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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.140
যদ্যপি নির্মল রাধার সৎপ্রেমদর্পণ ।
তথাপি স্বচ্ছতা তার বাড়ে ক্ষণে ক্ষণ ॥ ১৪০ ॥
yadyapi nirmala rādhāra sat-prema-darpaṇa
tathāpi svacchatā tāra bāḍhe kṣaṇe kṣaṇa
“Although Rādhā’s love is pure like a mirror, its purity increases at every moment.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rādhā’s love is pure.
Her love is compared to a mirror.
Although already pure, Her love increases in purity at every moment.
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:
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: “rādhā’s”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the image of an ever-purer mirror help me reflect on Rādhā’s love?
Write down the verse’s comparison and pause to consider its ever-increasing purity.
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