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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.154
অন্তর্যামি-উপাসক ‘আত্মারাম’ কয় ।
সেই আত্মারাম যোগীর দুই ভেদ হয় ॥ ১৫৪ ॥
antaryāmi-upāsaka ‘ātmārāma’ kaya
sei ātmārāma yogīra dui bheda haya
“The yogī who worships the Supersoul within himself is also called ātmārāma. There are two types of ātmārāma-yogīs.
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A yogī who worships the Supersoul within himself is also called ātmārāma.
There are two types of these ātmārāma-yogīs.
The following explanation names these two types sagarbha and nigarbha.
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 then concluded that different classes of transcendentalists ( jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs ) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning of the verse.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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