330 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 7

stta uvaca
atmaramas ca munayo
nirgrantha apy urukrame
kurvanty ahaitukim bhaktim
ittham-bhitta-guno harih

sutah uvaca—Suta Gosvami said; atmaramah—those who take pleasure
in atma (generally, spirit self); ca—also; munayah—sages; nirgranthah—
freed from all bondage; api—in spite of; urukrame—unto the great adven-
turer; kurvanti—do; ahaitukim—unalloyed; bhaktim—devotional service;
ittham-bhuta—such wonderful; gunah—qualities; harth—of the Lord.

TRANSLATION

All different varieties of 4tmaramas [those who take pleasure in atma,
or spirit self], especially those established on the path of self-realization,
though freed from all kinds of material bondage, desire to render un-
alloyed devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead. This means
that the Lord possesses transcendental qualities and therefore can attract
everyone, including liberated souls.

PURPORT

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu explained this dtmarama sloka very
vividly before His chief devotee Srila Sanatana Gosvami. He points out
eleven factors in the sloka, namely 1) atmarama, 2) munayah, 3) nir-
grantha, 4) api, 5) ca, 6) urukrama, 7) kurvanti, 8) ahaitukim, 9) bhaktim,
10) ittham-bhiita-gunah, and 11) harih. According to the Visva-Prakdsa
Sanskrit Dictionary, there are seven synonyms for the word atmdarama,
which are as follows: 1) Brahman (the Absolute Truth), 2) body, 3) mind,
4) endeavor, 5) endurance, 6) intelligence, and 7) personal habits.

The word munayah refers to 1) those who are thoughtful, 2) those who
are grave or silent, 3) ascetics, 4) the persistent, 5) mendicants, 6) sages,
and 7) saints.

The word nirgrantha conveys these ideas: 1) one who is liberated from
nescience, 2) one who has no connection with scriptural injunction, i.e.,
who is freed from the obligation of the rules and regulations mentioned in
the revealed scriptures like ethics, Vedas, philosophy, psychology, meta-
physics, etc., (in other words the fools, illiterate, urchins, etc., who have
no connection with regulative principles), 3) a capitalist, and also 4) one
who is penniless.
