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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse
Madhya 24.31Madhya 24.33

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.32

শান্ত-ভক্তের রতি বাড়ে ‘প্রেম’-পর্যন্ত ।

দাস্য-ভক্তের রতি হয় ‘রাগ’-দশা-অন্ত ॥ ৩২ ॥

śānta-bhaktera rati bāḍe ‘prema’-paryanta

dāsya-bhaktera rati haya ‘rāga’-daśā-anta

Translation

“The attraction to Kṛṣṇa of devotees on the platform of neutrality increases up to love of Godhead [prema], and the attraction of devotees on the platform of servitorship increases to spontaneous attachment [rāga].

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Devotional Relationships Have Different Extents of Attraction

  1. 1

    The verse describes how attraction to Kṛṣṇa increases in neutrality and servitorship.

  2. 2

    For devotees on the platform of neutrality, attraction increases up to prema, love of Godhead.

  3. 3

    For devotees on the platform of servitorship, attraction increases up to rāga, spontaneous attachment.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

According to Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī’s request, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the well-known Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam verse beginning ātmārāmāś ca munayaḥ. He explained this verse in sixty-one different ways.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. śānta-bhakteraof devotees on the platform of neutrality
  2. ratiattraction
  3. bāḍeincreases
  4. prema-paryantaup to love of Godhead
  5. dāsya-bhakteraof devotees on the platform of servitude
  6. ratiattraction
  7. hayaincreases
  8. rāga-daśā-antaup to the point of spontaneous attachment
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Prema · Love of Godhead

    The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “love of godhead”, “prema”

Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What difference does the verse describe between attraction in neutrality and in servitorship?

Practice

Make two study pairs: neutrality—prema, love of Godhead; servitorship—rāga, spontaneous attachment.

Live this todayDevotional Relationships Have Different Extents of AttractionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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