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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 24.32Madhya 24.34

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.33

সখাগণের রতি হয় ‘অনুরাগ’ পর্যন্ত ।

পিতৃ-মাতৃ-স্নেহ আদি ‘অনুরাগ’-অন্ত ॥ ৩৩ ॥

sakhā-gaṇera rati haya ‘anurāga’ paryanta

pitṛ-mātṛ-sneha ādi ‘anurāga’-anta

Translation

“Devotees in Vṛndāvana who are friends of the Lord can increase their ecstatic love to the point of anurāga. Parental affectionate lovers, Kṛṣṇa’s father and mother, can increase their love of Godhead up to the end of anurāga.

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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.

Friendship and Parental Love Grow Toward Anurāga

  1. 1

    Devotees in Vṛndāvana who are the Lord’s friends can increase their ecstatic love to the point of anurāga.

  2. 2

    Kṛṣṇa’s father and mother love Him with parental affection. Their love of Godhead can increase up to the end of anurāga.

  3. 3

    Both friendship and parental affection are relationships in which love for Kṛṣṇa can deepen.

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.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. sakhā-gaṇeraof the friends
  2. ratithe attraction
  3. hayabecomes
  4. anurāga paryantaup to subecstatic love
  5. pitṛ-mātṛ-snehaparental love
  6. ādiand so on
  7. anurāga-antaup to the end of subecstatic love
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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”, “ecstatic love”, “love for krsna”

  • Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling

    Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “parental”, “relationships”

  • Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana

    The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “vṛndāvana”

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 does this description help you appreciate about the depth of love for Kṛṣṇa?

Practice

Reread the translation and note the extent to which friendship and parental love can grow.

Live this todayFriendship and Parental Love Grow Toward AnurāgaThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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