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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 23.52
নির্বেদ-হর্ষাদি — তেত্রিশ ‘ব্যভিচারী’ ।
সব মিলি’ ‘রস’ হয় চমৎকারকারী ॥ ৫২ ॥
nirveda-harṣādi — tetriśa ‘vyabhicārī’
saba mili’ ‘rasa’ haya camatkāra-kārī
“There are other ingredients, beginning with complete despondency and jubilation. Altogether there are thirty-three varieties, and when these combine, the mellow becomes very wonderful.
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Other ingredients include complete despondency and jubilation.
These transitory elements, called vyabhicārī, have thirty-three varieties.
When these ingredients combine, the mellow becomes very wonderful.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 23.52 quotesCC Madhya 14.167
Nirveda, harṣa and other symptoms are explained in Madhya-līlā 14.167.
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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:
Their fundamental natures and their varieties are also described. The Lord also informs Sanātana Gosvāmī about all the confidential paraphernalia 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 strikes you about both despondency and jubilation being ingredients of the mellow?
Read the translation slowly, noting the two contrasting ingredients and the total number of varieties.
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