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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi14_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="5" link="CC Adi 1.4" link_text="CC Adi 1.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 1.4|CC Adi 1.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">May the Supreme Lord who is known as the son of Śrīmatī Śacī-devī be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold, He has appeared in the Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant mellow of devotional service, the mellow of conjugal love.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi286_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="191" link="CC Adi 2.86" link_text="CC Adi 2.86">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.86|CC Adi 2.86, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhrama refers to false knowledge or mistakes, such as accepting a rope as a snake or an oyster shell as gold.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi34_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="230" link="CC Adi 3.4" link_text="CC Adi 3.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.4|CC Adi 3.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"May the Supreme Lord who is known as the son of Śrīmatī Śacī-devī be transcendentally situated in the innermost core of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold, He has descended in the Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has ever offered before: the most elevated mellow of devotional service, the mellow of conjugal love."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi341_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="267" link="CC Adi 3.41" link_text="CC Adi 3.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.41|CC Adi 3.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The luster of His expansive body resembles molten gold. The deep sound of His voice conquers the thundering of newly assembled clouds.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi349_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="275" link="CC Adi 3.49" link_text="CC Adi 3.49">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.49|CC Adi 3.49, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"In His early pastimes He appears as a householder with a golden complexion. His limbs are beautiful, and His body, smeared with the pulp of sandalwood, seems like molten gold. In His later pastimes He accepts the sannyāsa order, and He is equipoised and peaceful. He is the highest abode of peace and devotion, for He silences the impersonalist nondevotees."</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.49|CC Adi 3.49, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Rukma-varṇaṁ kartāram īśam refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead as having a complexion the color of molten gold. Puruṣam means the Supreme Lord, and brahma-yonim indicates that He is also the Supreme Brahman. This evidence, too, proves that Lord Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa. Another meaning of the description of the Lord as having a golden hue is that Lord Caitanya's personality is as fascinating as gold is attractive. Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa has explained that the word varāṅga means "exquisitely beautiful."</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.52|CC Adi 3.52, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the name of Kṛṣṇa. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Kṛṣṇa Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.32). Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has explained this verse in his commentary on the Bhāgavatam, known as the Krama-sandarbha, wherein he says that Lord Kṛṣṇa also appears with a golden complexion. That golden Lord Kṛṣṇa is Lord Caitanya, who is worshiped by intelligent men in this age. That is confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by Garga Muni, who said that although the child Kṛṣṇa was blackish, He also appears in three other colors—red, white and yellow. He exhibited His white and red complexions in the Satya and Tretā ages respectively. He did not exhibit the remaining color, yellow-gold, until He appeared as Lord Caitanya, who is known as Gaura Hari.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi359_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="285" link="CC Adi 3.59" link_text="CC Adi 3.59">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.59|CC Adi 3.59, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One can vividly see His glowing complexion of molten gold, which dispels the darkness of ignorance.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi379_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="305" link="CC Adi 3.79" link_text="CC Adi 3.79">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.79|CC Adi 3.79, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Even if one distributes ten million cows in charity during an eclipse of the sun, lives at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā for millions of years, or gives a mountain of gold in sacrifice to the brāhmaṇas, he does not earn one hundredth part of the merit derived from chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi381_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="307" link="CC Adi 3.81" link_text="CC Adi 3.81">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.81|CC Adi 3.81, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, who was outwardly very fair, with a complexion like molten gold, simultaneously manifested His eternal associates, opulences, expansions and incarnations.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4164_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="496" link="CC Adi 4.164" link_text="CC Adi 4.164">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.164|CC Adi 4.164, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lust and love have different characteristics, just as iron and gold have different natures.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4164_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="496" link="CC Adi 4.164" link_text="CC Adi 4.164">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.164|CC Adi 4.164, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should try to discriminate between sexual love and pure love, for they belong to different categories, with a gulf of difference between them. They are as different from one another as iron is from gold.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4209_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="538" link="CC Adi 4.209" link_text="CC Adi 4.209">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.209|CC Adi 4.209, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The natural love of the gopīs is devoid of any trace of lust. It is faultless, bright and pure, like molten gold.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi745_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="991" link="CC Adi 7.45" link_text="CC Adi 7.45">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.45|CC Adi 7.45, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Bengal the suvarṇa-vaṇik class are always very rich, for they are bankers and dealers in gold and silver.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.47|CC Adi 7.47, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"As bell metal is turned to gold when mixed with mercury in an alchemical process, so one who is properly trained and initiated by a bona fide spiritual master immediately becomes a brāhmaṇa."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7107_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1051" link="CC Adi 7.107" link_text="CC Adi 7.107">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.107|CC Adi 7.107, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A mistake is the acceptance of an object to be different from what it is or the acceptance of false knowledge. For example, one may see a rope in the dark and think it to be a serpent, or one may see a glittering oyster shell and think it to be gold.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7122_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1066" link="CC Adi 7.122" link_text="CC Adi 7.122">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.122|CC Adi 7.122, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The material world and the living entities are separate beings, and they are eternally true, not false. Śaṅkarācārya, however, unnecessarily fearing that by pariṇāma-vāda (transformation of energy) Brahman would be transformed (vikārī), has imagined both the material world and the living entities to be false and to have no individuality. By word jugglery he has tried to prove that the individual identities of the living entities and the material world are illusory, and he has cited the examples of mistaking a rope for a snake or an oyster shell for gold. Thus he has most abominably cheated people in general.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7125_18" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1069" link="CC Adi 7.125" link_text="CC Adi 7.125">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.125|CC Adi 7.125, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">“Using the example of a touchstone, which by its energy turns iron to gold and yet remains the same, we can understand that although the Supreme Personality of Godhead transforms His innumerable energies, He remains unchanged.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1084_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1338" link="CC Adi 10.84" link_text="CC Adi 10.84">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.84|CC Adi 10.84, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Rūpa Gosvāmī left home, he wrote a note for Sanātana Gosvāmī informing him of some money that he had entrusted to a local grocer. Sanātana Gosvāmī took advantage of this money to bribe the jail keeper and get free from detention. Then he left for Benares to meet Caitanya Mahāprabhu, bringing with him only one servant, whose name was Īśāna. On the way they stopped at a sarāi, or hotel, and when the hotel keeper found out that Īśāna had some gold coins with him, he planned to kill both Sanātana Gosvāmī and Īśāna to take away the coins.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 11.41|CC Adi 11.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The suvarṇa-vaṇik community to which Uddhāraṇa Datta belonged was actually a Vaiṣṇava community. Its members were bankers and gold merchants (suvarṇa means "gold," and vaṇik means "merchant").</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.104|CC Adi 13.104, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All sorts of respectable brāhmaṇa gentlemen and ladies, carrying plates filled with various gifts, came with their presentations. Seeing the newborn child, whose form resembled natural glaring gold, all of them happily offered their blessings.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.113|CC Adi 13.113, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">There were also tiger nails set in gold, waist decorations of silk and lace, ornaments for the hands and legs, nicely printed silken saris, and a child's garment, also made of silk. Many other riches, including gold and silver coins, were also presented to the child.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.116|CC Adi 13.116, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Seeing the transcendental bodily effulgence of the child, each of His nicely constructed limbs full of auspicious signs and resembling a form of gold, Sītā Ṭhākurāṇī was very pleased, and because of her maternal affection, she felt as if her heart were melting.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1438_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1733" link="CC Adi 14.38" link_text="CC Adi 14.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 14.38|CC Adi 14.38, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In His childhood the Lord was profusely decorated with gold ornaments.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.43|CC Madhya 2.43, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Pure love for Kṛṣṇa, just like gold from the Jāmbū River, does not exist in human society. If it existed, there could not be separation. If separation were there, one could not live."</p>
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