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Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā, Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Atmārāma Verse

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 84

rāga-bhakti-vidhi-bhakti haya dui-rūpa
’svayaṁ-bhagavattve’, bhagavattve—prakāśa dvi-rūpa

SYNONYMS

rāga-bhakti—spontaneous devotional service; vidhi-bhakti—regulative devotional service; haya—are; dui-rūpa—the two kinds of devotional service; svayam-bhagavattve—in the Supreme Personality of Godhead; bhagavattve—and in His personal expansion; prakāśa dvi-rūpa—the two kinds of manifestation.

TRANSLATION

“There are two kinds of devotional activity—spontaneous and regulative. By spontaneous devotional service, one attains the original Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, and by the regulative process one attains the expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.