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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.48
বিভাব, অনুভাব, সাত্ত্বিক, ব্যভিচারী ।
স্থায়ীভাব ‘রস’ হয় এই চারি মিলি’ ॥ ৪৮ ॥
vibhāva, anubhāva, sāttvika, vyabhicārī
sthāyi-bhāva ‘rasa’ haya ei cāri mili’
“Permanent ecstasy becomes a more and more relishable transcendental mellow through the mixture of special ecstasy, subordinate ecstasy, natural ecstasy and transitory ecstasy.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Permanent ecstasy becomes a more and more relishable transcendental mellow.
Special ecstasy and subordinate ecstasy are part of this mixture.
Natural ecstasy and transitory ecstasy also enter the mixture that makes permanent ecstasy increasingly relishable.
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:
There is also a description of the sixty-four transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa and the twenty-five transcendental qualities of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then describes those candidates who are eligible to taste the mellows of devotional service.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 23
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”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the variety of ecstasies contributing to this increasing taste?
List the four kinds of ecstasy that mix with permanent ecstasy, keeping the translation’s wording.
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