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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.302
‘নির্গ্রন্থা এব’ হঞা, ‘অপি’ — নির্ধারণে ।
এই ‘ঊনষষ্টি’ প্রকার অর্থ করিলুঁ ব্যাখ্যানে ॥ ৩০২ ॥
‘nirgranthā eva’ hañā, ‘api’ — nirdhāraṇe
ei ‘ūnaṣaṣṭi’ prakāra artha kariluṅ vyākhyāne
“Then taking the word ‘nirgranthāḥ’ and considering ‘api’ in the sense of sustenance, I have tried to explain a fifty-ninth meaning of the verse.
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The explanation now takes up the word ‘nirgranthāḥ.’
Here ‘api’ is considered in the sense of sustenance.
With these words understood in this way, the speaker explains a fifty-ninth meaning of the verse.
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:
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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Note the pairing in this verse: ‘api’ — ‘sustenance.’
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