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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.108
স্বমাধুর্য আস্বাদিতে করেন যতন ।
ভক্তভাব বিনু নহে তাহা আস্বাদন ॥ ১০৮ ॥
svā-mādhurya āsvādite karena yatana
bhakta-bhāva vinu nahe tāhā āsvādana
He tries to taste His own sweetness, but He cannot do so without accepting the emotions of a devotee.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa wanted to relish the transcendental mellow of a devotee.
To taste His own sweetness, He had to accept the emotions of a devotee.
He therefore accepted a devotee’s role by appearing as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Devotional appeal. The glory of Advaita frames service as the deepest form of greatness.
The mood of Ādi 6 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:
That Advaita, the superintendent of the cosmic manifestation, has descended in the form of Advaita Ācārya to associate with Lord Caitanya. When He is addressed as the servitor of Lord Caitanya, His glories are magnified because unless one is invigorated by this mentality of servitorship one cannot understand the mellows derived from devotional service to the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 6
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “mellow”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Kṛṣṇa’s acceptance of a devotee’s role deepen my appreciation of devotion?
Write one sentence recalling that Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa Himself accepting a devotee’s role.
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