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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.186
‘আত্মা’-শব্দে ‘বুদ্ধি’ কহে বুদ্ধিবিশেষ ।
সামান্যবুদ্ধিযুক্ত যত জীব অবশেষ ॥ ১৮৬ ॥
‘ātmā’-śabde ‘buddhi’ kahe buddhi-viśeṣa
sāmānya-buddhi-yukta yata jīva avaśeṣa
“The word ‘ātmā’ is also used for a particular type of intelligence. Since all living entities generally have some intelligence, more or less, they are included.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The word ‘ātmā’ can also mean a particular type of intelligence.
All living entities generally possess some intelligence, whether more or less.
This meaning therefore includes all living entities, not only those with great learning.
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.
How might recognizing intelligence in all living entities change my view of them?
When you notice another living being today, pause to remember that it too has some intelligence.
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