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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.79
প্রভু কহে, — “এহো উত্তম, আগে কহ আর ।”
রায় কহে, “কান্তাপ্রেম সর্বসাধ্যসার ॥” ৭৯ ॥
prabhu kahe, “eho uttama, āge kaha āra”
rāya kahe, “kāntā-prema sarva-sādhya-sāra”
The Lord said, “Your statements are certainly getting better and better one after the other, but surpassing all of them is another transcendental mellow, and you can speak of that as the most sublime.”
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The Lord said that the statements were getting better and better, one after another.
He asked about another transcendental mellow that surpassed them all and was the most sublime.
Rāmānanda Rāya replied that conjugal attachment for Kṛṣṇa is the topmost position in love of Godhead.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Deepening intimacy and revelation. Their exchange ascends from duty to pure love and the confidential moods of Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 8 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:
Rāmānanda Rāya, who was clothed in ordinary dress, offered the Lord respectful obeisances. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu questioned him on the object and process of worship and also asked him to recite verses from the Vedic literature.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
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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”, “conjugal”
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 of godhead”
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How does this verse deepen your appreciation of the different relationships in love of Godhead?
Read Rāmānanda Rāya’s reply twice, noting that its subject is love of Godhead.
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