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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 24.124Madhya 24.126

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.125

অহো মহাত্মন্ বহুদোষদুষ্টোঽ-

প্যেকেন ভাত্যেষ ভবো গুণেন ।

সৎসঙ্গমাখ্যেন সুখাবহেন

কৃতাদ্য নো যেন কৃশা মুমুক্ষা ॥ ১২৫ ॥

aho mahātman bahu-doṣa-duṣṭo

’py ekena bhāty eṣa bhavo guṇena

sat-saṅgamākhyena sukhāvahena

kṛtādya no yena kṛśā mumukṣā

Translation

“ ‘O great learned devotee, although there are many faults in this material world, there is one good opportunity — the association with devotees. Such association brings about great happiness. Due to this good quality, our strong desire to achieve liberation by merging into the Brahman effulgence has become weakened.’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Devotee Association Brings Great Happiness

  1. 1

    Although the material world has many faults, it offers one good opportunity: association with devotees.

  2. 2

    Such association brings great happiness.

  3. 3

    The speakers describe how this happiness has weakened their strong desire to merge into the Brahman effulgence.

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 analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations. Adding the words ca and api, He described all the different meanings 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. aho mahā-ātmanO great devotee
  2. bahu-doṣa-duṣṭaḥinfected with varieties of material disease or attachment
  3. apialthough
  4. ekenawith one
  5. bhātishines
  6. eṣaḥthis
  7. bhavaḥbirth in this material world
  8. guṇenawith a good quality
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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

What happiness have you found in the company of devotees?

Practice

Make time for a brief conversation with a devotee today, and notice what you value in that association.

Live this todayDevotee Association Brings Great HappinessThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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