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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.77
‘আত্ম’-শব্দে কহে কৃষ্ণ বৃহত্ত্বস্বরূপ ।
সর্বব্যাপক, সর্বসাক্ষী, পরমস্বরূপ ॥ ৭৭ ॥
‘ātma’-śabde kahe kṛṣṇa bṛhattva-svarūpa
sarva-vyāpaka, sarva-sākṣī, parama-svarūpa
“The word ‘ātmā’ [‘self’] indicates the highest truth, Kṛṣṇa. He is the all-pervasive witness of all, and He is the supreme form.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The word ‘ātmā,’ meaning ‘self,’ indicates the highest truth, Kṛṣṇa.
Kṛṣṇa is the all-pervasive witness of all.
He is also the supreme form. His all-pervasive presence does not exclude His form.
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 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.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 might remembering Kṛṣṇa as the witness of all shape one choice today?
Before one action today, pause briefly to remember Kṛṣṇa as the all-pervasive witness.
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