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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.162
গোপীগণের প্রেমের ‘রূঢ়ভাব’ নাম ।
বিশুদ্ধ নির্মল প্রেম, কভু নহে কাম ॥ ১৬২ ॥
gopī-gaṇera premera ‘rūḍha-bhāva’ nāma
viśuddha nirmala prema, kabhu nahe kāma
The love of the gopīs is called rūḍha-bhāva. It is pure and spotless. It is not at any time lust.
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The love of the gopīs is called rūḍha-bhāva. Their loving dealings with Kṛṣṇa are transcendental.
Although their love apparently resembles mundane sexual love, the two should not be confused.
Their love is pure and spotless. It is unadulterated love of Godhead, never lust.
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:
This chapter also specifically describes the difference between lust and love. The transactions of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā are completely different from material lust.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
Learn the words of the verse.
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”, “love of godhead”
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīs”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Am I allowing outward resemblance to obscure the purity of the gopīs’ love?
Write one reminder: “The gopīs’ love is pure love of Godhead, not mundane sexual love.”
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