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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.96
এই চারি সুকৃতি হয় মহাভাগ্যবান্ ।
তত্তৎকামাদি ছাড়ি’ হয় শুদ্ধভক্তিমান্ ॥ ৯৬ ॥
ei cāri sukṛti haya mahā-bhāgyavān
tat-tat-kāmādi chāḍi’ haya śuddha-bhaktimān
“Because they have a pious background, all four types of people are to be considered greatly fortunate. Such people gradually give up material desires and become pure devotees.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
All four types of people have a pious background.
Because of that background, all four are to be considered greatly fortunate.
They gradually give up material desires and become pure devotees. Their starting motives are not the end of their devotional progress.
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.
What material desire would you like to loosen as your devotion grows?
Offer one small act of devotional service today without asking for a material reward.
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