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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 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
Madhya 6.185Madhya 6.187

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.186

আত্মারামাশ্চ মুনয়ো নির্গ্রন্থা অপ্যুরুক্রমে ।

কুর্বন্ত্যহৈতুকীং ভক্তিমিত্থম্ভূতগুণো হরিঃ ॥” ১৮৬ ॥

ātmārāmāś ca munayo

nirgranthā apy urukrame

kurvanty ahaitukīṁ bhaktim

ittham-bhūta-guṇo hariḥ

Translation

“ ‘Those who are self-satisfied and unattracted by external material desires are also attracted to the loving service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose qualities are transcendental and whose activities are wonderful. Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is called Kṛṣṇa because He has such transcendentally attractive features.’”

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

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Kṛṣṇa Attracts Even the Self-Satisfied

  1. 1

    Those who are self-satisfied and unattracted by external material desires are nevertheless attracted to loving service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

  2. 2

    Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s qualities are transcendental, and His activities are wonderful.

  3. 3

    Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is called Kṛṣṇa because of His transcendentally attractive features. The purport identifies this as the famous ātmārāma verse.

Connected verses· 1

The purport of CC Madhya 6.186 quotesSB 1.7.10

This is the famous ātmārāma verse.

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

Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.

The mood of Madhya 6 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

It is also accepted that the Absolute Truth has His transcendental, blissful, eternal form. According to the Vedas, the Lord and the living entity are equal in quality but different quantitatively.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. ātma-ārāmāḥpersons who take pleasure in being transcendentally situated in the service of the Lord
  2. caalso
  3. munayaḥgreat saintly persons who have completely rejected material aspirations, fruitive activities and so forth
  4. nirgranthāḥwithout interest in any material desire
  5. apicertainly
  6. urukrameunto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, whose activities are wonderful
  7. kurvantido
  8. ahaitukīmcauseless, or without material desires
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Key ideas in this verse

The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.

  • Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together

    Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas

    In this verse: “hari”

  • 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.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does attraction to Kṛṣṇa’s loving service differ from attraction to external material desires?

Practice

Read the translation slowly once more, focusing on Kṛṣṇa’s qualities and the loving service they attract.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa Attracts Even the Self-SatisfiedThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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