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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.82
‘ব্রহ্ম-আত্মা’-শব্দে যদি কৃষ্ণেরে কহয় ।
‘রূঢ়িবৃত্ত্যে’ নির্বিশেষ অন্তর্যামী কয় ॥ ৮২ ॥
‘brahma-ātmā’-śabde yadi kṛṣṇere kahaya
‘rūḍhi-vṛttye’ nirviśeṣa antaryāmī kaya
“Although the words ‘brahma’ and ‘ātmā’ indicate Kṛṣṇa, their direct meaning refers only to the impersonal Brahman and the Supersoul respectively.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The words ‘brahma’ and ‘ātmā’ both indicate Kṛṣṇa.
The direct meaning of ‘brahma’ refers to impersonal Brahman.
The direct meaning of ‘ātmā’ refers to the Supersoul. The verse distinguishes these direct meanings from their indication of Kṛṣṇa.
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 then concluded that different classes of transcendentalists ( jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs ) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning 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.
Can I distinguish what these words directly mean from whom they ultimately indicate?
Make a two-line note pairing ‘brahma’ with impersonal Brahman and ‘ātmā’ with the Supersoul.
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