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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 24.83 Madhya 24.85

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.84

রাগভক্তি, বিধিভক্তি হয় দুইরূপ ।

‘স্বয়ং-ভগবত্ত্বে’, ভগবত্ত্বে — প্রকাশ দ্বিরূপ ॥ ৮৪ ॥

rāga-bhakti-vidhi-bhakti haya dui-rūpa

‘svayaṁ-bhagavattve’, bhagavattve — prakāśa dvi-rūpa

Translation

“There are two kinds of devotional activity — spontaneous and regulative. By spontaneous devotional service, one attains the original Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, and by the regulative process one attains the expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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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.

Two Kinds of Devotional Activity

1
Devotional activity is described as spontaneous or regulative.
2
By spontaneous devotional service, one attains the original Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa.
3
By the regulative process, one attains the expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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 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.

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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

rāga-bhaktispontaneous devotional service
vidhi-bhaktiregulative devotional service
hayaare
dui-rūpathe two kinds of devotional service
svayam-bhagavattvein the Supreme Personality of Godhead
bhagavattveand in His personal expansion
prakāśa dvi-rūpathe two kinds of manifestation

Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “service”

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 does this verse help me understand the destinations of these two kinds of devotion?

Practice

Make two columns labeled “spontaneous” and “regulative,” and note the attainment described for each.

Live this todayTwo Kinds of Devotional ActivityThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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