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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.43
নিজ নিজ ভাব সবে শ্রেষ্ঠ করি’ মানে ।
নিজভাবে করে কৃষ্ণসুখ আস্বাদনে ॥ ৪৩ ॥
nija nija bhāva sabe śreṣṭha kari’ māne
nija-bhāve kare kṛṣṇa-sukha āsvādane
Each kind of devotee feels that his sentiment is the most excellent, and thus in that mood he tastes great happiness with Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Each kind of devotee feels that his own sentiment is the most excellent.
The devotee tastes great happiness in that particular mood.
This happiness is experienced with Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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:
Lord Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of transcendental loving transactions with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. The subject of those loving transactions is the Lord Himself, and Rādhārāṇī is the object.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 4
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this verse help me appreciate the happiness each devotee finds with Lord Kṛṣṇa?
Reflect for a minute on the statement that each kind of devotee tastes great happiness with Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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