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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 24.119Madhya 24.121

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.120

অক্লেশাং কমলভুবঃ প্রবিশ্য গোষ্ঠীং

কুর্বন্তঃ শ্রুতিশিরসাং শ্রুতিং শ্রুতজ্ঞাঃ ।

উত্তুঙ্গং যদুপুরসঙ্গমায় রঙ্গং

যোগীন্দ্রাঃ পুলকভৃতো নবাপ্যবাপুঃ ॥ ১২০ ॥

akleśāṁ kamala-bhuvaḥ praviśya goṣṭhīṁ

kurvantaḥ śruti-śirasāṁ śrutiṁ śruta-jñāḥ

uttuṅgaṁ yadu-pura-saṅgamāya raṅgaṁ

yogīndrāḥ pulaka-bhṛto navāpy avāpuḥ

Translation

“ ‘The nine Yogendras entered Lord Brahmā’s association and heard from him the real meaning of the topmost Vedic literatures, the Upaniṣads. Although the Yogendras were already conversant in Vedic knowledge, they became very jubilant in Kṛṣṇa consciousness just by listening to Brahmā. Thus they wanted to enter Dvārakā, the abode of Lord Kṛṣṇa. In this way they finally achieved the place known as Raṅga-kṣetra.’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Learned Sages Find Joy Through Hearing

  1. 1

    The nine Yogendras entered Lord Brahmā’s association and heard the real meaning of the Upaniṣads, the topmost Vedic literatures.

  2. 2

    Although already conversant in Vedic knowledge, they became very jubilant in Kṛṣṇa consciousness simply by listening to Brahmā.

  3. 3

    They wanted to enter Dvārakā, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s abode. In this way, they finally reached Raṅga-kṣetra.

Key points from the purport
  • This is a quotation from the Mahā Upaniṣad.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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:

He then concluded that different classes of transcendentalists ( jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs ) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning of the verse.
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. akleśāmwithout material trouble
  2. kamala-bhuvaḥof Lord Brahmā, who took his birth from the lotus flower
  3. praviśyaentering
  4. goṣṭhīmthe association
  5. kurvantaḥcontinuously performing
  6. śruti-śirasāmof the topmost Vedic knowledge
  7. śrutimhearing
  8. śruta-jñāḥwho are expert in Vedic knowledge
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association

    Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “association”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How can you remain open to hearing even when a teaching seems familiar?

Practice

Listen attentively to a devotional teaching today without assuming you already know its meaning.

Live this todayLearned Sages Find Joy Through HearingThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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