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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.165
আত্মেন্দ্রিয়প্রীতি–বাঞ্ছা—তারে বলি, ‘কাম’ ।
কৃষ্ণেন্দ্রিয়প্রীতি–ইচ্ছা ধরে ‘প্রেম’ নাম ॥ ১৬৫ ॥
ātmendriya-prīti-vāñchā — tāre bali ‘kāma’
kṛṣṇendriya-prīti-icchā dhare ‘prema’ nāma
The desire to gratify one’s own senses is kāma [lust], but the desire to please the senses of Lord Kṛṣṇa is prema [love].
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The desire to gratify one’s own senses is kāma, or lust.
The desire to please the senses of Lord Kṛṣṇa is prema, or love.
The distinction rests on whose senses one desires to please: one’s own or Lord Kṛṣṇa’s.
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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In this verse: “prema”, “love”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
In my service, whose pleasure am I seeking?
Before one act of service today, pause and form the intention to please Lord Kṛṣṇa.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
Quoted in 6 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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