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  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 24.134Madhya 24.136

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.135

নিরোধোঽস্যানুশয়নমাত্মনঃ সহ শক্তিভিঃ ।

মুক্তির্হিত্বান্যথারূপং স্বরূপেণ ব্যবস্থিতিঃ ॥ ১৩৫ ॥

nirodho ’syānuśayanam

ātmanaḥ saha śaktibhiḥ

muktir hitvānyathā-rūpaṁ

svarūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ

Translation

“ ‘The living entities and other potencies merge into Mahā-Viṣṇu as the Lord lies down and winds up [destroys] the cosmic manifestation. Liberation means being situated in one’s eternal, original form after giving up the changeable gross and subtle bodies.’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Liberation Means Our Eternal, Original Form

  1. 1

    When the Lord lies down and winds up the cosmic manifestation, the living entities and other potencies merge into Mahā-Viṣṇu.

  2. 2

    The gross and subtle bodies are changeable and are given up in liberation.

  3. 3

    Liberation means being situated in one’s eternal, original form.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Madhya 24.135 quotesSB 2.10.6

This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.10.6).

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

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. nirodhaḥwinding up
  2. asyaof this
  3. anuafter
  4. śayanamlying down
  5. ātmanaḥof the Supreme Lord
  6. sahawith
  7. śaktibhiḥthe energies (marginal and external)
  8. muktiḥliberation
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does this definition of liberation differ from identifying yourself with a changeable body?

Practice

Write down the verse’s definition of liberation and reflect on the words “eternal, original form.”

Live this todayLiberation Means Our Eternal, Original FormThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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