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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 4.68
হ্লাদিনীর সার ‘প্রেম’, প্রেমসার ‘ভাব’ ।
ভাবের পরমকাষ্ঠা, নাম—‘মহাভাব’ ॥ ৬৮ ॥
hlādinīra sāra ‘prema’, prema-sāra ‘bhāva’
bhāvera parama-kāṣṭhā, nāma — ‘mahā-bhāva’
The essence of the hlādinī potency is love of God, the essence of love of God is emotion [bhāva], and the ultimate development of emotion is mahābhāva.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The essence of hlādinī is love of God, the essence of that love is bhāva, and the ultimate development of bhāva is mahābhāva.
Love of Godhead has pure and adulterated forms. A living being becomes a pure lover of God when hlādinī-śakti emanates from Śrī Kṛṣṇa and is bestowed upon that being to attract Him.
When hlādinī-śakti is adulterated by material energy and emanates from the living being, it does not attract Kṛṣṇa. Instead, the living being becomes captivated by material enjoyment and the distressful interactions of the material modes.
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:
The second reason for His appearance was to understand the transcendental mellow of Himself. Lord Kṛṣṇa is all sweetness.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”
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “bhāva”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Where do you notice the difference between seeking love of God and being drawn toward material enjoyment?
Pause before one material pleasure today and reflect on the verse’s distinction between attraction to Kṛṣṇa and attraction to material enjoyment.
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