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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse
Madhya 23.127Madhya 24.2

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.1

আত্মারামেতি পদ্যার্কস্যার্থাংশূন্‌ যঃ প্রকাশয়ন্‌ ।

জগত্তমো জহারাব্যাত্‌ স চৈতন্যোদয়াচলঃ ॥ ১ ॥

ātmārāmeti padyārkasy-

ārthāṁśūn yaḥ prakāśayan

jagat-tamo jahārāvyāt

sa caitanyodayācalaḥ

Translation

All glories to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who acted as the eastern horizon where the sun of the ātmārāma verse rose. He manifested its rays in the form of different meanings and thus eradicated the darkness of the material world. May He protect the universe.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Meanings That Dispel Material Darkness

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is praised as the eastern horizon where the sun of the ātmārāma verse rose.

  2. 2

    He revealed different meanings of the verse, like rays of sunlight, and thus eradicated the darkness of the material world.

  3. 3

    The verse ends with a prayer that He may protect the universe.

How it feels

Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.

The mood of Madhya 24 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

According to Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī’s request, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the well-known Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam verse beginning ātmārāmāś ca munayaḥ. He explained this verse in sixty-one different ways.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. ātmārāma itibeginning with the word ātmārāma
  2. padyaverse
  3. arkasyaof the sunlike
  4. artha-aṁśūnthe shining rays of different meanings
  5. yaḥwho
  6. prakāśayanmanifesting
  7. jagat-tamaḥthe darkness of the material world
  8. jahāraeradicated
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does the image of sunlight help you appreciate the meanings He revealed?

Practice

Read the translation slowly and offer its prayer: May Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu protect the universe.

Live this todayMeanings That Dispel Material DarknessThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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