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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.306
এই ত’ কহিলুঁ শ্লোকের ‘ষষ্টি’ সংখ্যক অর্থ ।
আর এক অর্থ শুন প্রমাণে সমর্থ ॥ ৩০৬ ॥
ei ta’ kahiluṅ ślokera ‘ṣaṣṭi’ saṅkhyaka artha
āra eka artha śuna pramāṇe samartha
“Now I have given sixty different meanings of the verse, and yet there is another meaning which is also very strongly evident.
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Sixty different meanings of the verse have already been given.
Yet another meaning is still strongly evident.
The explanation continues, with all these meanings pointing toward service to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”
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Am I willing to listen further even when I think I have understood?
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