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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of …

pañca-tattva---eka-vastu, nāhi kichu bheda rasa āsvādite tabu vividha vibheda

[Cc. Ādi 7.5]

[leads chanting of synonyms] [break]

[02:22]

Translation = "Spiritually there are no differences between these five tattvas, for on the transcendental platform everything is absolute. Yet …

Prabhupāda:

pañca-tattva---eka-vastu, nāhi kichu bheda rasa āsvādite tabu vividha vibheda

[Cc. Ādi 7.5]

Pañca-tattva. The Absolute Truth is divided into five subject matter of relishing transcendental mellow. Advaya: without any difference. Vadanti tat …

So here it is said, eka-vastu. So far the substance is concerned, that is eka-vastu. Just like in logical categories …

This is the philosophy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu's acintya-bhedābheda: simultaneously one and different, inconceivable. We cannot conceive at the present moment …

So Māyāvādī philosophers, they take one side only, that it is one. They do not understand what is the difference, …

That distinction is made by the Vaiṣṇavas. The same example = The different energies, material energy and spiritual energy, they …

agnir mahī gaganam ambu marud diśaś ca kālas tathātma-manasīti jagat-trayāṇi yasmād bhavanti vibhavanti viśanti yaṁ ca govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ …

[Bs. 5.51]

Agni is coming from Kṛṣṇa. Mahī, the earth, it is coming from Kṛṣṇa. Agni, mahī, gagana, the sky, it is …

So in this way, if we try to understand that Pañca-tattva,

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda, śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

This is Pañca-tattva = Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Śrī Nityānanda, Śrī Advaita, Śrī Gadādhara and Śrīvāsādi. Śrīvāsādi means jīva-tattva. The jīva-tattva, …