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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.210
আগে ‘তের’ অর্থ করিলুঁ, আর ‘ছয়’ এই ।
ঊনবিংশতি অর্থ হইল মিলি’ এই দুই ॥ ২১০ ॥
āge ‘tera’ artha kariluṅ, āra ‘chaya’ ei
ūnaviṁśati artha ha-ila mili’ ei dui
“I have already spoken about thirteen meanings [of the ātmārāma verse]. Now there are six more. Combined, these make nineteen.
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Six further meanings of ātmārāma are added to the thirteen already explained, making nineteen.
These meanings include mental speculators, those engaged in different endeavors, and those who are patient and sober.
They also include intelligent and learned scholars, those who are intelligent but illiterate and foolish, and those conscious of their eternal servitorship to Kṛṣṇa.
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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What does being conscious of eternal servitorship to Kṛṣṇa mean to me?
Write down the six groups listed here, and pause over the description of eternal servitorship to Kṛṣṇa.
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