so on. Nevertheless, all these qualities are mixed with passion and imperfection. But the qualities in Vaikuṇṭha are a manifestation of God's internal potency, and therefore they are purely spiritual and transcendental, with no trace of material infection. No material planet, even Satyaloka, is comparable in quality to the spiritual planets, where the five inherent qualities of the material world—namely, ignorance, misery, egoism, anger and envy—are completely absent.",
"In the material world, everything is a creation. Anything we can think of within our experience, including even our own bodies and minds, was created. This process of creation began with the life of Brahmā, and the creative principle is prevalent all over the material universe because of the quality of passion. But since the quality of passion is conspicuous by its absence in the Vaikuṇṭha planets, nothing there is created; everything there is eternally existent. And because there is no mode of ignorance, there is also no question of annihilation or destruction. In the material world one may try to make everything permanent by developing the above-mentioned qualities of goodness, but because the goodness in the material world is mixed with passion and ignorance, nothing here can exist permanently, despite all the good plans of the best scientific brains. Therefore in the material world we have no experience of eternity, bliss and fullness of knowledge. But in the spiritual world, because of the complete absence of the qualitative modes, everything is eternal, blissful and cognizant. Everything can speak, everything can move, everything can hear, and everything can see in fully blessed existence for eternity. The situation being so, naturally space and time, in the forms of past, present and future, have no influence there. In the spiritual sky there is no change because time has no influence. Consequently, the influence of <i>māyā,</i> the total external energy, which induces us to become more and more materialistic and forget our relationship with God, is also absent there.",
"As spiritual sparks of the beams emanating from the transcendental body of the Lord, we are all permanently related with Him and equal to Him in quality. The material energy is a covering of the spiritual spark, but in the absence of that material covering, the living beings in Vaikuṇṭhaloka are never forgetful of their identities; they are eternally cognizant of their relationship with God in their constitutional position of rendering transcendental loving service to the Lord. Because they constantly engage in the transcendental service of the Lord, it is natural to conclude that their senses are also transcendental, for one cannot serve the Lord with material senses. The inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭhaloka do not possess material senses with which to lord it over material nature.",
"Persons with a poor fund of knowledge conclude that a place void of material qualities must be some sort of formless nothingness. In reality, however, there are qualities in the spiritual world, but they are different from the material qualities because everything there is eternal, unlimited and pure. The atmosphere there is self-illuminating, and thus there is no need of a sun, a moon or fire, electricity and so on. One who can reach that abode does not come back to the material world with a material body. There is no difference between atheists and the faithful in the Vaikuṇṭha planets because all who settle there are freed from the material qualities, and thus <i>suras</i> and <i>asuras</i> become equally obedient loving servitors of the Lord.",
"The residents of Vaikuṇṭha have brilliantly black complexions much more fascinating and attractive than the dull white and black complexions found in the material world. Their bodies, being spiritual, have no equals in the material world. The beauty of a bright cloud when lightning flashes on it merely hints at their beauty. Generally the inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha dress in yellow clothing. Their bodies are delicate and attractively built, and their eyes are like the petals of lotus flowers. Like Lord Viṣṇu, the residents of Vaikuṇṭha have four hands, decorated with a conchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower. Their chests are beautifully broad and fully decorated with necklaces of a brilliant diamond-like metal surrounded by costly jewels never to be found in the material world. The residents of Vaikuṇṭha are always powerful and effulgent. Some of them have complexions like red coral cat's eyes and lotus flowers, and each of them has earrings of costly jewels. On their heads they wear flowery crowns resembling garlands.",
"In the Vaikuṇṭhas there are airplanes, but they make no tumultuous sounds. Material airplanes are not at all safe; they can fall down and crash at any time, for matter is imperfect in every respect. In the spiritual sky, however, the airplanes are also spiritual, and they are spiritually brilliant and bright. These airplanes do not fly business executives, politicians or planning commissions as passengers, nor do they carry cargo or postal bags, for these are all unknown there. These planes are for pleasure trips only, and the residents of Vaikuṇṭha fly in them with their heavenly beautiful fairylike consorts. Therefore these airplanes, full of residents of Vaikuṇṭha, both male and female, increase the beauty of the spiritual sky. We cannot imagine how beautiful they are, but their beauty may be compared to the clouds in the sky accompanied by silver branches of electric lightning. The spiritual sky of Vaikuṇṭhaloka is always decorated in this way.",
"The full opulence of the internal potency of Godhead is always resplendent in the Vaikuṇṭhaloka, where goddesses of fortune are ever-increasingly attached to serving the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead. These goddesses of fortune, accompanied by their friends, always create a festive atmosphere of transcendental mirth. Always singing the glories of the Lord, they are not silent even for a moment.",
"There are unlimited Vaikuṇṭha planets in the spiritual sky, and the ratio of these planets to the material planets in the material sky is three to one. Thus the poor materialist is busy making political adjustments on a planet that is most insignificant in God's creation. To say nothing of this planet earth, the whole universe, with innumerable planets throughout the galaxies, is comparable to a single mustard seed in a bag full of mustard seeds. But the poor materialist makes plans to live comfortably here and thus wastes his valuable human energy in something that is doomed to frustration. Instead of wasting his time with business speculations, he might have sought the life of plain living and high spiritual thinking and thus saved himself from perpetual materialistic unrest.",
"Even if a materialist wants to enjoy developed material facilities, he can transfer himself to planets where he can experience material pleasures much more advanced than those available on earth. The best plan is to prepare oneself to return to the spiritual sky after leaving the body. However, if one is intent on enjoying material facilities, one can transfer himself to other planets in the material sky by utilizing yogic powers. The playful spaceships of the astronauts are but childish entertainments and are of no use for this purpose. The <i>aṣṭāṅga-yoga</i> system is a materialistic art of controlling air by transferring it from the stomach to the navel, from the navel to the heart, from the heart to the collarbone and from there to the eyeballs, from there to the cerebellum and from there to any desired planet. The velocities of air and light are taken into consideration by the material scientist, but he has no information of the velocity of the mind and intelligence. We have some limited experience of the velocity of the mind because in a moment we can transfer our minds to places hundreds of thousands of miles away. Intelligence is even finer. Finer than intelligence is the soul, which is not matter like mind and intelligence but is spirit or anti-matter. The soul is hundreds of thousands of times finer and more powerful than intelligence. We can thus only imagine the velocity of the soul in its traveling from one planet to another. Needless to say, the soul travels by its own strength and not with the help of any kind of material vehicle.",
"The bestial civilization of eating, sleeping, fearing and sense-gratifying has misled modern man into forgetting how powerful a soul he has. As we have already described, the soul is a spiritual spark many, many times more illuminating, dazzling and powerful than the sun, moon, or electricity. Human life is spoiled when man does not realize his real identity with his soul. Lord Caitanya appeared with Lord Nityānanda to save man from this type of misleading civilization.",
"<i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam </i>also describes how <i>yogīs</i> can travel to all the planets in the universe. When the vital force is lifted to the cerebellum, there is every chance that this force will burst out from the eyes, nose, ears, etc., as these are places that are known as the seventh orbit of the vital force. But the <i>yogīs</i> can block these holes by complete suspension of air. The <i>yogī</i> then concentrates the vital force in the middle position, that is, between the eyebrows. At this position, the <i>yogī</i> can think of the planet into which he wants to enter after leaving the body. He can then decide whether he wants to go to the abode of Kṛṣṇa in the transcendental Vaikuṇṭhas, from which he will not be required to descend into the material world, or to travel to higher planets in the material universe. The perfect <i>yogī</i> is at liberty to do either.",
"For the perfect <i>yogī</i> who has attained success in the method of leaving his body in perfect consciousness, transferring from one planet to another is as easy as an ordinary man's walking to the grocery store. As already discussed, the material body is just a covering of the spiritual soul. Mind and intelligence are the undercoverings, and the gross body of earth, water, air and so on is the overcoating of the soul. As such, any advanced soul who has realized himself by the yogic process, who knows the relationship between matter and spirit, can leave the gross dress of the soul in perfect order and as he desires. By the grace of God, we have complete freedom. Because the Lord is kind to us, we can live anywhere—either in the spiritual sky or in the material sky, upon whichever planet we desire. However, misuse of this freedom causes one to fall down into the material world and suffer the threefold miseries of conditioned life. The living of a miserable life in the material world by dint of the soul's choice is nicely illustrated by Milton in <i>Paradise Lost.</i> Similarly, by choice the soul can regain paradise and return home, back to Godhead.",
"At the critical time of death, one can place the vital force between the two eyebrows and decide where he wants to go. If he is reluctant to maintain any connection with the material world, he can, in less than a second, reach the transcendental Vaikuṇṭha and appear there completely in his spiritual body, which will be suitable for him in the spiritual atmosphere. He has simply to desire to leave the material world both in finer and in grosser forms and then move the vital force to the topmost part of the skull and leave the body from the hole in the skull called the <i>brahma-randhra.</i> This is easy for one perfect in the practice of <i>yoga.</i>",
"Of course man is endowed with free will, and as such if he does not want to free himself of the material world he may enjoy the life of <i>brahma-pada</i> (occupation of the post of Brahmā) and visit Siddhaloka, the planets of materially perfect beings who have full capacities to control gravity, space and time. To visit these higher planets in the material universe, one need not give up his mind and intelligence (finer matter), but need only give up grosser matter (the material body).",
"Each and every planet has its particular atmosphere, and if one wants to travel to any particular planet within the material universe, one has to adapt his material body to the climatic condition of that planet. For instance, if one wants to go from India to Europe, where the climatic condition is different, one has to change his dress accordingly. Similarly, a complete change of body is necessary if one wants to go to the transcendental planets of Vaikuṇṭha. However, if one wants to go to the higher material planets, he can keep his finer dress of mind, intelligence and ego, but has to leave his gross dress (body) made of earth, water, fire, etc.",
"When one goes to a transcendental planet, it is necessary to change both the finer and gross bodies, for one has to reach the spiritual sky completely in a spiritual form. This change of dress will take place automatically at the time of death if one so desires.",
"<i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> confirms that one can attain his next material body according to his desires at the time he leaves his body. The desire of the mind carries the soul in a suitable atmosphere as the wind carries aromas from one place to another. Unfortunately those who are not <i>yogīs</i> but gross materialists, who throughout their lives indulge in sense gratification, are puzzled by the disarrangement of the bodily and mental condition at the time of death. Such gross sensualists, encumbered by the main ideas, desires and associations of the lives they have led, desire something against their interest and thus foolishly take on new bodies that perpetuate their material miseries.",
"Systematic training of the mind and intelligence is therefore needed so that at the time of death one may consciously desire a suitable body, either on this planet or another material planet or even a transcendental planet. A civilization that does not consider the progressive advancement of the immortal soul merely fosters a bestial life of ignorance.",
"It is foolish to think that every soul that passes away goes to the same place. Either the soul goes to a place he desires at the time of death, or upon leaving his body he is forced to accept a position according to his acts in his previous life. The difference between the materialist and the <i>yogī</i> is that a materialist cannot determine his next body, whereas a <i>yogī</i> can consciously attain a suitable body for enjoyment in the higher planets. Throughout his life, the gross materialist who is constantly after sense gratification spends all day earning his livelihood to maintain his family, and at night he wastes his energy in sex enjoyment or else goes to sleep thinking about all he has done in the daytime. That is the monotonous life of the materialist. Although differently graded as businessmen, lawyers, politicians, professors, judges, coolies, pickpockets, laborers and so on, materialists all simply engage in eating, sleeping, fearing and sense gratification and thus spoil their valuable lives pursuing luxury and neglecting to perfect their lives through spiritual realization.",
"<i>Yogīs</i>, however, try to perfect their lives, and therefore <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> enjoins that everyone should become a <i>yogī.</i> <i>Yoga</i> is the system for linking the soul in the service of the Lord. Only under superior guidance can one practice such <i>yoga</i> in his life without changing his social position. As already described, a <i>yogī</i> can go anywhere he desires without mechanical help, for a <i>yogī</i> can place his mind and intelligence within the air circulating inside his body, and by practicing the art of breath control he can mix that air with the air that blows all over the universe outside his body. With the help of this universal air, a <i>yogī</i> can travel to any planet and get a body suitable for its atmosphere. We can understand this process by comparing it to the electronic transmission of radio messages. With radio transmitters, sound waves produced at a certain station can travel all over the earth in seconds. But sound is produced from the ethereal sky, and as already explained, subtler than the ethereal sky is the mind, and finer than the mind is the intelligence. Spirit is still finer than the intelligence, and by nature it is completely different from matter. Thus we can just imagine how quickly the spirit soul can travel through the universal atmosphere.",
"To come to the stage of manipulating finer elements like mind, intelligence and spirit, one needs appropriate training, an appropriate mode of life and appropriate association. Such training depends upon sincere prayers, devotional service, achievement of success in mystic perfection, and the successful merging of oneself in the activities of the soul and Supersoul. A gross materialist, whether he be an empiric philosopher, a scientist, a psychologist or whatever, cannot attain such success through blunt efforts and word jugglery.",
"Materialists who perform <i>yajñas,</i> or great sacrifices, are comparatively better than grosser materialists who do not know anything beyond laboratories and test tubes. The advanced materialists who perform such sacrifices can reach the planet called Vaiśvānara, a fiery planet similar to the sun. On this planet, which is situated on the way to Brahmaloka, the topmost planet in the universe, such an advanced materialist can free himself from all traces of vice and its effects. When such a materialist is purified, he can rise to the orbit of the pole star (Dhruvaloka). Within this orbit, which is called the Śiśumāra <i>cakra</i>, are situated the Āditya-lokas and the Vaikuṇṭha planet within this universe.",
"A purified materialist who has performed many sacrifices, undergone severe penances and given the major portion of his wealth in charity can reach such planets as Dhruvaloka, and if he becomes still more qualified there, he can penetrate still higher orbits and pass through the navel of the universe to reach the planet Maharloka, where sages like Bhṛgu Muni live. In Maharloka one can live even to the time of the partial annihilation of the universe. This annihilation begins when Anantadeva, from the lowest position in the universe, produces a great blazing fire. The heat of this fire reaches even Maharloka, and then the residents of Maharloka travel to Brahmaloka, which exists for twice the duration of <i>parārdha</i> time.",
"In Brahmaloka there is an unlimited number of airplanes that are controlled not by <i>yantra</i> (machine) but <i>mantra</i> (psychic action). Because of the existence of the mind and intelligence on Brahmaloka, its residents have feelings of happiness and distress, but there is no cause of lamentation from old age, death, fear or distress. They feel sympathy, however, for the suffering living beings who are consumed in the fire of annihilation. The residents of Brahmaloka do not have gross material bodies to change at death, but they transform their subtle bodies into spiritual bodies and thus enter the spiritual sky. The residents of Brahmaloka can attain perfection in three different ways. Virtuous persons who reach Brahmaloka by dint of their pious work become masters of various planets after the resurrection of Brahmā, those who have worshiped Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu are liberated with Brahmā, and those who are pure devotees of the Personality of Godhead at once push through the covering of the universe and enter the spiritual sky.",
"The numberless universes exist together in foamlike clusters, and so only some of them are surrounded by the water of the Causal Ocean. When agitated by the glance of Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, material nature produces the total elements, which are eight in number and which gradually evolve from finer to gross. A part of ego is the sky, a part of which is air, a part of which is fire, a part of which is water, a part of which is earth. Thus one universe inflates to an area of four billion miles in diameter. A <i>yogī</i> who desires gradual liberation must penetrate all the different coverings of the universe, including the subtle coverings of the three qualitative modes of material nature. One who does this never has to return to this mortal world.",
"According to Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the above description of the material and spiritual skies is neither imaginary nor utopian. The actual facts are recorded in the Vedic hymns, and Lord Vāsudeva disclosed them to Lord Brahmā when Brahmā satisfied Him. One can achieve the perfection of life only when he has a definite idea of Vaikuṇṭha and the Supreme Godhead. One should always think about and describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for this is recommended both in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> and in the <i>Bhāgavata Purāṇa,</i> which are two authorized commentaries upon the <i>Vedas.</i> Lord Caitanya has made all these subject matters easier for the fallen people of this age to accept, and <i>Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta</i> has therefore presented them for the easy understanding of all concerned."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 23,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.23",
"devanagari": "मथुराद्वारकाय निजरूप प्रकाशिया नानारूपे विलसये चतुर्व्यूह हैञा",
"bengali": "মথুরাদ্বারকায নিজরূপ প্রকাশিযা নানারূপে বিলসযে চতুর্ব্যূহ হৈঞা",
"transliteration": "mathurā-dvārakāya nija-rūpa prakāśiyā\nnānā-rūpe vilasaye catur-vyūha haiñā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mathurā",
"meanings": [
"in Mathurā"
]
},
{
"word": "dvārakāya",
"meanings": [
"in Dvārakā"
]
},
{
"word": "nija-rūpa",
"meanings": [
"personal body"
]
},
{
"word": "prakāśiyā",
"meanings": [
"manifesting"
]
},
{
"word": "nānā-rūpe",
"meanings": [
"in various ways"
]
},
{
"word": "vilasaye",
"meanings": [
"enjoys pastimes"
]
},
{
"word": "catuḥ-vyūha haiñā",
"meanings": [
"expanding into four wonderful forms."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>He manifests His own form in Mathurā and Dvārakā. He enjoys pastimes in various ways by expanding into the quadruple forms.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 24,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.24",
"devanagari": "वासुदेवसंकर्षणप्रद्युम्नानिरुद्ध सर्वचतुर्व्यूहअंशी, तुरीय, विशुद्ध",
"bengali": "বাসুদেবসংকর্ষণপ্রদ্যুম্নানিরুদ্ধ সর্বচতুর্ব্যূহঅংশী, তুরীয, বিশুদ্ধ",
"transliteration": "vāsudeva-saṅkarṣaṇa-pradyumnāniruddha\nsarva-catur-vyūha-aṁśī, turīya, viśuddha",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vāsudeva",
"meanings": [
"Lord Vāsudeva"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkarṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "pradyumna",
"meanings": [
"Lord Pradyumna"
]
},
{
"word": "aniruddha",
"meanings": [
"and Lord Aniruddha"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva-catuḥ-vyūha",
"meanings": [
"of all other quadruple expansions"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśī",
"meanings": [
"source"
]
},
{
"word": "turīya",
"meanings": [
"transcendental"
]
},
{
"word": "viśuddha",
"meanings": [
"pure."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are the primary quadruple forms from whom all other quadruple forms are manifested. They are all purely transcendental.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 25,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.25",
"devanagari": "एइ तिन लोके कृष्ण केवललीलामय निजगण लञा खेले अनन्त समय",
"bengali": "এই তিন লোকে কৃষ্ণ কেবললীলাময নিজগণ লঞা খেলে অনন্ত সময",
"transliteration": "ei tina loke kṛṣṇa kevala-līlā-maya\nnija-gaṇa lañā khele ananta samaya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ei",
"meanings": [
"these"
]
},
{
"word": "tina",
"meanings": [
"three"
]
},
{
"word": "loke",
"meanings": [
"in the locations"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "kevala",
"meanings": [
"only"
]
},
{
"word": "līlā-maya",
"meanings": [
"consisting of pastimes"
]
},
{
"word": "nija-gaṇa lañā",
"meanings": [
"with His personal associates"
]
},
{
"word": "khele",
"meanings": [
"He plays"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta samaya",
"meanings": [
"unlimited time."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Only in these three places [Dvārakā, Mathurā and Gokula] does the all-sporting Lord Kṛṣṇa perform His endless pastimes with His personal associates.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 26,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.26",
"devanagari": "परव्योममध्ये करिऽ स्वरूप प्रकाश नारायणरूपे करेन विविध विलास",
"bengali": "পরব্যোমমধ্যে করিঽ স্বরূপ প্রকাশ নারাযণরূপে করেন বিবিধ বিলাস",
"transliteration": "para-vyoma-madhye kari' svarūpa prakāśa\nnārāyaṇa-rūpe karena vividha vilāsa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "para-vyoma-madhye",
"meanings": [
"within the spiritual sky"
]
},
{
"word": "kari'",
"meanings": [
"making"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-rūpa prakāśa",
"meanings": [
"manifesting His identity"
]
},
{
"word": "nārāyaṇa-rūpe",
"meanings": [
"the form of Lord Nārāyaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "karena",
"meanings": [
"performs"
]
},
{
"word": "vividha vilāsa",
"meanings": [
"varieties of pastimes."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>In the Vaikuṇṭha planets of the spiritual sky the Lord manifests His identity as Nārāyaṇa and performs pastimes in various ways.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 27,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.27-28",
"devanagari": "स्वरूपविग्रह कृष्णेर केवल द्विभुज नारायणरूपे सेइ तनु चतुर्भुज\nशंखचक्रगदापद्म, महैश्वर्यमय श्रीभूनीलाशक्ति याङ्र चरण सेवय",
"bengali": "স্বরূপবিগ্রহ কৃষ্ণের কেবল দ্বিভুজ নারাযণরূপে সেই তনু চতুর্ভুজ\nশংখচক্রগদাপদ্ম, মহৈশ্বর্যময শ্রীভূনীলাশক্তি যাঙ্র চরণ সেবয",
"transliteration": "svarūpa-vigraha kṛṣṇera kevala dvi-bhuja\nnārāyaṇa-rūpe sei tanu catur-bhuja\nśaṅkha-cakra-gadā-padma, mahaiśvarya-maya\nśrī-bhū-nīlā-śakti yāṅra caraṇa sevaya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sva-rūpa-vigraha",
"meanings": [
"personal form"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇera",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "kevala",
"meanings": [
"only"
]
},
{
"word": "dvi-bhuja",
"meanings": [
"two hands"
]
},
{
"word": "nārāyaṇa-rūpe",
"meanings": [
"in the form of Lord Nārāyaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "tanu",
"meanings": [
"body"
]
},
{
"word": "catuḥ-bhuja",
"meanings": [
"four-handed"
]
},
{
"word": "śaṅkha-cakra",
"meanings": [
"conchshell and disc"
]
},
{
"word": "gadā",
"meanings": [
"club"
]
},
{
"word": "padma",
"meanings": [
"lotus flower"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā",
"meanings": [
"very great"
]
},
{
"word": "aiśvarya-maya",
"meanings": [
"full of opulence"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī",
"meanings": [
"named śrī"
]
},
{
"word": "bhū",
"meanings": [
"named bhū"
]
},
{
"word": "nīlā",
"meanings": [
"named nīlā"
]
},
{
"word": "śakti",
"meanings": [
"energies"
]
},
{
"word": "yāṅra",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "caraṇa sevaya",
"meanings": [
"serve the lotus feet."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Kṛṣṇa's own form has only two hands, but in the form of Lord Nārāyaṇa He has four hands. Lord Nārāyaṇa holds a conchshell, disc, club and lotus flower, and He is full of great opulence. The śrī, bhū and nīlā energies serve at His lotus feet.</b>",
"purport": [
"In the Rāmānuja and Madhva sects of Vaiṣṇavism there are extensive descriptions of the <i>śrī, bhū</i> and <i>nīlā</i> energies. In Bengal the <i>nīlā</i> energy is sometimes called the <i>līlā</i> energy. These three energies are employed in the service of four-handed Nārāyaṇa in Vaikuṇṭha. Relating how three of the Ālvāras, namely Bhūta-yogī, Sara-yogī and Bhrānta-yogī, saw Nārāyaṇa in person when they took shelter at the house of a <i>brāhmaṇa</i> in the village of Gehalī, the <i>Prapannāmṛta</i> of the Śrī-sampradāya describes Nārāyaṇa as follows:",
"<i>tārkṣyādhirūḍhaṁ taḍid-ambudābhaṁ<br/> lakṣmī-dharaṁ vakṣasi paṅkajākṣam<br/> hasta-dvaye śobhita-śaṅkha-cakraṁ<br/> viṣṇuṁ dadṛśur bhagavantam ādyam</i>",
"<i>ājānu-bāhuṁ kamanīya-gātraṁ<br/> pārśva-dvaye śobhita-bhūmi-nīlam<br/> pītāmbaraṁ bhūṣaṇa-bhūṣitāṅgaṁ<br/> catur-bhujaṁ candana-ruṣitāṅgam</i>",
"\"They saw the lotus-eyed Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, mounted on Garuḍa and holding Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune, to His chest. He resembled a bluish raincloud with flashing lightning, and in two of His four hands He held a conchshell and disc. His arms stretched down to His knees, and all His beautiful limbs were smeared with sandalwood and decorated with glittering ornaments. He wore yellow clothes, and by either side stood His energies Bhūmi and Nīlā.\"",
"There is the following reference to the <i>śrī, bhū</i> and <i>nīlā</i> energies in the <i>Sītopaniṣad:</i> <i>mahā-lakṣmīr deveśasya bhinnābhinna-rūpā cetanācetanātmikā.</i> <i>sā devī tri-vidhā bhavati</i>—<i>śakty-ātmanā icchā-śaktiḥ kriyā-śaktiḥ sākṣāc-chaktir iti. icchā-śaktis tri-vidhā bhavati</i>—<i>śrī-bhūmi-nīlātmikā.</i> \"Mahā-Lakṣmī, the supreme energy of the Lord, is experienced in different ways. It is divided into material and spiritual potencies, and in both features it acts as the willing energy, creative energy and the internal energy. The willing energy is again divided into three, namely <i>śrī, bhū</i> and <i>nīlā.</i>\"",
"Quoting from the revealed scriptures in his commentary on <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (4.6), Madhvācārya has stated that mother material nature, which is conceived of as the illusory energy, Durgā, has three divisions, namely <i>śrī, bhū</i> and <i>nīlā.</i> She is the illusory energy for those who are weak in spiritual strength because such energies are created energies of Lord Viṣṇu. Although each energy has no direct relationship with the unlimited, they are subordinate to the Lord because the Lord is the master of all energies.",
"In his <i>Bhagavat-sandarbha</i> (verse 80) Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī Prabhu states: \"The <i>Padma Purāṇa</i> refers to the eternally auspicious abode of Godhead, which is full in all opulences, including the energies <i>śrī, bhū</i> and <i>nīlā.</i> The <i>Mahā-saṁhitā,</i> which discusses the transcendental name and form of Godhead, also mentions Durgā as the potency of Supersoul in relationship with the living entities. The internal potency acts in relation with His personal affairs, and the material potency manifests the three modes.\" Quoting elsewhere from the revealed scriptures, he states that <i>śrī</i> is the energy of Godhead that maintains the cosmic manifestation, <i>bhū</i> is the creative energy of that cosmic creation, and <i>nīlā,</i> Durgā, is the energy that destroys the creation. All these energies act in relation with the living beings, and thus they are together called <i>jīva-māyā.</i>"
],
"verse_end": 28
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 29,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.29",
"devanagari": "यद्यपि केवल ताङ्र क्रीडामात्र धर्म तथापि जीवेरे कृपाय करे एक कर्म",
"bengali": "যদ্যপি কেবল তাঙ্র ক্রীডামাত্র ধর্ম তথাপি জীবেরে কৃপায করে এক কর্ম",
"transliteration": "yadyapi kevala tāṅra krīḍā-mātra dharma\ntathāpi jīvere kṛpāya kare eka karma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yadyapi",
"meanings": [
"although"
]
},
{
"word": "kevala",
"meanings": [
"only"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "krīḍā-mātra",
"meanings": [
"pastime only"
]
},
{
"word": "dharma",
"meanings": [
"characteristic function"
]
},
{
"word": "tathāpi",
"meanings": [
"still"
]
},
{
"word": "jīvere",
"meanings": [
"to the fallen souls"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛpāya",
"meanings": [
"by the causeless mercy"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "karma",
"meanings": [
"activity."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Although His pastimes are His only characteristic functions, by His causeless mercy He performs one activity for the fallen souls.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 30,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.30",
"devanagari": "सालोक्यसामीप्यसार्ष्टिसारूप्यप्रकार चारि मुक्ति दिया करे जीवेर निस्तार",
"bengali": "সালোক্যসামীপ্যসার্ষ্টিসারূপ্যপ্রকার চারি মুক্তি দিযা করে জীবের নিস্তার",
"transliteration": "sālokya-sāmīpya-sārṣṭi-sārūpya-prakāra\ncāri mukti diyā kare jīvera nistāra",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sālokya",
"meanings": [
"the liberation called sālokya"
]
},
{
"word": "sāmīpya",
"meanings": [
"the liberation called sāmīpya"
]
},
{
"word": "sārṣṭi",
"meanings": [
"the liberation called sārṣṭi"
]
},
{
"word": "sārūpya",
"meanings": [
"the liberation called sārūpya"
]
},
{
"word": "prakāra",
"meanings": [
"varieties"
]
},
{
"word": "cāri",
"meanings": [
"four"
]
},
{
"word": "mukti",
"meanings": [
"liberation"
]
},
{
"word": "diyā",
"meanings": [
"giving"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "jīvera",
"meanings": [
"of the fallen souls"
]
},
{
"word": "nistāra",
"meanings": [
"deliverance."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>He delivers the fallen living entities by offering them the four kinds of liberation—sālokya, sāmīpya, sārṣṭi and sārūpya.</b>",
"purport": [
"There are two kinds of liberated souls—those who are liberated by the favor of the Lord and those who are liberated by their own effort. One who gets liberation by his own effort is called an impersonalist, and he merges in the glaring effulgence of the Lord, the <i>brahmajyoti.</i> But devotees of the Lord who qualify themselves for liberation by devotional service are offered four kinds of liberation, namely <i>sālokya</i> (status equal to that of the Lord), <i>sāmīpya</i> (constant association with the Lord), <i>sārṣṭi</i> (opulence equal to that of the Lord) and <i>sārūpya</i> (features like those of the Lord)."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 31,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.31",
"devanagari": "ब्रह्मसायुज्यमुक्तेर ताहा नाहि गति वैकुण्ठबाहिरे हय ताऽ सबार स्थिति",
"bengali": "ব্রহ্মসাযুজ্যমুক্তের তাহা নাহি গতি বৈকুণ্ঠবাহিরে হয তাঽ সবার স্থিতি",
"transliteration": "brahma-sāyujya-muktera tāhā nāhi gati\nvaikuṇṭha-bāhire haya tā' sabāra sthiti",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brahma-sāyujya",
"meanings": [
"of merging into the Supreme Brahman"
]
},
{
"word": "muktera",
"meanings": [
"of the liberation"
]
},
{
"word": "tāhā",
"meanings": [
"there (in Vaikuṇṭha)"
]
},
{
"word": "nāhi",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "gati",
"meanings": [
"entrance"
]
},
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭha-bāhire",
"meanings": [
"outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets"
]
},
{
"word": "haya",
"meanings": [
"there is"
]
},
{
"word": "tā' sabāra sthiti",
"meanings": [
"the residence of all of them."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Those who attain brahma-sāyujya liberation cannot gain entrance into Vaikuṇṭha; their residence is outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 32,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.32",
"devanagari": "वैकुण्ठबाहिरे एक ज्योतिर्मय मण्डल कृष्णेर अंगेर प्रभा, परम उज्ज्वल",
"bengali": "বৈকুণ্ঠবাহিরে এক জ্যোতির্ময মণ্ডল কৃষ্ণের অংগের প্রভা, পরম উজ্জ্বল",
"transliteration": "vaikuṇṭha-bāhire eka jyotir-maya maṇḍala\nkṛṣṇera aṅgera prabhā, parama ujjvala",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭha-bāhire",
"meanings": [
"outside the Vaikuṇṭhalokas"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "jyotiḥ-maya maṇḍala",
"meanings": [
"the atmosphere of the glowing effulgence"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇera",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅgera",
"meanings": [
"of the body"
]
},
{
"word": "prabhā",
"meanings": [
"rays"
]
},
{
"word": "parama",
"meanings": [
"supremely"
]
},
{
"word": "ujjvala",
"meanings": [
"bright."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets is the atmosphere of the glowing effulgence, which consists of the supremely bright rays of the body of Lord Kṛṣṇa.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 33,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.33",
"devanagari": "ऽसिद्धलोकऽ नाम तार प्रकृतिर पार चित्स्वरूप, ताङ्हा नाहि चिच्छक्तिविकार",
"bengali": "ঽসিদ্ধলোকঽ নাম তার প্রকৃতির পার চিত্স্বরূপ, তাঙ্হা নাহি চিচ্ছক্তিবিকার",
"transliteration": "'siddha-loka' nāma tāra prakṛtira pāra\ncit-svarūpa, tāṅhā nāhi cic-chakti-vikāra",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "'siddha-loka'",
"meanings": [
"the region of the Siddhas"
]
},
{
"word": "nāma",
"meanings": [
"named"
]
},
{
"word": "tāra",
"meanings": [
"of the effulgent atmosphere"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛtira pāra",
"meanings": [
"beyond this material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "cit-svarūpa",
"meanings": [
"full of knowledge"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅhā",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "nāhi",
"meanings": [
"there is not"
]
},
{
"word": "cit-śakti-vikāra",
"meanings": [
"change of the spiritual energy."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That region is called Siddhaloka, and it is beyond material nature. Its essence is spiritual, but it does not have spiritual varieties.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 34,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.34",
"devanagari": "सूर्यमण्डल येन बाहिरे निर्विशेष भितरे सूर्येर रथआदि सविशेष",
"bengali": "সূর্যমণ্ডল যেন বাহিরে নির্বিশেষ ভিতরে সূর্যের রথআদি সবিশেষ",
"transliteration": "sūrya-maṇḍala yena bāhire nirviśeṣa\nbhitare sūryera ratha-ādi saviśeṣa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sūrya-maṇḍala",
"meanings": [
"the sun globe"
]
},
{
"word": "yena",
"meanings": [
"like"
]
},
{
"word": "bāhire",
"meanings": [
"externally"
]
},
{
"word": "nirviśeṣa",
"meanings": [
"without varieties"
]
},
{
"word": "bhitare",
"meanings": [
"within"
]
},
{
"word": "sūryera",
"meanings": [
"of the sun-god"
]
},
{
"word": "ratha-ādi",
"meanings": [
"opulences like chariots and other things"
]
},
{
"word": "sa-viśeṣa",
"meanings": [
"full of varieties."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>It is like the homogeneous effulgence around the sun. But inside the sun are the chariots, horses and other opulences of the sun-god.</b>",
"purport": [
"Outside of Vaikuṇṭha, the abode of Kṛṣṇa, which is called <i>paravyoma,</i> is the glaring effulgence of Kṛṣṇa's bodily rays. This is called the <i>brahmajyoti.</i> The transcendental region of that effulgence is called Siddhaloka or Brahmaloka. When impersonalists achieve liberation, they merge in that Brahmaloka effulgence. This transcendental region is undoubtedly spiritual, but it contains no manifestations of spiritual activities or variegatedness. It is compared to the glow of the sun. Within the sun's glow is the sphere of the sun, where one can experience all sorts of varieties."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 35,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.35",
"devanagari": "कामाद्द्वेषाद्भयात्स्नेहाद्यथा भक्त्येश्वरे मनः\nआवेश्य तदघं हित्वा बहवस्तद्गतिं गताः",
"bengali": "কামাদ্দ্বেষাদ্ভযাত্স্নেহাদ্যথা ভক্ত্যেশ্বরে মনঃ\nআবেশ্য তদঘং হিত্বা বহবস্তদ্গতিং গতাঃ",
"transliteration": "kāmād dveṣād bhayāt snehād\nyathā bhaktyeśvare manaḥ\nāveśya tad aghaṁ hitvā\nbahavas tad gatiṁ gatāḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kāmāt",
"meanings": [
"influenced by lusty desire"
]
},
{
"word": "dveṣāt",
"meanings": [
"by envy"
]
},
{
"word": "bhayāt",
"meanings": [
"by fear"
]
},
{
"word": "snehāt",
"meanings": [
"or by affection"
]
},
{
"word": "yathā",
"meanings": [
"as"
]
},
{
"word": "bhaktyā",
"meanings": [
"by devotion"
]
},
{
"word": "īśvare",
"meanings": [
"in the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "manaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the mind"
]
},
{
"word": "āveśya",
"meanings": [
"fully absorbing"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "agham",
"meanings": [
"sinful activity"
]
},
{
"word": "hitvā",
"meanings": [
"giving up"
]
},
{
"word": "bahavaḥ",
"meanings": [
"many"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "gatim",
"meanings": [
"destination"
]
},
{
"word": "gatāḥ",
"meanings": [
"achieved."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"As through devotion to the Lord one can attain His abode, many have attained that goal by abandoning their sinful activities and absorbing their minds in the Lord through lust, envy, fear or affection.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"As the powerful sun, by its glowing rays, can purify all kinds of impurities, so the all-spiritual Personality of Godhead can purify all material qualities in a person He attracts. Even if one is attracted by Godhead in the mode of material lust, such attraction is converted into spiritual love of Godhead by His grace. Similarly, if one is related to the Lord in fear and animosity, he also becomes purified by the spiritual attraction of the Lord. Although God is great and the living entity small, they are spiritual individuals, and therefore as soon as there is a reciprocal exchange by the living entity's free will, at once the great spiritual being attracts the small living entity, thus freeing him from all material bondage. This is a verse from <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (7.1.29)."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 36,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.36",
"devanagari": "यदरीणां प्रियाणां च प्राप्यमेकमिवोदितम्\nतद्ब्रह्मकृष्णयोरैक्यात्किरणार्कोपमाजुषोः",
"bengali": "যদরীণাং প্রিযাণাং চ প্রাপ্যমেকমিবোদিতম্\nতদ্ব্রহ্মকৃষ্ণযোরৈক্যাত্কিরণার্কোপমাজুষোঃ",
"transliteration": "yad arīṇāṁ priyāṇāṁ ca\nprāpyam ekam ivoditam\ntad brahma-kṛṣṇayor aikyāt\nkiraṇārkopamā-juṣoḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "arīṇām",
"meanings": [
"of the enemies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "priyāṇām",
"meanings": [
"of the devotees, who are very dear to the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"and"
]
},
{
"word": "prāpyam",
"meanings": [
"destination"
]
},
{
"word": "ekam",
"meanings": [
"one only"
]
},
{
"word": "iva",
"meanings": [
"thus"
]
},
{
"word": "uditam",
"meanings": [
"said"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "brahma",
"meanings": [
"of impersonal Brahman"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇayoḥ",
"meanings": [
"and of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "aikyāt",
"meanings": [
"due to the oneness"
]
},
{
"word": "kiraṇa",
"meanings": [
"the sunshine"
]
},
{
"word": "arka",
"meanings": [
"and the sun"
]
},
{
"word": "upamā",
"meanings": [
"the comparison"
]
},
{
"word": "juṣoḥ",
"meanings": [
"which is understood by."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"Where it has been stated that the Lord's enemies and devotees attain the same destination, this refers to the ultimate oneness of Brahman and Lord Kṛṣṇa. This may be understood by the example of the sun and the sunshine, in which Brahman is like the sunshine and Kṛṣṇa Himself is like the sun.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"This verse is from the <i>Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu</i> (1.2.278) of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, who further discusses this same topic in his <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta</i> (1.5.41). There he refers to the <i>Viṣṇu Purāṇa</i> (4.15.1), where Maitreya Muni asked Parāśara, in regard to Jaya and Vijaya, how it was that Hiraṇyakaśipu next became Rāvaṇa and enjoyed more material happiness than the demigods but did not attain salvation, although when he became Śiśupāla, quarreled with Kṛṣṇa and was killed, he attained salvation and merged into the body of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Parāśara replied that Hiraṇyakaśipu failed to recognize Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva as Lord Viṣṇu. He thought that Nṛsiṁhadeva was some living entity who had acquired such opulence by various pious activities. Being overcome by the mode of passion, he considered Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva an ordinary living entity, not understanding His form. Nevertheless, because Hiraṇyakaśipu was killed by the hands of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, in his next life he became Rāvaṇa and had proprietorship of unlimited opulence. As Rāvaṇa, with unlimited material enjoyment, he could not accept Lord Rāma as the Personality of Godhead. Therefore even though he was killed by Rāma, he did not attain <i>sāyujya,</i> or oneness with the body of the Lord. In his Rāvaṇa body he was too much attracted by Rāma's wife, Jānakī, and because of that attraction he was able to see Lord Rāma. But instead of accepting Lord Rāma as an incarnation of Viṣṇu, Rāvaṇa thought Him an ordinary living being. When killed by the hands of Rāma, therefore, he got the privilege of taking birth as Śiśupāla, who had such immense opulence that he could think himself a competitor to Kṛṣṇa. Although Śiśupāla was always envious of Kṛṣṇa, he frequently uttered the name of Kṛṣṇa and always thought of the beautiful features of Kṛṣṇa. Thus by constantly thinking and chanting of Kṛṣṇa, even unfavorably, he was cleansed of the contamination of his sinful activities. When Śiśupāla was killed by the Sudarśana <i>cakra</i> of Kṛṣṇa as an enemy, his constant remembrance of Kṛṣṇa dissolved the reactions of his vices, and he attained salvation by becoming one with the body of the Lord.",
"From this incident one can understand that even a person who thinks of Kṛṣṇa as an enemy and is killed by Him may be liberated by becoming one with the body of Kṛṣṇa. What then must be the destination of devotees who always think favorably of Kṛṣṇa as their master or friend? These devotees must attain a situation better than Brahmaloka, the impersonal bodily effulgence of Kṛṣṇa. Devotees cannot be situated in the impersonal Brahman effulgence, into which impersonalists desire to merge. The devotees are placed in Vaikuṇṭhaloka or Kṛṣṇaloka.",
"This discussion between Maitreya Muni and Parāśara Muni centered on whether devotees come down into the material world in every millennium like Jaya and Vijaya, who were cursed by the Kumāras to that effect. In the course of these instructions to Maitreya about Hiraṇyakaśipu, Rāvaṇa and Śiśupāla, Parāśara did not say that these demons were formerly Jaya and Vijaya. He simply described the transmigration through three lives. It is not necessary for the Vaikuṇṭha associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to come to take the roles of His enemies in all the millenniums in which He appears. The \"falldown\" of Jaya and Vijaya occurred in a particular millennium; Jaya and Vijaya do not come down in every millennium to act as demons. To think that some associates of the Lord fall down from Vaikuṇṭha in every millennium to become demons is totally incorrect.",
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead has all the tendencies that may be found in the living entity, for He is the chief living entity. Therefore it is natural that sometimes Lord Viṣṇu wants to fight. Just as He has the tendencies to create, to enjoy, to be a friend, to accept a mother and father, and so on, He also has the tendency to fight. Sometimes important landlords and kings keep wrestlers with whom they practice mock fighting, and Viṣṇu makes similar arrangements. The demons who fight with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the material world are sometimes His associates. When there is a scarcity of demons and the Lord wants to fight, He instigates some of His associates of Vaikuṇṭha to come and play as demons. When it is said that Śiśupāla merged into the body of Kṛṣṇa, it should be noted that in this case he was not Jaya or Vijaya; he was actually a demon.",
"In his <i>Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta,</i> Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī has explained that the attainment of salvation by merging into the Brahman effulgence of the Lord cannot be accepted as the highest success in life, because demons like Kaṁsa, who were famous for killing <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and cows, attained that salvation. For devotees such salvation is abominable. Devotees are actually in a transcendental position, whereas nondevotees are candidates for hellish conditions of life. There is always a difference between the life of a devotee and the life of a demon, and their realizations are as different as heaven and hell.",
"Demons are always accustomed to be malicious toward devotees and to kill <i>brāhmaṇas</i> and cows. For demons, merging in the Brahman effulgence may be very glorious, but for devotees it is hellish. A devotee's aim in life is to attain perfection in loving the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Those who aspire to merge into the Brahman effulgence are as abominable as demons. Devotees who aspire to associate with the Supreme Lord to render Him transcendental loving service are far superior."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 37,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.37",
"devanagari": "तैछे परव्योमे नाना चिच्छक्तिविलास निर्विशेष ज्योतिर्बिम्ब बाहिरे प्रकाश",
"bengali": "তৈছে পরব্যোমে নানা চিচ্ছক্তিবিলাস নির্বিশেষ জ্যোতির্বিম্ব বাহিরে প্রকাশ",
"transliteration": "taiche para-vyome nānā cic-chakti-vilāsa\nnirviśeṣa jyotir-bimba bāhire prakāśa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "taiche",
"meanings": [
"in that way"
]
},
{
"word": "para-vyome",
"meanings": [
"in the spiritual sky"
]
},
{
"word": "nānā",
"meanings": [
"varieties"
]
},
{
"word": "cit-śakti-vilāsa",
"meanings": [
"pastimes of spiritual energy"
]
},
{
"word": "nirviśeṣa",
"meanings": [
"impersonal"
]
},
{
"word": "jyotiḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the effulgence"
]
},
{
"word": "bimba",
"meanings": [
"reflection"
]
},
{
"word": "bāhire",
"meanings": [
"externally"
]
},
{
"word": "prakāśa",
"meanings": [
"manifested."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Thus in the spiritual sky there are varieties of pastimes within the spiritual energy. Outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets appears the impersonal reflection of light.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 38,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.38",
"devanagari": "निर्विशेषब्रह्म सेइ केवल ज्योतिर्मय सायुज्येर अधिकारी ताङ्हा पाय लय",
"bengali": "নির্বিশেষব্রহ্ম সেই কেবল জ্যোতির্ময সাযুজ্যের অধিকারী তাঙ্হা পায লয",
"transliteration": "nirviśeṣa-brahma sei kevala jyotir-maya\nsāyujyera adhikārī tāṅhā pāya laya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "nirviśeṣa-brahma",
"meanings": [
"the impersonal Brahman effulgence"
]
},
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "kevala",
"meanings": [
"only"
]
},
{
"word": "jyotiḥ-maya",
"meanings": [
"effulgent rays"
]
},
{
"word": "sāyujyera",
"meanings": [
"the liberation called sāyujya (oneness with the Supreme)"
]
},
{
"word": "adhikārī",
"meanings": [
"one who is fit for"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅhā",
"meanings": [
"there (in the impersonal Brahman effulgence)"
]
},
{
"word": "pāya",
"meanings": [
"gets"
]
},
{
"word": "laya",
"meanings": [
"merging."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That impersonal Brahman effulgence consists only of the effulgent rays of the Lord. Those fit for sāyujya liberation merge into that effulgence.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 39,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.39",
"devanagari": "सिद्धलोकस्तु तमसः पारे यत्र वसन्ति हि\nसिद्धा ब्रह्मसुखे मग्ना दैत्याश्च हरिणा हताः",
"bengali": "সিদ্ধলোকস্তু তমসঃ পারে যত্র বসন্তি হি\nসিদ্ধা ব্রহ্মসুখে মগ্না দৈত্যাশ্চ হরিণা হতাঃ",
"transliteration": "siddha-lokas tu tamasaḥ\npāre yatra vasanti hi\nsiddhā brahma-sukhe magnā\ndaityāś ca hariṇā hatāḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "siddha-lokaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the Siddhaloka, or impersonal Brahman"
]
},
{
"word": "tu",
"meanings": [
"but"
]
},
{
"word": "tamasaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of darkness"
]
},
{
"word": "pāre",
"meanings": [
"beyond the jurisdiction"
]
},
{
"word": "yatra",
"meanings": [
"where"
]
},
{
"word": "vasanti",
"meanings": [
"reside"
]
},
{
"word": "hi",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "siddhāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the spiritually perfect"
]
},
{
"word": "brahma-sukhe",
"meanings": [
"in the transcendental bliss of becoming one with the Supreme"
]
},
{
"word": "magnāḥ",
"meanings": [
"absorbed"
]
},
{
"word": "daityāḥ ca",
"meanings": [
"as well as the demons"
]
},
{
"word": "hariṇā",
"meanings": [
"by the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "hatāḥ",
"meanings": [
"killed."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"Beyond the region of ignorance [the material cosmic manifestation] lies the realm of Siddhaloka. The Siddhas reside there, absorbed in the bliss of Brahman. Demons killed by the Lord also attain that realm.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"<i>Tamaḥ</i> means darkness. The material world is dark, and beyond the material world is light. In other words, after passing through the entire material atmosphere, one can come to the luminous spiritual sky, whose impersonal effulgence is known as Siddhaloka. Māyāvādī philosophers who aspire to merge with the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as well as demoniac persons such as Kaṁsa and Sisupala who are killed by Kṛṣṇa, enter that Brahman effulgence. <i>Yogīs</i> who attain oneness through meditation according to the Patañjali <i>yoga</i> system also reach Siddhaloka. This is a verse from the <i>Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 40,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.40",
"devanagari": "सेइ परव्योमे नारायणेर चारि पाशे द्वारकाचतुर्व्यूहेर द्वितीय प्रकाशे",
"bengali": "সেই পরব্যোমে নারাযণের চারি পাশে দ্বারকাচতুর্ব্যূহের দ্বিতীয প্রকাশে",
"transliteration": "sei para-vyome nārāyaṇera cāri pāśe\ndvārakā-catur-vyūhera dvitīya prakāśe",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "para-vyome",
"meanings": [
"in the spiritual sky"
]
},
{
"word": "nārāyaṇera",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Nārāyaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "cāri pāśe",
"meanings": [
"on four sides"
]
},
{
"word": "dvārakā",
"meanings": [
"Dvārakā"
]
},
{
"word": "catur-vyūhera",
"meanings": [
"of the quadruple expansions"
]
},
{
"word": "dvitīya",
"meanings": [
"the second"
]
},
{
"word": "prakāśe",
"meanings": [
"manifestation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>In that spiritual sky, on the four sides of Nārāyaṇa, are the second expansions of the quadruple expansions of Dvārakā.</b>",
"purport": [
"Within the spiritual sky is a second manifestation of the quadruple forms of Dvārakā from the abode of Kṛṣṇa. Among these forms, which are all spiritual and immune to the material modes, Śrī Baladeva is represented as Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa.",
"The actions in the spiritual sky are manifested by the internal potency in pure spiritual existence. They expand in six transcendental opulences, which are all manifestations of Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is the ultimate reservoir and objective of all living entities. Although belonging to the marginal potency known as <i>jīva-śakti,</i> the spiritual sparks known as the living entities are subjected to the conditions of material energy. It is because these sparks are related with both the internal and external potencies of the Lord that they are known as belonging to the marginal potency.",
"In considering the quadruple forms of the absolute Personality of Godhead, known as Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, the impersonalists, headed by Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya, have interpreted the aphorisms of the <i>Vedānta-sūtra</i> in a way suitable for the impersonalist school. To provide the intrinsic import of such aphorisms, however, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, the leader of the six Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana, has properly replied to the impersonalists in his <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta,</i> which is a natural commentary on the aphorisms of the <i>Vedānta-sūtras.</i>",
"The <i>Padma Purāṇa,</i> as quoted by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī in his <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta,</i> describes that in the spiritual sky there are four directions, corresponding to east, west, north and south, in which Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Aniruddha and Pradyumna are situated. The same forms are also situated in the material sky. The <i>Padma Purāṇa</i> also describes a place in the spiritual sky known as Vedavatī-pura where Vāsudeva resides. In the Viṣṇuloka, which is above Satyaloka, Saṅkarṣaṇa resides. Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa is another name of Saṅkarṣaṇa. Pradyumna lives in Dvārakā-pura, and Aniruddha lies on the eternal bed of Śeṣa, generally known as <i>ananta-śayyā,</i> in the island called Śvetadvīpa in the ocean of milk."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 41,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.41",
"devanagari": "वासुदेवसंकर्षणप्रद्युम्नानिरुद्ध ऽद्वितीय चतुर्व्यूहऽ एइ—तुरीय, विशुद्ध",
"bengali": "বাসুদেবসংকর্ষণপ্রদ্যুম্নানিরুদ্ধ ঽদ্বিতীয চতুর্ব্যূহঽ এই—তুরীয, বিশুদ্ধ",
"transliteration": "vāsudeva-saṅkarṣaṇa-pradyumnāniruddha\n'dvitīya catur-vyūha' ei—turīya, viśuddha",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vāsudeva",
"meanings": [
"the expansion named Vāsudeva"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkarṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"the expansion named Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "pradyumna",
"meanings": [
"the expansion named Pradyumna"
]
},
{
"word": "aniruddha",
"meanings": [
"the expansion named Aniruddha"
]
},
{
"word": "dvitīya catuḥ-vyūha",
"meanings": [
"the second quadruple expansion"
]
},
{
"word": "ei",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "turīya",
"meanings": [
"transcendental"
]
},
{
"word": "viśuddha",
"meanings": [
"free from all material contamination."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha constitute this second quadruple. They are purely transcendental.</b>",
"purport": [
"Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya has misleadingly explained the quadruple from (<i>catur-vyūha</i>) in his interpretation of the forty-second aphorism of the Second <i>Khaṇḍa</i> of Chapter Two of the <i>Vedānta-sūtras</i> (<i>utpatty-asambhavāt</i>). In verses forty-one through forty-seven of <i>Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta,</i> Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī answers Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya's misleading objections to the personal feature of the Absolute Truth.",
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, is not like a material object that can be known by experimental knowledge or sense perception. In the <i>Nārada-pañcarātra</i> this fact has been explained by Nārāyaṇa Himself to Lord Śiva. But Śaṅkarācārya, the incarnation of Śiva, under the order of Nārāyaṇa, his master, had to mislead the monists, who favor ultimate extinction. In the conditioned stage of existence, all living entities have four basic defects, of which one is the cheating propensity. Śaṅkarācārya has carried this cheating propensity to the extreme to mislead the monists.",
"Actually, the quadruple forms explained in the Vedic literature cannot be understood by the speculation of a conditioned soul. The quadruple forms should therefore be accepted just as they are described. The authority of the <i>Vedas</i> is such that even if one does not understand something by his limited perception, he should accept the Vedic injunction and not create interpretations to suit his imperfect understanding. In his <i>Śārīraka-bhāṣya,</i> however, Śaṅkarācārya has increased the misunderstanding of the monists.",
"The quadruple forms have a spiritual existence that can be realized in <i>vāsudeva-sattva</i> (<i>śuddha-sattva</i>), or unqualified goodness, which accompanies complete absorption in the understanding of Vāsudeva. The quadruple forms, who are full of the six opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are the enjoyers of the internal potency. Thinking the absolute Personality of Godhead to be poverty-stricken or to have no potency—or, in other words, to be impotent—is simply rascaldom. This rascaldom is the profession of the conditioned soul, and it increases his bewilderment. One who cannot understand the distinctions between the spiritual world and material world has no qualification to examine or know the situation of the transcendental quadruple forms. In his commentaries on the Second <i>Khaṇḍa</i> of the <i>Vedānta-sūtra</i>, Chapter Two, verses 42-45, His Holiness Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya has made a futile attempt to nullify the existence of these quadruple forms in the spiritual world.",
"Śaṅkarācārya says (verse 42) that devotees think the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vāsudeva, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, to be one, to be free from material qualities and to have a transcendental body full of bliss and eternal existence. He is the ultimate goal of the devotees, who believe that the Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself into four other eternal transcendental forms—Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. From Vāsudeva, who is the primary expansion, come Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha in that order. Another name of Vāsudeva is Paramātmā, another name of Saṅkarṣaṇa is <i>jīva</i> (the living entity), another name of Pradyumna is mind, and another name of Aniruddha is <i>ahaṅkāra</i> (false ego). Among these expansions, Vāsudeva is considered the origin of material nature. Therefore Śaṅkarācārya says that Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha must be creations of that original cause.",
"Great souls assert that Nārāyaṇa, who is known as Paramātmā, the Supersoul, is beyond material nature, and this is in accordance with the statements of the Vedic literature. Māyāvādīs also agree that Nārāyaṇa can expand Himself in various forms. Śaṅkara says that he does not attempt to argue that portion of the devotees' understanding, but he must protest the idea that Saṅkarṣaṇa is produced from Vāsudeva, Pradyumna is produced from Saṅkarṣaṇa, and Aniruddha is produced from Pradyumna, for if Saṅkarṣaṇa is understood to represent the living entities created from the body of Vāsudeva, the living entities would have to be noneternal. The living entities are supposed to be freed from material contamination by engaging in prolonged temple worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, reading Vedic literature and performing <i>yoga</i> and pious activities to attain the Supreme Lord. But if the living entities had been created from material nature at a certain point, they would be noneternal and would have no chance to be liberated and associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When a cause is nullified, its results are nullified. In the Second Chapter of <i>Vedānta-sūtra,</i> Ācārya Vedavyāsa has also refuted the conception that the living beings were ever born (<i>nātmā śruter nityatvāc ca tābhyaḥ</i>). Because there is no creation for the living entities, they must be eternal.",
"Śaṅkarācārya says (verse 43) that devotees think that Pradyumna, who is considered to represent the senses, has sprung from Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is considered to represent the living entities. But we cannot actually experience that a person can produce senses. Devotees also say that from Pradyumna has sprung Aniruddha, who is considered to represent the ego. But Śaṅkarācārya says that unless the devotees can show how ego and the means of knowledge can generate from a person, such an explanation of the <i>Vedānta-sūtra</i> cannot be accepted, for no other philosophers accept the <i>sūtras</i> in that way.",
"Śaṅkarācārya also says (verse 44) that he cannot accept the devotees' idea that Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are equally as powerful as the absolute Personality of Godhead, full in the six opulences of knowledge, wealth, strength, fame, beauty and renunciation, and free from the flaw of generation at a certain point. Even if They are full expansions, the flaw of generation remains. Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, being distinct individual persons, cannot be one. Therefore if They are accepted as absolute, full and equal, there would have to be many Personalities of Godhead. But there is no need to accept that there are many Personalities of Godhead, because acceptance of one omnipotent God is sufficient for all purposes. The acceptance of more than one God is contradictory to the conclusion that Lord Vāsudeva, the absolute Personality of Godhead, is one without a second. Even if we agree to accept that the quadruple forms of Godhead are all identical, we cannot avoid the incongruous flaw of noneternity. Unless we accept that there are some differences among the personalities, there is no meaning to the idea that Saṅkarṣaṇa is an expansion of Vāsudeva, Pradyumna is an expansion of Saṅkarṣaṇa, and Aniruddha is an expansion of Pradyumna. There must be a distinction between cause and effect. For example, a pot is distinct from the earth from which it is made, and therefore we can ascertain that the earth is the cause and the pot is the effect. Without such distinctions, there is no meaning to cause and effect. Furthermore, the followers of the pañcarātric principles do not accept any differences in knowledge and qualities between Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. The devotees accept all these expansions to be one, but why should they restrict oneness to these quadruple expansions? Certainly we should not do so, for all living entities, from Brahmā to the insignificant ant, are expansions of Vāsudeva, as accepted in all the <i>śrutis</i> and <i>smṛtis.</i>",
"Śaṅkarācārya also says (verse 45) that the devotees who follow the <i>Pañcarātra</i> state that God's qualities and God Himself, as the owner of the qualities, are the same. But how can the <i>Bhāgavata</i> school state that the six opulences—wisdom, wealth, strength, fame, beauty and renunciation—are identical with Lord Vāsudeva? This is impossible.",
"In his <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta, </i>verses 80-83<i>,</i> Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has refuted the charges directed against the devotees by Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya regarding their explanation of the quadruple forms Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. He says that these four expansions of Nārāyaṇa are present in the spiritual sky, where They are famous as Mahāvastha. Among Them, Vāsudeva is worshiped within the heart by meditation because He is the predominating Deity of the heart, as explained in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (4.3.23).",
"Saṅkarṣaṇa, the second expansion, is Vāsudeva's personal expansion for pastimes, and since He is the reservoir of all living entities, He is sometimes called <i>jīva.</i> The beauty of Saṅkarṣaṇa is more than that of innumerable full moons radiating light beams. He is worshipable as the principle of ego. He has invested Anantadeva with all the potencies of sustenance. For the dissolution of the creation, He also exhibits Himself as the Supersoul in Rudra, irreligiosity, <i>ahi</i> (the snake), <i>antaka</i> (death) and the demons.",
"Pradyumna, the third manifestation, appears from Saṅkarṣaṇa. Those who are especially intelligent worship this Pradyumna expansion of Saṅkarṣaṇa as the principle of the intelligence. The goddess of fortune always chants the glories of Pradyumna in the place known as <i>Ilāvṛta-varṣa,</i> and she always serves Him with great devotion. His complexion appears sometimes golden and sometimes bluish like new monsoon clouds in the sky. He is the origin of the creation of the material world, and He has invested His creative principle in Cupid. It is by His direction only that all men and demigods and other living entities function with energy for regeneration.",
"Aniruddha, the fourth of the quadruple expansions, is worshiped by great sages and psychologists as the principle of the mind. His complexion is similar to the bluish hue of a blue cloud. He engages in the maintenance of the cosmic manifestation and is the Supersoul of Dharma (the deity of religiosity), Manu (the progenitor of mankind) and the <i>devatās</i> (demigods). The <i>Mokṣa-dharma</i> Vedic scripture indicates that Pradyumna is the Deity of the total mind, whereas Aniruddha is the Deity of the total ego, but previous statements regarding the quadruple forms are confirmed in the <i>Pañcarātra tantras</i> in all respects.",
"In the <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta, </i>verses 44-66<i>,</i> there is a lucid explanation of the inconceivable potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Negating Śaṅkarācārya's statements, the <i>Mahā-varāha </i><b>Purāṇa declares:</b>",
"<i>sarve nityāḥ śāśvatāś ca<br/> dehās tasya parātmanaḥ<br/> hānopādāna-rahitā<br/> naiva prakṛtijāḥ kvacit</i>",
"\"All the varied expansions of the Personality of Godhead are transcendental and eternal, and all of them repeatedly descend to all the different universes of the material creation. Their bodies, composed of eternity, bliss and knowledge, are everlasting; there is no chance of their decaying, for they are not creations of the material world. Their forms are concentrated spiritual existence, always complete with all spiritual qualities and devoid of material contamination.\"",
"Confirming these statements, the <i>Nārada-pañcarātra</i> asserts:",
"<i>maṇir yathā vibhāgena<br/> nīla-pītādibhir yutaḥ<br/> rūpa-bhedam avāpnoti<br/> dhyāna-bhedāt tathācyutaḥ</i>",
"\"The infallible Personality of Godhead can manifest His body in different ways according to different modes of worship, just as the <i>vaidūrya</i> gem can manifest itself in various colors, such as blue and yellow.\" Each incarnation is distinct from all the others. This is possible by the Lord's inconceivable potency, by which He can simultaneously represent Himself as one, as various partial forms and as the origin of these partial forms. Nothing is impossible for His inconceivable potencies.",
"Kṛṣṇa is one without a second, but He manifests Himself in different bodies, as stated by Nārada in the Tenth Canto of <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam:</i>",
"<i>citraṁ bataitad ekena<br/> vapuṣā yugapat pṛthak<br/> gṛheṣu dvy-aṣṭa-sāhasraṁ<br/> striya eka udāvahat</i>",
"\"It is wonderful indeed that one Kṛṣṇa has simultaneously become different Kṛṣṇas in 16,000 palaces to accept 16,000 queens as His wives.\" (<i>Bhāg.</i> 10.69.2) The <i>Padma Purāṇa</i> also explains:",
"<i>sa devo bahudhā bhūtvā<br/> nirguṇaḥ puruṣottamaḥ<br/> ekībhūya punaḥ śete<br/> nirdoṣo harir ādikṛt</i>",
"\"The same Personality of Godhead, Puruṣottama, the original person, who is always devoid of material qualities and contamination, can exhibit Himself in various forms and at the same time lie down in one form.\"",
"In the Tenth Canto of <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> it is said, <i>yajanti tvan-mayās tvāṁ vai bahu-mūrty-eka-mūrtikam:</i> \"O my Lord, although You manifest Yourself in varieties of forms, You are one without a second. Therefore pure devotees concentrate upon You and worship only You.\" (<i>Bhāg.</i> 10.40.7) In the <i>Kūrma Purāṇa</i> it is said:",
"<i>asthūlaś cānaṇuś caiva<br/> sthūlo 'ṇuś caiva sarvataḥ<br/> avarṇaḥ sarvataḥ proktaḥ<br/> śyāmo raktānta-locanaḥ</i>",
"\"The Lord is personal although impersonal, He is atomic although great, and He is blackish and has red eyes although He is colorless.\" By material calculation all this may appear contradictory, but if we understand that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has inconceivable potencies, we can accept these facts as eternally possible in Him. In our present condition we cannot understand the spiritual activities and how they occur, but although they are inconceivable in the material context, we should not disregard such contradictory conceptions.",
"Although it is apparently inconceivable, it is quite possible for the Absolute to reconcile all opposing elements. <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> establishes this in the Sixth Canto (6.9.34-37):",
"\"O my Lord, Your transcendental pastimes and enjoyments all appear inconceivable because they are not limited by the causal and effective actions of material thought. You can do everything without performing bodily work. The <i>Vedas</i> say that the Absolute Truth has multifarious potencies and does not need to do anything personally. My dear Lord, You are entirely devoid of material qualities. Without anyone's help, You can create, maintain and dissolve the entire qualitative material manifestation, yet in all such activities You do not change. You do not accept the results of Your activities, unlike ordinary demons and demigods, who suffer or enjoy the reactions of their activities in the material world. Unaffected by the reactions of work, You eternally exist with Your full spiritual potency. This we cannot fully understand.",
"\"Because You are unlimited in Your six opulences, no one can count Your transcendental qualities. Philosophers and other thoughtful persons are overwhelmed by the contradictory manifestations of the physical world and the propositions of logical arguments and judgments. Because they are bewildered by word jugglery and disturbed by the different calculations of the scriptures, their theories cannot touch You, who are the ruler and controller of everyone and whose glories are beyond conception.",
"\"Your inconceivable potency keeps You unattached to the mundane qualities. Surpassing all conceptions of material contemplation, Your pure transcendental knowledge keeps You beyond all speculative processes. By Your inconceivable potency, there is nothing contradictory in You.",
"\"People may sometimes think of You as impersonal or personal, but You are one. For persons who are confused or bewildered, a rope may manifest itself as different kinds of snakes. For similar confused persons who are uncertain about You, You create various philosophical methods in pursuance of their uncertain positions.\"",
"We should always remember the differences between spiritual and material actions. The Supreme Lord, being all-spiritual, can perform any act without extraneous help. In the material world, if we want to manufacture an earthen pot, we need the ingredients, a machine and also a laborer. But we should not extend this idea to the actions of the Supreme Lord, for He can create anything in a moment without that which appears necessary in our own conception. When the Lord appears as an incarnation to fulfill a particular purpose, this does not indicate that He is unable to fulfill it without appearing. He can do anything simply by His will, but by His causeless mercy He appears to be dependent upon His devotees. He appears as the son of Yaśodāmātā not because He is dependent on her care but because He accepts such a role by His causeless mercy. When He appears for the protection of His devotees, He naturally accepts trials and tribulations on their behalf.",
"In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> it is said that the Lord, being equally disposed towards every living being, has no enemies and no friends, but He has special affection for a devotee who always thinks of Him in love. Therefore neutrality and partiality are both among the transcendental qualities of the Lord, and they are properly adjusted by His inconceivable energy. The Lord is Parabrahman, or the source of the impersonal Brahma, which is His all-pervading feature of neutrality. In His personal feature, however, as the owner of all transcendental opulences, the Lord displays His partiality by taking the side of His devotees. Partiality, neutrality and all such qualities are present in God, otherwise they could not be experienced in the creation. Since He is the total existence, all things are properly adjusted in the Absolute. In the relative world such qualities are displayed in a perverted manner, and therefore we experience nonduality as a perverted reflection. Because there is no logic to explain how things happen in the realm of spirit, the Lord is sometimes described as being beyond the range of experience. But if we simply accept the Lord's inconceivability, we can then adjust all things in Him. Nondevotees cannot understand the Lord's inconceivable energy, and consequently for them it is said that He is beyond the range of conceivable expression. The author of the <i>Brahma-sūtras</i> (Vs. [2.1.27] accepts this fact and says, <i>śrutes tu śabda-mūlatvāt:</i> the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not conceivable by an ordinary man; He can be understood only through the evidence of Vedic injunctions. The <i>Skanda Purāṇa</i> confirms, <i>acintyāḥ khalu ye bhāvā na tāṁs tarkeṇa yojayet:</i> \"Matters inconceivable to a common man should not be a subject for argument.\" We find very wonderful qualities even in material jewels and drugs. Indeed, their qualities often appear inconceivable. Therefore if we do not attribute inconceivable potencies to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we cannot establish His supremacy. It is because of these inconceivable potencies that the glories of the Lord have always been accepted as difficult to understand.",
"Ignorance and the jugglery of words are very common in human society, but they do not help one understand the inconceivable energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If we accept such ignorance and word jugglery, we cannot accept the Supreme Lord's perfection in six opulences. For example, one of the opulences of the Supreme Lord is complete knowledge. Therefore, how could ignorance be conceivable in Him? Vedic instructions and sensible arguments establish that the Lord's maintaining the cosmic manifestation and simultaneously being indifferent to the activities of its maintenance cannot be contradictory, because of His inconceivable energies. To a person who is always absorbed in the thought of snakes, a rope always appears as a snake, and similarly to a person bewildered by material qualities and devoid of knowledge of the Absolute, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears according to diverse bewildered conclusions.",
"Someone might argue that the Absolute would be affected by duality if He were both all-cognizance (Brahman) and the Personality of Godhead with six opulences in full (Bhagavān). To refute such an argument, the aphorism <i>svarūpa-dvayam īkṣyate</i> declares that in spite of appearances, there is no chance of duality in the Absolute, for He is but one in diverse manifestations. Understanding that the Absolute displays varied pastimes by the influence of His energies at once removes the apparent incongruity of His inconceivably opposite energies. <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (3.4.16) gives the following description of the inconceivable potency of the Lord:",
"<i>karmāṇy anīhasya bhavo 'bhavasya te<br/> durgāśrayo 'thāri-bhayāt palāyanam<br/> kālātmano yat pramadā-yutāśrayaḥ<br/> svātman-rateḥ khidyati dhīr vidām iha</i>",
"\"Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead has nothing to do, He nevertheless acts; although He is always unborn, He nevertheless takes birth; although He is time, fearful to everyone, He flees Mathurā in fear of His enemy to take shelter in a fort; and although He is self-sufficient, He marries 16,000 women. These pastimes seem like bewildering contradictions, even to the most intelligent.\" Had these activities of the Lord not been a reality, sages would not have been puzzled by them. Therefore such activities should never be considered imaginary. Whenever the Lord desires, His inconceivable energy (<i>yogamāyā</i>) serves Him in creating and performing such pastimes.",
"The scriptures known as the <i>Pañcarātra-śāstras</i> are recognized Vedic scriptures that have been accepted by the great <i>ācāryas.</i> These scriptures are not products of the modes of passion and ignorance. Learned scholars and <i>brāhmaṇas</i> therefore always refer to them as <i>sātvata-saṁhitās.</i> The original speaker of these scriptures is Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is especially mentioned in the <i>Mokṣa-dharma</i> (349.68), which is part of the <i>Śānti-parva</i> of the <i>Mahābhārata.</i> Liberated sages like Nārada and Vyāsa, who are free from the four defects of conditioned souls, are the propagators of these scriptures. Śrī Nārada Muni is the original speaker of the <i>Pañcarātra-śāstra.</i> <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> is also considered a <i>sātvata-saṁhitā.</i> Indeed, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu declared, <i>śrīmad-bhāgavataṁ</i> <i>purāṇam amalam:</i> \"<i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> is a spotless <i>Purāṇa.</i>\" Malicious editors and scholars who attempt to misrepresent the <i>Pañcarātra-śāstras</i> to refute its regulations are most abominable. In the modern age, such malicious scholars have even commented misleadingly upon <i>Bhagavad-gītā,</i> which was spoken by Kṛṣṇa, to prove that there is no Kṛṣṇa. How the Māyāvādīs have misrepresented the <i>pāñcarātrika-vidhi</i> will be shown below.",
"(1) In commenting on the forty-second verse of the <i>Vedānta-sūtra</i>, Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya has claimed that Saṅkarṣaṇa is <i>jīva,</i> the ordinary living entity, but there is no evidence in any Vedic scripture that devotees of the Lord have ever said that Saṅkarṣaṇa is an ordinary living entity. He is an infallible plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Viṣṇu category, and He is beyond the creation of material nature. He is the original source of the living entities. The <i>Upaniṣads</i> declare, <i>nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām:</i> \"He is the supreme living entity among all the living entities.\" Therefore He is <i>vibhu-caitanya,</i> the greatest. He is directly the cause of the cosmic manifestation and the infinitesimal living beings. He is the infinite living entity, and ordinary living entities are infinitesimal. Therefore He is never to be considered an ordinary living being, for that would be against the conclusion of the authorized scriptures. The living entities are also beyond the limitations of birth and death. This is the version of the <i>Vedas,</i> and it is accepted by those who follow scriptural injunctions and who have actually descended in the disciplic succession.",
"(2) In answer to Śaṅkarācārya's commentary on the forty-third verse, it must be said that the original Viṣṇu of all the Viṣṇu categories, which are distributed in several ways, is Mūla Saṅkarṣaṇa. <i>Mūla</i> means \"the original.\" Saṅkarṣaṇa is also Viṣṇu, but from Him all other Viṣṇus expand. This is confirmed in the <i>Brahma-saṁhitā,</i> wherein it is said that just as a flame transferred from another flame acts like the original, so the Viṣṇus who emanate from Mūla Saṅkarṣaṇa are as good as the original Viṣṇu. One should worship that Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who thus expands Himself.",
"(3) In reply to the commentary of Śaṅkarācārya on the forty-fourth verse, it may be said that no pure devotees strictly following the principles of <i>Pañcarātra</i> will ever accept the statement that all the expansions of Viṣṇu are different identities, for this idea is completely false. Even Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya, in his commentary on the forty-second verse, has accepted that the Personality of Godhead can automatically expand Himself variously. Therefore his commentary on the forty-second verse and his commentary on the forty-fourth verse are contradictory. It is a defect of Māyāvāda commentaries that they make one statement in one place and a contradictory statement in another place as a tactic to refute the Bhāgavata school. Thus Māyāvādī commentators do not even follow regulative principles. It should be noted that the Bhāgavata school accepts the quadruple forms of Nārāyaṇa, but that does not mean that it accepts many Gods. Devotees know perfectly well that the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is one without a second. They are never pantheists, worshipers of many Gods, for this is against the injunction of the <i>Vedas.</i> Devotees completely believe, with strong faith, that Nārāyaṇa is transcendental and has inconceivable proprietorship of various transcendental potencies. We therefore recommend that scholars consult the <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta</i> of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, where these ideas are explicitly stated. Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya has tried to prove that Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha expand through cause and effect. He has compared Them with earth and earthen pots. That is completely ignorant, however, for there is no such thing as cause and effect in Their expansions (<i>nānyad yat sad-asat-param</i>). The <i>Kūrma Purāṇa</i> also confirms, <i>deha-dehi-vibhedo 'yaṁ neśvare vidyate kvacit:</i> \"There is no difference between body and soul in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.\" Cause and effect are material. For example, it is seen that a father's body is the cause of a son's body, but the soul is neither cause nor effect. On the spiritual platform there are none of the differences we find in cause and effect. Since all the forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are spiritually supreme, They are equally controllers of material nature. Standing on the fourth dimension, They are predominating figures on the transcendental platform. There is no trace of material contamination in Their expansions because material laws cannot influence Them. There is no such rule as cause and effect outside of the material world. Therefore the understanding of cause and effect cannot approach the full, transcendental, complete expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Vedic literature proves this:",
"<i>oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ<br/> pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate<br/> pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya<br/> pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate</i>",
"\"The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the complete whole is also complete by itself. Because He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.\" (<i>Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad,</i> 5.1) It is most apparent that nondevotees violate the rules and regulations of devotional service to equate the whole cosmic manifestation, which is the external feature of Viṣṇu, with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the controller of <i>māyā,</i> or with His quadruple expansions. The equalization of <i>māyā</i> and spirit, or <i>māyā</i> and the Lord, is a sign of atheism. The cosmic creation, which manifests life in forms from Brahmā to the ant, is the external feature of the Supreme Lord. It comprises one fourth of the Lord's energy, as confirmed in <i>Bhagavad-gītā </i>(<i>ekāṁśena sthito jagat</i>). The cosmic manifestation of the illusory energy is material nature, and everything within material nature is made of matter. Therefore, one should not try to compare the expansions of material nature to the <i>catur-vyūha,</i> the quadruple expansions of the Personality of Godhead, but unfortunately the Māyāvādī school unreasonably attempts to do this.",
"(4) To answer Śaṅkarācārya's commentary on the forty-fifth verse, the substance of the transcendental qualities and their spiritual nature is described in the <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta, </i>verses 97 through 99, as follows: \"Some say that transcendence must be void of all qualities because qualities are manifested only in matter. According to them, all qualities are like temporary, flickering mirages. But this is not acceptable. Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is absolute, His qualities are nondifferent from Him. His form, name, qualities and everything else pertaining to Him are as spiritual as He is. Every qualitative expansion of the absolute Personality of Godhead is identical with Him. Since the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, is the reservoir of all pleasure, all the transcendental qualities that expand from Him are also reservoirs of pleasure. This is confirmed in the scripture known as <i>Brahma-tarka,</i> which states that the Supreme Lord Hari is qualified by Himself, and therefore Viṣṇu and His pure devotees and their transcendental qualities cannot be different from their persons. In the <i>Viṣṇu Purāṇa</i> Lord Viṣṇu is worshiped in the following words: 'Let the Supreme Personality of Godhead be merciful toward us. His existence is never infected by material qualities.' In the same <i>Viṣṇu Purāṇa</i> it is also said that all the qualities attributed to the Supreme Lord, such as knowledge, opulence, beauty, strength and influence, are known to be nondifferent from Him. This is also confirmed in the <i>Padma Purāṇa,</i> which explains that whenever the Supreme Lord is described as having no qualities, this should be understood to indicate that He is devoid of material qualities. In the First Chapter of the same <i>Padma Purāṇa</i> it is said: 'O Dharma, protector of religious principles, all noble and sublime qualities are eternally manifested in the person of Kṛṣṇa, and devotees and transcendentalists who aspire to become faithful also desire to possess such transcendental qualities.' \" It is to be understood that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the transcendental form of absolute bliss, is the fountainhead of all pleasurable transcendental qualities and inconceivable potencies. In this connection we may recommend references to <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,</i> Third Canto, Chapter Twenty-Six, verses 21, 25, 27 and 28.",
"Śrīpād Rāmānujācārya has also refuted the arguments of Śaṅkara in his own commentary on the <i>Vedānta-sūtra,</i> which is known as the <i>Śrī-bhāṣya:</i> \"Śrīpād Śaṅkarācārya has tried to equate the <i>Pañcarātras</i> with the philosophy of the atheist Kapila, and thus he has tried to prove that the <i>Pañcarātras</i> contradict the Vedic injunctions. The <i>Pañcarātras</i> state that the personality of <i>jīva</i> called Saṅkarṣaṇa has emerged from Vāsudeva, the supreme cause of all causes, that Pradyumna, the mind, has come from Saṅkarṣaṇa, and that Aniruddha, the ego, has come from Pradyumna. But one cannot say that the living entity (<i>jīva</i>) takes birth or is created, for such a statement is against the injunction of the <i>Vedas.</i> As stated in the <i>Kaṭha Upaniṣad</i> (2.18), living entities, as individual spiritual souls, can have neither birth nor death. All Vedic literature declares that the living entities are eternal. Therefore when it is said that Saṅkarṣaṇa is <i>jīva,</i> this indicates that He is the predominating Deity of the living entities. Similarly, Pradyumna is the predominating Deity of the mind, and Aniruddha is the predominating Deity of the ego.",
"\"It has been said that Pradyumna, the mind, was produced from Saṅkarṣaṇa. But if Saṅkarṣaṇa were a living entity, this could not be accepted, because a living entity cannot be the cause of the mind. The Vedic injunctions state that everything—including life, mind and the senses—comes from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is impossible for the mind to be produced by a living entity, for the <i>Vedas</i> state that everything comes from the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Lord.",
"\"Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha have all the potent features of the absolute Personality of Godhead, according to the revealed scriptures, which contain undeniable facts that no one can refute. Therefore these quadruple forms are never to be considered ordinary living beings. Each of Them is a plenary expansion of the Absolute Godhead, and thus each is identical with the Supreme Lord in knowledge, opulence, energy, influence, prowess and potencies. The evidence of <i>Pañcarātra</i> cannot be neglected. Only untrained persons who have not genuinely studied the <i>Pañcarātras</i> think that the <i>Pañcarātras</i> contradict the <i>śrutis</i> regarding the birth or beginning of the living entity. In this connection, we must accept the verdict of <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,</i> which says: 'The absolute Personality of Godhead, who is known as Vāsudeva and who is very much affectionate toward His surrendered devotees, expands Himself in quadruple forms who are subordinate to Him and at the same time identical with Him in all respects.' The <i>Pauṣkara-saṁhitā</i> states: 'The scriptures that recommend that <i>brāhmaṇas</i> worship the quadruple forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are called <i>āgamas</i> [authorized Vedic literatures].' In all Vaiṣṇava literature it is said that worshiping these quadruple forms is as good as worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vāsudeva, who in His different expansions, complete in six opulences, can accept offerings from His devotees of the results of their prescribed duties. Worshiping the expansions for pastimes, such as Nṛsiṁha, Rāma, Śeṣa and Kūrma, promotes one to the worship of the Saṅkarṣaṇa quadruple. From that position one is raised to the platform of worshiping Vāsudeva, the Supreme Brahman. In the <i>Pauṣkara-saṁhitā</i> it is said: 'If one fully worships according to the regulative principles, one can attain the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. It is to be accepted that Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are as good as Lord Vāsudeva, for They all have inconceivable power and can accept transcendental forms like Vāsudeva. Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are never born, but They can manifest Themselves in various incarnations before the eyes of pure devotees. This is the conclusion of all Vedic literature. That the Lord can manifest Himself before His devotees by His inconceivable power is not against the teaching of the <i>Pañcarātra.</i> Since Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are actually the predominating Deities of all living entities, the total mind, and the total ego, the descriptions of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha as <i>jīva,</i> mind and ego are never contradictory to the statements of the scriptures. These names identify these Deities, just as the terms 'sky' and 'light' sometimes identify the Absolute Brahman.",
"\"The scriptures completely deny the birth or production of the living entity. In the <i>Parama-saṁhitā</i> it is described that material nature, which is used for others' purposes, is factually inert and always subject to transformation. The field of material nature is the arena of the activities of fruitive actors and since the material field is externally related with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is also eternal. In every <i>saṁhitā,</i> the <i>jīva</i> (living entity) has been accepted as eternal, and in the <i>Pañcarātra</i> the birth of the <i>jīva</i> is completely denied. Anything that is produced must also be annihilated. Therefore if we accept the birth of the living entity, we also have to accept his annihilation. But since the Vedic literatures say that the living entity is eternal, one should not think the living being to be produced at a certain time. In the beginning of the <i>Parama-saṁhitā</i> it is definitely stated that the face of material nature is constantly changeable. Therefore beginning, annihilation and all such terms are applicable only in the material nature.",
"\"Considering all these points, one should understand that Śaṅkarācārya's statement that Saṅkarṣaṇa is born as a <i>jīva</i> is completely against the Vedic statements. His assertions are completely refuted by the above arguments. In this connection the commentary of Śrīdhara Svāmī on <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (3.1.34) is very helpful.\"",
"For a detailed refutation of Śaṅkarācārya's arguments to prove Saṅkarṣaṇa an ordinary living being, one may refer to Śrīmat Sudarśanācārya's commentary on <i>Śrī-bhāṣya,</i> which is known as the <i>Śruta-prakāśikā.</i>",
"The original quadruple forms Kṛṣṇa, Baladeva, Pradyumna and Aniruddha expand into another quadruple, which is present in the Vaikuṇṭha planets of the spiritual sky. Therefore the quadruple forms in the spiritual sky are the second manifestation of the original quadruple in Dvārakā. As explained above, Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are all changeless, transcendental plenary expansions of the Supreme Lord who have no relation to the material modes. The Saṅkarṣaṇa form in the second quadruple is not only a representation of Balarāma but also the original cause of the Causal Ocean, where Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu lies asleep, breathing out the seeds of innumerable universes.",
"In the spiritual sky there is a spiritual creative energy technically called <i>śuddha-sattva,</i> which is a pure spiritual energy that sustains all the Vaikuṇṭha planets with the full opulences of knowledge, wealth, prowess, etc. All these actions of <i>śuddha-sattva</i> display the potencies of Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is the ultimate reservoir of all individual living entities who are suffering in the material world. When the cosmic creation is annihilated, the living entities, who are indestructible by nature, rest in the body of Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa. Saṅkarṣaṇa is therefore sometimes called the total <i>jīva.</i> As spiritual sparks, the living entities have the tendency to be inactive in the association of material energy, just as sparks of a fire have the tendency to be extinguished as soon as they leave the fire. The spiritual nature of the living being can be rekindled, however, in association with the Supreme Being. Because the living being can appear either in matter or in spirit, the <i>jīva</i> is called the marginal potency.",
"Saṅkarṣaṇa is the origin of Kāraṇa Viṣṇu, who is the original form who creates the universes, and that Saṅkarṣaṇa is but a plenary expansion of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 42,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.42",
"devanagari": "ताङ्हा ये रामेर रूप—महासंकर्षण चिच्छक्तिआश्रय तिङ्हो, कारणेर कारण",
"bengali": "তাঙ্হা যে রামের রূপ—মহাসংকর্ষণ চিচ্ছক্তিআশ্রয তিঙ্হো, কারণের কারণ",
"transliteration": "tāṅhā ye rāmera rūpa—mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa\ncic-chakti-āśraya tiṅho, kāraṇera kāraṇa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tāṅhā",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "ye",
"meanings": [
"which"
]
},
{
"word": "rāmera rūpa",
"meanings": [
"the personal feature of Balarāma"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "cit-śakti-āśraya",
"meanings": [
"the shelter of the spiritual potency"
]
},
{
"word": "tiṅho",
"meanings": [
"He"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇera kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"the cause of all causes."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>There the personal feature of Balarāma called Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa is the shelter of the spiritual energy. He is the primary cause, the cause of all causes.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 43,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.43",
"devanagari": "चिच्छक्तिविलास एक—ऽशुद्धसत्त्वऽ नाम शुद्धसत्त्वमय यत वैकुण्ठादिधाम",
"bengali": "চিচ্ছক্তিবিলাস এক—ঽশুদ্ধসত্ত্বঽ নাম শুদ্ধসত্ত্বময যত বৈকুণ্ঠাদিধাম",
"transliteration": "cic-chakti-vilāsa eka—'śuddha-sattva' nāma\nśuddha-sattva-maya yata vaikuṇṭhādi-dhāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cit-śakti-vilāsa",
"meanings": [
"pastimes in the spiritual energy"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "śuddha-sattva nāma",
"meanings": [
"named śuddha-sattva, pure existence, free from material contamination"
]
},
{
"word": "śuddha-sattva-maya",
"meanings": [
"of purely spiritual existence"
]
},
{
"word": "yata",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭha-ādi-dhāma",
"meanings": [
"the spiritual planets, known as Vaikuṇṭhas."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>One variety of the pastimes of the spiritual energy is described as pure goodness [viśuddha-sattva]. It comprises all the abodes of Vaikuṇṭha.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 44,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.44",
"devanagari": "षड्विधैश्वर्य ताङ्हा सकल चिन्मय संकर्षणेर विभूति सब, जानिह निश्चय",
"bengali": "ষড্বিধৈশ্বর্য তাঙ্হা সকল চিন্ময সংকর্ষণের বিভূতি সব, জানিহ নিশ্চয",
"transliteration": "ṣaḍ-vidhaiśvarya tāṅhā sakala cinmaya\nsaṅkarṣaṇera vibhūti saba, jāniha niścaya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ṣaṭ-vidha-aiśvarya",
"meanings": [
"six kinds of opulences"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅhā",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "sakala cit-maya",
"meanings": [
"everything spiritual"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkarṣaṇera",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "vibhūti saba",
"meanings": [
"all different opulences"
]
},
{
"word": "jāniha niścaya",
"meanings": [
"know certainly."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The six attributes are all spiritual. Know for certain that they are all manifestations of the opulence of Saṅkarṣaṇa.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 45,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.45",
"devanagari": "ऽजीवऽनाम तटस्थाख्य एक शक्ति हय महासंकर्षण—सब जीवेर आश्रय",
"bengali": "ঽজীবঽনাম তটস্থাখ্য এক শক্তি হয মহাসংকর্ষণ—সব জীবের আশ্রয",
"transliteration": "'jīva'-nāma taṭasthākhya eka śakti haya\nmahā-saṅkarṣaṇa—saba jīvera āśraya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "jīva",
"meanings": [
"the living entity"
]
},
{
"word": "nāma",
"meanings": [
"named"
]
},
{
"word": "taṭa-sthā-ākhya",
"meanings": [
"known as the marginal potency"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "śakti",
"meanings": [
"energy"
]
},
{
"word": "haya",
"meanings": [
"is"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"of the name Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "saba",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "jīvera",
"meanings": [
"of living entities"
]
},
{
"word": "āśraya",
"meanings": [
"the shelter."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>There is one marginal potency, known as the jīva. Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa is the shelter of all jīvas.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 46,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.46",
"devanagari": "याङ्हा हैते विश्वोत्पत्ति, याङ्हाते प्रलय सेइ पुरुषेर संकर्षण समाश्रय",
"bengali": "যাঙ্হা হৈতে বিশ্বোত্পত্তি, যাঙ্হাতে প্রলয সেই পুরুষের সংকর্ষণ সমাশ্রয",
"transliteration": "yāṅhā haite viśvotpatti, yāṅhāte pralaya\nsei puruṣera saṅkarṣaṇa samāśraya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yāṅhā haite",
"meanings": [
"from whom"
]
},
{
"word": "viśva-utpatti",
"meanings": [
"the creation of the material cosmic manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "yāṅhāte",
"meanings": [
"in whom"
]
},
{
"word": "pralaya",
"meanings": [
"merging"
]
},
{
"word": "sei puruṣera",
"meanings": [
"of that Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkarṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"of the name Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "samāśraya",
"meanings": [
"the original shelter."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Saṅkarṣaṇa is the original shelter of the puruṣa, from whom this world is created and in whom it is dissolved.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 47,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.47",
"devanagari": "सर्वाश्रय, सर्वाद्भुत, ऐश्वर्य अपार ऽअनन्तऽ कहिते नारे महिमा याङ्हार",
"bengali": "সর্বাশ্রয, সর্বাদ্ভুত, ঐশ্বর্য অপার ঽঅনন্তঽ কহিতে নারে মহিমা যাঙ্হার",
"transliteration": "sarvāśraya, sarvādbhuta, aiśvarya apāra\n'ananta' kahite nāre mahimā yāṅhāra",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sarva-āśraya",
"meanings": [
"the shelter of everything"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva-adbhuta",
"meanings": [
"wonderful in every respect"
]
},
{
"word": "aiśvarya",
"meanings": [
"opulences"
]
},
{
"word": "apāra",
"meanings": [
"unfathomed"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta",
"meanings": [
"Ananta Śeṣa"
]
},
{
"word": "kahite nāre",
"meanings": [
"cannot speak"
]
},
{
"word": "mahimā yāṅhāra",
"meanings": [
"the glories of whom."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>He [Saṅkarṣaṇa] is the shelter of everything. He is wonderful in every respect, and His opulences are infinite. Even Ananta cannot describe His glory.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 48,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.48",
"devanagari": "तुरीय, विशुद्धसत्त्व, ऽसंकर्षणऽ नाम तिङ्हो याङ्र अंश, सेइ नित्यानन्दराम",
"bengali": "তুরীয, বিশুদ্ধসত্ত্ব, ঽসংকর্ষণঽ নাম তিঙ্হো যাঙ্র অংশ, সেই নিত্যানন্দরাম",
"transliteration": "turīya, viśuddha-sattva, 'saṅkarṣaṇa' nāma\ntiṅho yāṅra aṁśa, sei nityānanda-rāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "turīya",
"meanings": [
"transcendental"
]
},
{
"word": "viśuddha-sattva",
"meanings": [
"pure existence"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkarṣaṇa nāma",
"meanings": [
"named Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "tiṅho yāṅra aṁśa",
"meanings": [
"of whom that Saṅkarṣaṇa is also a partial expansion"
]
},
{
"word": "sei nityānanda-rāma",
"meanings": [
"that person is known as Balarāma or Nityānanda."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is transcendental pure goodness, is a partial expansion of Nityānanda Balarāma.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 49,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.49",
"devanagari": "अष्टम श्लोकेर कैल संक्षेपे विवरण नवम श्लोकेर अर्थ शुन दिया मन",
"bengali": "অষ্টম শ্লোকের কৈল সংক্ষেপে বিবরণ নবম শ্লোকের অর্থ শুন দিযা মন",
"transliteration": "aṣṭama ślokera kaila saṅkṣepe vivaraṇa\nnavama ślokera artha śuna diyā mana",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "aṣṭama",
"meanings": [
"eighth"
]
},
{
"word": "ślokera",
"meanings": [
"of the verse"
]
},
{
"word": "kaila",
"meanings": [
"I have done"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkṣepe",
"meanings": [
"in brief"
]
},
{
"word": "vivaraṇa",
"meanings": [
"description"
]
},
{
"word": "navama",
"meanings": [
"the ninth"
]
},
{
"word": "ślokera",
"meanings": [
"of the verse"
]
},
{
"word": "artha",
"meanings": [
"the meaning"
]
},
{
"word": "śuna",
"meanings": [
"please hear"
]
},
{
"word": "diyā mana",
"meanings": [
"with mental attention."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I have briefly explained the eighth verse. Now please listen with attention as I explain the ninth verse.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 50,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.50",
"devanagari": "मायाभर्ताजाण्डसंघाश्रयांगः शेते साक्षात्कारणाम्भोधिमध्ये\nयस्यैकांशः श्रीपुमानादिदेवस्तं श्रीनित्यानन्दरामं प्रपद्ये",
"bengali": "মাযাভর্তাজাণ্ডসংঘাশ্রযাংগঃ শেতে সাক্ষাত্কারণাম্ভোধিমধ্যে\nযস্যৈকাংশঃ শ্রীপুমানাদিদেবস্তং শ্রীনিত্যানন্দরামং প্রপদ্যে",
"transliteration": "māyā-bhartājāṇḍa-saṅghāśrayāṅgaḥ\nśete sākṣāt kāraṇāmbhodhi-madhye\nyasyaikāṁśaḥ śrī-pumān ādi-devas\ntaṁ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaṁ prapadye",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "māyā-bhartā",
"meanings": [
"the master of the illusory energy"
]
},
{
"word": "ajāṇḍa-saṅgha",
"meanings": [
"of the multitude of universes"
]
},
{
"word": "āśraya",
"meanings": [
"the shelter"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅgaḥ",
"meanings": [
"whose body"
]
},
{
"word": "śete",
"meanings": [
"He lies"
]
},
{
"word": "sākṣāt",
"meanings": [
"directly"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa-ambhodhi-madhye",
"meanings": [
"in the midst of the Causal Ocean"
]
},
{
"word": "yasya",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "eka-aṁśaḥ",
"meanings": [
"one portion"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-pumān",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Person"
]
},
{
"word": "ādi-devaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the original puruṣa incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"to Him"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-nityānanda-rāmam",
"meanings": [
"to Lord Balarāma in the form of Lord Nityānanda"
]
},
{
"word": "prapadye",
"meanings": [
"I surrender."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose partial representation called Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, lying on the Kāraṇa Ocean, is the original puruṣa, the master of the illusory energy, and the shelter of all the universes.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 51,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.51",
"devanagari": "वैकुण्ठबाहिरे येइ ज्योतिर्मय धाम ताहार बाहिरे ऽकारणार्णवऽ नाम",
"bengali": "বৈকুণ্ঠবাহিরে যেই জ্যোতির্ময ধাম তাহার বাহিরে ঽকারণার্ণবঽ নাম",
"transliteration": "vaikuṇṭha-bāhire yei jyotir-maya dhāma\ntāhāra bāhire 'kāraṇārṇava' nāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭha-bāhire",
"meanings": [
"outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets"
]
},
{
"word": "yei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "jyotiḥ-maya dhāma",
"meanings": [
"impersonal Brahman effulgence"
]
},
{
"word": "tāhāra bāhire",
"meanings": [
"outside that effulgence"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa-arṇava nāma",
"meanings": [
"an ocean called Kāraṇa."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets is the impersonal Brahman effulgence, and beyond that effulgence is the Kāraṇa Ocean, or Causal Ocean.</b>",
"purport": [
"The impersonal glowing effulgence known as impersonal Brahman is the outer space of the Vaikuṇṭha planets in the spiritual sky. Beyond that impersonal Brahman is the great Causal Ocean, which lies between the material and spiritual skies. The material nature is a by-product of this Causal Ocean.",
"Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who lies on the Causal Ocean, creates the universes merely by glancing upon material nature. Therefore Kṛṣṇa personally has nothing to do with the material creation. <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> confirms that the Lord glances over material nature, and thus she produces the many material universes. Neither Kṛṣṇa in Goloka nor Nārāyaṇa in Vaikuṇṭha comes directly in contact with the material creation. They are completely aloof from the material energy.",
"It is the function of Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa in the form of Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu to glance over the material creation, which is situated beyond the limits of the Causal Ocean. Material nature is connected with the Personality of Godhead by His glance over her and nothing more. It is said that she is impregnated by the energy of His glance. The material energy, <i>māyā,</i> never even touches the Causal Ocean, for the Lord's glance focuses upon her from a great distance away.",
"The glancing power of the Lord agitates the entire cosmic energy, and thus its actions begin at once. This indicates that matter, however powerful she may be, has no power by herself. Her activity begins by the grace of the Lord, and then the entire cosmic creation is manifested in a systematic way. The example of a woman's conception can help us understand this subject to a certain extent. The mother is passive, but the father puts his energy within the mother, and thus she conceives. She supplies the ingredients for the birth of the child in her womb. Similarly, the Lord activates material nature, which then supplies the ingredients for cosmic development.",
"Material nature has two different phases. The aspect called <i>pradhāna</i> supplies the material ingredients for cosmic development, and the aspect called <i>māyā</i> causes the manifestation of her ingredients, which are temporary like foam in the ocean. In reality, the temporary manifestations of material nature are originally caused by the spiritual glance of the Lord. The Personality of Godhead is the direct, or remote, cause of creation, and material nature is the indirect, or immediate, cause. Materialistic scientists, puffed-up by the magical changes their so-called inventions have brought about, cannot see the real potency of Godhead behind matter. Therefore the jugglery of science is gradually leading people to a godless civilization at the cost of the goal of human life. Having missed the goal of life, materialists run after self-sufficiency, not knowing that material nature is already self-sufficient by the grace of God. Thus creating a colossal hoax in the name of civilization, they create an imbalance in the natural self-sufficiency of material nature.",
"To think of material nature as all in all, not knowing the original cause, is ignorance. Lord Caitanya appeared to dissipate this darkness of ignorance by igniting the spark of spiritual life that can, by His causeless mercy, enlighten the entire world.",
"To explain how <i>māyā</i> acts by Kṛṣṇa's power, the author of <i>Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta</i> gives the example that an iron rod in a fire, although it is not fire, becomes red-hot and acts like fire itself. Similarly, all the actions and reactions of material nature are not actually the work of material nature, but are actions and reactions of the energy of the Supreme Lord manifested through matter. The power of electricity is transmitted through the medium of copper, but this does not mean that the copper is electricity. The power is generated at a powerhouse under the control of an expert living being. Similarly, behind all the jugglery of the natural laws is a great living being, who is a person like the mechanical engineer in the powerhouse. It is by His intelligence that the entire cosmic creation moves in a systematic way.",
"The modes of nature that directly cause material actions are also originally activated by Nārāyaṇa. A simple example will explain how this is so. When a potter manufactures a pot from earth, the potter's wheel, his tools and the potter himself are the remote causes of the pot, but the potter is the chief cause. Similarly, Nārāyaṇa is the chief cause of all material creations, and the material energy supplies the ingredients of matter. Therefore without Nārāyaṇa, all other causes are useless, just as the potter's wheel and tools are useless without the potter himself. Since materialistic scientists ignore the Personality of Godhead, it is as if they were concerned with the potter's wheel and its rotation, the potter's tools and the ingredients for the pots, but had no knowledge of the potter himself. Therefore modern science has created an imperfect, godless civilization that is in gross ignorance of the ultimate cause. Scientific advancement should have a great goal to attain, and that great goal should be the Personality of Godhead. In <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> it is said that after conducting research for many, many births, great men of knowledge who stress the importance of experimental thought can know the Personality of Godhead, who is the cause of all causes. When one knows Him perfectly, one surrenders unto Him and then becomes a <i>mahātmā.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 52,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.52",
"devanagari": "वैकुण्ठ बेडिया एक आछे जलनिधि अनन्त, अपार—तार नाहिक अवधि",
"bengali": "বৈকুণ্ঠ বেডিযা এক আছে জলনিধি অনন্ত, অপার—তার নাহিক অবধি",
"transliteration": "vaikuṇṭha beḍiyā eka āche jala-nidhi\nananta, apāra—tāra nāhika avadhi",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭha",
"meanings": [
"the spiritual planets of Vaikuṇṭha"
]
},
{
"word": "beḍiyā",
"meanings": [
"surrounding"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "āche",
"meanings": [
"there is"
]
},
{
"word": "jala-nidhi",
"meanings": [
"ocean of water"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta",
"meanings": [
"unlimited"
]
},
{
"word": "apāra",
"meanings": [
"unfathomed"
]
},
{
"word": "tāra",
"meanings": [
"of that"
]
},
{
"word": "nāhika",
"meanings": [
"no"
]
},
{
"word": "avadhi",
"meanings": [
"limitation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Surrounding Vaikuṇṭha is a mass of water that is endless, unfathomed and unlimited.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 53,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.53",
"devanagari": "वैकुण्ठेर पृथिव्यादि सकल चिन्मय मायिक भूतेर तथि जन्म नाहि हय",
"bengali": "বৈকুণ্ঠের পৃথিব্যাদি সকল চিন্ময মাযিক ভূতের তথি জন্ম নাহি হয",
"transliteration": "vaikuṇṭhera pṛthivy-ādi sakala cinmaya\nmāyika bhūtera tathi janma nāhi haya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭhera",
"meanings": [
"of the spiritual world"
]
},
{
"word": "pṛthivī-ādi",
"meanings": [
"earth, water, etc."
]
},
{
"word": "sakala",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "cit-maya",
"meanings": [
"spiritual"
]
},
{
"word": "māyika",
"meanings": [
"material"
]
},
{
"word": "bhūtera",
"meanings": [
"of elements"
]
},
{
"word": "tathi",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "janma",
"meanings": [
"generation"
]
},
{
"word": "nāhi haya",
"meanings": [
"there is not."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The earth, water, fire, air and ether of Vaikuṇṭha are all spiritual. Material elements are not found there.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 54,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.54",
"devanagari": "चिन्मयजल सेइ परम कारण यार एक कणा गंगा पतितपावन",
"bengali": "চিন্মযজল সেই পরম কারণ যার এক কণা গংগা পতিতপাবন",
"transliteration": "cinmaya-jala sei parama kāraṇa\nyāra eka kaṇā gaṅgā patita-pāvana",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cit-maya",
"meanings": [
"spiritual"
]
},
{
"word": "jala",
"meanings": [
"water"
]
},
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "parama kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"original cause"
]
},
{
"word": "yāra",
"meanings": [
"of which"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "kaṇā",
"meanings": [
"drop"
]
},
{
"word": "gaṅgā",
"meanings": [
"the sacred Ganges"
]
},
{
"word": "patita-pāvana",
"meanings": [
"the deliverer of fallen souls."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The water of the Kāraṇa Ocean, which is the original cause, is therefore spiritual. The sacred Ganges, which is but a drop of it, purifies the fallen souls.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 55,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.55",
"devanagari": "सेइ तऽ कारणार्णवे सेइ संकर्षण आपनार एक अंशे करेन शयन",
"bengali": "সেই তঽ কারণার্ণবে সেই সংকর্ষণ আপনার এক অংশে করেন শযন",
"transliteration": "sei ta' kāraṇārṇave sei saṅkarṣaṇa\nāpanāra eka aṁśe karena śayana",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "ta'",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa-arṇave",
"meanings": [
"in the Ocean of Cause, or Causal Ocean"
]
},
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "saṅkarṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "āpanāra",
"meanings": [
"of His own"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśe",
"meanings": [
"by the part"
]
},
{
"word": "karena śayana",
"meanings": [
"lies down."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>In that ocean lies one plenary portion of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 56,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.56",
"devanagari": "महत्स्रष्टा पुरुष, तिङ्हो जगत्कारण आद्यअवतार करे मायाय ईक्षण",
"bengali": "মহত্স্রষ্টা পুরুষ, তিঙ্হো জগত্কারণ আদ্যঅবতার করে মাযায ঈক্ষণ",
"transliteration": "mahat-sraṣṭā puruṣa, tiṅho jagat-kāraṇa\nādya-avatāra kare māyāya īkṣaṇa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mahat-sraṣṭā",
"meanings": [
"the creator of the total material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"the person"
]
},
{
"word": "tiṅho",
"meanings": [
"He"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"the cause of the material cosmic manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "ādya",
"meanings": [
"original"
]
},
{
"word": "avatāra",
"meanings": [
"incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "māyāya",
"meanings": [
"over the material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "īkṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"glance."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>He is known as the first puruṣa, the creator of the total material energy. He, the cause of the universes, the first incarnation, casts His glance over māyā.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 57,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.57",
"devanagari": "मायाशक्ति रहे कारणाब्धिर बाहिरे कारणसमुद्र माया परशिते नारे",
"bengali": "মাযাশক্তি রহে কারণাব্ধির বাহিরে কারণসমুদ্র মাযা পরশিতে নারে",
"transliteration": "māyā-śakti rahe kāraṇābdhira bāhire\nkāraṇa-samudra māyā paraśite nāre",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "māyā-śakti",
"meanings": [
"material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "rahe",
"meanings": [
"remains"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa-abdhira",
"meanings": [
"to the Causal Ocean"
]
},
{
"word": "bāhire",
"meanings": [
"external"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa-samudra",
"meanings": [
"the Causal Ocean"
]
},
{
"word": "māyā",
"meanings": [
"material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "paraśite nāre",
"meanings": [
"cannot touch."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Māyā-śakti resides outside the Ocean of Kāraṇa. Māyā cannot touch its waters.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 58,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.58",
"devanagari": "सेइ तऽ मायार दुइविध अवस्थिति जगतेर उपादान ऽप्रधानऽ, प्रकृति",
"bengali": "সেই তঽ মাযার দুইবিধ অবস্থিতি জগতের উপাদান ঽপ্রধানঽ, প্রকৃতি",
"transliteration": "sei ta' māyāra dui-vidha avasthiti\njagatera upādāna 'pradhāna', prakṛti",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "ta'",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "māyāra",
"meanings": [
"of the material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "dui-vidha",
"meanings": [
"two varieties"
]
},
{
"word": "avasthiti",
"meanings": [
"existence"
]
},
{
"word": "jagatera",
"meanings": [
"of the material world"
]
},
{
"word": "upādāna",
"meanings": [
"the ingredients"
]
},
{
"word": "pradhāna",
"meanings": [
"named pradhāna"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛti",
"meanings": [
"material nature."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Māyā has two varieties of existence. One is called pradhāna or prakṛti. It supplies the ingredients of the material world.</b>",
"purport": [
"<i>Māyā,</i> the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is divided into two parts. <i>Māyā</i> is the cause and the ingredient of the cosmic manifestation. As the cause of the cosmic manifestation she is known as <i>māyā,</i> and as the agent supplying the ingredients of the cosmic manifestation she is known as <i>pradhāna.</i> An explicit description of these divisions of external energy is given in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (11.24.1-4). Elsewhere in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (10.63.26) the ingredients and cause of the material cosmic manifestation are described as follows:",
"<i>kālo daivaṁ karma jīvaḥ svabhāvo<br/> dravyaṁ kṣetraṁ prāṇa ātmā vikāraḥ<br/> tat-saṅghāto bīja-roha-pravāhas<br/> tvan-māyaiṣā tan-niṣedhaṁ prapadye</i>",
"\"O my Lord! Time, activity, providence and nature are four parts of the causal aspect [<i>māyā</i>] of the external energy. The conditioned vital force, the subtle material ingredients called the <i>dravya,</i> and material nature (which is the field of activity where the false ego acts as the soul), as well as the eleven senses and five elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether), which are the sixteen ingredients of the body—these are the ingredient aspect of <i>māyā.</i> The body is generated from activity, and activity is generated from the body, just as a tree is generated from a seed that is generated from a tree. This reciprocal cause and effect is called <i>māyā.</i> My dear Lord, You can save me from this cycle of cause and effect. I worship Your lotus feet.\"",
"Although the living entity is primarily related to the causal portion of <i>māyā,</i> he is nevertheless conducted by the ingredients of <i>māyā.</i> Three forces work in the causal portion of <i>māyā:</i> knowledge, desire and activity. The material ingredients are a manifestation of <i>māyā</i> as <i>pradhāna.</i> In other words, when the three qualities of <i>māyā</i> are in a dormant stage, they exist as <i>prakṛti, avyakta</i> or <i>pradhāna.</i> The word <i>avyakta,</i> referring to the nonmanifest, is another name of <i>pradhāna.</i> In the <i>avyakta</i> stage, material nature is without varieties. Varieties are manifested by the <i>pradhāna</i> portion of <i>māyā.</i> The word <i>pradhāna</i> is therefore more important than <i>avyakta</i> or <i>prakṛti.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 59,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.59",
"devanagari": "जगत्कारण नहे प्रकृति जडरूपा शक्ति संचारिया तारे कृष्ण करे कृपा",
"bengali": "জগত্কারণ নহে প্রকৃতি জডরূপা শক্তি সংচারিযা তারে কৃষ্ণ করে কৃপা",
"transliteration": "jagat-kāraṇa nahe prakṛti jaḍa-rūpā\nśakti sañcāriyā tāre kṛṣṇa kare kṛpā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "jagat",
"meanings": [
"of the material world"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"the cause"
]
},
{
"word": "nahe",
"meanings": [
"cannot be"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛti",
"meanings": [
"the material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "jaḍa-rūpā",
"meanings": [
"dull, without action"
]
},
{
"word": "śakti",
"meanings": [
"energy"
]
},
{
"word": "sañcāriyā",
"meanings": [
"infusing"
]
},
{
"word": "tāre",
"meanings": [
"unto the dull material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"shows"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛpā",
"meanings": [
"mercy."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Because prakṛti is dull and inert, it cannot actually be the cause of the material world. But Lord Kṛṣṇa shows His mercy by infusing His energy into the dull, inert material nature.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 60,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.60",
"devanagari": "कृष्णशक्त्ये प्रकृति हय गौण कारण अग्निशक्त्ये लौह यैछे करये जारण",
"bengali": "কৃষ্ণশক্ত্যে প্রকৃতি হয গৌণ কারণ অগ্নিশক্ত্যে লৌহ যৈছে করযে জারণ",
"transliteration": "kṛṣṇa-śaktye prakṛti haya gauṇa kāraṇa\nagni-śaktye lauha yaiche karaye jāraṇa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa-śaktye",
"meanings": [
"by the energy of Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛti",
"meanings": [
"the material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "haya",
"meanings": [
"becomes"
]
},
{
"word": "gauṇa",
"meanings": [
"indirect"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"cause"
]
},
{
"word": "agni-śaktye",
"meanings": [
"by the energy of fire"
]
},
{
"word": "lauha",
"meanings": [
"iron"
]
},
{
"word": "yaiche",
"meanings": [
"just as"
]
},
{
"word": "karaye",
"meanings": [
"becomes"
]
},
{
"word": "jāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"powerful or red-hot."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Thus prakṛti, by the energy of Lord Kṛṣṇa, becomes the secondary cause, just as iron becomes red-hot by the energy of fire.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 61,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.61",
"devanagari": "अतएव कृष्ण मूलजगत्कारण प्रकृति—कारण यैछे अजागलस्तन",
"bengali": "অতএব কৃষ্ণ মূলজগত্কারণ প্রকৃতি—কারণ যৈছে অজাগলস্তন",
"transliteration": "ataeva kṛṣṇa mūla-jagat-kāraṇa\nprakṛti—kāraṇa yaiche ajā-gala-stana",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ataeva",
"meanings": [
"therefore"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "mūla",
"meanings": [
"original"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"the cause of the cosmic manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛti",
"meanings": [
"material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"cause"
]
},
{
"word": "yaiche",
"meanings": [
"exactly like"
]
},
{
"word": "ajā-gala-stana",
"meanings": [
"nipples on the neck of a goat."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa is the original cause of the cosmic manifestation. Prakṛti is like the nipples on the neck of a goat, for they cannot give any milk.</b>",
"purport": [
"The external energy, composed of <i>pradhāna</i> or <i>prakṛti</i> as the ingredient-supplying portion and <i>māyā</i> as the causal portion, is known as <i>māyā-śakti.</i> Inert material nature is not the actual cause of the material manifestation, for Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī, Mahā-Viṣṇu, the plenary expansion of Kṛṣṇa, activates all the ingredients. It is in this way that material nature has the power to supply the ingredients. The example given is that iron has no power to heat or burn, but after coming in contact with fire the iron becomes red-hot and can then diffuse heat and burn other things. Material nature is like iron, for it has no independence to act without the touch of Viṣṇu, who is compared to fire. Lord Viṣṇu activates material nature by the power of His glance, and then the ironlike material nature becomes a material-supplying agent just as iron made red-hot becomes a burning agent. Material nature cannot independently become an agent for supplying the material ingredients. This is more clearly explained by Śrī Kapiladeva, an incarnation of Godhead, in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (3.28.40):",
"<i>yatholmukād visphuliṅgād<br/> dhūmād vāpi sva-sambhavāt<br/> apy ātmatvenābhimatād<br/> yathāgniḥ pṛthag ulmukāt</i>",
"\"Although smoke, flaming wood, and sparks are all considered together as ingredients of a fire, the flaming wood is nevertheless different from the fire, and the smoke is different from the flaming wood.\" The material elements (earth, water, fire, etc.) are like smoke, the living entities are like sparks, and material nature as <i>pradhāna</i> is like the flaming wood. But all of them together are recipients of power from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are thus able to manifest their individual capacities. In other words, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the origin of all manifestations. Material nature can supply only when it is activated by the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.",
"Just as a woman can deliver a child after being impregnated by the semina of a man, so material nature can supply the material elements after being glanced upon by Mahā-Viṣṇu. Therefore <i>pradhāna</i> cannot be independent of the superintendence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (<i>9.10</i>). <i>Mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram:</i> <i>prakṛti,</i> the total material energy, works under the superintendence of the Lord. The original source of the material elements is Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the attempt of the atheistic Sāṅkhya philosophers to consider material nature the source of these elements, forgetting Kṛṣṇa, is useless, like trying to get milk from the nipple-like bumps of skin hanging on the neck of a goat."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 62,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.62",
"devanagari": "मायाअंशे कहि तारे निमित्तकारण सेह नहे, याते कर्ताहेतु—नारायण",
"bengali": "মাযাঅংশে কহি তারে নিমিত্তকারণ সেহ নহে, যাতে কর্তাহেতু—নারাযণ",
"transliteration": "māyā-aṁśe kahi tāre nimitta-kāraṇa\nseha nahe, yāte kartā-hetu—nārāyaṇa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "māyā-aṁśe",
"meanings": [
"to the other portion of the material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "kahi",
"meanings": [
"I say"
]
},
{
"word": "tāre",
"meanings": [
"unto her"
]
},
{
"word": "nimitta-kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"immediate cause"
]
},
{
"word": "seha nahe",
"meanings": [
"that cannot be"
]
},
{
"word": "yāte",
"meanings": [
"because"
]
},
{
"word": "kartā-hetu",
"meanings": [
"the original cause"
]
},
{
"word": "nārāyaṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Nārāyaṇa."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The māyā aspect of material nature is the immediate cause of the cosmic manifestation. But it also cannot be the real cause, for the original cause is Lord Nārāyaṇa.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 63,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.63",
"devanagari": "घटेर निमित्तहेतु यैछे कुम्भकार तैछे जगतेर कर्ता—पुरुषावतार",
"bengali": "ঘটের নিমিত্তহেতু যৈছে কুম্ভকার তৈছে জগতের কর্তা—পুরুষাবতার",
"transliteration": "ghaṭera nimitta-hetu yaiche kumbhakāra\ntaiche jagatera kartā—puruṣāvatāra",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ghaṭera",
"meanings": [
"of the earthen pot"
]
},
{
"word": "nimitta-hetu",
"meanings": [
"original cause"
]
},
{
"word": "yaiche",
"meanings": [
"just as"
]
},
{
"word": "kumbhakāra",
"meanings": [
"the potter"
]
},
{
"word": "taiche",
"meanings": [
"similarly"
]
},
{
"word": "jagatera kartā",
"meanings": [
"the creator of the material world"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa-avatāra",
"meanings": [
"the puruṣa incarnation, or Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Just as the original cause of an earthen pot is the potter, so the creator of the material world is the first puruṣa incarnation [Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu].</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 64,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.64",
"devanagari": "कृष्ण—कर्ता, माया ताङ्र करेन सहाय घटेर कारण—चक्रदण्डादि उपाय",
"bengali": "কৃষ্ণ—কর্তা, মাযা তাঙ্র করেন সহায ঘটের কারণ—চক্রদণ্ডাদি উপায",
"transliteration": "kṛṣṇa—kartā, māyā tāṅra karena sahāya\nghaṭera kāraṇa—cakra-daṇḍādi upāya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kṛṣṇa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "kartā",
"meanings": [
"the creator"
]
},
{
"word": "māyā",
"meanings": [
"material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "karena",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "sahāya",
"meanings": [
"assistance"
]
},
{
"word": "ghaṭera kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"the cause of the earthen pot"
]
},
{
"word": "cakra-daṇḍa-ādi",
"meanings": [
"the wheel, the rod, and so on"
]
},
{
"word": "upāya",
"meanings": [
"instruments."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Lord Kṛṣṇa is the creator, and māyā only helps Him as an instrument, just like the potter's wheel and other instruments, which are the instrumental causes of a pot.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 65,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.65",
"devanagari": "दूर हैते पुरुष करे मायाते अवधान जीवरूप वीर्य ताते करेन आधान",
"bengali": "দূর হৈতে পুরুষ করে মাযাতে অবধান জীবরূপ বীর্য তাতে করেন আধান",
"transliteration": "dūra haite puruṣa kare māyāte avadhāna\njīva-rūpa vīrya tāte karena ādhāna",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dūra haite",
"meanings": [
"from a distance"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "māyāte",
"meanings": [
"unto the material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "avadhāna",
"meanings": [
"glancing over"
]
},
{
"word": "jīva-rūpa",
"meanings": [
"the living entities"
]
},
{
"word": "vīrya",
"meanings": [
"seed"
]
},
{
"word": "tāte",
"meanings": [
"in her"
]
},
{
"word": "karena",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "ādhāna",
"meanings": [
"impregnation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The first puruṣa casts His glance at māyā from a distance, and thus He impregnates her with the seed of life in the form of the living entities.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 66,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.66",
"devanagari": "एक अंगाभासे करे मायाते मिलन माया हैते जन्मे तबे ब्रह्माण्डेर गण",
"bengali": "এক অংগাভাসে করে মাযাতে মিলন মাযা হৈতে জন্মে তবে ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের গণ",
"transliteration": "eka aṅgābhāse kare māyāte milana\nmāyā haite janme tabe brahmāṇḍera gaṇa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "aṅga-ābhāse",
"meanings": [
"bodily reflection"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "māyāte",
"meanings": [
"in the material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "milana",
"meanings": [
"mixture"
]
},
{
"word": "māyā",
"meanings": [
"the material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "haite",
"meanings": [
"from"
]
},
{
"word": "janme",
"meanings": [
"grows"
]
},
{
"word": "tabe",
"meanings": [
"then"
]
},
{
"word": "brahma-aṇḍera gaṇa",
"meanings": [
"the groups of universes."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The reflected rays of His body mix with māyā, and thus māyā gives birth to myriads of universes.</b>",
"purport": [
"The Vedic conclusion is that the cosmic manifestation visible to the eyes of the conditioned soul is caused by the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, through the exertion of His specific energies, although in the conclusion of atheistic deliberations this manifested cosmic exhibition is attributed to material nature. The energy of the Absolute Truth is exhibited in three ways: spiritual, material and marginal. The Absolute Truth is identical with His spiritual energy. Only when contacted by the spiritual energy can the material energy work and the temporary material manifestations thus appear active. In the conditioned state the living entities of the marginal energy are a mixture of spiritual and material energies. The marginal energy is originally under the control of the spiritual energy, but, under the control of the material energy, the living entities have been wandering in forgetfulness within the material world since time immemorial.",
"The conditioned state is caused by misuse of the individual independence of the spiritual platform, for this separates the living entity from the association of the spiritual energy. But when the living entity is enlightened by the grace of the Supreme Lord or His pure devotee and becomes inclined to revive his original state of loving service, he is on the most auspicious platform of eternal bliss and knowledge. The marginal <i>jīva,</i> or living entity, misuses his independence and becomes averse to the eternal service attitude when he independently thinks he is not energy but the energetic. This misconception of his own existence leads him to the attitude of lording it over material nature.",
"Material nature appears to be just the opposite of the spiritual energy. The fact is that the material energy can work only when in contact with the spiritual energy. Originally the energy of Kṛṣṇa is spiritual, but it works in diverse ways, like electrical energy, which can exhibit the functions of refrigerating or heating through its manifestations in different ways. The material energy is spiritual energy covered by a cloud of illusion, or <i>māyā.</i> Therefore, the material energy is not self-sufficient in working. Kṛṣṇa invests His spiritual energy into material energy, and then it can act, just as iron can act like fire after being heated by fire. The material energy can act only when empowered by the spiritual energy.",
"When covered by the cloud of material energy, the living entity, who is also a spiritual energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, forgets about the activities of the spiritual energy and considers all that happens in the material manifestation to be wonderful. But a person who is engaged in devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness and who is therefore already situated in the spiritual energy can understand that the material energy has no independent powers; whatever actions are going on are due to the help of the spiritual energy. The material energy, which is a perverted form of the spiritual energy, presents everything pervertedly, thus causing misconceptions and duality. Material scientists and philosophers conditioned by the spell of material nature suppose that material energy acts automatically, and therefore they are frustrated, like an illusioned person who tries to get milk from the nipple-like bunches of skin on the neck of a goat. As there is no possibility of getting milk from these bunches of skin, there is similarly no possibility that anyone will be successful in understanding the original cause of creation by forwarding theories produced by the material energy. Such an attempt is a manifestation of ignorance.",
"The material energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is called <i>māyā,</i> or illusion, because in two capacities (by supplying the material elements and by causing the material manifestation) it makes the conditioned soul unable to understand the real truth of creation. When a living entity is liberated, however, from the conditional life of matter, he can understand the two different activities of material nature, namely covering and bewildering.",
"The origin of creation is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As confirmed in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> (<i>9.10</i>), the cosmic manifestation is working under the direction of the Supreme Lord, who invests the material energy with three material qualities. Agitated by these qualities, the elements supplied by the material energy produce varieties of things, just as an artist produces varieties of pictures by mixing the three colors red, yellow and blue. Yellow represents the quality of goodness, red represents passion, and blue represents ignorance. Therefore the colorful material creation is but an interaction of these three qualities, represented in eighty-one varieties of mixtures (3 x 3 equalling 9, 9 x 9 thus equalling 81). Deluded by material energy, the conditioned soul, enamored by these eighty-one varieties of manifestations, wants to lord it over material energy, just as a fly wants to enjoy a fire. This illusion is the net result of the conditioned soul's forgetfulness of his eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When conditioned, the soul is impelled by the material energy to engage in sense gratification, whereas one enlightened by the spiritual energy engages himself in the service of the Supreme Lord in his eternal relationship.",
"Kṛṣṇa is the original cause of the spiritual world, and He is the covered cause of the material manifestation. He is also the original cause of the marginal potency, the living entities. He is both the leader and maintainer of the living entities, who are called marginal potency because they can act under the protection of the spiritual energy or under the cover of the material energy. With the help of the spiritual energy we can understand that independence is visible only in Kṛṣṇa, who by His inconceivable energy is able to act in any way He likes.",
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Absolute Whole, and the living entities are parts of the Absolute Whole. This relationship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entities is eternal. One should never mistakenly think that the spiritual whole can be divided into small parts by the small material energy. <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> does not support this Māyāvāda theory. Rather, it clearly states that the living entities are eternally small fragments of the supreme spiritual whole. As a part can never be equal with the whole, so a living entity, as a minute fragment of the spiritual whole, cannot be equal at any time to the Supreme Whole, the absolute Personality of Godhead. Although the Supreme Lord and the living entities are quantitatively related as the whole and the parts, the parts are nevertheless qualitatively one with the whole. Thus the living entities, although always qualitatively one with the Supreme Lord, are in a relative position. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the controller of everything, and the living entities are always controlled either by the spiritual energy or by the material energy. Therefore a living entity can never become the controller of material or spiritual energies. The natural position of the living being is always as a subordinate of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When one agrees to act in such a position, he attains perfection in life, but if one rebels against this principle, he is in the conditioned state."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 67,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.67",
"devanagari": "अगण्य, अनन्त यत अण्डसन्निवेश ततरूपे पुरुष करे सबाते प्रकाश",
"bengali": "অগণ্য, অনন্ত যত অণ্ডসন্নিবেশ ততরূপে পুরুষ করে সবাতে প্রকাশ",
"transliteration": "agaṇya, ananta yata aṇḍa-sanniveśa\ntata-rūpe puruṣa kare sabāte prakāśa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "agaṇya",
"meanings": [
"innumerable"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta",
"meanings": [
"unlimited"
]
},
{
"word": "yata",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "aṇḍa",
"meanings": [
"universes"
]
},
{
"word": "sanniveśa",
"meanings": [
"groups"
]
},
{
"word": "tata-rūpe",
"meanings": [
"in as many forms"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"the Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"does"
]
},
{
"word": "sabāte",
"meanings": [
"in every one of them"
]
},
{
"word": "prakāśa",
"meanings": [
"manifestation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The puruṣa enters each and every one of the countless universes. He manifests Himself in as many separate forms as there are universes.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 68,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.68",
"devanagari": "पुरुषनासाते यबे बाहिराय श्वास निश्वास सहिते हय ब्रह्माण्डप्रकाश",
"bengali": "পুরুষনাসাতে যবে বাহিরায শ্বাস নিশ্বাস সহিতে হয ব্রহ্মাণ্ডপ্রকাশ",
"transliteration": "puruṣa-nāsāte yabe bāhirāya śvāsa\nniśvāsa sahite haya brahmāṇḍa-prakāśa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "puruṣa-nāsāte",
"meanings": [
"in the nostrils of the Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "yabe",
"meanings": [
"when"
]
},
{
"word": "bāhirāya",
"meanings": [
"expels"
]
},
{
"word": "śvāsa",
"meanings": [
"breath"
]
},
{
"word": "niśvāsa sahite",
"meanings": [
"with that exhalation"
]
},
{
"word": "haya",
"meanings": [
"there is"
]
},
{
"word": "brahmāṇḍa-prakāśa",
"meanings": [
"manifestation of universes."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>When the puruṣa exhales, the universes become manifest with each outward breath.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 69,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.69",
"devanagari": "पुनरपि श्वास यबे प्रवेशे अन्तरे श्वाससह ब्रह्माण्ड पैशे पुरुषशरीरे",
"bengali": "পুনরপি শ্বাস যবে প্রবেশে অন্তরে শ্বাসসহ ব্রহ্মাণ্ড পৈশে পুরুষশরীরে",
"transliteration": "punarapi śvāsa yabe praveśe antare\nśvāsa-saha brahmāṇḍa paiśe puruṣa-śarīre",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "punarapi",
"meanings": [
"thereafter"
]
},
{
"word": "śvāsa",
"meanings": [
"breath"
]
},
{
"word": "yabe",
"meanings": [
"when"
]
},
{
"word": "praveśe",
"meanings": [
"enters"
]
},
{
"word": "antare",
"meanings": [
"within"
]
},
{
"word": "śvāsa-saha",
"meanings": [
"with that inhaled breath"
]
},
{
"word": "brahmāṇḍa",
"meanings": [
"universes"
]
},
{
"word": "paiśe",
"meanings": [
"enter"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa-śarīre",
"meanings": [
"within the body of the Lord."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Thereafter, when He inhales, all the universes again enter His body.</b>",
"purport": [
"In His form as Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu the Lord impregnates material nature by His glance. The transcendental molecules of that glance are particles of spirit, or spiritual atoms, which appear in different species of life according to the seeds of their individual<b> </b><i>karma</i> from the previous cosmic manifestation. And the Lord Himself, by His partial representation, creates a body of innumerable universes and again enters each of those universes as Garbodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. His coming in contact with <i>māyā</i> is explained in <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> by a comparison between air and the sky. The sky enters everything material, yet it is far away from us."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 70,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.70",
"devanagari": "गवाक्षेर रन्ध्रे येन त्रसरेणु चले पुरुषेर लोमकूपे ब्रह्माण्डेर जाले",
"bengali": "গবাক্ষের রন্ধ্রে যেন ত্রসরেণু চলে পুরুষের লোমকূপে ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের জালে",
"transliteration": "gavākṣera randhre yena trasareṇu cale\npuruṣera loma-kūpe brahmāṇḍera jāle",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gavākṣera",
"meanings": [
"of windows of a room"
]
},
{
"word": "randhre",
"meanings": [
"within the holes"
]
},
{
"word": "yena",
"meanings": [
"like"
]
},
{
"word": "trasareṇu",
"meanings": [
"six atoms together"
]
},
{
"word": "cale",
"meanings": [
"moves"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣera",
"meanings": [
"of the Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "loma-kūpe",
"meanings": [
"in the holes of the hair"
]
},
{
"word": "brahmāṇḍera",
"meanings": [
"of universes"
]
},
{
"word": "jāle",
"meanings": [
"a network."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Just as atomic particles of dust pass through the openings of a window, so the networks of universes pass through the pores of the skin of the puruṣa.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 71,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.71",
"devanagari": "यस्यैकनिश्वसितकालमथावलम्ब्य जीवन्ति लोमविलजा जगदण्डनाथाः\nविष्णुर्महान्स इह यस्य कलाविशेषो गोविन्दमादिपुरुषं तमहं भजामि",
"bengali": "যস্যৈকনিশ্বসিতকালমথাবলম্ব্য জীবন্তি লোমবিলজা জগদণ্ডনাথাঃ\nবিষ্ণুর্মহান্স ইহ যস্য কলাবিশেষো গোবিন্দমাদিপুরুষং তমহং ভজামি",
"transliteration": "yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya\njīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ\nviṣṇur mahān sa iha yasya kalā-viśeṣo\ngovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yasya",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "niśvasita",
"meanings": [
"of breath"
]
},
{
"word": "kālam",
"meanings": [
"time"
]
},
{
"word": "atha",
"meanings": [
"thus"
]
},
{
"word": "avalambya",
"meanings": [
"taking shelter of"
]
},
{
"word": "jīvanti",
"meanings": [
"live"
]
},
{
"word": "loma-vilajāḥ",
"meanings": [
"grown from the hair holes"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ",
"meanings": [
"the masters of the universes (the Brahmās)"
]
},
{
"word": "viṣṇuḥ mahān",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "saḥ",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "iha",
"meanings": [
"here"
]
},
{
"word": "yasya",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "kalā-viśeṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"particular plenary portion or expansion"
]
},
{
"word": "govindam",
"meanings": [
"Lord Govinda"
]
},
{
"word": "ādi-puruṣam",
"meanings": [
"the original person"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"Him"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "bhajāmi",
"meanings": [
"worship."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"The Brahmās and other lords of the mundane worlds appear from the pores of the Mahā-Viṣṇu and remain alive for the duration of His one exhalation. I adore the primeval Lord, Govinda, for Mahā-Viṣṇu is a portion of His plenary portion.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"This description of the Lord's creative energy is from the <i>Brahma-saṁhitā</i> (5.48), which Lord Brahmā compiled after his personal realization. When Mahā-Viṣṇu exhales, the spiritual seeds of the universe emanate from Him in the form of molecular particles like those that are visible, three times the size of an atom, when sunlight is diffused through a small hole. In these days of atomic research it will be a worthwhile engagement for atomic scientists to learn from this statement how the entire universe develops from the spiritual atoms emanating from the body of the Lord."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 72,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.72",
"devanagari": "क्वाहं तमोमहदहंखचराग्निवार्भू संवेष्टिताण्डघटसप्तवितस्तिकायः\nक्वेदृग्विधाविगणिताण्डपराणुचर्या वाताध्वरोमविवरस्य च ते महित्वम्",
"bengali": "ক্বাহং তমোমহদহংখচরাগ্নিবার্ভূ সংবেষ্টিতাণ্ডঘটসপ্তবিতস্তিকাযঃ\nক্বেদৃগ্বিধাবিগণিতাণ্ডপরাণুচর্যা বাতাধ্বরোমবিবরস্য চ তে মহিত্বম্",
"transliteration": "kvāhaṁ tamo-mahad-ahaṁ-kha-carāgni-vār-bhū-\nsaṁveṣṭitāṇḍa-ghaṭa-sapta-vitasti-kāyaḥ\nkvedṛg-vidhāvigaṇitāṇḍa-parāṇu-caryā-\nvātādhva-roma-vivarasya ca te mahitvam",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kva",
"meanings": [
"where"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "tamaḥ",
"meanings": [
"material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "mahat",
"meanings": [
"the total material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "aham",
"meanings": [
"false ego"
]
},
{
"word": "kha",
"meanings": [
"ether"
]
},
{
"word": "cara",
"meanings": [
"air"
]
},
{
"word": "agni",
"meanings": [
"fire"
]
},
{
"word": "vāḥ",
"meanings": [
"water"
]
},
{
"word": "bhū",
"meanings": [
"earth"
]
},
{
"word": "saṁveṣṭita",
"meanings": [
"surrounded by"
]
},
{
"word": "aṇḍa-ghaṭa",
"meanings": [
"a pot-like universe"
]
},
{
"word": "sapta-vitasti",
"meanings": [
"seven vitastis"
]
},
{
"word": "kāyaḥ",
"meanings": [
"body"
]
},
{
"word": "kva",
"meanings": [
"where"
]
},
{
"word": "īdṛk",
"meanings": [
"such"
]
},
{
"word": "vidha",
"meanings": [
"like"
]
},
{
"word": "avigaṇita",
"meanings": [
"unlimited"
]
},
{
"word": "aṇḍa",
"meanings": [
"universes"
]
},
{
"word": "parāṇu-caryā",
"meanings": [
"moving like the atomic dust"
]
},
{
"word": "vāta-adhva",
"meanings": [
"air holes"
]
},
{
"word": "roma",
"meanings": [
"of hair on the body"
]
},
{
"word": "vivarasya",
"meanings": [
"of the holes"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "te",
"meanings": [
"Your"
]
},
{
"word": "mahitvam",
"meanings": [
"greatness."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"Where am I, a small creature of seven spans the measure of my own hand? I am enclosed in the universe composed of material nature, the total material energy, false ego, ether, air, water and earth. And what is Your glory? Unlimited universes pass through the pores of Your body just like particles of dust passing through the opening of a window.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"When Lord Brahmā, after having stolen all Kṛṣṇa's cows and cowherd boys, returned and saw that the cows and boys were still roaming with Kṛṣṇa, he offered this prayer (<i>Bhāg.</i> 10.14.11) in his defeat. A conditioned soul, even one so great as Brahmā, who manages the affairs of the entire universe, cannot compare to the Personality of Godhead, for He can produce numberless universes simply by the spiritual rays emanating from the pores of His body. Material scientists should take lessons from the utterances of Śrī Brahmā regarding our insignificance in comparison to God. In these prayers of Brahmā there is much to learn for those who are falsely puffed up by the accumulation of power."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 73,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.73",
"devanagari": "अंशेर अंश येइ, ऽकलाऽ तार नाम गोविन्देर प्रतिमूर्ति श्रीबलराम",
"bengali": "অংশের অংশ যেই, ঽকলাঽ তার নাম গোবিন্দের প্রতিমূর্তি শ্রীবলরাম",
"transliteration": "aṁśera aṁśa yei, 'kalā' tāra nāma\ngovindera prati-mūrti śrī-balarāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "aṁśera",
"meanings": [
"of the part"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśa",
"meanings": [
"part"
]
},
{
"word": "yei",
"meanings": [
"that which"
]
},
{
"word": "kalā",
"meanings": [
"a kalā, or part of the plenary portion"
]
},
{
"word": "tāra",
"meanings": [
"its"
]
},
{
"word": "nāma",
"meanings": [
"name"
]
},
{
"word": "govindera",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Govinda"
]
},
{
"word": "prati-mūrti",
"meanings": [
"counter-form"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-balarāma",
"meanings": [
"Lord Balarāma."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>A part of a part of a whole is called a 'kalā.' Śrī Balarāma is the counter-form of Lord Govinda.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 74,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.74",
"devanagari": "ताङ्र एक स्वरूप—श्रीमहासंकर्षण ताङ्र अंश ऽपुरुषऽ हय कलाते गणन",
"bengali": "তাঙ্র এক স্বরূপ—শ্রীমহাসংকর্ষণ তাঙ্র অংশ ঽপুরুষঽ হয কলাতে গণন",
"transliteration": "tāṅra eka svarūpa—śrī-mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa\ntāṅra aṁśa 'puruṣa' haya kalāte gaṇana",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tāṅra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "sva-rūpa",
"meanings": [
"manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa",
"meanings": [
"the great Lord Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśa",
"meanings": [
"part"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"the Mahā-Viṣṇu incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "haya",
"meanings": [
"is"
]
},
{
"word": "kalāte gaṇana",
"meanings": [
"counted as a kalā."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Balarāma's own expansion is called Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa, and His fragment, the puruṣa, is counted as a kalā, or a part of a plenary portion.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 75,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.75",
"devanagari": "याङ्हाके तऽ कला कहि, तिङ्हो महाविष्णु महापुरुषावतारी तेङ्हो सर्वजिष्णु",
"bengali": "যাঙ্হাকে তঽ কলা কহি, তিঙ্হো মহাবিষ্ণু মহাপুরুষাবতারী তেঙ্হো সর্বজিষ্ণু",
"transliteration": "yāṅhāke ta' kalā kahi, tiṅho mahā-viṣṇu\nmahā-puruṣāvatārī teṅho sarva-jiṣṇu",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yāṅhāke",
"meanings": [
"unto whom"
]
},
{
"word": "ta'",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "kalā kahi",
"meanings": [
"I say kalā"
]
},
{
"word": "tiṅho",
"meanings": [
"He"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-viṣṇu",
"meanings": [
"Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-puruṣāvatārī",
"meanings": [
"the source of other puruṣa incarnations, Mahā-Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "teṅho",
"meanings": [
"He"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "jiṣṇu",
"meanings": [
"pervading."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I say that this kalā is Mahā-Viṣṇu. He is the Mahā-puruṣa, who is the source of the other puruṣas and who is all-pervading.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 76,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.76",
"devanagari": "गर्भोदक्षीरोदशायी दोङ्हे ऽपुरुषऽ नाम सेइ दुइ, याङ्र अंश,—विष्णु, विश्वधाम",
"bengali": "গর্ভোদক্ষীরোদশাযী দোঙ্হে ঽপুরুষঽ নাম সেই দুই, যাঙ্র অংশ,—বিষ্ণু, বিশ্বধাম",
"transliteration": "garbhoda-kṣīroda-śāyī doṅhe 'puruṣa' nāma\nsei dui, yāṅra aṁśa,—viṣṇu, viśva-dhāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "garbha-uda",
"meanings": [
"in the ocean known as Garbhodaka within the universe"
]
},
{
"word": "kṣīra-uda-śāyī",
"meanings": [
"one who lies in the ocean of milk"
]
},
{
"word": "doṅhe",
"meanings": [
"both of Them"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa nāma",
"meanings": [
"known as puruṣa, Lord Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"those"
]
},
{
"word": "dui",
"meanings": [
"two"
]
},
{
"word": "yāṅra aṁśa",
"meanings": [
"whose plenary portions"
]
},
{
"word": "viṣṇu viśva-dhāma",
"meanings": [
"Lord Viṣṇu, the abode of the total universes."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Garbhodaśāyī and Kṣīrodaśāyī are both called puruṣas. They are plenary portions of Kāraṇodaśāyī Viṣṇu, the first puruṣa, who is the abode of all the universes.</b>",
"purport": [
"The symptoms of the <i>puruṣa</i> are described in <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta.</i> While describing the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the author has quoted from the <i>Viṣṇu Purāṇa</i> (6.8.59), where it is said: \"Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Puruṣottama, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is always free from the contamination of the six material dualities; whose plenary expansion, Mahā-Viṣṇu, glances over matter to create the cosmic manifestation; who expands Himself in various transcendental forms, all of which are one and the same; who is the master of all living entities; who is always free and liberated from the contamination of material energy; and who, when He appears in this material world, seems one of us, although He has an eternally spiritual, blissful, transcendental form.\" In summarizing this statement, Rūpa Gosvāmī has concluded that the plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who acts in cooperation with the material energy is called the <i>puruṣa.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 77,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.77",
"devanagari": "विष्णोस्तु त्रीणि रूपाणि पुरुषाख्यान्यथो विदुः\nएकं तु महतः स्रष्टृ द्वितीयं त्वण्डसंस्थितम्\nतृतीयं सर्वभूतस्थं तानि ज्ञात्वा विमुच्यते",
"bengali": "বিষ্ণোস্তু ত্রীণি রূপাণি পুরুষাখ্যান্যথো বিদুঃ\nএকং তু মহতঃ স্রষ্টৃ দ্বিতীযং ত্বণ্ডসংস্থিতম্\nতৃতীযং সর্বভূতস্থং তানি জ্ঞাত্বা বিমুচ্যতে",
"transliteration": "viṣṇos tu trīṇi rūpāṇi\npuruṣākhyāny atho viduḥ\nekaṁ tu mahataḥ sraṣṭṛ\ndvitīyaṁ tv aṇḍa-saṁsthitam\ntṛtīyaṁ sarva-bhūta-sthaṁ\ntāni jñātvā vimucyate",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "viṣṇoḥ",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "tu",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "trīṇi",
"meanings": [
"three"
]
},
{
"word": "rūpāṇi",
"meanings": [
"forms"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa-ākhyāni",
"meanings": [
"celebrated as the puruṣa"
]
},
{
"word": "atho",
"meanings": [
"how"
]
},
{
"word": "viduḥ",
"meanings": [
"they know"
]
},
{
"word": "ekam",
"meanings": [
"one of them"
]
},
{
"word": "tu",
"meanings": [
"but"
]
},
{
"word": "mahataḥ sraṣṭṛ",
"meanings": [
"the creator of the total material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "dvitīyam",
"meanings": [
"the second"
]
},
{
"word": "tu",
"meanings": [
"but"
]
},
{
"word": "aṇḍa-saṁsthitam",
"meanings": [
"situated within the universe"
]
},
{
"word": "tṛtīyam",
"meanings": [
"the third"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva-bhūta-stham",
"meanings": [
"within the hearts of all living entities"
]
},
{
"word": "tāni",
"meanings": [
"these three"
]
},
{
"word": "jñātvā",
"meanings": [
"knowing"
]
},
{
"word": "vimucyate",
"meanings": [
"one becomes liberated."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"Viṣṇu has three forms called puruṣas. The first, Mahā-Viṣṇu, is the creator of the total material energy [mahat], the second is Garbhodaśāyī, who is situated within each universe, and the third is Kṣīrodaśāyī, who lives in the heart of every living being. He who knows these three becomes liberated from the clutches of māyā.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"This verse appears in the <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta</i> (<i>Pūrva-khaṇḍa,</i> 33), where it has been quoted from the <i>Sātvata Tantra.</i>"
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 78,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.78",
"devanagari": "यद्यपि कहिये ताङ्रे कृष्णेर ऽकलाऽ करि मत्स्यकूर्माद्यवतारेर तिङ्हो अवतारी",
"bengali": "যদ্যপি কহিযে তাঙ্রে কৃষ্ণের ঽকলাঽ করি মত্স্যকূর্মাদ্যবতারের তিঙ্হো অবতারী",
"transliteration": "yadyapi kahiye tāṅre kṛṣṇera 'kalā' kari\nmatsya-kūrmādy-avatārera tiṅho avatārī",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yadyapi",
"meanings": [
"although"
]
},
{
"word": "kahiye",
"meanings": [
"I say"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅre",
"meanings": [
"to Him"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇera",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "kalā",
"meanings": [
"part of the part"
]
},
{
"word": "kari",
"meanings": [
"making"
]
},
{
"word": "matsya",
"meanings": [
"the fish incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "kūrma-ādi",
"meanings": [
"the tortoise incarnation and others"
]
},
{
"word": "avatārera",
"meanings": [
"of all these incarnations"
]
},
{
"word": "tiṅho",
"meanings": [
"He"
]
},
{
"word": "avatārī",
"meanings": [
"the original source."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Although Kṣīrodaśāyī Viṣṇu is called a \"kalā\" of Lord Kṛṣṇa, He is the source of Matsya, Kūrma and the other incarnations.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 79,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.79",
"devanagari": "एते चांशकलाः पुंसः कृष्णस्तु भगवान्स्वयम्\nइन्द्रारिव्याकुलं लोकं मृडयन्ति युगे युगे",
"bengali": "এতে চাংশকলাঃ পুংসঃ কৃষ্ণস্তু ভগবান্স্বযম্\nইন্দ্রারিব্যাকুলং লোকং মৃডযন্তি যুগে যুগে",
"transliteration": "ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ\nkṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam\nindrāri-vyākulaṁ lokaṁ\nmṛḍayanti yuge yuge",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ete",
"meanings": [
"all these"
]
},
{
"word": "ca",
"meanings": [
"also"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśa-kalāḥ",
"meanings": [
"part or part of the part"
]
},
{
"word": "puṁsaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the Supreme Person"
]
},
{
"word": "kṛṣṇaḥ tu",
"meanings": [
"but Lord Kṛṣṇa"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the original Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "svayam",
"meanings": [
"Himself"
]
},
{
"word": "indra-ari",
"meanings": [
"the demons"
]
},
{
"word": "vyākulam",
"meanings": [
"disturbed"
]
},
{
"word": "lokam",
"meanings": [
"all the planets"
]
},
{
"word": "mṛḍayanti",
"meanings": [
"makes them happy"
]
},
{
"word": "yuge yuge",
"meanings": [
"in different millenniums."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"All these incarnations of Godhead are either plenary portions or parts of the plenary portions of the puruṣa-avatāras. But Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. In every age He protects the world through His different features when the world is disturbed by the enemies of Indra.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"This quotation is from <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (1.3.28)."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 80,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.80",
"devanagari": "सेइ पुरुष सृष्टिस्थितिप्रलयेर कर्ता नाना अवतार करे, जगतेर भर्ता",
"bengali": "সেই পুরুষ সৃষ্টিস্থিতিপ্রলযের কর্তা নানা অবতার করে, জগতের ভর্তা",
"transliteration": "sei puruṣa sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralayera kartā\nnānā avatāra kare, jagatera bhartā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"the Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralayera",
"meanings": [
"of creation, maintenance and annihilation"
]
},
{
"word": "kartā",
"meanings": [
"creator"
]
},
{
"word": "nānā",
"meanings": [
"various"
]
},
{
"word": "avatāra",
"meanings": [
"incarnations"
]
},
{
"word": "kare",
"meanings": [
"makes"
]
},
{
"word": "jagatera",
"meanings": [
"of the material world"
]
},
{
"word": "bhartā",
"meanings": [
"maintainer."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That puruṣa [Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu] is the performer of creation, maintenance and destruction. He manifests Himself in many incarnations, for He is the maintainer of the world.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 81,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.81",
"devanagari": "सृष्ट्यादिनिमित्ते येइ अंशेर अवधान सेइ तऽ अंशेरे कहि ऽअवतारऽ नाम",
"bengali": "সৃষ্ট্যাদিনিমিত্তে যেই অংশের অবধান সেই তঽ অংশেরে কহি ঽঅবতারঽ নাম",
"transliteration": "sṛṣṭy-ādi-nimitte yei aṁśera avadhāna\nsei ta' aṁśere kahi 'avatāra' nāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sṛṣṭi-ādi-nimitte",
"meanings": [
"for the cause of creation, maintenance and annihilation"
]
},
{
"word": "yei",
"meanings": [
"which"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśera avadhāna",
"meanings": [
"manifestation of the part"
]
},
{
"word": "sei ta'",
"meanings": [
"that certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśere kahi",
"meanings": [
"I speak about that plenary expansion"
]
},
{
"word": "avatāra nāma",
"meanings": [
"by the name \"incarnation.\""
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That fragment of the Mahā-puruṣa who appears for the purpose of creation, maintenance and annihilation is called an incarnation.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 82,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.82",
"devanagari": "आद्यावतार, महापुरुष, भगवान्सर्वअवतारबीज, सर्वाश्रयधाम",
"bengali": "আদ্যাবতার, মহাপুরুষ, ভগবান্সর্বঅবতারবীজ, সর্বাশ্রযধাম",
"transliteration": "ādyāvatāra, mahā-puruṣa, bhagavān\nsarva-avatāra-bīja, sarvāśraya-dhāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ādya-avatāra",
"meanings": [
"the original incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "mahā-puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva-avatāra-bīja",
"meanings": [
"the seed of all different kinds of incarnations"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva-āśraya-dhāma",
"meanings": [
"the shelter of everything."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That Mahā-puruṣa is identical with the Personality of Godhead. He is the original incarnation, the seed of all others, and the shelter of everything.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 83,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.83",
"devanagari": "आद्यो ऽवतारः पुरुषः परस्य कालः स्वभावः सदसन्मनश्च\nद्रव्यं विकारो गुण इन्द्रियाणि विराट्स्वराट्स्थास्नु चरिष्णु भूम्नः",
"bengali": "আদ্যো ঽবতারঃ পুরুষঃ পরস্য কালঃ স্বভাবঃ সদসন্মনশ্চ\nদ্রব্যং বিকারো গুণ ইন্দ্রিযাণি বিরাট্স্বরাট্স্থাস্নু চরিষ্ণু ভূম্নঃ",
"transliteration": "ādyo 'vatāraḥ puruṣaḥ parasya\nkālaḥ svabhāvaḥ sad-asan-manaś ca\ndravyaṁ vikāro guṇa indriyāṇi\nvirāṭ svarāṭ sthāsnu cariṣṇu bhūmnaḥ",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ādyaḥ avatāraḥ",
"meanings": [
"original incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣaḥ",
"meanings": [
"the Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "parasya",
"meanings": [
"of the Supreme"
]
},
{
"word": "kālaḥ",
"meanings": [
"time"
]
},
{
"word": "svabhāvaḥ",
"meanings": [
"nature"
]
},
{
"word": "sat-asat",
"meanings": [
"cause and effect"
]
},
{
"word": "manaḥ ca",
"meanings": [
"as well as the mind"
]
},
{
"word": "dravyam",
"meanings": [
"the five elements"
]
},
{
"word": "vikāraḥ",
"meanings": [
"transformation or the false ego"
]
},
{
"word": "guṇaḥ",
"meanings": [
"modes of nature"
]
},
{
"word": "indriyāṇi",
"meanings": [
"senses"
]
},
{
"word": "virāṭ",
"meanings": [
"the universal form"
]
},
{
"word": "svarāṭ",
"meanings": [
"complete independence"
]
},
{
"word": "sthāsnu",
"meanings": [
"immovable"
]
},
{
"word": "cariṣṇu",
"meanings": [
"movable"
]
},
{
"word": "bhūmnaḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"The puruṣa is the primary incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Time, nature, prakṛti (as cause and effect), the mind, the material elements, false ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form, complete independence and the moving and nonmoving beings appear subsequently as His opulences.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"Describing the incarnations and their symptoms, the <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta</i> has stated that when Lord Kṛṣṇa descends to conduct the creative affairs of the material manifestation, He is an <i>avatāra,</i> or incarnation. The two categories of <i>avatāras</i> are empowered devotees and <i>tad-ekātma-rūpa</i> (the Lord Himself). An example of <i>tad-ekātma-rūpa</i> is Śeṣa, and an example of a devotee is Vasudeva, the father of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa has commented that the material cosmic manifestation is a partial kingdom of God where God must sometimes come to execute a specific function. The plenary portion of the Lord through whom Lord Kṛṣṇa executes such actions is called Mahā-Viṣṇu, who is the primal beginning of all incarnations. Inexperienced observers presume that the material energy provides both the cause and elements of the cosmic manifestation and that the living entities are the enjoyers of material nature. But the devotees of the <i>bhāgavata</i> school, which has scrutinizingly examined the entire situation, can understand that material nature can independently be neither the supplier of the material elements nor the cause of the material manifestation. Material nature gets the power to supply the material elements from the glance of the supreme <i>puruṣa,</i> Mahā-Viṣṇu, and when empowered by Him she is called the cause of the material manifestation. Both features of material nature, as the cause of the material creation and as the source of its elements, exist due to the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The various expansions of the Supreme Lord who act to empower the material energy are known as plenary expansions or incarnations. As illustrated by the example of many flames lit from one flame, all these plenary expansions and incarnations are as good as Viṣṇu Himself; nevertheless, because of their activities in controlling <i>māyā,</i> sometimes they are known as <i>māyika,</i> or having a relationship with <i>māyā.</i> This is a verse from <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (2.6.42)."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 84,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.84",
"devanagari": "जगृहे पौरुषं रूपं भगवान्महदादिभिः\nसम्भूतं षोडशकलमादौ लोकसिसृक्षया",
"bengali": "জগৃহে পৌরুষং রূপং ভগবান্মহদাদিভিঃ\nসম্ভূতং ষোডশকলমাদৌ লোকসিসৃক্ষযা",
"transliteration": "jagṛhe pauruṣaṁ rūpaṁ\nbhagavān mahad-ādibhiḥ\nsambhūtaṁ ṣoḍaśa-kalam\nādau loka-sisṛkṣayā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "jagṛhe",
"meanings": [
"accepted"
]
},
{
"word": "pauruṣam",
"meanings": [
"the puruṣa incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "rūpam",
"meanings": [
"the form"
]
},
{
"word": "bhagavān",
"meanings": [
"the Supreme Personality of Godhead"
]
},
{
"word": "mahat-ādibhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by the total material energy, etc."
]
},
{
"word": "sambhūtam",
"meanings": [
"created"
]
},
{
"word": "ṣoḍaśa",
"meanings": [
"sixteen"
]
},
{
"word": "kalam",
"meanings": [
"energies"
]
},
{
"word": "ādau",
"meanings": [
"originally"
]
},
{
"word": "loka",
"meanings": [
"the material worlds"
]
},
{
"word": "sisṛkṣayā",
"meanings": [
"with the desire to create."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"In the beginning of the creation, the Lord expanded Himself in the form of the puruṣa incarnation, accompanied by all the ingredients of material creation. First He created the sixteen principal energies suitable for creation. This was for the purpose of manifesting the material universes.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"This is a verse from <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (1.3.1). The commentary of Madhva on <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> mentions that the following sixteen spiritual energies are present in the spiritual world: (1) <i>śrī,</i> (2) <i>bhū,</i> (3) <i>līlā,</i> (4) <i>kānti,</i> (5) <i>kīrti,</i> (6) <i>tuṣṭi,</i> (7) <i>gīḥ,</i> (8) <i>puṣṭi,</i> (9) <i>satyā,</i> (10) <i>jñānājñānā,</i> (11) <i>jayā utkarṣiṇī,</i> (12) <i>vimalā,</i> (13) <i>yogamāyā,</i> (14) <i>prahvī,</i> (15) <i>īśānā</i> and (16) <i>anugrahā.</i> In his commentary on the <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta,</i> Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa has said that the above energies are also known by nine names: (1) <i>vimalā,</i> (2) <i>utkarṣiṇī,</i> (3) <i>jñānā,</i> (4) <i>kriyā,</i> (5) <i>yogā,</i> (6) <i>prahvī,</i> (7) <i>satyā,</i> (8) <i>īśānā</i> and (9) <i>anugrahā.</i> In the <i>Bhagavat-sandarbha</i> of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī (verse 117) they are described as <i>śrī, puṣṭi, gīḥ, kānti, kīrti, tuṣṭi, ilā, jaya,</i> <i>vidyāvidyā, māyā, samvit, sandhinī, hlādinī, bhakti, mūrti, vimalā, yogā, prahvī, īśānā, anugrahā,</i> etc. All these energies act in different spheres of the Lord's supremacy."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 85,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.85",
"devanagari": "यद्यपि सर्वाश्रय तिङ्हो, ताङ्हाते संसार अन्तरात्मारूपे तिङ्हो जगताधार",
"bengali": "যদ্যপি সর্বাশ্রয তিঙ্হো, তাঙ্হাতে সংসার অন্তরাত্মারূপে তিঙ্হো জগতাধার",
"transliteration": "yadyapi sarvāśraya tiṅho, tāṅhāte saṁsāra\nantarātmā-rūpe tiṅho jagat-ādhāra",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yadyapi",
"meanings": [
"although"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva-āśraya",
"meanings": [
"the shelter of everything"
]
},
{
"word": "tiṅho",
"meanings": [
"He (the Lord)"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅhāte",
"meanings": [
"in Him"
]
},
{
"word": "saṁsāra",
"meanings": [
"the material creation"
]
},
{
"word": "antaḥ-ātmā-rūpe",
"meanings": [
"in the form of the Supersoul"
]
},
{
"word": "tiṅho",
"meanings": [
"He"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-ādhāra",
"meanings": [
"the support of the whole creation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Although the Lord is the shelter of everything and although all the universes rest in Him, He, as the Supersoul, is also the support of everything.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 86,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.86",
"devanagari": "प्रकृतिसहिते ताङ्र उभय सम्बन्ध तथापि प्रकृतिसह नाहि स्पर्शगन्ध",
"bengali": "প্রকৃতিসহিতে তাঙ্র উভয সম্বন্ধ তথাপি প্রকৃতিসহ নাহি স্পর্শগন্ধ",
"transliteration": "prakṛti-sahite tāṅra ubhaya sambandha\ntathāpi prakṛti-saha nāhi sparśa-gandha",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "prakrti-sahite",
"meanings": [
"with the material energy"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "ubhaya sambandha",
"meanings": [
"both relationships"
]
},
{
"word": "tathāpi",
"meanings": [
"still"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛti-saha",
"meanings": [
"with the material nature"
]
},
{
"word": "nāhi",
"meanings": [
"there is not"
]
},
{
"word": "sparśa-gandha",
"meanings": [
"even the slightest contact."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Although He is thus connected with the material energy in two ways, He does not have the slightest contact with it.</b>",
"purport": [
"In the <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta,</i> Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, commenting upon the Lord's transcendental position beyond the material qualities, says that Viṣṇu, as the controller and superintendent of material nature, has a connection with the material qualities. That connection is called \"<i>yoga.\"</i> However, the person who directs a prison is not also a prisoner. Similarly, although the Supreme Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu directs or supervises the qualitative nature, He has no connection with the material modes of nature. The expansions of Lord Viṣṇu always retain their supremacy; they are never connected with the material qualities. One may argue that Mahā-Viṣṇu cannot have any connection with the material qualities, because if He were so connected, <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> would not state that material nature, ashamed of her thankless task of acting to induce the living entities to become averse to the Supreme Lord, remains behind the Lord in shyness. In answer to this argument, it may be said that the word <i>guṇa</i> means \"regulation.\" Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva are situated within this universe as the directors of the three modes, and their connection with the modes is known as <i>yoga.</i> This does not indicate, however, that these personalities are bound by the qualities of nature. Lord Viṣṇu specifically is always the controller of the three qualities. There is no question of His coming under their control.",
"Although the causal and element-supplying features exist in material nature by dint of the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord is never affected by glancing over the material qualities. By the will of the Supreme Lord the different qualitative changes in the material world take place, but there is no possibility of material affection, change or contamination for Lord Viṣṇu."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 87,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.87",
"devanagari": "एतदीशनमीशस्य प्रकृतिस्थो ऽपि तद्गुणैः\nन युज्यते सदात्मस्थैर्यथा बुद्धिस्तदाश्रया",
"bengali": "এতদীশনমীশস্য প্রকৃতিস্থো ঽপি তদ্গুণৈঃ\nন যুজ্যতে সদাত্মস্থৈর্যথা বুদ্ধিস্তদাশ্রযা",
"transliteration": "etad īśanam īśasya\nprakṛti-stho 'pi tad-guṇaiḥ\nna yujyate sadātma-sthair\nyathā buddhis tad-āśrayā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "etat",
"meanings": [
"this is"
]
},
{
"word": "īśanam",
"meanings": [
"opulence"
]
},
{
"word": "īśasya",
"meanings": [
"of the Lord"
]
},
{
"word": "prakṛti-sthaḥ",
"meanings": [
"within this material world"
]
},
{
"word": "api",
"meanings": [
"although"
]
},
{
"word": "tat-guṇaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"by the material qualities"
]
},
{
"word": "na yujyate",
"meanings": [
"never affected"
]
},
{
"word": "sadā",
"meanings": [
"always"
]
},
{
"word": "ātma-sthaiḥ",
"meanings": [
"situated in His own energy"
]
},
{
"word": "yathā",
"meanings": [
"as also"
]
},
{
"word": "buddhiḥ",
"meanings": [
"intelligence"
]
},
{
"word": "tat",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "āśrayā",
"meanings": [
"devotees."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"This is the opulence of the Lord. Although situated within the material nature, He is never affected by the modes of nature. Similarly, those who have surrendered to Him and have fixed their intelligence upon Him are not influenced by the modes of nature.\"</b>",
"purport": [
"This is a verse from <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (1.11.38)."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 88,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.88",
"devanagari": "एइ मत गीतातेह पुनः पुनः कय सर्वदा ईश्वरतत्त्व अचिन्त्यशक्ति हय",
"bengali": "এই মত গীতাতেহ পুনঃ পুনঃ কয সর্বদা ঈশ্বরতত্ত্ব অচিন্ত্যশক্তি হয",
"transliteration": "ei mata gītāteha punaḥ punaḥ kaya\nsarvadā īśvara-tattva acintya-śakti haya",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ei mata",
"meanings": [
"in this way"
]
},
{
"word": "gītāteha",
"meanings": [
"in Bhagavad-gītā"
]
},
{
"word": "punaḥ punaḥ",
"meanings": [
"again and again"
]
},
{
"word": "kaya",
"meanings": [
"it is said"
]
},
{
"word": "sarvadā",
"meanings": [
"always"
]
},
{
"word": "īśvara-tattva",
"meanings": [
"the truth of the Absolute Truth"
]
},
{
"word": "acintya-śakti haya",
"meanings": [
"is inconceivable."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Thus Bhagavad-gītā also states again and again that the Absolute Truth always possesses inconceivable power.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 89,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.89",
"devanagari": "आमि तऽ जगते वसि, जगतामाते ना आमि जगते वसि, ना आमा जगते",
"bengali": "আমি তঽ জগতে বসি, জগতামাতে না আমি জগতে বসি, না আমা জগতে",
"transliteration": "āmi ta' jagate vasi, jagat āmāte\nnā āmi jagate vasi, nā āmā jagate",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "āmi",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "ta'",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "jagate",
"meanings": [
"in the material world"
]
},
{
"word": "vasi",
"meanings": [
"situated"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat",
"meanings": [
"the whole material creation"
]
},
{
"word": "āmāte",
"meanings": [
"in Me"
]
},
{
"word": "nā",
"meanings": [
"not"
]
},
{
"word": "āmi",
"meanings": [
"I"
]
},
{
"word": "jagate",
"meanings": [
"within the material world"
]
},
{
"word": "vasi",
"meanings": [
"situated"
]
},
{
"word": "nā",
"meanings": [
"nor"
]
},
{
"word": "āmā",
"meanings": [
"on Me"
]
},
{
"word": "jagate",
"meanings": [
"the material world."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"I am situated in the material world, and the world rests in Me. But at the same time I am not situated in the material world, nor does it rest on Me in truth.</b>",
"purport": [
"Nothing in existence is possible unless energized by the will of the Lord. The entire manifested creation is therefore resting on the energy of the Lord, but one should not therefore presume that the material manifestation is identical with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A cloud may rest in the sky, but that does not mean that the sky and the cloud are one and the same. Similarly, the qualitative material nature and its products are never identical with the Supreme Lord. The tendency to lord it over material nature, or <i>māyā,</i> cannot be a feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When He descends to the material world, He maintains His transcendental nature, unaffected by the material qualities. In both the spiritual and material worlds, He is always the controller of all energies. The uncontaminated spiritual nature always exists within Him. The Lord appears and disappears in the material world in different features for His pastimes, yet He is the origin of all cosmic manifestations.",
"The material manifestation cannot exist separate from the Supreme Lord, yet Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in spite of His connection with material nature, cannot be subordinate to nature's influence. His original form of eternal bliss and knowledge is never subordinate to the three qualities of material nature. This is a specific feature of the Supreme Lord's inconceivable potencies."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 90,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.90",
"devanagari": "अचिन्त्य ऐश्वर्य एइ जानिह आमार एइ तऽ गीतार अर्थ कैल परचार",
"bengali": "অচিন্ত্য ঐশ্বর্য এই জানিহ আমার এই তঽ গীতার অর্থ কৈল পরচার",
"transliteration": "acintya aiśvarya ei jāniha āmāra\nei ta' gītāra artha kaila paracāra",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "acintya",
"meanings": [
"inconceivable"
]
},
{
"word": "aiśvarya",
"meanings": [
"opulence"
]
},
{
"word": "ei",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "jāniha",
"meanings": [
"you must know"
]
},
{
"word": "āmāra",
"meanings": [
"of Me"
]
},
{
"word": "ei ta'",
"meanings": [
"this"
]
},
{
"word": "gītāra artha",
"meanings": [
"the meaning of Bhagavad-gītā"
]
},
{
"word": "kaila paracāra",
"meanings": [
"Lord Kṛṣṇa propagated."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>\"O Arjuna, you should know this as My inconceivable opulence.\" This is the meaning propagated by Lord Kṛṣṇa in Bhagavad-gītā.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 91,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.91",
"devanagari": "सेइ तऽ पुरुष याङ्र ऽअंशऽ धरे नाम चैतन्येर संगे सेइ नित्यानन्दराम",
"bengali": "সেই তঽ পুরুষ যাঙ্র ঽঅংশঽ ধরে নাম চৈতন্যের সংগে সেই নিত্যানন্দরাম",
"transliteration": "sei ta' puruṣa yāṅra 'aṁśa' dhare nāma\ncaitanyera saṅge sei nityānanda-rāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sei ta'",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"Supreme Person"
]
},
{
"word": "yāṅra",
"meanings": [
"of whom"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśa",
"meanings": [
"as part"
]
},
{
"word": "dhare nāma",
"meanings": [
"is known"
]
},
{
"word": "caitanyera saṅge",
"meanings": [
"with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu"
]
},
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "nityānanda-rāma",
"meanings": [
"Lord Nityānanda or Balarāma."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>That Mahā-puruṣa [Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu] is known as a plenary part of Him who is Lord Nityānanda Balarāma, the favorite associate of Lord Caitanya.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 92,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.92",
"devanagari": "एइ तऽ नवम श्लोकेर अर्थविवरण दशम श्लोकेर अर्थ शुन दिया मन",
"bengali": "এই তঽ নবম শ্লোকের অর্থবিবরণ দশম শ্লোকের অর্থ শুন দিযা মন",
"transliteration": "ei ta' navama ślokera artha-vivaraṇa\ndaśama ślokera artha śuna diyā mana",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ei ta'",
"meanings": [
"thus"
]
},
{
"word": "navama ślokera",
"meanings": [
"of the ninth verse"
]
},
{
"word": "artha-vivaraṇa",
"meanings": [
"description of the meaning"
]
},
{
"word": "daśama ślokera",
"meanings": [
"of the tenth verse"
]
},
{
"word": "artha",
"meanings": [
"meaning"
]
},
{
"word": "śuna",
"meanings": [
"hear"
]
},
{
"word": "diyā mana",
"meanings": [
"with attention."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I have thus explained the ninth verse, and now I shall explain the tenth. Please listen with rapt attention.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 93,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.93",
"devanagari": "यस्यांशांशः श्रीलगर्भोदशायी यन्नाभ्यब्जं लोकसंघातनालम्\nलोकस्रष्टुः सूतिकाधाम धातुस्तं श्रीनित्यानन्दरामं प्रपद्ये",
"bengali": "যস্যাংশাংশঃ শ্রীলগর্ভোদশাযী যন্নাভ্যব্জং লোকসংঘাতনালম্\nলোকস্রষ্টুঃ সূতিকাধাম ধাতুস্তং শ্রীনিত্যানন্দরামং প্রপদ্যে",
"transliteration": "yasyāṁśāṁśaḥ śrīla-garbhoda-śāyī\nyan-nābhy-abjaṁ loka-saṅghāta-nālam\nloka-sraṣṭuḥ sūtikā-dhāma dhātus\ntaṁ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaṁ prapadye",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yasya",
"meanings": [
"whose"
]
},
{
"word": "aṁśa-aṁśaḥ",
"meanings": [
"portion of a plenary portion"
]
},
{
"word": "śrīla-garbha-uda-śāyī",
"meanings": [
"Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu"
]
},
{
"word": "yat",
"meanings": [
"of whom"
]
},
{
"word": "nābhi-abjam",
"meanings": [
"the navel lotus"
]
},
{
"word": "loka-saṅghāta",
"meanings": [
"of the multitude of planets"
]
},
{
"word": "nālam",
"meanings": [
"having a stem that is the resting place"
]
},
{
"word": "loka-sraṣṭuḥ",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Brahmā, creator of the planets"
]
},
{
"word": "sūtikā-dhāma",
"meanings": [
"the birthplace"
]
},
{
"word": "dhātuḥ",
"meanings": [
"of the creator"
]
},
{
"word": "tam",
"meanings": [
"to Him"
]
},
{
"word": "śrī-nityānanda-rāmam",
"meanings": [
"to Lord Balarāma in the form of Lord Nityānanda"
]
},
{
"word": "prapadye",
"meanings": [
"I surrender."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>I offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, a partial part of whom is Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. From the navel of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu sprouts the lotus that is the birthplace of Brahmā, the engineer of the universe. The stem of that lotus is the resting place of the multitude of planets.</b>",
"purport": [
"In the <i>Mahābhārata, Śānti-parva,</i> it is said that He who is Pradyumna is also Aniruddha. He is also the father of Brahmā. Thus Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu are identical plenary expansions of Pradyumna, the original Deity of Brahmā, who is born from the lotus flower. It is Pradyumna who gives Brahmā direction for cosmic management. A full description of Brahmā's birth is given in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> (3.8.15-16).",
"Describing the features of the three <i>puruṣas,</i> the <i>Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta</i> says that Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu has a four-handed form, and when He Himself enters the hollow of the universe and lies down in the ocean of milk He is known as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who is the Supersoul of all living entities, including the demigods. In the <i>Sātvata Tantra</i> it is said that the third <i>puruṣa</i> incarnation, Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, is situated as the Supersoul in everyone's heart. This Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is an expansion of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu for pastimes."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 94,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.94",
"devanagari": "सेइ तऽ पुरुष अनन्तब्रह्माण्ड सृजिया सब अण्डे प्रवेशिला बहुमूर्ति हञा",
"bengali": "সেই তঽ পুরুষ অনন্তব্রহ্মাণ্ড সৃজিযা সব অণ্ডে প্রবেশিলা বহুমূর্তি হঞা",
"transliteration": "sei ta' puruṣa ananta-brahmāṇḍa sṛjiyā\nsaba aṇḍe praveśilā bahu-mūrti hañā",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sei",
"meanings": [
"that"
]
},
{
"word": "ta'",
"meanings": [
"certainly"
]
},
{
"word": "puruṣa",
"meanings": [
"incarnation"
]
},
{
"word": "ananta-brahmāṇḍa",
"meanings": [
"innumerable universes"
]
},
{
"word": "sṛjiyā",
"meanings": [
"creating"
]
},
{
"word": "saba",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "aṇḍe",
"meanings": [
"in the egg-like universes"
]
},
{
"word": "praveśilā",
"meanings": [
"entered"
]
},
{
"word": "bahu-mūrti hañā",
"meanings": [
"taking multifarious forms."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>After creating millions of universes, the first puruṣa entered into each of them in a separate form, as Śrī Garbhodakaśāyī.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 95,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.95",
"devanagari": "भितरे प्रवेशिऽ देखे सब अन्धकार रहिते नाहिक स्थान करिल विचार",
"bengali": "ভিতরে প্রবেশিঽ দেখে সব অন্ধকার রহিতে নাহিক স্থান করিল বিচার",
"transliteration": "bhitare praveśi' dekhe saba andhakāra\nrahite nāhika sthāna karila vicāra",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bhitare",
"meanings": [
"within the universe"
]
},
{
"word": "praveśi'",
"meanings": [
"entering"
]
},
{
"word": "dekhe",
"meanings": [
"He sees"
]
},
{
"word": "saba",
"meanings": [
"all"
]
},
{
"word": "andhakāra",
"meanings": [
"darkness"
]
},
{
"word": "rahite",
"meanings": [
"to stay"
]
},
{
"word": "nāhika",
"meanings": [
"there is not"
]
},
{
"word": "sthāna",
"meanings": [
"place"
]
},
{
"word": "karila vicāra",
"meanings": [
"considered."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Entering the universe, He found only darkness, with no place in which to reside. Thus He began to consider.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 96,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.96",
"devanagari": "निजांग—स्वेदजल करिल सृजन सेइ जले कैल अर्धब्रह्माण्ड भरण",
"bengali": "নিজাংগ—স্বেদজল করিল সৃজন সেই জলে কৈল অর্ধব্রহ্মাণ্ড ভরণ",
"transliteration": "nijāṅga—sveda-jala karila sṛjana\nsei jale kaila ardha-brahmāṇḍa bharaṇa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "nija-aṅga",
"meanings": [
"of His own body"
]
},
{
"word": "sveda-jala",
"meanings": [
"water from perspiration"
]
},
{
"word": "karila",
"meanings": [
"did"
]
},
{
"word": "sṛjana",
"meanings": [
"creation"
]
},
{
"word": "sei jale",
"meanings": [
"with that water"
]
},
{
"word": "kaila",
"meanings": [
"did"
]
},
{
"word": "ardha-brahmāṇḍa",
"meanings": [
"half of the universe"
]
},
{
"word": "bharaṇa",
"meanings": [
"filling."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>Then He created water from the perspiration of His own body and with that water filled half the universe.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 97,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.97",
"devanagari": "ब्रह्माण्डप्रमाण पंचाशत्कोटियोजन आयाम, विस्तार, दुइ हय एक सम",
"bengali": "ব্রহ্মাণ্ডপ্রমাণ পংচাশত্কোটিযোজন আযাম, বিস্তার, দুই হয এক সম",
"transliteration": "brahmāṇḍa-pramāṇa pañcāśat-koṭi-yojana\nāyāma, vistāra, dui haya eka sama",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brahmāṇḍa-pramāṇa",
"meanings": [
"measurement of the universe"
]
},
{
"word": "pañcāśat",
"meanings": [
"fifty"
]
},
{
"word": "koṭi",
"meanings": [
"ten millions"
]
},
{
"word": "yojana",
"meanings": [
"lengths of eight miles"
]
},
{
"word": "āyāma",
"meanings": [
"length"
]
},
{
"word": "vistāra",
"meanings": [
"breadth"
]
},
{
"word": "dui",
"meanings": [
"both of them"
]
},
{
"word": "haya",
"meanings": [
"are"
]
},
{
"word": "eka sama",
"meanings": [
"one and the same."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>The universe measures five hundred million yojanas. Its length and breadth are one and the same.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 98,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.98",
"devanagari": "जले भरिऽ अर्ध ताङ्हा कैल निजवास आर अर्धे कैल चौद्दभुवन प्रकाश",
"bengali": "জলে ভরিঽ অর্ধ তাঙ্হা কৈল নিজবাস আর অর্ধে কৈল চৌদ্দভুবন প্রকাশ",
"transliteration": "jale bhari' ardha tāṅhā kaila nija-vāsa\nāra ardhe kaila caudda-bhuvana prakāśa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "jale",
"meanings": [
"with water"
]
},
{
"word": "bhari'",
"meanings": [
"filling"
]
},
{
"word": "ardha",
"meanings": [
"half"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅhā",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "kaila",
"meanings": [
"made"
]
},
{
"word": "nija-vāsa",
"meanings": [
"own residence"
]
},
{
"word": "āra",
"meanings": [
"other"
]
},
{
"word": "ardhe",
"meanings": [
"in the half"
]
},
{
"word": "kaila",
"meanings": [
"did"
]
},
{
"word": "caudda-bhuvana",
"meanings": [
"fourteen worlds"
]
},
{
"word": "prakāśa",
"meanings": [
"manifestation."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>After filling half the universe with water, He made His own residence therein and manifested the fourteen worlds in the other half.</b>",
"purport": [
"The fourteen worlds are enumerated in <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,</i> Second Canto, Fifth Chapter. The upper planetary systems are (1) Bhū, (2) Bhuvaḥ, (3) Svaḥ, (4) Mahaḥ, (5) Jana, (6) Tapaḥ and (7) Satya. The seven lower planetary systems are (1) Tala, (2) Atala, (3) Vitala, (4) Nitala, (5) Talātala, (6) Mahātala and (7) Sutala. The lower planets, as a whole, are called Pātāla. Among the upper planetary systems, Bhū, Bhuvaḥ and Svaḥ constitute Svargaloka, and the rest are called Martya. The entire universe is thus known as Triloka."
]
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 99,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.99",
"devanagari": "ताङ्हाइ प्रकट कैल वैकुण्ठ निजधाम शेषशयनजले करिल विश्राम",
"bengali": "তাঙ্হাই প্রকট কৈল বৈকুণ্ঠ নিজধাম শেষশযনজলে করিল বিশ্রাম",
"transliteration": "tāṅhāi prakaṭa kaila vaikuṇṭha nija-dhāma\nśeṣa-śayana-jale karila viśrāma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tāṅhāi",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "prakaṭa",
"meanings": [
"manifestation"
]
},
{
"word": "kaila",
"meanings": [
"did"
]
},
{
"word": "vaikuṇṭha",
"meanings": [
"the spiritual world"
]
},
{
"word": "nija-dhāma",
"meanings": [
"His own abode"
]
},
{
"word": "śeṣa",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Śeṣa"
]
},
{
"word": "śayana",
"meanings": [
"on the bed"
]
},
{
"word": "jale",
"meanings": [
"on the water"
]
},
{
"word": "karila",
"meanings": [
"did"
]
},
{
"word": "viśrāma",
"meanings": [
"rest."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>There He manifested Vaikuṇṭha as His own abode and rested in the waters on the bed of Lord Śeṣa.</b>",
"purport": []
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 100,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.100-101",
"devanagari": "अनन्तशय्याते ताङ्हा करिल शयन सहस्र मस्तक ताङ्र सहस्र वदन\nसहस्रचरणहस्त, सहस्रनयन सर्वअवतारबीज, जगत्कारण",
"bengali": "অনন্তশয্যাতে তাঙ্হা করিল শযন সহস্র মস্তক তাঙ্র সহস্র বদন\nসহস্রচরণহস্ত, সহস্রনযন সর্বঅবতারবীজ, জগত্কারণ",
"transliteration": "ananta-śayyāte tāṅhā karila śayana\nsahasra mastaka tāṅra sahasra vadana\nsahasra-caraṇa-hasta, sahasra-nayana\nsarva-avatāra-bīja, jagat-kāraṇa",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ananta-śayyāte",
"meanings": [
"on Lord Ananta as a bed"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅhā",
"meanings": [
"there"
]
},
{
"word": "karila śayana",
"meanings": [
"lay down"
]
},
{
"word": "sahasra",
"meanings": [
"thousands"
]
},
{
"word": "mastaka",
"meanings": [
"heads"
]
},
{
"word": "tāṅra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "sahasra vadana",
"meanings": [
"thousands of faces"
]
},
{
"word": "sahasra",
"meanings": [
"thousands"
]
},
{
"word": "caraṇa",
"meanings": [
"legs"
]
},
{
"word": "hasta",
"meanings": [
"hands"
]
},
{
"word": "sahasra-nayana",
"meanings": [
"thousands of eyes"
]
},
{
"word": "sarva-avatāra-bīja",
"meanings": [
"the seed of all incarnations"
]
},
{
"word": "jagat-kāraṇa",
"meanings": [
"the cause of the material world."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>He lay there with Ananta as His bed. Lord Ananta is a divine serpent having thousands of heads, thousands of faces, thousands of eyes and thousands of hands and feet. He is the seed of all incarnations and is the cause of the material world.</b>",
"purport": [
"In the reservoir of water first created by the perspiration of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the Lord lies on the Śeṣa plenary expansion of Viṣṇu, who is described in the <i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> and in the four <b>Vedas as follows:</b>",
"<i>sahasra-śīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasra-pāt<br/> sa bhūmiṁ viśvato vṛtvātyatiṣṭhad daśāṅgulam</i>",
"\"The Viṣṇu form called Ananta-śayana has thousands of hands and legs and thousands of eyes, and He is the active generator of all the incarnations within the material world.\""
],
"verse_end": 101
}
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{
"book_title": "Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta",
"lila": "adi",
"chapter": 5,
"verse": 102,
"reference": "Cc Ādi 5.102",
"devanagari": "ताङ्र नाभिपद्म हैते उठिल एक पद्म सेइ पद्मे हैल ब्रह्मार जन्मसद्म",
"bengali": "তাঙ্র নাভিপদ্ম হৈতে উঠিল এক পদ্ম সেই পদ্মে হৈল ব্রহ্মার জন্মসদ্ম",
"transliteration": "tāṅra nābhi-padma haite uṭhila eka padma\nsei padme haila brahmāra janma-sadma",
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tāṅra",
"meanings": [
"His"
]
},
{
"word": "nābhi-padma",
"meanings": [
"lotus navel"
]
},
{
"word": "haite",
"meanings": [
"from"
]
},
{
"word": "uṭhila",
"meanings": [
"grew"
]
},
{
"word": "eka",
"meanings": [
"one"
]
},
{
"word": "padma",
"meanings": [
"lotus flower"
]
},
{
"word": "sei padme",
"meanings": [
"on that lotus"
]
},
{
"word": "haila",
"meanings": [
"there was"
]
},
{
"word": "brahmāra",
"meanings": [
"of Lord Brahmā"
]
},
{
"word": "janma-sadma",
"meanings": [
"the place of birth."
]
}
],
"translation": "<b>From His navel grew a lotus flower, which became the birthplace of Lord Brahmā.</b>",
"purport": []
}

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