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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.312
‘একষষ্টি’ অর্থ এবে স্ফুরিল তোমা-সঙ্গে ।
তোমার ভক্তিবশে উঠে অর্থের তরঙ্গে ॥ ৩১২ ॥
‘eka-ṣaṣṭi’ artha ebe sphurila tomā-saṅge
tomāra bhakti-vaśe uṭhe arthera taraṅge
“Now, due to your association, another meaning has awakened. It is due to your devotional service that these waves of meaning are arising.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Another meaning has awakened through the listener’s association. These waves of meaning arise due to the listener’s devotional service.
‘Ātmā’ refers to every living entity, from Lord Brahmā down to an insignificant ant. All belong to the Lord’s marginal potency and are kṣetra-jña, knowers of the body.
When living entities become nirgrantha, or free, saintly persons, they engage in Lord Kṛṣṇa’s service. This is the sixty-first meaning of the verse.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sādhu-saṅga · Love grows through association
Spiritual association shapes the movement, empowers disciples, and reveals truths through loving conversations. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “association”, “saintly”
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”
Dainya & humility · Making room for grace
The humility expressed by the author, devotees, transformed scholars, renunciants, and the Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “insignificant”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might devotional association help my understanding grow toward service?
Read this verse with someone engaged in devotional service and discuss its conclusion of serving Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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