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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.106
রাধিকার ভাব–মূর্তি প্রভুর অন্তর ।
সেই ভাবে সুখ–দুঃখ উঠে নিরন্তর ॥ ১০৬ ॥
rādhikāra bhāva-mūrti prabhura antara
sei bhāve sukha-duḥkha uṭhe nirantara
The heart of Lord Caitanya is the image of Śrī Rādhikā’s emotions. Thus feelings of pleasure and pain arise constantly therein.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya’s heart was full of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s feelings, and His appearance resembled Hers. Feelings of pleasure and pain constantly arose in His heart.
One engaged in material sense gratification can hardly understand rādhā-bhāva. It must be understood from the Gosvāmīs, who are actually controllers of the senses.
Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s attitude is the highest perfection of conjugal love, the highest of the five transcendental mellows. It is the complete perfection of love of Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Profound longing. Kṛṣṇa desires to taste Rādhā’s love, His own sweetness as She sees it, and Her joy.
The mood of Ādi 4 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Therefore, to know the transcendental pleasure of loving Kṛṣṇa, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself appeared as Lord Caitanya, accepting the emotions and bodily luster of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Lord Caitanya appeared in order to fulfill these confidential desires, and also to preach the special significance of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare and to answer the call of Advaita Prabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhikā’s”, “rādhārāṇī’s”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellows”, “conjugal”
Prema · Love of Godhead
The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of krsna”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might the demands of sense gratification affect my understanding of spiritual love?
Set aside one optional sensory indulgence today and reread the teaching about learning from the Gosvāmīs.
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