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Prema Atlas
Follow one devotional concept through all three līlās — love given to everyone, and love tasted within — and find the chapters and verses to read.
Two currents, one revelation
Audārya — love given to all. Mādhurya — love inwardly relished.
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Love & rasa · The confidential inner purpose
Rādhā-bhāva
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes.
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Rādhā-bhāva · in the verses
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The Lord’s desire to appear was born from two reasons: the Lord wanted to taste the sweet essence of the mellows of love of God, and He wanted to propagate devotional service in the world on the platform of spontaneous attraction. Thus He is known as supremely jubilant and as the most merciful of all.
Study note: The two linked purposes: relishing loving mellows and spreading devotional service through spontaneous attraction.
“ ‘That very personality who stole away my heart during my youth is now again my master. These are the same moonlit nights of the month of Caitra. The same fragrance of mālatī flowers is there, and the same sweet breezes are blowing from the kadamba forest. In our intimate relationship, I am also the same lover, yet still my mind is not happy here. I am eager to go back to that place on the bank of the Revā under the Vetasī tree. That is my desire.’”
Study note: A poetic expression of the desire to return to the former place of intimate association, used within the Ratha-yātrā narration.
A question to carry
What distinguishes the inner purpose from the public mission?
Concept links, journeys and bridges are an editorial study map. Only the verses — in Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation — are the text itself. Prema, bhāva, mahābhāva and vipralambha are devotional terms, not psychological labels.