Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya 6.140

sarvaisvarya-paripurna svayam bhagavan

tanre nirakara kari' karaha vyakhyana

SYNONYMS

sarva-aisvarya-paripurna -- full with all opulences; svayam -- personally; bhagavan -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; tanre -- Him; nirakara -- impersonal; kari' -- making; karaha -- you make; vyakhyana -- explanation,

TRANSLATION

"Actually, the Supreme Absolute Truth is a person, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, full with all opulences. You are trying to explain Him as impersonal and formless.

PURPORT

Brahman means brihattva, the greatest of all. The greatest of all is Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He possesses all potencies and opulence in full; therefore the Absolute Truth, the greatest of all, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Whether one says "Brahman" or "the Supreme Personality of Godhead," the fact is the same, for they are identical. In the Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna accepted Krishna as param brahma param dhama [Bg. 10.12]. Although the living entities or material nature are sometimes described as Brahman, Parabrahman -- the Supreme, the greatest of all Brahmans -- is still Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is full with all opulences, and as such He possesses all riches, all strength, all reputation, all knowledge, all beauty and all renunciation. He is eternally a person and eternally supreme. If one tries to explain the Supreme impersonally, one distorts the real meaning of Brahman.

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