Madhya-līlāChapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 24.95

ārta, arthārthī, — dui sakāma-bhitare gaṇi

jijñāsu, jñānī, — dui mokṣa-kāma māni

SYNONYMS

ārta — distressed; artha-arthī — desirous of money; dui — two persons; sakāma-bhitarein the division of material activities; gaṇi — we consider; jijñāsu — inquisitive; jñānī — pursuing knowledge; dui — two; mokṣa-kāma — transcendentalists pursuing spiritual knowledge for liberation; māniI consider.

TRANSLATION

"Materialistic devotees take to devotional service and worship Kṛṣṇa when they are distressed or in need of money. Those who are actually inquisitive to understand the supreme source of everything and those who are in search of knowledge are called transcendentalists, for they desire liberation from all material contamination.

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