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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.4
‘পূর্বে শুনিয়াছোঁ, তুমি সার্বভৌম-স্থানে ।
এক শ্লোকে আঠার অর্থ কৈরাছ ব্যাখ্যানে ॥ ৪ ॥
‘pūrve śuniyāchoṅ, tumi sārvabhauma-sthāne
eka śloke āṭhāra artha kairācha vyākhyāne
Sanātana Gosvāmī said, “My Lord, I have heard that previously, at the home of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, You explained the ātmārāma verse in eighteen different ways.
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Sanātana Gosvāmī had heard about an earlier explanation of the ātmārāma verse.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had given that explanation at the home of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya.
He had explained the verse in eighteen different ways.
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 explained this verse in sixty-one different ways. He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does hearing of eighteen explanations affect your willingness to study a verse carefully?
Reread this translation and pause to consider the depth suggested by eighteen different explanations.
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