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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 6.110
নানা–ভক্তভাবে করেন স্বমাধুর্য পান ।
পূর্বে করিয়াছি এই সিদ্ধান্ত ব্যাখ্যান ॥ ১১০ ॥
nānā-bhakta-bhāve karena sva-mādhurya pāna
pūrve kariyāchi ei siddhānta vyākhyāna
He tastes His own sweetness through the various emotions of a devotee. I have formerly explained this conclusion.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya, known as Śrī Gaurahari, tastes His own sweetness through the various emotions of a devotee.
He completely relishes neutrality, servitorship, fraternity, parental affection and conjugal love.
By accepting the ecstasy of different grades of devotees, He fully tastes the mellows of all these relationships.
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: “mellows”, “fraternity”, “parental”
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does the variety of these relationships reveal to me about devotional emotions?
Write down the five relationships named in the purport and reflect on how Śrī Gaurahari relishes them all.
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