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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 22.10
সেই বিভিন্নাংশ জীব — দুই ত’ প্রকার ।
এক — ‘নিত্যমুক্ত’, এক — ‘নিত্য-সংসার’ ॥ ১০ ॥
sei vibhinnāṁśa jīva — dui ta’ prakāra
eka — ‘nitya-mukta’, eka — ‘nitya-saṁsāra’
“The living entities [jīvas] are divided into two categories. Some are eternally liberated, and others are eternally conditioned.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The living entities are called jīvas.
Some living entities are eternally liberated.
Others are eternally conditioned. These are the two categories described here.
Trust and resolution. Devotional practice and association offer a steady path for awakening love.
The mood of Madhya 22 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:
In the beginning He describes the truth about the living entity and the superexcellence of devotional service. He then describes the uselessness of mental speculation and mystic yoga.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 22
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What distinction between living entities does this teaching ask you to recognize?
Write down the two categories of living entities and read them aloud once.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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