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Imported quote 15597 Just as devotees are sometimes perfected by devotional service, so some of them are eternally perfect. In the regulative principle of devotional service, according to the advanced standard and the beginner's standard, there are sixteen kinds of devotees in transcendental loving service of the Lord. Therefore, such Atmaramas can be considered to exist in 32 divisions. If you apply the words Muni, Nirgrantha, Cha and Api in the 32 classes, then it becomes a description of 58 different types of devotees. All these devotees can be sheltered by one word: Atmarama. Just as in the forest, there may be different kinds of trees, but only by saying that there are trees there, the meaning is understood.
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