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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.150
এক ‘আত্মারাম’-শব্দ অবশেষ রহে ।
এক ‘আত্মারাম’-শব্দে ছয় জন কহে ॥ ১৫০ ॥
eka ‘ātmārāma’-śabda avaśeṣa rahe
eka ‘ātmārāma’-śabde chaya-jana kahe
“Therefore there is no need to repeat the word ‘ātmārāma.’ One is sufficient, and that one word indicates six persons.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
There is no need to repeat the word ‘ātmārāma.’
One occurrence of the word is sufficient.
That one word indicates six persons, referring to the six kinds of ātmārāmas already described.
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.
When I read ‘ātmārāma’ here, do I remember all six kinds it includes?
Return to the list of six kinds and read it once while keeping the single word ‘ātmārāma’ in mind.
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