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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 8.83
কিন্তু যাঁর যেই রস, সেই সর্বোত্তম ।
তটস্থ হঞা বিচারিলে, আছে তর-তম ॥ ৮৩ ॥
kintu yāṅra yei rasa, sei sarvottama
taṭa-stha hañā vicārile, āche tara-tama
“It is true that whatever relationship a particular devotee has with the Lord is the best for him; still, when we study all the different methods from a neutral position, we can understand that there are higher and lower degrees of love.
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Whatever relationship a devotee has with the Lord is the best for that devotee.
From a neutral position, we can understand that there are higher and lower degrees of love.
This teaching does not recommend whimsically inventing methods of love of Godhead. Such inventions cannot be accepted as topmost.
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:
After this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked Rāmānanda Rāya to explain the higher platform of devotional service. Then Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya explained unalloyed devotional service, love of Godhead, and serving the Lord in the moods of pure servitude, fraternity and parental love.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 8
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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”, “love of godhead”
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: “relationship”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Can I appreciate a devotee’s relationship with the Lord while remaining open to studying degrees of love?
Write down the distinction between studying the degrees of love described here and inventing a method of your own.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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