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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.89
সেই উপাসক হয় ত্রিবিধ প্রকার ।
অকাম, মোক্ষকাম, সর্বকাম আর ॥ ৮৯ ॥
sei upāsaka haya trividha prakāra
akāma, mokṣa-kāma, sarva-kāma āra
“The devotees are divided into three categories — akāma [desireless], mokṣa-kāma [desiring liberation] and sarva-kāma [desiring material perfection].
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Akāma means desireless: these devotees are free from material desires.
Mokṣa-kāma describes those who desire liberation.
Sarva-kāma describes those who desire material perfection. These categories distinguish devotees by their desires.
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 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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which of these descriptions most closely reflects what you currently seek?
Write down one desire you bring to devotional service, and consider which category it fits.
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