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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.283
এই আর তিন অর্থ গণনাতে পাইল ।
এই দুই অর্থ মিলি’ ‘ছাব্বিশ’ অর্থ হৈল ॥ ২৮৩ ॥
ei āra tina artha gaṇanāte pāila
ei dui artha mili’ ‘chābbiśa’ artha haila
“In this way we have found three more meanings [of the ātmārāma verse]. Combine these with the other meanings, and the total number of meanings adds up to twenty-six in all.
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Three more meanings of the ātmārāma verse have now been found.
These three meanings are to be combined with the meanings already explained.
The total at this stage is twenty-six meanings. The explanation continues with further meanings in the next verse.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
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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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