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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.55|CC Adi 2.55, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"This is the opulence of the Lord: Although situated in the material nature, He is never affected by the modes of nature. Similarly, those who have surrendered to Him and fixed their intelligence upon Him are not influenced by the modes of nature."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.55|CC Adi 2.55, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"This is the opulence of the Lord: Although situated in the material nature, He is never affected by the modes of nature. Similarly, those who have surrendered to Him and fixed their intelligence upon Him are not influenced by the modes of nature."</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.11.38). Those who have taken shelter of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead do not identify with the material world, even while living in it. Pure devotees may deal with the three modes of material nature, but because of their transcendental intelligence in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are not influenced by the material qualities. The spell of material activities does not attract such devotees. Therefore, the Supreme Lord and His devotees acting under Him are always free from material contamination.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.11.38|SB 1.11.38]]). Those who have taken shelter of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead do not identify with the material world, even while living in it. Pure devotees may deal with the three modes of material nature, but because of their transcendental intelligence in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are not influenced by the material qualities. The spell of material activities does not attract such devotees. Therefore, the Supreme Lord and His devotees acting under Him are always free from material contamination.</p> |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.87|CC Adi 5.87, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"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."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.87|CC Adi 5.87, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"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."</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><dd>This is a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.11.38).</dd> | | <div class="purport text"><dd>This is a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.11.38|SB 1.11.38]]). |
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| <div id="CCAntya5119_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1012" link="CC Antya 5.119" link_text="CC Antya 5.119"> | | <div id="CCAntya5119_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1012" link="CC Antya 5.119" link_text="CC Antya 5.119"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.119|CC Antya 5.119, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">TRANSLATION</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.119|CC Antya 5.119, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"You have calculated Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, full in six opulences, to be on the level of an ordinary living being. Instead of knowing Him as the supreme fire, you have accepted Him as a spark."</p> |
| <p>"You have calculated Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, full in six opulences, to be on the level of an ordinary living being. Instead of knowing Him as the supreme fire, you have accepted Him as a spark."</p>
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| <div class="purport text"><p>In the Upaniṣads it is said, yathāgner visphuliṅgā vyuccaranti: the living entities are like sparks of fire, and His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead is considered the original great fire. When we hear this śruti-vākya, or message from the Vedas, we should understand the distinction between the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa and the living entities. A person under the control of the external energy, however, cannot understand that distinction. Such a person cannot understand that the Supreme Person is the original great fire, whereas the living entities are simply small fragmental parts of that Supreme Personality of Godhead. As Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.7):</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>In the Upaniṣads it is said, yathāgner visphuliṅgā vyuccaranti: the living entities are like sparks of fire, and His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead is considered the original great fire. When we hear this śruti-vākya, or message from the Vedas, we should understand the distinction between the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa and the living entities. A person under the control of the external energy, however, cannot understand that distinction. Such a person cannot understand that the Supreme Person is the original great fire, whereas the living entities are simply small fragmental parts of that Supreme Personality of Godhead. As Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.7):</p> |
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| :manaḥ-ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati | | :manaḥ-ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati |
| <p>"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind."</p> | | <p>"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind."</p> |
| <p>There is a distinction between the body and the soul of the materially existing living being, but because Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Jagannātha do not possess material bodies, there is no distinction between Their bodies and souls. On the spiritual platform, body and soul are identical; there is no distinction between them. As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.11.38):</p> | | <p>There is a distinction between the body and the soul of the materially existing living being, but because Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Jagannātha do not possess material bodies, there is no distinction between Their bodies and souls. On the spiritual platform, body and soul are identical; there is no distinction between them. As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.11.38|SB 1.11.38]]):</p> |
| :etad īśanam īśasya prakṛti-stho ‘pi tad-guṇaiḥ | | :etad īśanam īśasya prakṛti-stho ‘pi tad-guṇaiḥ |
| :na yujyate sadātma-sthair yathā buddhis tad-āśrayā | | :na yujyate sadātma-sthair yathā buddhis tad-āśrayā |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.121|CC Antya 5.121, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the considerations of Māyāvādī fools, the Supreme Personality of Godhead accepts a material body when He appears in the material world. A Vaiṣṇava, however, knows perfectly well that for Kṛṣṇa, Lord Jagannātha or Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu—unlike for ordinary human beings—there is no distinction between the body and the soul. Even in the material world His Lordship retains His spiritual identity; therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa exhibited all opulences even in His childhood body. There is no distinction between the body and the soul of Kṛṣṇa; whether He is in His childhood body or His youthful body, He is always identical with His body. Even though Kṛṣṇa appears like an ordinary human being, He is never subjected to the rules and regulations of the material world. He is svarāṭ, or fully independent. He can appear in the material world, but contrary to the offensive conclusion of the Māyāvāda school, He has no material body. In this connection one may again refer to the above-mentioned verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.11.38):</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 5.121|CC Antya 5.121, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the considerations of Māyāvādī fools, the Supreme Personality of Godhead accepts a material body when He appears in the material world. A Vaiṣṇava, however, knows perfectly well that for Kṛṣṇa, Lord Jagannātha or Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu—unlike for ordinary human beings—there is no distinction between the body and the soul. Even in the material world His Lordship retains His spiritual identity; therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa exhibited all opulences even in His childhood body. There is no distinction between the body and the soul of Kṛṣṇa; whether He is in His childhood body or His youthful body, He is always identical with His body. Even though Kṛṣṇa appears like an ordinary human being, He is never subjected to the rules and regulations of the material world. He is svarāṭ, or fully independent. He can appear in the material world, but contrary to the offensive conclusion of the Māyāvāda school, He has no material body. In this connection one may again refer to the above-mentioned verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.11.38|SB 1.11.38]]):</p> |
| :etad īśanam īśasya prakṛti-stho ‘pi tad-guṇaiḥ | | :etad īśanam īśasya prakṛti-stho ‘pi tad-guṇaiḥ |
| :na yujyate sadātma-sthair yathā buddhis tad-āśrayā | | :na yujyate sadātma-sthair yathā buddhis tad-āśrayā |
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| <div id="RTW41_0" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="33" link="RTW 4.1" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 4.1"> | | <div id="RTW41_0" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="33" link="RTW 4.1" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 4.1"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 4.1|Renunciation Through Wisdom 4.1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The jīva has been referred to as the Lord's marginal potency. The jīva is unpredictable: sometimes he is under the material energy's control, and at other times under the spiritual energy's shelter. But the supreme, infallible Lord never comes under the sway of any of His energies: He forever remains the absolute autocrat, the master of all energies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. All energies emanate from Him, and thus He is the supreme energetic principle. When the two words sva-rāṭ ("independent") and param ("supreme") are used to describe an entity, then He must be the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the eternal cause of all causes. That the Supreme Lord never comes under the influence of māyā is confirmed elsewhere in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.11.38):</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 4.1|Renunciation Through Wisdom 4.1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The jīva has been referred to as the Lord's marginal potency. The jīva is unpredictable: sometimes he is under the material energy's control, and at other times under the spiritual energy's shelter. But the supreme, infallible Lord never comes under the sway of any of His energies: He forever remains the absolute autocrat, the master of all energies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vāsudeva. All energies emanate from Him, and thus He is the supreme energetic principle. When the two words sva-rāṭ ("independent") and param ("supreme") are used to describe an entity, then He must be the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the eternal cause of all causes. That the Supreme Lord never comes under the influence of māyā is confirmed elsewhere in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.11.38|SB 1.11.38]]):</p> |
| :etad īśanam īśasya | | :etad īśanam īśasya |
| :prakṛti-stho 'pi tad-guṇaiḥ | | :prakṛti-stho 'pi tad-guṇaiḥ |