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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse
Madhya 24.159Madhya 24.161

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.160

যদা হি নেন্দ্রিয়ার্থেষু ন কর্মস্বনুষজ্জতে ।

সর্বসংকল্পসন্ন্যাসী যোগারূঢ়স্তদোচ্যতে ॥ ১৬০ ॥

yadā hi nendriyārtheṣu

na karmasv anuṣajjate

sarva-saṅkalpa-sannyāsī

yogārūḍhas tadocyate

Translation

“ ‘When a person is no longer interested in acting for sense gratification and when he renounces all material desires, he is said to be situated in perfect yoga [yogārūḍha].’

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Perfect Yoga Means Renouncing Material Desires

  1. 1

    A person situated in perfect yoga is no longer interested in acting for sense gratification.

  2. 2

    Such a person renounces all material desires.

  3. 3

    This state of perfect yoga is called yogārūḍha.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Adding the words ca and api, He described all the different meanings of the 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.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. yadāwhen
  2. hicertainly
  3. nanot
  4. indriya-artheṣusense gratification
  5. nanot
  6. karmasuin activities
  7. anuṣajjateone becomes engaged
  8. sarvaall kinds of
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which of my actions today are motivated mainly by sense gratification?

Practice

Notice one desire for sense gratification today and pause before acting on it, reflecting on the verse’s standard of renunciation.

Live this todayPerfect Yoga Means Renouncing Material DesiresThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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