Witness to the manifestations of ecstatic love for God in the ex-hunter, Parvata Muni said to Narada: You are a true philosopher's stone, since at your contact, even a formidable hunter could be transformed into an illustrious devotee.

One can read in the Skanda Purana: Dear Devarshi [Narada], you are a glorious soul whose grace was able to elevate the last of men, a hunter, to the level of devotion, where he developed a transcendent attachment for Krishna.

Narada finally asked the hunter turned devotee:

Do you eat regularly?

"You send me so many visitors," replied the former hunter, "loaded with so many provisions that we would be unable to eat them all."

- Perfect, Narada said. Now continue to practice devotional service like this. And with these words, Narada disappeared with Parvata Muni.

Lord Chaitanya was keen to relate this story to show that, through the influence of a pure devotee, even a hunter can embrace Krishna's devotional service.

Resuming his explanation of the verse atmarama, the Lord pointed out that the word atma also designates all manifestations of the Person of God. Generally, Krishna, God Himself in his personal form, and his various emanations are all referred to as Supreme Being. Anyone who devoutly serves one or the other of the multiple forms or emanations of God, the Supreme Person, is therefore also called an atmarama. All of these devotees are absorbed either in devotional service according to regulatory principles or in devotional service imbued with spiritual love. And they themselves subdivide into three classes: the companions of the Lord, those who have reached the perfection of devotional service and the new postulants. These in turn are divided into two groups depending on whether or not they have developed an attachment to the Lord. Now, taking into account the two forms of devotional service, namely according to the rules or imbued with transcendent love, these four groups of devotees form eight. Then, by adhering to the regulatory principles of devotion, the Lord's accomplished companions can still be divided into four classes: servants, friends, elder relatives, and brides. Some devotees attain perfection through the practice of devotional service, while others are eternally perfect. There are two kinds of people who adhere to the regulatory principles of devotion, the neophytes and the advanced devotees. Now, within the framework of the service of spiritual love of the Lord, there are sixteen varieties of devotees, so that the atmaramas then form thirty-two distinct categories. And when we add the terms muni, nirgrantha, cha and api to them, we get fifty-eight varieties of devotees, all of which can be grouped under a single term: atmarama, just like, even if several varieties of trees form a forest, the single word tree is enough to designate them all.