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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
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 24.58 Madhya 24.60

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.59

‘হরিঃ’-শব্দে নানার্থ, দুই মুখ্যতম ।

সর্ব অমঙ্গল হরে, প্রেম দিয়া হরে মন ॥ ৫৯ ॥

‘hariḥ’-śabde nānārtha, dui mukhyatama

sarva amaṅgala hare, prema diyā hare mana

Translation

“Although the word ‘hari’ has many different meanings, two of them are foremost. One meaning is that the Lord takes away all inauspicious things from His devotee, and the second meaning is that He attracts the mind by ecstatic love for God.

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

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Hari Removes Inauspiciousness and Attracts the Mind

1
The word ‘hari’ has many meanings, but two are foremost.
2
One meaning is that the Lord takes away all inauspicious things from His devotee.
3
The second meaning is that He attracts the mind by ecstatic love for God.

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

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

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

He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations. Adding the words ca and api, He described all the different meanings of the verse.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

hariḥ-śabdeby the word hari
nānā-arthadifferent imports
duitwo
mukhya-tamachief
sarvaall
amaṅgalainauspiciousness
haretakes away
prema diyāby ecstatic love
hareattracts
manathe mind

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: “ecstatic love”
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “hari’”

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

Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How do these two meanings of Hari deepen your appreciation of the Lord?

Practice

Say the name Hari slowly and recall both meanings given in this verse.

Live this todayHari Removes Inauspiciousness and Attracts the MindThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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