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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.163
উরুক্রমে অহৈতুকী কাহাঁ কোন অর্থ ।
এই তের অর্থ কহিলুঁ পরম সমর্থ ॥ ১৬৩ ॥
urukrame ahaitukī kāhāṅ kona artha
ei tera artha kahiluṅ parama samartha
“The word ‘ahaitukī’ is always applicable to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Urukrama. In this way I have described thirteen complete meanings [of the ātmārāma verse].
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The word ‘ahaitukī’ is always applicable to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Urukrama. Thirteen complete meanings of the ātmārāma verse have now been described.
The meanings of ātmārāma include the neophyte performer, those absorbed in or perfected in Brahman, those seeking or attaining liberation, and the completely liberated saint.
They also include yogīs seeking, reaching, or attaining perfection through meditation on the Viṣṇu form or through impersonal meditation.
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:
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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