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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 24.71Madhya 24.73

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.72

বৃহত্ত্বাদ্‌বৃংহণত্বাচ্চ তদ্‌ব্রহ্ম পরমং বিদুঃ ।

তস্মৈ নমস্তে সর্বাত্মন্‌ যোগিচিন্ত্যাবিকারবত্‌ ॥ ৭২ ॥

bṛhattvād bṛṁhaṇatvāc ca

tad brahma paramaṁ viduḥ

tasmai namas te sarvātman

yogi-cintyāvikāravat

Translation

“ ‘I offer my respectful obeisances to the Absolute Truth, the summum bonum. He is the all-pervasive, all-increasing subject matter for the great yogīs. He is changeless, and He is the soul of all.’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Respectful Obeisances to the Absolute Truth

  1. 1

    The prayer offers respectful obeisances to the Absolute Truth, the summum bonum.

  2. 2

    He is all-pervasive and all-increasing, the subject matter for the great yogīs.

  3. 3

    He is changeless and the soul of all. This prayer is quoted from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa.

Key points from the purport
  • This is a quotation from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (1.12.57).

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

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:

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
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. bṛhattvātbecause of being all-pervasive
  2. bṛṁhaṇatvātbecause of increasing unlimitedly
  3. caand
  4. tatthat
  5. brahmaAbsolute Truth
  6. paramamthe ultimate
  7. viduḥthey know
  8. tasmaiunto Him
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which quality of the Absolute Truth in this prayer most draws your attention?

Practice

Read the prayer slowly and offer respectful obeisances to the Absolute Truth.

Live this todayRespectful Obeisances to the Absolute TruthThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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