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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.126
নিজ–প্রেমাস্বাদে মোর হয় যে আহ্লাদ ।
তাহা হ’তে কোটিগুণ রাধা–প্রেমাস্বাদ ॥ ১২৬ ॥
nija-premāsvāde mora haya ye āhlāda
tāhā ha’te koṭi-guṇa rādhā-premāsvāda
“Whatever pleasure I get from tasting My love for Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, She tastes ten million times more than Me by Her love.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Kṛṣṇa tastes pleasure in His love for Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
She also tastes pleasure through Her love.
Kṛṣṇa says that She tastes ten million times more pleasure than He does.
Profound longing. Kṛṣṇa desires to taste Rādhā’s love, His own sweetness as She sees it, and Her joy.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Rādhārāṇī felt more transcendental pleasure in the company of Kṛṣṇa than He could understand without taking Her position, but for Śrī Kṛṣṇa to enjoy in the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was impossible because that position was completely foreign to Him. Kṛṣṇa is the transcendental male, and Rādhārāṇī is the transcendental female.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.
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”
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: “rādhārāṇī”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Kṛṣṇa’s comparison help you notice about Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s experience of love?
Reread the translation and note the comparison “ten million times more.”
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