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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.106
অচিরাদেব সর্বার্থঃ সিধ্যত্যেষামভীপ্সিতঃ ।
সদ্ধর্মস্যাববোধায় যেষাং নির্বন্ধিনী মতিঃ ॥ ১০৬ ॥
acirād eva sarvārthaḥ
sidhyaty eṣām abhīpsitaḥ
sad-dharmasyāvabodhāya
yeṣāṁ nirbandhinī matiḥ
“ ‘Those who are eager to awaken their spiritual consciousness and who thus have unflinching, undeviated intelligence certainly attain the desired goal of life very soon.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The verse describes those who are eager to awaken their spiritual consciousness.
Their intelligence is unflinching and undeviated.
Those with this eagerness and steadiness certainly attain the desired goal of life very soon.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Sanātana Gosvāmī and his servant then spent the night in a small hotel on the way to Benares. The hotel owner knew that Sanātana Gosvāmī and his servant had eight gold coins, and he decided to kill them and take the money.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What distracts me from steadily seeking to awaken my spiritual consciousness?
Set aside a few undistracted minutes today to study this teaching with steady attention.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
4 lectures given on it · quoted in 1 more lecture. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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