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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.130
যাহা হৈতে সুনির্মল দ্বিতীয় নাহি আর ।
তথাপি সর্বদা বাম্য–বক্র–ব্যবহার ॥ ১৩০ ॥
yāhā haite sunirmala dvitīya nāhi āra
tathāpi sarvadā vāmya-vakra-vyavahāra
“Nothing is purer than Her love. But its behavior is always perverse and crooked.”
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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.
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:
The Lord thought that undoubtedly Rādhārāṇī enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the company of Rādhārāṇī, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī than to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
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