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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.298
আটান্ন চ-কারের সব লোপ হয় ।
এক আত্মারাম-শব্দে আটান্ন অর্থ কয় ॥ ২৯৮ ॥
āṭānna ca-kārera saba lopa haya
eka ātmārāma-śabde āṭānna artha kaya
“When all the ca-kāras, or additions of the word ‘ca,’ are taken away, fifty-eight different meanings can still be understood by the one word ‘ātmārāma.’
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The ca-kāras are additions of the word ‘ca.’
Even when all these additions are taken away, fifty-eight different meanings remain.
These meanings can still be understood through the one word ‘ātmārāma.’
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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How does this explanation invite me to read the word ‘ātmārāma’ more carefully?
Write down ‘ātmārāma’ and note beside it that fifty-eight meanings remain without the additions of ‘ca.’
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