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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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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.197

অন্য যত সাধ্য-সাধন করি’ আচ্ছাদন ।

এই তিনে হরে সিদ্ধ-সাধকের মন ॥” ১৯৭ ॥

anya yata sādhya-sādhana kari’ ācchādana

ei tine hare siddha-sādhakera mana

Translation

“These three items attract the mind of a perfect student engaged in spiritual activities and overcome all other processes of spiritual activity.”

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 the Serious Spiritual Student

  1. 1

    Spiritual activities other than bhakti-yoga include speculation, fruitive activity according to Vedic regulations, and activities of transcendentalists not engaged in devotional service.

  2. 2

    The Supreme Personality of Godhead attracts students engaged in karma, jñāna, yoga and other processes through His inconceivable potencies and transcendental qualities.

  3. 3

    His person, energies and transcendental qualities attract the serious student and overcome other spiritual processes. Thus the Lord is known as Kṛṣṇa, the all-attractive one.

Key points from the purport
  • Spiritual activities other than bhakti-yoga are divided into three categories — speculative activity conducted by the jñāna-sampradāya (learned scholars), fruitive activity conducted by the general populace according to Vedic regulations, and the activities of transcendentalists not engaged in devotional service.
  • There are many different branches of these categories, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by His inconceivable potencies and transcendental qualities, attracts the mind of the student engaged in the activities of karma, jñāna, yoga and so forth.
  • The Supreme Lord is full of inconceivable potencies, which are related to His person, His energies and His transcendental qualities.

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

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:

There was much discussion on this issue between Sārvabhauma and Caitanya Mahāprabhu, but despite all his endeavors, the Bhaṭṭācārya was defeated in the end. At the request of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then explained the ātmārāma verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in eighteen different ways.
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. anyaother
  2. yataall
  3. sādhya-sādhanaobjectives and transcendental practices
  4. kari’doing
  5. ācchādanacovering
  6. ei tinethese three
  7. haretake away
  8. siddhasuccessful
  9. sādhakeraof the student engaged in spiritual activities
  10. manathe mind
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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”

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

What draws your mind toward Kṛṣṇa as you study spiritual life?

Practice

Write one sentence about why the Lord is called Kṛṣṇa, the all-attractive one.

Live this todayKṛṣṇa Attracts the Serious Spiritual StudentThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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