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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_Preface_and_Introduction" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Preface and Introduction"><h3>CC Preface and Introduction</h3>
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<div id="CCIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Preface_and_Introduction" book="CC" index="5" link="CC Introduction" link_text="CC Introduction">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Introduction|CC Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus Kṛṣṇa should not be thought of as being alone but should be considered as eternally existing with all His manifestations, as described by Rāmānujācārya. In the Viśiṣṭādvaita philosophy, God's energies, expansions and incarnations are considered to be oneness in diversity. In other words, God is not separate from all of these: everything together is God.</p>
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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="CCAdi1Summary_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1" link="CC Adi 1 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 1 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 1 Summary|CC Adi 1 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His plenary expansions are all in the category of the Lord Himself, the energetic Absolute Truth, whereas His devotees, His eternal associates, are His energies. The energy and energetic are fundamentally one, but since their functions are differently exhibited, they are simultaneously different also. Thus the Absolute Truth is manifested in diversity in one unit. This philosophical truth, which is pursuant to the Vedānta-sūtra, is called acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, or the conception of simultaneous oneness and difference. In the latter portion of this chapter, the transcendental position of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and that of Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu are described with reference to the above theistic facts.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.5|CC Adi 2.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The beginning of spiritual enlightenment is realization of impersonal Brahman. Such realization is effected by gradual negation of material variegatedness. Impersonal Brahman realization is the partial, distant experience of the Absolute Truth that one achieves through the rational approach. It is compared to one's seeing a hill from a distance and taking it to be a smoky cloud. A hill is not a smoky cloud, but it appears to be one from a distance because of our imperfect vision. In imperfect or smoky realization of the Absolute Truth, spiritual variegatedness is conspicuous by its absence. This experience is therefore called advaita-vāda, or realization of the oneness of the Absolute.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.18|CC Adi 3.18, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"These liberations are sārṣṭi (achieving opulences equal to those of the Lord), sārūpya (having a form the same as the Lord's), sāmīpya (living as a personal associate of the Lord) and sālokya (living on a Vaikuṇṭha planet). Devotees never accept sāyujya, however, since that is oneness with Brahman."</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.102|CC Adi 3.102, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu preached the philosophy of inconceivable, simultaneous oneness with the Lord and difference from Him. Conceivable dualism and monism are conceptions of the imperfect senses, which are unable to reach the Transcendence because the Transcendence is beyond the conception of limited potency.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.56|CC Adi 4.56, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Everything in the Absolute is inconceivable in relative existence. Therefore in relative cognizance it is very difficult to assimilate this truth of the oneness between the potent and the potency. The philosophy of inconceivable oneness and difference propounded by Lord Caitanya is the only source of understanding for such intricacies of transcendence.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.207|CC Adi 4.207, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"My devotees do not accept sālokya, sārṣṭi, sārūpya, sāmīpya or oneness with Me—even if I offer these liberations—in preference to serving Me."</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.36|CC Adi 5.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“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.”</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.36|CC Adi 5.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">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 sāyujya, or oneness with the body of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi539_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="642" link="CC Adi 5.39" link_text="CC Adi 5.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.39|CC Adi 5.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Māyāvādī philosophers who aspire to merge with the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as well as demoniac persons who are killed by Kṛṣṇa, such as Kaṁsa and Śiśupāla, enter that Brahman effulgence. Yogīs who attain oneness through meditation according to the Patañjali yoga system also reach Siddhaloka. This is a verse from the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.41|CC Adi 5.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">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 śrutis and smṛtis.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi644_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="879" link="CC Adi 6.44" link_text="CC Adi 6.44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 6.44|CC Adi 6.44, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The conception of servitude to Śrī Kṛṣṇa generates such an ocean of joy in the soul that even the joy of oneness with the Absolute, if multiplied ten million times, could not compare to a drop of it.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi6100_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="930" link="CC Adi 6.100" link_text="CC Adi 6.100">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 6.100|CC Adi 6.100, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The conception of oneness with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is inferior to that of eternal service to the Lord because Lord Kṛṣṇa is more affectionate to devotees than to His personal self.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi711_12" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="961" link="CC Adi 7.11" link_text="CC Adi 7.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.11|CC Adi 7.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of all pleasure, He has a special intention to taste Himself by accepting the form of a devotee. It is to be concluded that although Lord Caitanya is present in the form of a devotee, He is Kṛṣṇa Himself. Therefore Vaiṣṇavas sing, śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya: "Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa combined together are Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu." And as Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has said, caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptam: Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa assumed oneness in the form of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7101_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1045" link="CC Adi 7.101" link_text="CC Adi 7.101">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.101|CC Adi 7.101, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Monist philosophers like Śaṅkarācārya and his followers want to establish that God and the living entity are one, and instead of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead they present themselves as God. They want to be worshiped as God by others. Such persons do not accept the philosophies of the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas, which are known as śuddhādvaita (purified monism), śuddha-dvaita (purified dualism), viśiṣṭādvaita (specific monism), dvaitādvaita (monism and dualism) and acintya-bhedābheda (inconceivable oneness and difference).</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.121|CC Adi 7.121, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explains, "In the Vedanta-sūtra of Śrīla Vyāsadeva it is definitely stated that all cosmic manifestations result from transformations of various energies of the Lord. Śaṅkarācārya, however, not accepting the energy of the Lord, thinks that it is the Lord who is transformed. He has taken many clear statements from the Vedic literature and twisted them to try to prove that if the Lord, or the Absolute Truth, were transformed, His oneness would be disturbed. Thus he has accused Śrīla Vyāsadeva of being mistaken. In developing his philosophy of monism, therefore, he has established vivarta-vāda, or the Māyāvāda theory of illusion."</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 14.32|CC Adi 14.32, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This simple philosophy propounded by Śacīmātā, even though she is a woman, can defeat the Māyāvādī philosophers who speculate on oneness. The defect of Māyāvāda philosophy is that it does not accept the variety that is useful for practical purposes. Śacīmātā gave the example that although an earthen pot and a lump of dirt are basically one, for practical purposes the waterpot is useful whereas the lump of dirt is useless.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.71|CC Madhya 8.71, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Spontaneous loving service to the Lord is called devotional service with an intimate attachment between the servitor and the served. This intimacy is called mamatā. Between the servitor and the served there is a feeling of oneness.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.282|CC Madhya 8.282, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa is one. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa is Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa's pleasure potency combined. When Kṛṣṇa exhibits His pleasure potency, He appears to be two—Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one. This oneness may be perceived by advanced devotees through the grace of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.239-240|CC Madhya 9.239-240, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Brahma-saṁhitā is a very important scripture. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu acquired the Fifth Chapter from the Ādi-keśava temple. In that Fifth Chapter, the philosophical conclusion of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva (simultaneous oneness and difference) is presented.</p>
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