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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.158
‘যোগারুরুক্ষু’, ‘যোগারূঢ়’ ‘প্রাপ্তসিদ্ধি’ আর ।
এই তিন ভেদে হয় ছয় প্রকার ॥ ১৫৮ ॥
‘yogārurukṣu’, ‘yogārūḍha’ ‘prāpta-siddhi’ āra
ei tina bhede haya chaya prakāra
“By these three divisions of advancement in yoga — yogārurukṣu, yogārūḍha and prāpta-siddhi — there are six kinds of mystic yogīs.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The three divisions of advancement are yogārurukṣu, yogārūḍha and prāpta-siddhi.
These divisions apply to both sagarbha and nigarbha yogīs.
The two types, each with three divisions, make six kinds of mystic yogīs.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this arrangement help me follow the different kinds of yogīs being discussed?
Say or write the three divisions in order, then recall how they produce six kinds of yogīs.
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