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CC Madhya 24.84

Bengali

রাগভক্তি, বিধিভক্তি হয় দুইরূপ ।
‘স্বয়ং-ভগবত্ত্বে’, ভগবত্ত্বে — প্রকাশ দ্বিরূপ ॥ ৮৪ ॥

Text

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.