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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.94
চতুর্বিধা ভজন্তে মাং জনাঃ সুকৃতিনোঽর্জুন ।
আর্তো জিজ্ঞাসুরর্থার্থী জ্ঞানী চ ভরতর্ষভ ॥ ৯৪ ॥
catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ
janāḥ sukṛtino ’rjuna
ārto jijñāsur arthārthī
jñānī ca bharatarṣabha
“ ‘O best among the Bharatas [Arjuna], four kinds of pious men render devotional service unto Me — the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Four kinds of pious people render devotional service: the distressed, those desiring wealth, the inquisitive, and those seeking knowledge of the Absolute.
The word sukṛtinaḥ is important: su means “auspicious,” and kṛtī means “meritorious” or “regulated.”
The purport stresses following the regulative principles of religious life. It describes religious life as following the principles of varṇa and āśrama.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 24.94 quotesBG 7.16
This is a quotation from the Bhagavad-gītā (7.16).
Each link is a verse the purport itself quotes, or a purport elsewhere that quotes this verse, shown with the purport's own words.
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.
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.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which of these four motives has helped draw you toward devotional service?
Choose one regulative principle of religious life that you already follow, and observe it carefully today.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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