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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.294
বত্রিশে ছাব্বিশে মিলি’ অষ্টপঞ্চাশ ।
আর এক ভেদ শুন অর্থের প্রকাশ ॥ ২৯৪ ॥
batriśe chābbiśe mili, aṣṭa-pañcāśa
āra eka bheda śuna arthera prakāśa
“When we add the twenty-six types of devotees to these thirty-two, they altogether number fifty-eight. You may now hear from Me of further manifestations of meanings.
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Twenty-six types of devotees are added to the thirty-two.
Together, these make fifty-eight types of devotees.
The listener is invited to hear further manifestations of meanings; the explanation continues beyond this total.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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In this verse: “together”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I willing to listen patiently as the explanation unfolds step by step?
Write ‘26 + 32 = 58,’ then read the next two translations without rushing.
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