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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 24.85Madhya 24.87

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.86

নায়ং সুখাপো ভগবান্ দেহিনাং গোপিকাসুতঃ ।

জ্ঞানিনাঞ্চাত্মভূতানাং যথা ভক্তিমতামিহ ॥ ৮৬ ॥

nāyaṁ sukhāpo bhagavān

dehināṁ gopikā-sutaḥ

jñānināṁ cātma-bhūtānāṁ

yathā bhaktimatām iha

Translation

“ ‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is accessible to those devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service, but He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those striving for self-realization by severe austerities and penances, or to those who consider the body the same as the self.’

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa Is Accessible Through Loving Service

  1. 1

    Kṛṣṇa, the son of mother Yaśodā, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is accessible to devotees engaged in spontaneous loving service.

  2. 2

    He is not as easily accessible to mental speculators or to those striving for self-realization through severe austerities and penances.

  3. 3

    He is also not as easily accessible to those who consider the body the same as the self. The verse emphasizes the special accessibility of Kṛṣṇa through loving service.

Key points from the purport
  • This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.9.21) was spoken by Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī.

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

Connected verses· 2

The purport of CC Madhya 24.86 quotesSB 10.9.21

This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.9.21) was spoken by Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī.

The purport of CC Madhya 24.86 quotesCC Madhya 8.227

This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.9.21) was spoken by Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī.

Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.

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. nanot
  2. ayamthis Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
  3. sukha-āpaḥeasily available
  4. bhagavānthe Supreme Personality of Godhead
  5. dehināmfor materialistic persons who have accepted the body as the self
  6. gopikā-sutaḥthe son of mother Yaśodā
  7. jñānināmfor persons addicted to mental speculation
  8. caand
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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”

  • Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana

    The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “yaśodā”

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

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Am I giving loving service the importance this verse gives it?

Practice

Before one act of devotional service today, pause and make your intention one of loving service to Kṛṣṇa.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa Is Accessible Through Loving ServiceThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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