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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.143
ভক্ত্যে মুক্তি পাইলেহ অবশ্য কৃষ্ণেরে ভজয় ॥ ১৪৩ ॥
bhaktye mukti pāileha avaśya kṛṣṇere bhajaya
“When one is actually liberated by executing devotional service, he always engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Actual liberation is attained by executing devotional service.
A liberated person does not abandon service to the Lord.
Rather, that person always engages in the Lord’s transcendental loving service.
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:
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I see loving service as the goal, rather than something to leave behind?
Offer one small act of service to the Lord today with attention to doing it lovingly.
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