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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 language of sacred feeling
Bhāva & rasa
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema.
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Bhāva & rasa · in the verses
2 verses to read
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.
“ ‘My dear Lord, when will My eyes be beautified by filling with tears that constantly glide down as I chant Your holy name? When will My voice falter and all the hairs on My body stand erect in transcendental happiness as I chant Your holy name?’
Study note: The sixth prayer: longing for deeply felt devotion during the chanting of the name.
A question to carry
How does śāstra distinguish spiritual rasas from ordinary emotions?
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.