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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.149
“আত্মারামাশ্চ আত্মারামাশ্চ” করি’ বার ছয় ।
পঞ্চ আত্মারাম ছয় চ-কারে লুপ্ত হয় ॥ ১৪৯ ॥
“ātmārāmāś ca ātmārāmāś ca” kari’ bāra chaya
pañca ātmārāma chaya ca-kāre lupta haya
“Although the words ‘ātmārāmāś ca’ would be repeated six times, simply by adding the word ‘ca,’ five ‘ātmārāmas’ are deleted.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The words ‘ātmārāmāś ca’ would otherwise be repeated six times.
Simply by adding ‘ca,’ five occurrences of ‘ātmārāma’ are deleted.
The remaining word still indicates all six kinds of ātmārāmas; the shorter expression does not leave any of them out.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I distinguish leaving out repeated words from leaving out the people they indicate?
Write a short note explaining how one retained word can still indicate all six ātmārāmas.
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