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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.14
‘মুনি’-আদি শব্দের অর্থ শুন, সনাতন ।
পৃথক্ পৃথক্ অর্থ পাছে করিব মিলন ॥ ১৪ ॥
‘muni’-ādi śabdera artha śuna, sanātana
pṛthak pṛthak artha pāche kariba milana
“My dear Sanātana, first hear the meanings of the other words, beginning with the word ‘muni.’ I shall first explain their separate meanings, then combine them.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanātana is asked first to hear the meanings of the other words.
The explanation will begin with the word muni.
The separate meanings will be explained first and then combined.
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
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might understanding each word first help you understand the whole passage?
Review the separate meanings of ātmā before moving on to the meanings of muni.
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