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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.85
পঞ্চম পুরুষার্থ—প্রেমানন্দামৃতসিন্ধু ।
মোক্ষাদি আনন্দ যার নহে এক বিন্দু ॥ ৮৫ ॥
pañcama puruṣārtha — premānandāmṛta-sindhu
mokṣādi ānanda yāra nahe eka bindu
“ ‘For a devotee who has actually developed bhāva, the pleasure derived from dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa appears like a drop in the presence of the sea.
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For a devotee who has actually developed bhāva, devotional pleasure is like a sea.
The pleasure derived from dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa appears like a drop beside that sea.
This comparison describes the experience of a devotee who has genuinely developed bhāva.
Quoted in the purport ofSB 11.2.40
“For a devotee who has actually developed bhāva [love of Godhead], the pleasure derived from dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa appears like a drop in the presence of the sea.”
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Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.
The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
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: “bhāva”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the image of a drop beside the sea help you reconsider the pleasures you seek?
Spend a moment reflecting on the drop-and-sea comparison and your own priorities.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it · quoted in 2 more lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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