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Pure Love With Crooked Behavior

“Nothing is purer than Her love. But its behavior is always perverse and crooked.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda · Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta Ādi 4.130, translation

What the purport teaches

  • Nothing is purer than Her love.
  • Yet its behavior is described as always perverse and crooked.
  • The translation places supreme purity and crooked behavior side by side in describing Her love.

Try this today

Read the translation slowly twice, noticing both its declaration of purity and its description of behavior.

Ask yourself

What surprises me about this description of pure love?

Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.

The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.

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