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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.211
এই উনিশ অর্থ করিলু, আগে শুন আর ।
‘আত্মা’-শব্দে ‘দেহ’ কহে, — চারি অর্থ তার ॥ ২১১ ॥
ei ūniśa artha karilu, āge śuna āra
‘ātma’-śabde ‘deha’ kahe, — cāri artha tāra
“I have already explained nineteen different meanings. Now please hear further meanings. The word ‘ātma’ also refers to the body, and this can be taken in four ways.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
After explaining nineteen meanings, the speaker introduces another meaning of ātma: the body.
The first two bodily divisions are the material body considered as Brahman with designations, and the body engaged in Vedic ritualistic ceremonies.
The other two divisions are the body engaged in austerities and penances, and the body engaged in satisfying all kinds of material desires.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this fourfold description help me notice the purposes for which I use my body?
Make a short list of the four bodily divisions described in this verse.
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