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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.42
প্রেমা ক্রমে বাড়ি’ হয় — স্নেহ, মান, প্রণয় ।
রাগ, অনুরাগ, ভাব, মহাভাব হয় ॥ ৪২ ॥
premā krame bāḍi’ haya — sneha, māna, praṇaya
rāga, anurāga, bhāva, mahābhāva haya
“Love of Godhead increases and is manifested as affection, counterlove, love, attachment, subattachment, ecstasy and sublime ecstasy.
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Love of Godhead increases rather than remaining at one level.
It is manifested as affection, counterlove, love and attachment.
Its manifestations also include subattachment, ecstasy and sublime ecstasy.
Theological emotional crescendo. Bhāva, prema, the devotional rasas, and mahābhāva are systematically expounded.
The mood of Madhya 23 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:
Conjugal love is divided into two categories — svakīya and parakīya. Svakīya refers to loving affairs between husband and wife, and parakīya refers to loving affairs between two lovers.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 23
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The culminating devotional purpose that unites the narration: bestowed, cultivated, taught, celebrated, and tasted. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “love of godhead”
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