CHAPTER FOUR
The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
In this chapter of the epic Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has stressed that Lord Caitanya appeared for three principal purposes of His own. The first purpose was to relish the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, who is the prime reciprocator of transcendental love of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of transcendental loving transactions with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. The subject of those loving transactions is the Lord Himself, and Rādhārāṇī is the object. Thus the subject, the Lord, wanted to relish the loving mellow in the position of the object, Rādhārāṇī.
The second reason for His appearance was to understand the transcendental mellow of Himself. Lord Kṛṣṇa is all sweetness. Rādhārāṇī’s attraction for Kṛṣṇa is sublime, and to experience that attraction and understand the transcendental sweetness of Himself, He accepted the mentality of Rādhārāṇī.
The third reason that Lord Caitanya appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Rādhārāṇī. The Lord thought that undoubtedly Rādhārāṇī enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the company of Rādhārāṇī, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī than to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Rādhārāṇī felt more transcendental pleasure in the company of Kṛṣṇa than He could understand without taking Her position, but for Śrī Kṛṣṇa to enjoy in the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was impossible because that position was completely foreign to Him. Kṛṣṇa is the transcendental male, and Rādhārāṇī is the transcendental female. Therefore, to know the transcendental pleasure of loving Kṛṣṇa, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself appeared as Lord Caitanya, accepting the emotions and bodily luster of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Lord Caitanya appeared in order to fulfill these confidential desires, and also to preach the special significance of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare and to answer the call of Advaita Prabhu. These were secondary reasons.
Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī was the principal figure among Lord Caitanya’s confidential devotees. The records of his diary have revealed these confidential purposes of the Lord. These revelations have been confirmed by the statements of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī in his various prayers and poems.
This chapter also specifically describes the difference between lust and love. The transactions of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā are completely different from material lust. Therefore the author has very clearly distinguished between them.
Bengali
বালোঽপি কুরুতে শাস্ত্রং দৃষ্ট্বা ব্রজবিলাসিনঃ ॥ ১ ॥
Text
tad-rūpasya vinirṇayam
bālo ’pi kurute śāstraṁ
dṛṣṭvā vraja-vilāsinaḥ
Synonyms
Translation
By the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, even a foolish child can fully describe the real nature of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the enjoyer of the pastimes of Vraja, according to the vision of the revealed scriptures.
Purport
One can ascertain the meaning of this Sanskrit śloka only when one is endowed with the causeless mercy of Lord Caitanya. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, being the absolute Personality of Godhead, cannot be exposed to the mundane instruments of vision. He reserves the right not to be exposed by the intellectual feats of nondevotees. Notwithstanding this truth, even a small child can easily understand Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His transcendental pastimes in the land of Vṛndāvana by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Bengali
জয়াদ্বৈতচন্দ্র জয় গৌরভক্তবৃন্দ ॥ ২ ॥
Text
jayādvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vṛnda
Synonyms
Translation
All glory to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu! All glory to Lord Nityānanda! All glory to Śrī Advaita Ācārya! And all glory to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya!
Bengali
পঞ্চম শ্লোকের অর্থ শুন ভক্তগণ ॥ ৩ ॥
Text
pañcama ślokera artha śuna bhakta-gaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
I have described the meaning of the fourth verse. Now, O devotees, kindly hear the explanation of the fifth verse.
Bengali
অর্থ লাগাইতে আগে কহিয়ে আভাস ॥ ৪ ॥
Text
artha lāgāite āge kahiye ābhāsa
Synonyms
Translation
Just to explain the original verse, I shall first suggest its meaning.
Bengali
প্রেম–নাম প্রচারিতে এই অবতার ॥ ৫ ॥
Text
prema-nāma pracārite ei avatāra
Synonyms
Translation
I have given the essential meaning of the fourth verse: this incarnation [Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu] descends to propagate the chanting of the holy name and spread love of God.
Bengali
আর এক হেতু, শুন, আছে অন্তরঙ্গ ॥ ৬ ॥
Text
āra eka hetu, śuna, āche antaraṅga
Synonyms
Translation
Although this is true, this is but the external reason for the Lord’s incarnation. Please hear one other reason — the confidential reason — for the Lord’s appearance.
Purport
In the third chapter, fourth verse, it has been clearly said that Lord Caitanya appeared in order to distribute love of Kṛṣṇa and the chanting of His transcendental holy name, Hare Kṛṣṇa. That was the secondary purpose of Lord Caitanya’s appearance. The real reason is different, as we shall see in this chapter.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণ অবতীর্ণ হৈলা শাস্ত্রেতে প্রচারে ॥ ৭ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa avatīrṇa hailā śāstrete pracāre
Synonyms
Translation
The scriptures proclaim that Lord Kṛṣṇa previously descended to take away the burden of the earth.
Bengali
স্থিতিকর্তা বিষ্ণু করেন জগৎপালন ॥ ৮ ॥
Text
sthiti-kartā viṣṇu karena jagat-pālana
Synonyms
Translation
To take away this burden, however, is not the work of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The maintainer, Lord Viṣṇu, is the one who protects the universe.
Bengali
ভারহরণ–কাল তাতে হইল মিশাল ॥ ৯ ॥
Text
bhāra-haraṇa-kāla tāte ha-ila miśāla
Synonyms
Translation
But the time to lift the burden of the world mixed with the time for Lord Kṛṣṇa’s incarnation.
Purport
We have information from the Bhagavad-gītā that the Lord appears at particular intervals to adjust a time-worn spiritual culture. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared at the end of Dvāpara-yuga to regenerate the spiritual culture of human society and also to manifest His transcendental pastimes. Viṣṇu is the authorized Lord who maintains the created cosmos, and He is also the principal Deity who makes adjustments when there is improper administration in the cosmic creation. But Śrī Kṛṣṇa, being the primeval Lord, appears not in order to make such administrative adjustments but only to exhibit His transcendental pastimes and thus attract the fallen souls back home, back to Godhead.
However, the time for administrative rectification and the time for Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s appearance coincided at the end of the last Dvāpara-yuga. Therefore when Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared, Viṣṇu, the Lord of maintenance, merged with Him because all the plenary portions and parts of the absolute Personality of Godhead merge with Him during His appearance.
Bengali
আর সব অবতার তাঁতে আসি’ মিলে ॥ ১০ ॥
Text
āra saba avatāra tāṅte āsi’ mile
Synonyms
Translation
When the complete Supreme Personality of Godhead descends, all other incarnations of the Lord meet together within Him.
Bengali
যুগ–মন্বন্তরাবতার, যত আছে আর ॥ ১১ ॥
সবে আসি’ কৃষ্ণ–অঙ্গে হয় অবতীর্ণ ।
ঐছে অবতরে কৃষ্ণ ভগবান্ পূর্ণ ॥ ১২ ॥
Text
yuga-manvantarāvatāra, yata āche āra
aiche avatare kṛṣṇa bhagavān pūrṇa
Synonyms
nārāyaṇa — Lord Nārāyaṇa; catuḥ-vyūha — the four expansions; matsya-ādi — beginning with Matsya; avatāra — the incarnations; yuga-manv-antara-avatāra — the yuga and manv-antara incarnations; yata — as many as; āche — there are; āra — other; sabe — all; āsi’ — coming; kṛṣṇa-aṅge — in the body of Lord Kṛṣṇa; haya — are; avatīrṇa — incarnated; aiche — in this way; avatare — incarnates; kṛṣṇa — Lord Kṛṣṇa; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pūrṇa — full.
Translation
Lord Nārāyaṇa, the four primary expansions [Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha], Matsya and the other līlā incarnations, the yuga-avatāras, the manv-antara incarnations and as many other incarnations as there are — all descend in the body of Lord Kṛṣṇa. In this way the complete Supreme Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, appears.
Bengali
বিষ্ণুদ্বারে করে কৃষ্ণ অসুর–সংহারে ॥ ১৩ ॥
Text
viṣṇu-dvāre kare kṛṣṇa asura-saṁhāre
Synonyms
Translation
At that time, therefore, Lord Viṣṇu is present in the body of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and Lord Kṛṣṇa kills the demons through Him.
Bengali
যে লাগি’ অবতার, কহি সে মূল কারণ ॥ ১৪ ॥
Text
ye lāgi’ avatāra, kahi se mūla kāraṇa
Synonyms
Translation
Thus the killing of the demons is but secondary work. I shall now speak of the main reason for the Lord’s incarnation.
Bengali
রাগমার্গ ভক্তি লোকে করিতে প্রচারণ ॥ ১৫ ॥
রসিক–শেখর কৃষ্ণ পরমকরুণ ।
এই দুই হেতু হৈতে ইচ্ছার উদ্গম ॥ ১৬ ॥
Text
rāga-mārga bhakti loke karite pracāraṇa
ei dui hetu haite icchāra udgama
Synonyms
prema-rasa — of the mellow of love of God; niryāsa — the essence; karite — to do; āsvādana — tasting; rāga-mārga — the path of spontaneous attraction; bhakti — devotional service; loke — in the world; karite — to do; pracāraṇa — propagation; rasika-śekhara — the supremely jubilant; kṛṣṇa — Lord Kṛṣṇa; parama-karuṇa — the most merciful; ei — these; dui — two; hetu — reasons; haite — from; icchāra — of desire; udgama — the birth.
Translation
The Lord’s desire to appear was born from two reasons: the Lord wanted to taste the sweet essence of the mellows of love of God, and He wanted to propagate devotional service in the world on the platform of spontaneous attraction. Thus He is known as supremely jubilant and as the most merciful of all.
Purport
During the period of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s appearance, the killing of asuras or nonbelievers such as Kaṁsa and Jarāsandha was done by Viṣṇu, who was within the person of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Such apparent killing by Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa took place as a matter of course and was an incidental activity for Him. But the real purpose of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s appearance was to stage a dramatic performance of His transcendental pastimes at Vrajabhūmi, thus exhibiting the highest limit of transcendental mellow in the exchanges of reciprocal love between the living entity and the Supreme Lord. These reciprocal exchanges of mellows are called rāga-bhakti, or devotional service to the Lord in transcendental rapture. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa wants to make known to all the conditioned souls that He is more attracted by rāga-bhakti than vidhi-bhakti, or devotional service under scheduled regulations. It is said in the Vedas (Taittirīya Up. 2.7), raso vai saḥ: the Absolute Truth is the reservoir for all kinds of reciprocal exchanges of loving sentiments. He is also causelessly merciful, and He wants to bestow upon us this privilege of rāga-bhakti. Thus He appeared by His own internal energy. He was not forced to appear by any extraneous force.
Bengali
ঐশ্বর্য–শিথিল–প্রেমে নাহি মোর প্রীত ॥ ১৭ ॥
Text
aiśvarya-śithila-preme nahi mora prīta
Synonyms
Translation
[Lord Kṛṣṇa thought:] “All the universe is filled with the conception of My majesty, but love weakened by that sense of majesty does not satisfy Me.
Bengali
তার প্রেমে বশ আমি না হই অধীন ॥ ১৮ ॥
Text
tāra preme vaśa āmi nā ha-i adhīna
Synonyms
Translation
“If one regards Me as the Supreme Lord and himself as a subordinate, I do not become subservient to his love, nor can it control Me.
Bengali
তারে সে সে ভাবে ভজি,—এ মোর স্বভাবে ॥ ১৯ ॥
Text
tāre se se bhāve bhaji, — e mora svabhāve
Synonyms
Translation
“In whatever transcendental mellow My devotee worships Me, I reciprocate with him. That is My natural behavior.
Purport
The Lord, by His inherent nature, reveals Himself before His devotees according to their inherent devotional service. The Vṛndāvana pastimes demonstrated that although generally people worship God with reverence, the Lord is more pleased when a devotee thinks of Him as his pet son, personal friend or most dear fiancé and renders service unto Him with such natural affection. The Lord becomes a subordinate object of love in such transcendental relationships. Such pure love of Godhead is unadulterated by any tinge of superfluous nondevotional desires and is not mixed with any sort of fruitive action or empiric philosophical speculation. It is pure and natural love of Godhead, spontaneously aroused in the absolute stage. This devotional service is executed in a favorable atmosphere freed from material affection.
Bengali
মম বর্ত্মানুবর্তন্তে মনুষ্যাঃ পার্থ সর্বশঃ ॥ ২০ ॥
Text
tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham
mama vartmānuvartante
manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ
Synonyms
Translation
“ ‘In whatever way My devotees surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.’
Purport
In the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā Lord Kṛṣṇa affirms that formerly (some 120 million years before the Battle of Kurukṣetra) He explained the mystic philosophy of the Gītā to the sun-god. The message was received through the chain of disciplic succession, but in course of time, the chain being broken somehow or other, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared again and taught Arjuna the truths of the Bhagavad-gītā. At that time the Lord spoke this verse (Bg. 4.11) to His friend Arjuna.
Bengali
এইভাবে যেই মোরে করে শুদ্ধভক্তি ॥ ২১ ॥
আপনাকে বড় মানে, আমারে সম–হীন ।
সেই ভাবে হই আমি তাহার অধীন ॥ ২২ ॥
Text
ei-bhāve yei more kare śuddha-bhakti
sei bhāve ha-i āmi tāhāra adhīna
Synonyms
mora — my; putra — son; mora — my; sakhā — friend; mora — my; prāṇa-pati — lord of life; ei bhāve — in this way; yei — those who; more — unto Me; kare — do; śuddha-bhakti — pure devotion; āpanāke — himself; baḍa — great; māne — he regards; āmāre — Me; sama — equal; hīna — or lower; sei bhāve — in that way; ha-i — am; āmi — I; tāhāra — to him; adhīna — subordinate.
Translation
“If one cherishes pure loving devotion to Me, thinking of Me as his son, his friend or his beloved, regarding himself as great and considering Me his equal or inferior, I become subordinate to him.
Purport
In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta three kinds of devotional service are described — namely, bhakti (ordinary devotional service), śuddha-bhakti (pure devotional service) and viddha-bhakti (mixed devotional service).
When devotional service is executed with some material purpose, involving fruitive activities, mental speculations or mystic yoga, it is called mixed or adulterated devotional service. Besides bhakti-yoga, the Bhagavad-gītā also describes karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga and dhyāna-yoga. Yoga means linking with the Supreme Lord, which is possible only through devotion. Fruitive activities ending in devotional service, philosophical speculation ending in devotional service, and the practice of mysticism ending in devotional service are known respectively as karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga and dhyāna-yoga. But such devotional service is adulterated by the three kinds of material activities.
For those grossly engaged in identifying the body as the self, pious activity, or karma-yoga, is recommended. For those who identify the mind with the self, philosophical speculation, or jñāna-yoga, is recommended. But devotees standing on the spiritual platform have no need of such material conceptions of adulterated devotion. Adulterated devotional service does not directly aim for love of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore service performed strictly in conformity with the revealed scriptures is better than such viddha-bhakti because it is free from all kinds of material contamination. It is executed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, solely to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Those who are spontaneously devoted to the Lord and have no aims for material gain are called attracted devotees. They are spontaneously attracted to the service of the Lord, and they follow in the footsteps of self-realized souls. Their pure devotion (śuddha-bhakti), manifested from pure love of Godhead, surpasses the regulative principles of the authoritative scriptures. Sometimes loving ecstasy transcends regulative principles; such ecstasy, however, is completely on the spiritual platform and cannot be imitated. The regulative principles help ordinary devotees rise to the stage of perfect love of Godhead. Pure love for Kṛṣṇa is the perfection of pure devotion, and pure devotional service is identical with spontaneous devotional service.
Flawless execution of regulative principles is exhibited in the Vaikuṇṭha planets. By strictly executing these principles one can be elevated to the Vaikuṇṭha planets. But spontaneous pure loving service is found in Kṛṣṇaloka alone.
Bengali
দিষ্ট্যা যদাসীন্মৎস্নেহো ভবতীনাং মদাপনঃ ॥ ২৩ ॥
Text
amṛtatvāya kalpate
diṣṭyā yad āsīn mat-sneho
bhavatīnāṁ mad-āpanaḥ
Synonyms
mayi — to Me; bhaktiḥ — devotional service; hi — certainly; bhūtānām — of the living beings; amṛtatvāya — the eternal life; kalpate — brings about; diṣṭyā — by good fortune; yat — which; āsīt — was; mat — for Me; snehaḥ — the affection; bhavatīnām — of all of you; mat — of Me; āpanaḥ — the obtaining.
Translation
“ ‘Devotional service rendered to Me by the living beings revives their eternal life. O My dear damsels of Vraja, your affection for Me is your good fortune, for it is the only means by which you have obtained My favor.’
Purport
Pure devotional service is represented in the activities of the residents of Vrajabhūmi (Vṛndāvana). During a solar eclipse, the Lord came from Dvārakā and met the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana at Samanta-pañcaka. The meeting was intensely painful for the damsels of Vrajabhūmi because Lord Kṛṣṇa had apparently left them to reside at Dvārakā. But the Lord obligingly acknowledged the pure devotional service of the damsels of Vraja by speaking this verse (Bhāg. 10.82.44).
Bengali
অতিহীন–জ্ঞানে করে লালন–পালন ॥ ২৪ ॥
Text
atihīna-jñāne kare lālana pālana
Synonyms
Translation
“Mother sometimes binds Me as her son. She nourishes and protects Me, thinking Me utterly helpless.
Bengali
তুমি কোন্ বড় লোক,—তুমি আমি সম ॥ ২৫ ॥
Text
tumi kon baḍa loka, — tumi āmi sama
Synonyms
Translation
“My friends climb on My shoulders in pure friendship, saying, ‘What kind of big man are You? You and I are equal.’
Bengali
বেদস্তুতি হৈতে হরে সেই মোর মন ॥ ২৬ ॥
Text
veda-stuti haite hare sei mora mana
Synonyms
Translation
“If My beloved consort reproaches Me in a sulky mood, that steals My mind from the reverent hymns of the Vedas.
Purport
According to the Upaniṣads, all living entities are dependent on the supreme living entity, the Personality of Godhead. As it is said (Kaṭha Up. 2.2.13), nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān: one eternal living entity supports all the other eternal living entities. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead maintains all the other living entities, they remain subordinate to the Lord, even when joined with Him in the reciprocation of loving affairs.
But in the course of exchanging transcendental love of the highest purity, sometimes the subordinate devotee tries to predominate over the predominator. One who lovingly engages with the Supreme Lord as if he were His mother or father sometimes supersedes the position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, His fiancée or lover sometimes supersedes the position of the Lord. But such attempts are exhibitions of the highest love. Only out of pure love does the subordinate lover of the Supreme Personality of Godhead chide Him. The Lord, enjoying this chiding, takes it very nicely. The exhibition of natural love makes such activities very enjoyable. In worship of the Supreme Lord with veneration there is no manifestation of such natural love because the devotee considers the Lord his superior.
Regulative principles in devotional service are meant for those who have not invoked their natural love of Godhead. When natural love arises, all regulative methods are surpassed, and pure love is exhibited between the Lord and the devotee. Although on such a platform of love the devotee sometimes appears to predominate over the Lord or transgress regulative principles, such dealings are far more advanced than ordinary dealings through regulative principles with awe and veneration. A devotee who is actually free from all designations due to complete attachment in love for the Supreme exhibits spontaneous love for Godhead, which is always superior to the devotion of regulative principles.
The informal language used between lover and beloved is indicative of pure affection. When devotees worship their beloved as the most venerable object, spontaneous loving sentiments are observed to be lacking. A neophyte devotee who follows the Vedic instructions that regulate those who lack pure love of Godhead may superficially seem more exalted than a devotee in spontaneous love of Godhead. But in fact such spontaneous pure love is far superior to regulated devotional service. Such pure love of Godhead is always glorious in all respects, more so than reverential devotional service rendered by a less affectionate devotee.
Bengali
করিব বিবিধবিধ অদ্ভুত বিহার ॥ ২৭ ॥
বৈকুণ্ঠাদ্যে নাহি যে যে লীলার প্রচার ।
সে সে লীলা করিব, যাতে মোর চমৎকার ॥ ২৮ ॥
Text
kariba vividha-vidha adbhuta vihāra
se se līlā kariba, yāte mora camatkāra
Synonyms
ei — these; śuddha-bhakta — pure devotees; lañā — taking; karimu — I shall make; avatāra — incarnation; kariba — I shall do; vividha-vidha — various kinds; adbhuta — wonderful; vihāra — pastimes; vaikuṇṭha-ādye — in the Vaikuṇṭha planets, etc.; nāhi — not; ye ye — whatever; līlāra — of the pastimes; pracāra — broadcasting; se se — those; līlā — pastimes; kariba — I shall perform; yāte — in which; mora — My; camatkāra — wonder.
Translation
“Taking these pure devotees with Me, I shall descend and sport in various wonderful ways, unknown even in Vaikuṇṭha. I shall broadcast such pastimes by which even I am amazed.
Purport
Lord Kṛṣṇa in the form of Lord Caitanya educates His devotees to develop progressively to the stage of pure devotional service. Thus He appears periodically as a devotee to take part in various wonderful activities depicted in His sublime philosophy and teachings.
There are innumerable Vaikuṇṭha planets in the spiritual sky, and in all of them the Lord accepts the service rendered by His eternal devotees in a reverential mood. Therefore Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa presents His most confidential pastimes as He enjoys them in His transcendental realm. Such pastimes are so attractive that they attract even the Lord, and thus He relishes them in the form of Lord Caitanya.
Bengali
যোগমায়া করিবেক আপনপ্রভাবে ॥ ২৯ ॥
Text
yoga-māyā karibeka āpana-prabhāve
Synonyms
Translation
“The influence of yogamāyā will inspire the gopīs with the sentiment that I am their paramour.
Purport
Yogamāyā is the name of the internal potency that makes the Lord forget Himself and become an object of love for His pure devotee in different transcendental mellows. This yogamāyā potency creates a spiritual sentiment in the minds of the damsels of Vraja by which they think of Lord Kṛṣṇa as their paramour. This sentiment is never to be compared to mundane illicit sexual love. It has nothing to do with sexual psychology, although the pure love of such devotees seems to be sexual. One should know for certain that nothing can exist in this cosmic manifestation that has no real counterpart in the spiritual field. All material manifestations are emanations of the Transcendence. The erotic principles of amorous love reflected in mixed material values are perverted reflections of the reality of spirit, but one cannot understand the reality unless one is sufficiently educated in the spiritual science.
Bengali
দুঁহার রূপগুণে দুঁহার নিত্য হরে মন ॥ ৩০ ॥
Text
duṅhāra rūpa-guṇe duṅhāra nitya hare mana
Synonyms
Translation
“Neither the gopīs nor I shall notice this, for our minds will always be entranced by one another’s beauty and qualities.
Purport
In the spiritual sky the Vaikuṇṭha planets are predominated by Nārāyaṇa. His devotees have the same features He does, and the exchange of devotion there is on the platform of reverence. But above all these Vaikuṇṭha planets is Goloka, or Kṛṣṇaloka, where the original Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, fully manifests His pleasure potency in free loving affairs. Since the devotees in the material world know almost nothing about these affairs, the Lord desires to show these affairs to them.
In Goloka Vṛndāvana there is an exchange of love known as parakīya-rasa. It is something like the attraction of a married woman for a man other than her husband. In the material world this sort of relationship is most abominable because it is a perverted reflection of the parakīya-rasa in the spiritual world, where it is the highest kind of loving affair. Such feelings between the devotee and the Lord are presented by the influence of yogamāyā. The Bhagavad-gītā states that devotees of the highest grade are under the care of daiva-māyā, or yogamāyā: mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ (Bg. 9.13). Those who are actually great souls (mahātmās) are fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, always engaged in the service of the Lord. They are under the care of daivī-prakṛti, or yogamāyā. Yogamāyā creates a situation in which the devotee is prepared to transgress all regulative principles simply to love Kṛṣṇa. A devotee naturally does not like to transgress the laws of reverence for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but by the influence of yogamāyā he is prepared to do anything to love the Supreme Lord better.
Those under the spell of the material energy cannot at all appreciate the activities of yogamāyā, for a conditioned soul can hardly understand the pure reciprocation between the Lord and His devotee. But by executing devotional service under the regulative principles, one can become very highly elevated and then begin to appreciate the dealings of pure love under the management of yogamāyā.
In the spiritual loving sentiment induced by the yogamāyā potency, both Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the damsels of Vraja forget themselves in spiritual rapture. By the influence of such forgetfulness, the attractive beauty of the gopīs plays a prominent part in the transcendental satisfaction of the Lord, who has nothing to do with mundane sex. Because spiritual love of Godhead is above everything mundane, the gopīs superficially seem to transgress the codes of mundane morality. This perpetually puzzles mundane moralists. Therefore yogamāyā acts to cover the Lord and His pastimes from the eyes of mundaners, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.25), where the Lord says that He reserves the right of not being exposed to everyone.
The acts of yogamāyā make it possible for the Lord and the gopīs, in loving ecstasy, to sometimes meet and sometimes separate. These transcendental loving affairs of the Lord are unimaginable to empiricists involved in the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth. Therefore the Lord Himself appears before the mundaners to bestow upon them the highest form of spiritual realization and also personally relish its essence. The Lord is so merciful that He Himself descends to take the fallen souls back home to the kingdom of Godhead, where the erotic principles of Godhead are eternally relished in their real form, distinct from the perverted sexual love so much adored and indulged in by the fallen souls in their diseased condition. The reason the Lord displays the rāsa-līlā is essentially to induce all the fallen souls to give up their diseased morality and religiosity, and to attract them to the kingdom of God to enjoy the reality. A person who actually understands what the rāsa-līlā is will certainly hate to indulge in mundane sex life. For the realized soul, hearing the Lord’s rāsa-līlā through the proper channel will result in complete abstinence from material sexual pleasure.
Bengali
কভু মিলে, কভু না মিলে,—দৈবের ঘটন ॥ ৩১ ॥
Text
kabhu mile, kabhu nā mile, — daivera ghaṭana
Synonyms
Translation
“Pure attachment will unite us even at the expense of moral and religious duties [dharma]. Destiny will sometimes bring us together and sometimes separate us.
Purport
The gopīs came out to meet Kṛṣṇa in the dead of night when they heard the sound of His flute. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has accordingly composed a nice verse (see Ādi 5.224) that describes the beautiful boy called Govinda standing by the bank of the Yamunā with His flute to His lips in the shining moonlight. Those who want to enjoy life in the materialistic way of society, friendship and love should not go to the Yamunā to see the form of Govinda. The sound of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s flute is so sweet that it has made the gopīs forget all about their relationships with their kinsmen and flee to Kṛṣṇa in the dead of night.
By leaving home in that way, the gopīs transgressed the Vedic regulations of household life. This indicates that when natural feelings of love for Kṛṣṇa become fully manifest, a devotee can neglect conventional social rules and regulations. In the material world we are situated in designative positions only, but pure devotional service begins when one is freed from all designations. When love for Kṛṣṇa is awakened, the designative positions are overcome.
The spontaneous attraction of Śrī Kṛṣṇa for His dearest parts and parcels generates an enthusiasm that obliges Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs to meet together. To celebrate this transcendental enthusiasm, there is need of a sentiment of separation between the lover and beloved. In the condition of material tribulation, no one wants the pangs of separation. But in the transcendental form, the very same separation, being absolute in its nature, strengthens the ties of love and enhances the desire of the lover and beloved to meet. The period of separation, evaluated transcendentally, is more relishable than the actual meeting, which lacks the feelings of increasing anticipation because the lover and beloved are both present.
Bengali
এই দ্বারে করিব সব ভক্তেরে প্রসাদ ॥ ৩২ ॥
Text
ei dvāre kariba saba bhaktere prasāda
Synonyms
Translation
“I shall taste the essence of all these rasas, and in this way I shall favor all the devotees.
Bengali
রাগমার্গে ভজে যেন ছাড়ি’ ধর্ম–কর্ম ॥ ৩৩ ॥
Text
rāga-mārge bhaje yena chāḍi’ dharma-karma
Synonyms
Translation
“Then, by hearing about the pure love of the residents of Vraja, devotees will worship Me on the path of spontaneous love, abandoning all rituals of religiosity and fruitive activity.”
Purport
Many realized souls, such as Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī and King Kulaśekhara, have recommended with great emphasis that one develop this spontaneous love of Godhead, even at the risk of transgressing all the traditional codes of morality and religiosity. Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, one of the six Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana, has written in his prayers called the Manaḥ-śikṣā that one should simply worship Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa with all attention. Na dharmaṁ nādharmaṁ śruti-gaṇa-niruktaṁ kila kuru: one should not be much interested in performing Vedic rituals or simply following rules and regulations.
King Kulaśekhara has written similarly, in his book Mukunda-mālā-stotra (5):
yad bhāvyaṁ tad bhavatu bhagavan pūrva-karmānurūpam
etat prārthyaṁ mama bahu-mataṁ janma-janmāntare ’pi
tvat-pādāmbho-ruha-yuga-gatā niścalā bhaktir astu
“I have no attraction for performing religious rituals or holding any earthly kingdom. I do not care for sense enjoyments; let them appear and disappear in accordance with my previous deeds. My only desire is to be fixed in devotional service to the lotus feet of the Lord, even though I may continue to take birth here life after life.”
Bengali
ভজতে তাদৃশীঃ ক্রীড়া যাঃ শ্রুত্বা তৎপরো ভবেৎ ॥ ৩৪ ॥
Text
mānuṣaṁ deham āśritaḥ
bhajate tādṛśīḥ krīḍā
yāḥ śrutvā tat-paro bhavet
Synonyms
Translation
“Kṛṣṇa manifests His eternal humanlike form and performs His pastimes to show mercy to the devotees. Having heard such pastimes, one should engage in service to Him.”
Purport
This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.33.36). The Supreme Personality of Godhead has innumerable expansions of His transcendental form who eternally exist in the spiritual world. This material world is only a perverted reflection of the spiritual world, where everything is manifested without inebriety. There everything is in its original existence, free from the domination of time. Time cannot deteriorate or interfere with the conditions in the spiritual world, where different manifestations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are the recipients of the worship of different living entities in their constitutional spiritual positions. In the spiritual world all existence is unadulterated goodness. The goodness found in the material world is contaminated by the modes of passion and ignorance.
The saying that the human form of life is the best position for devotional service has its special significance because only in this form can a living entity revive his eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The human form is considered the highest state in the cycle of the species of life in the material world. If one takes advantage of this highest kind of material form, one can regain his position of devotional service to the Lord.
Incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead appear in all the species of life, although this is inconceivable to the human brain. The Lord’s pastimes are differentiated according to the appreciating capacity of the different types of bodies of the living entities. The Supreme Lord bestows the most merciful benediction upon human society when He appears in His human form. It is then that humanity gets the opportunity to engage in different kinds of eternal service to the Lord.
Special natural appreciation of the descriptions of a particular pastime of Godhead indicates the constitutional position of a living entity. Adoration, servitorship, friendship, parental affection and conjugal love are the five primary relationships with Kṛṣṇa. The highest perfectional stage of the conjugal relationship, enriched by many sentiments, gives the maximum relishable mellow to the devotee.
The Lord appears in different incarnations — as a fish, tortoise and boar, as Paraśurāma, Lord Rāma, Buddha and so on — to reciprocate the different appreciations of living entities in different stages of evolution. The conjugal relationship of amorous love called parakīya-rasa is the unparalleled perfection of love exhibited by Lord Kṛṣṇa and His devotees.
A class of so-called devotees known as sahajiyās try to imitate the Lord’s pastimes, although they have no understanding of the amorous love in His expansions of pleasure potency. Their superficial imitation can create havoc on the path for the advancement of one’s spiritual relationship with the Lord. Material sexual indulgence can never be equated with spiritual love, which is in unadulterated goodness. The activities of the sahajiyās simply lower one deeper into the material contamination of the senses and mind. Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental pastimes display eternal servitorship to Adhokṣaja, the Supreme Lord, who is beyond all conception through material senses. Materialistic conditioned souls do not understand the transcendental exchanges of love, but they like to indulge in sense gratification in the name of devotional service. The activities of the Supreme Lord can never be understood by irresponsible persons who think the pastimes of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa to be ordinary affairs. The rāsa dance is arranged by Kṛṣṇa’s internal potency yogamāyā, and it is beyond the grasp of the materially affected person. Trying to throw mud into transcendence with their perversity, the sahajiyās misinterpret the sayings tat-paratvena nirmalam and tat-paro bhavet. By misinterpreting tādṛśīḥ krīḍāḥ, they want to indulge in sex while pretending to imitate Lord Kṛṣṇa. But one must actually understand the imports of the words through the intelligence of the authorized gosvāmīs. Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, in his prayers to the Gosvāmīs, has explained his inability to understand such spiritual affairs:
kabe hāma bujhaba se yugala-pīriti
“When I shall be eager to understand the literature given by the Gosvāmīs, then I shall be able to understand the transcendental love affairs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.” In other words, unless one is trained under the disciplic succession of the Gosvāmīs, one cannot understand Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. The conditioned souls are naturally averse to understanding the spiritual existence of the Lord, and if they try to know the transcendental nature of the Lord’s pastimes while they remain absorbed in materialism, they are sure to blunder like the sahajiyās.
Bengali
কর্তব্য অবশ্য এই, অন্যথা প্রত্যবায় ॥ ৩৫ ॥
Text
kartavya avaśya ei, anyathā pratyavāya
Synonyms
Translation
Here the use of the verb “bhavet,” which is in the imperative mood, tells us that this certainly must be done. Noncompliance would be abandonment of duty.
Purport
This imperative is applicable to pure devotees. Neophytes will be able to understand these affairs only after being elevated by regulated devotional service under the expert guidance of the spiritual master. Then they too will be competent to hear of the love affairs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.
As long as one is in material, conditioned life, strict discipline is required in the matter of moral and immoral activities. The absolute world is transcendental and free from such distinctions because there inebriety is not possible. But in this material world a sexual appetite necessitates distinction between moral and immoral conduct. There are no sexual activities in the spiritual world. The transactions between lover and beloved in the spiritual world are pure transcendental love and unadulterated bliss.
One who has not been attracted by the transcendental beauty of rasa will certainly be dragged down into material attraction, thus to act in material contamination and progress to the darkest region of hellish life. But by understanding the conjugal love of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa one is freed from the grip of attraction to material so-called love between man and woman. Similarly, one who understands the pure parental love of Nanda and Yaśodā for Kṛṣṇa will be saved from being dragged into material parental affection. If one accepts Kṛṣṇa as the supreme friend, the attraction of material friendship will be finished for him, and he will not be dismayed by so-called friendship with mundane wranglers. If he is attracted by servitorship to Kṛṣṇa, he will no longer have to serve the material body in the degraded status of material existence, with the false hope of becoming master in the future. Similarly, one who sees the greatness of Kṛṣṇa in neutrality will certainly never again seek the so-called relief of impersonalist or voidist philosophy. If one is not attracted by the transcendental nature of Kṛṣṇa, one is sure to be attracted to material enjoyment, thus to become implicated in the clinging network of virtuous and sinful activities and to continue material existence by transmigrating from one material body to another. Only in Kṛṣṇa consciousness can one achieve the highest perfection of life.
Bengali
অসুরসংহার—আনুষঙ্গ প্রয়োজন ॥ ৩৬ ॥
এই মত চৈতন্য–কৃষ্ণ পূর্ণ ভগবান্ ।
যুগধর্মপ্রবর্তন নহে তাঁর কাম ॥ ৩৭ ॥
Text
asura-saṁhāra — ānuṣaṅga prayojana
yuga-dharma-pravartana nahe tāṅra kāma
Synonyms
ei — this; vāñchā — desire; yaiche — just as; kṛṣṇa — of Lord Kṛṣṇa; prākaṭya — for the manifestation; kāraṇa — reason; asura-saṁhāra — the killing of demons; ānuṣaṅga — secondary; prayojana — reason; ei mata — like this; caitanya — as Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; kṛṣṇa — Lord Kṛṣṇa; pūrṇa — full; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; yuga-dharma — the religion of the age; pravartana — initiating; nahe — is not; tāṅra — of Him; kāma — the desire.
Translation
Just as these desires are the fundamental reason for Kṛṣṇa’s appearance whereas destroying the demons is only an incidental necessity, so for Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, promulgating the dharma of the age is incidental.
Bengali
যুগধর্ম–কাল হৈল সে কালে মিলন ॥ ৩৮ ॥
Text
yuga-dharma-kāla haila se kāle milana
Synonyms
Translation
When the Lord desired to appear for another reason, the time for promulgating the religion of the age also arose.
Bengali
আপনে আস্বাদে প্রেম–নামসংকীর্তন ॥ ৩৯ ॥
Text
āpane āsvāde prema-nāma-saṅkīrtana
Synonyms
Translation
Thus with two intentions the Lord appeared with His devotees and tasted the nectar of prema with the congregational chanting of the holy name.
Bengali
নাম–প্রেমমালা গাঁথি’ পরাইল সংসারে ॥ ৪০ ॥
Text
nāma-prema-mālā gāṅthi’ parāila saṁsāre
Synonyms
Translation
Thus He spread kīrtana even among the untouchables. He wove a wreath of the holy name and prema, with which He garlanded the entire material world.
Bengali
আপনি আচরি’ ভক্তি করিল প্রচার ॥ ৪১ ॥
Text
āpani ācari’ bhakti karila pracāra
Synonyms
Translation
In this way, assuming the sentiment of a devotee, He preached devotional service while practicing it Himself.
Purport
When Rūpa Gosvāmī met Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Prayāga (Allahabad), he offered his respectful obeisances by submitting that Lord Caitanya was more magnanimous than any other avatāra of Kṛṣṇa because He was distributing love of Kṛṣṇa. His mission was to enhance love of Godhead. In the human form of life the highest achievement is to attain the platform of love of Godhead. Lord Caitanya did not invent a system of religion, as people sometimes assume. Religious systems are meant to show the existence of God, who is then generally approached as the cosmic order-supplier. But Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s transcendental mission is to distribute love of Godhead to everyone. Anyone who accepts God as the Supreme can take to the process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and become a lover of God. Therefore Lord Caitanya is the most magnanimous. This munificent broadcasting of devotional service is possible only for Kṛṣṇa Himself. Therefore Lord Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa.
In the Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa has taught the philosophy of surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One who has surrendered to the Supreme can make further progress by learning to love Him. Therefore the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement propagated by Lord Caitanya is especially meant for those who are cognizant of the presence of the Supreme Godhead, the ultimate controller of everything. His mission is to teach people how to dovetail themselves into engagements of transcendental loving service. He is Kṛṣṇa teaching His own service from the position of a devotee. The Lord’s acceptance of the role of a devotee in the eternal form of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is another of the Lord’s wonderful features. A conditioned soul cannot reach the absolute Personality of Godhead by his imperfect endeavor, and therefore it is wonderful that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, in the form of Lord Gaurāṅga, has made it easy for everyone to approach Him.
Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has described Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa Himself with the attitude of Rādhārāṇī, or a combination of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. The intention of Lord Caitanya is to taste Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness in transcendental love. He does not care to think of Himself as Kṛṣṇa, because He wants the position of Rādhārāṇī. We should remember this. A class of so-called devotees called the nadīyā-nāgarīs or gaura-nāgarīs pretend that they have the sentiment of gopīs toward Lord Caitanya, but they do not realize that He placed Himself not as the enjoyer, Kṛṣṇa, but as the enjoyed, the devotee of Kṛṣṇa. The concoctions of unauthorized persons pretending to be bona fide have not been accepted by Lord Caitanya. Presentations such as those of the gaura-nāgarīs are only disturbances to the sincere execution of the mission of Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya is undoubtedly Kṛṣṇa Himself, and He is always nondifferent from Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. But the emotion technically called vipralambha-bhāva, which the Lord adopted for confidential reasons, should not be disturbed in the name of service. A mundaner should not unnecessarily intrude into affairs of transcendence and thereby displease the Lord. One must always be on guard against this sort of devotional anomaly. A devotee is not meant to create disturbances to Kṛṣṇa. As Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has explained, devotional service is ānukūlyena, or favorable to Kṛṣṇa. Acting unfavorably toward Kṛṣṇa is not devotion. Kaṁsa was the enemy of Kṛṣṇa. He always thought of Kṛṣṇa, but he thought of Him as an enemy. One should always avoid such unfavorable so-called service.
Lord Caitanya has accepted the role of Rādhārāṇī, and we should support that position, as Svarūpa Dāmodara did in the Gambhīrā (the room where Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu stayed in Purī). He always reminded Lord Caitanya of Rādhā’s feelings of separation as they are described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and Lord Caitanya appreciated his assistance. But the gaura-nāgarīs, who place Lord Caitanya in the position of enjoyer and themselves as His enjoyed, are not approved by Lord Caitanya or by Lord Caitanya’s followers. Instead of being blessed, the foolish imitators are left completely apart. Their concoctions are against the principles of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The doctrine of transcendental enjoyment by Kṛṣṇa cannot be mixed up with the doctrine of transcendental feeling of separation from Kṛṣṇa in the role of Rādhārāṇī.
Bengali
চারি প্রেম, চতুর্বিধ ভক্তই আধার ॥ ৪২ ॥
Text
cāri prema, catur-vidha bhakta-i ādhāra
Synonyms
Translation
Four kinds of devotees are the receptacles of the four kinds of mellows in love of God, namely servitude, friendship, parental affection and conjugal love.
Bengali
নিজভাবে করে কৃষ্ণসুখ আস্বাদনে ॥ ৪৩ ॥
Text
nija-bhāve kare kṛṣṇa-sukha āsvādane
Synonyms
Translation
Each kind of devotee feels that his sentiment is the most excellent, and thus in that mood he tastes great happiness with Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Bengali
সব রস হৈতে শৃঙ্গারে অধিক মাধুরী ॥ ৪৪ ॥
Text
saba rasa haite śṛṅgāre adhika mādhurī
Synonyms
Translation
But if we compare the sentiments in an impartial mood, we find that the conjugal sentiment is superior to all others in sweetness.
Purport
No one is higher or lower than anyone else in transcendental relationships with the Lord, for in the absolute realm everything is equal. But although these relationships are absolute, there are also transcendental differences between them. Thus the transcendental relationship of conjugal love is considered the highest perfection.
Bengali
রতির্বাসনয়া স্বাদ্বী ভাসতে কাপি কস্যচিৎ ॥ ৪৫ ॥
Text
viśeṣollāsamayy api
ratir vāsanayā svādvī
bhāsate kāpi kasyacit
Synonyms
Translation
“Increasing love is experienced in various tastes, one above another. But that love which has the highest taste in the gradual succession of desire manifests itself in the form of conjugal love.”
Purport
This is a verse from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (2.5.38).
Bengali
স্বকীয়া–পরকীয়া–ভাবে দ্বিবিধ সংস্থান ॥ ৪৬ ॥
Text
svakīyā-parakīyā-bhāve dvi-vidha saṁsthāna
Synonyms
Translation
Therefore I call it madhura-rasa. It has two further divisions, namely wedded and unwedded love.
Bengali
ব্রজ বিনা ইহার অন্যত্র নাহি বাস ॥ ৪৭ ॥
Text
vraja vinā ihāra anyatra nāhi vāsa
Synonyms
Translation
There is a great increase of mellow in the unwedded conjugal mood. Such love is found nowhere but in Vraja.
Bengali
তার মধ্যে শ্রীরাধায় ভাবের অবধি ॥ ৪৮ ॥
Text
tāra madhye śrī-rādhāya bhāvera avadhi
Synonyms
Translation
This mood is unbounded in the damsels of Vraja, but among them it finds its perfection in Śrī Rādhā.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণের মাধুর্যরস–আস্বাদ–কারণ ॥ ৪৯ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇera mādhurya-rasa-āsvāda-kāraṇa
Synonyms
Translation
Her pure, mature love surpasses that of all others. Her love is the cause of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s tasting the sweetness of the conjugal relationship.
Bengali
সাধিলেন নিজ বাঞ্ছা গৌরাঙ্গ–শ্রীহরি ॥ ৫০ ॥
Text
sādhilena nija vāñchā gaurāṅga-śrī-hari
Synonyms
Translation
Therefore Lord Gaurāṅga, who is Śrī Hari Himself, accepted the sentiments of Rādhā and thus fulfilled His own desires.
Purport
Of the four kinds of reciprocation of loving service — dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya and mādhurya — mādhurya is considered the fullest. But the conjugal relationship is further divided into two varieties, namely svakīya and parakīya. Svakīya is the relationship with Kṛṣṇa as a formally married husband, and parakīya is the relationship with Kṛṣṇa as a paramour. Expert analysts have decided that the transcendental ecstasy of the parakīya mellow is better because it is more enthusiastic. This phase of conjugal love is found in those who have surrendered to the Lord in intense love, knowing well that such illicit love with a paramour is not morally approved in society. The risks involved in such love of Godhead make this emotion superior to the relationship in which such risk is not involved. The validity of such risk, however, is possible only in the transcendental realm. Svakīya and parakīya conjugal love of Godhead have no existence in the material world, and parakīya is not exhibited anywhere in Vaikuṇṭha, but only in the portion of Goloka Vṛndāvana known as Vraja.
Some devotees think that Kṛṣṇa is eternally the enjoyer in Goloka Vṛndāvana but only sometimes comes to the platform of Vraja to enjoy parakīya-rasa. The six Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana, however, have explained that Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in Vraja are eternal, like His other activities in Goloka Vṛndāvana. Vraja is a confidential part of Goloka Vṛndāvana. Kṛṣṇa exhibited His Vraja pastimes on the surface of this world, and similar pastimes are eternally exhibited in Vraja in Goloka Vṛndāvana, where parakīya-rasa is ever existent.
In the third chapter of this epic, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has explicitly accepted the fact that Kṛṣṇa appears in this material world at the end of the Dvāpara age of the twenty-eighth catur-yuga of Vaivasvata Manu and brings with Him His Vrajadhāma, which is the eternal abode of His highest pastimes. As the Lord appears by His own internal potency, so He also brings all His paraphernalia by the same internal potency, without extraneous help. It is further stated here in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta that the parakīya sentiment exists only in that transcendental realm and nowhere else. This highest form of ecstasy can exist only in the most confidential part of the transcendental world, but by the causeless mercy of the Lord we can have a peep into that invisible Vraja.
The transcendental mellow relished by the gopīs in Vraja is superexcellently featured in Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Mature assimilation of the transcendental humor of conjugal love is represented by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, whose feelings are incomprehensible even to the Lord Himself. The intensity of Her loving service is the highest form of ecstasy. No one can surpass Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in relishing the qualities of the Lord through this supreme transcendental mellow. Therefore the Lord Himself agreed to assume the position of Rādhārāṇī in the form of Lord Śrī Gaurāṅga. He then relished the highest position of parakīya-rasa, as exhibited in the transcendental abode of Vraja.
Bengali
মুনীনাং সর্বস্বং প্রণতপটলীনাং মধুরিমা ।
বিনির্যাসঃ প্রেম্নো নিখিলপশুপালাম্বুজদৃশাং
স চৈতন্যঃ কিং মে পুনরপি দৃশোর্যাস্যতি পদম্ ॥ ৫১ ॥
Text
munīnāṁ sarva-svaṁ praṇata-paṭalīnāṁ madhurimā
viniryāsaḥ premṇo nikhila-paśu-pālāmbuja-dṛśāṁ
sa caitanyaḥ kiṁ me punar api dṛśor yāsyati padam
Synonyms
sura-īśānām — of the kings of the demigods; durgam — fortress; gatiḥ — the goal; atiśayena — eminently; upaniṣadām — of the Upaniṣads; munīnām — of the sages; sarva-svam — the be-all and end-all; praṇata-paṭalīnām — of the groups of the devotees; madhurimā — the sweetness; viniryāsaḥ — the essence; premṇaḥ — of love; nikhila — all; paśu-pālā — of the cowherd women; ambuja-dṛśām — lotus-eyed; saḥ — He; caitanyaḥ — Lord Caitanya; kim — what; me — my; punaḥ — again; api — certainly; dṛśoḥ — of the two eyes; yāsyati — will come; padam — to the abode.
Translation
“Lord Caitanya is the shelter of the demigods, the goal of the Upaniṣads, the be-all and end-all of the great sages, the beautiful shelter of His devotees, and the essence of the love of the lotus-eyed gopīs. Will He again be the object of my vision?”
Bengali
রসস্তোমং হৃত্বা মধুরমুপভোক্তুং কমপি যঃ ।
রুচং স্বামাবব্রে দ্যুতিমিহ তদীয়াং প্রকটয়ন্
স দেবশ্চৈতন্যাকৃতিরতিতরাং নঃ কৃপয়তু ॥ ৫২ ॥
Text
rasa-stomaṁ hṛtvā madhuram upabhoktuṁ kam api yaḥ
rucaṁ svām āvavre dyutim iha tadīyāṁ prakaṭayan
sa devaś caitanyākṛtir atitarāṁ naḥ kṛpayatu
Synonyms
apāram — boundless; kasya api — of someone; praṇayi-jana-vṛndasya — of the multitude of lovers; kutukī — one who is curious; rasa-stomam — the group of mellows; hṛtvā — stealing; madhuram — sweet; upabhoktum — to enjoy; kam api — some; yaḥ — who; rucam — luster; svām — own; āvavre — covered; dyutim — luster; iha — here; tadīyām — related to Him; prakaṭayan — manifesting; saḥ — He; devaḥ — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; caitanya-ākṛtiḥ — having the form of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; atitarām — greatly; naḥ — unto us; kṛpayatu — may He show His mercy.
Translation
“Lord Kṛṣṇa desired to taste the limitless nectarean mellows of the love of one of His multitude of loving damsels [Śrī Rādhā], and so He has assumed the form of Lord Caitanya. He has tasted that love while hiding His own dark complexion with Her effulgent yellow color. May that Lord Caitanya confer upon us His grace.”
Purport
texts 51 and 52 are, respectively, Prathama Śrī Caitanyā-ṣṭaka 2 and Dvitīya Śrī Caitanyāṣṭaka 3, from the Stava-mālā of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Bengali
তার মুখ্য হেতু কহি, শুন সর্বজন ॥ ৫৩ ॥
Text
tāra mukhya hetu kahi, śuna sarva-jana
Synonyms
Translation
To accept ecstatic love is the main reason He appeared and reestablished the religious system for this age. I shall now explain that reason. Everyone please listen.
Bengali
এবে কহি সেই শ্লোকের অর্থ প্রকাশ ॥ ৫৪ ॥
Text
ebe kahi sei ślokera artha prakāśa
Synonyms
Translation
Having first given hints about the verse describing the principal reason why the Lord appeared, now I shall manifest its full meaning.
Bengali
দেকাত্মানাবপি ভুবি পুরা দেহভেদং গতৌ তৌ ।
চৈতন্যাখ্যং প্রকটমধুনা তদ্দ্বয়ঞ্চৈক্যমাপ্তং,
রাধাভাবদ্যুতিসুবলিতং নৌমি কৃষ্ণস্বরূপম্ ॥ ৫৫ ॥
Text
ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau
caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ
rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam
Synonyms
rādhā — Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; kṛṣṇa — of Lord Kṛṣṇa; praṇaya — of love; vikṛtiḥ — the transformation; hlādinī śaktiḥ — pleasure potency; asmāt — from this; eka-ātmānau — both the same in identity; api — although; bhuvi — on earth; purā — from beginningless time; deha-bhedam — separate forms; gatau — obtained; tau — these two; caitanya-ākhyam — known as Śrī Caitanya; prakaṭam — manifest; adhunā — now; tat-dvayam — the two of Them; ca — and; aikyam — unity; āptam — obtained; rādhā — of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; bhāva — mood; dyuti — the luster; suvalitam — who is adorned with; naumi — I offer my obeisances; kṛṣṇa-svarūpam — to Him who is identical with Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Translation
“The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.”
Purport
This text is from the diary of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. It appears as the fifth of the first fourteen verses of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.
Bengali
অন্যোন্যে বিলসে রস আস্বাদন করি’ ॥ ৫৬ ॥
Text
anyonye vilase rasa āsvādana kari’
Synonyms
Translation
Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one and the same, but They have assumed two bodies. Thus They enjoy each other, tasting the mellows of love.
Purport
The two transcendentalists Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are a puzzle to materialists. The above description of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa from the diary of Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī is a condensed explanation, but one needs great spiritual insight to understand the mystery of these two personalities. One is enjoying in two. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the potent factor, and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the internal potency. According to Vedānta philosophy, there is no difference between the potent and the potency; they are identical. We cannot differentiate between one and the other, any more than we can separate fire from heat.
Everything in the Absolute is inconceivable in relative existence. Therefore in relative cognizance it is very difficult to assimilate this truth of the oneness between the potent and the potency. The philosophy of inconceivable oneness and difference propounded by Lord Caitanya is the only source of understanding for such intricacies of transcendence.
In fact, Rādhārāṇī is the internal potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and She eternally intensifies the pleasure of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Impersonalists cannot understand this without the help of a mahā-bhāgavata devotee. The very name “Rādhā” suggests that Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is eternally the topmost mistress of the comforts of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. As such, She is the medium transmitting the living entities’ service to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Devotees in Vṛndāvana therefore seek the mercy of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in order to be recognized as loving servitors of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally approaches the fallen conditioned souls of the iron age to deliver the highest principle of transcendental relationships with the Lord. The activities of Lord Caitanya are primarily in the role of the pleasure-giving portion of His internal potency.
The absolute Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is the omnipotent form of transcendental existence, knowledge and bliss in full. His internal potency is exhibited first as sat, or existence — or, in other words, as the portion that expands the existence function of the Lord. When the same potency displays full knowledge it is called cit, or samvit, which expands the transcendental forms of the Lord. Finally, when the same potency plays as a pleasure-giving medium it is known as hlādinī, or the transcendental blissful potency. Thus the Lord manifests His internal potency in three transcendental divisions.
Bengali
রস আস্বাদিতে দোঁহে হৈলা একঠাঁই ॥ ৫৭ ॥
Text
rasa āsvādite doṅhe hailā eka-ṭhāṅi
Synonyms
Translation
Now, to enjoy rasa, They have appeared in one body as Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Bengali
যাহা হৈতে হয় গৌরের মহিমা–কথন ॥ ৫৮ ॥
Text
yāhā haite haya gaurera mahimā-kathana
Synonyms
Translation
Therefore I shall first delineate the position of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. From that description the glory of Lord Caitanya will be known.
Bengali
স্বরূপশক্তি—‘হ্লাদিনী’ নাম যাঁহার ॥ ৫৯ ॥
Text
svarūpa-śakti — ‘hlādinī’ nāma yāṅhāra
Synonyms
Translation
Śrīmatī Rādhikā is the transformation of Kṛṣṇa’s love. She is His internal energy called hlādinī.
Bengali
হ্লাদিনীর দ্বারা করে ভক্তের পোষণ ॥ ৬০ ॥
Text
hlādinīra dvārā kare bhaktera poṣaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
That hlādinī energy gives Kṛṣṇa pleasure and nourishes His devotees.
Purport
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has elaborately discussed the hlādinī potency in his Prīti-sandarbha. He says that the Vedas clearly state, “Only devotional service can lead one to the Personality of Godhead. Only devotional service can help a devotee meet the Supreme Lord face to face. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is attracted by devotional service, and as such the ultimate supremacy of Vedic knowledge rests in knowing the science of devotional service.”
What is the particular attraction that makes the Supreme Lord enthusiastic to accept devotional service, and what is the nature of such service? The Vedic scriptures inform us that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, is self-sufficient, and that māyā, nescience, can never influence Him at all. Therefore the potency that overcomes the Supreme must be purely spiritual. Such a potency cannot be anything of the material manifestation. The bliss enjoyed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot be of material composition, like the impersonalist conception of the bliss of Brahman. Devotional service is reciprocation between two, and therefore it cannot be located simply within one’s self. Therefore the bliss of self-realization, brahmānanda, cannot be equated with devotional service.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has three kinds of internal potency, namely the hlādinī-śakti, or pleasure potency, the sandhinī-śakti, or existential potency, and the samvit-śakti, or cognitive potency. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (1.12.69) the Lord is addressed as follows: “O Lord, You are the support of everything. The three attributes hlādinī, sandhinī and samvit exist in You as one spiritual energy. But the material modes, which cause happiness, misery and mixtures of the two, do not exist in You, for You have no material qualities.”
Hlādinī is the personal manifestation of the blissfulness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by which He enjoys pleasure. Because the pleasure potency is perpetually present in the Supreme Lord, the theory of the impersonalist that the Lord appears in the material mode of goodness cannot be accepted. The impersonalist conclusion is against the Vedic version that the Lord possesses a transcendental pleasure potency. When the pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is exhibited by His grace in the person of a devotee, that manifestation is called love of God. “Love of God” is an epithet for the pleasure potency of the Lord. Therefore devotional service reciprocated between the Lord and His devotee is an exhibition of the transcendental pleasure potency of the Lord.
The potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that always enriches Him with transcendental bliss is not material, but the Śaṅkarites have accepted it as such because they are ignorant of the identity of the Supreme Lord and His pleasure potency. Those ignorant persons cannot understand the distinction between impersonal spiritual bliss and the variegatedness of the spiritual pleasure potency. The hlādinī potency gives the Lord all transcendental pleasure, and the Lord bestows such a potency upon His pure devotee.
Bengali
একই চিচ্ছক্তি তাঁর ধরে তিন রূপ ॥ ৬১ ॥
Text
eka-i cic-chakti tāṅra dhare tina rūpa
Synonyms
Translation
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s body is eternal [sat], full of knowledge [cit] and full of bliss [ānanda]. His one spiritual energy manifests three forms.
Bengali
চিদংশে সম্বিৎ—যারে জ্ঞান করি’ মানি ॥ ৬২ ॥
Text
cid-aṁśe samvit — yāre jñāna kari’ māni
Synonyms
Translation
Hlādinī is His aspect of bliss; sandhinī, of eternal existence; and samvit, of cognizance, which is also accepted as knowledge.
Purport
In his thesis Bhagavat-sandarbha (103), Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains the potencies of the Lord as follows: The transcendental potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by which He maintains His existence is called sandhinī. The transcendental potency by which He knows Himself and causes others to know Him is called samvit. The transcendental potency by which He possesses transcendental bliss and causes His devotees to have bliss is called hlādinī.
The total exhibition of these potencies is called viśuddha-sattva, and this platform of spiritual variegatedness is displayed even in the material world when the Lord appears here. The pastimes and manifestations of the Lord in the material world are therefore not at all material; they belong to the pure transcendental state. The Bhagavad-gītā confirms that anyone who understands the transcendental nature of the Lord’s appearance, activities and disappearance becomes eligible for freedom from material bondage upon quitting the present material tabernacle. He can enter the spiritual kingdom to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and reciprocate the hlādinī potency in transactions between him and the Lord. In the mundane mode of goodness there are tinges of passion and ignorance. Therefore mundane goodness, being mixed, is called miśra-sattva. But the transcendental variegatedness of viśuddha-sattva is completely free from all mundane qualities. Viśuddha-sattva is therefore the proper atmosphere in which to experience the Personality of Godhead and His transcendental pastimes. Spiritual variegatedness is eternally independent of all material conditions and is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, both being absolute. The Lord and His devotees simultaneously perceive the hlādinī potency directly by the power of the samvit potency.
The material modes of nature control the conditioned souls, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is never influenced by these modes, as all Vedic literatures directly and indirectly corroborate. Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself says in the Eleventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.25.12), sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇā jīvasya naiva me: “The material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance are connected with the conditioned souls, but never with Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” The Viṣṇu Purāṇa confirms this as follows:
sa śuddhaḥ sarva-śuddhebhyaḥ pumān ādyaḥ prasīdatu
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, is beyond the three qualities goodness, passion and ignorance. No material qualities exist in Him. May that original person, Nārāyaṇa, who is situated in a completely transcendental position, be pleased with us.” In the Tenth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.27.4), Indra praises Kṛṣṇa as follows:
tapo-mayaṁ dhvasta-rajas-tamaskam
māyā-mayo ’yaṁ guṇa-sampravāho
na vidyate te ’grahaṇānubandhaḥ
“My dear Lord, Your abode is viśuddha-sattva, always undisturbed by the material qualities, and the activities there are in transcendental loving service unto Your feet. The goodness, austerity and penance of the devotees enhance such activities, which are always free from the contamination of passion and ignorance. Material qualities cannot touch You under any circumstances.”
When not manifested, the modes of material nature are said to be in goodness. When they are externally manifested and active in producing the varieties of material existence, they are said to be in passion. And when there is a lack of activity and variegatedness, they are said to be in ignorance. In other words, the pensive mood is goodness, activity is passion, and inactivity is ignorance. Above all these mundane qualitative manifestations is viśuddha-sattva. When it is predominated by the sandhinī potency, it is perceivable as the existence of all that be. When predominated by the samvit potency, it is perceived as knowledge in transcendence. And when predominated by the hlādinī potency, it is perceived as the most confidential love of Godhead. Viśuddha-sattva, the simultaneous manifestation of these three in one, is the main feature of the kingdom of God.
The Absolute Truth is therefore the substance of reality, eternally manifest in three energies. The manifestation of the internal energy of the Lord is the inconceivably variegated spiritual world, the manifestation of the marginal energy comprises the living entities, and the manifestation of the external energy is the material cosmos. Therefore the Absolute Truth includes these four principles — the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, His internal energy, His marginal energy and His external energy. The form of the Lord and the expansions of His form as svayaṁ-rūpa and vaibhava-prakāśa are directly the enjoyers of the internal energy, which is the eternal exhibitor of the spiritual world, the most confidential of the manifestations of energy. The external manifestation, the material energy, provides the covering bodies of the conditioned living entities, from Brahmā down to the insignificant ant. This covering energy is manifested under the three modes of material nature and appreciated in various ways by living entities in both the higher and lower forms of life.
Each of the three divisions of the internal potency — the sandhinī, samvit and hlādinī energies — influences one of the external potencies by which the conditioned souls are conducted. Such influence manifests the three qualitative modes of material nature, proving definitely that the living entities, the marginal potency, are eternally servitors of the Lord and are therefore controlled by either the internal or the external potency.
Bengali
হ্লাদতাপকরী মিশ্রা ত্বয়ি নো গুণবর্জিতে ॥ ৬৩ ॥
Text
tvayy ekā sarva-saṁsthitau
hlāda-tāpa-karī miśrā
tvayi no guṇa-varjite
Synonyms
hlādinī — pleasure potency; sandhinī — existence potency; samvit — knowledge potency; tvayi — in You; ekā — one; sarva-saṁsthitau — who are the basis of all things; hlāda — pleasure; tāpa — and misery; karī — causing; miśrā — a mixture of the two; tvayi — in You; na u — not; guṇa-varjite — who are without the three modes of material nature.
Translation
“O Lord, You are the support of everything. The three attributes hlādinī, sandhinī and samvit exist in You as one spiritual energy. But the material modes, which cause happiness, misery and mixtures of the two, do not exist in You, for You have no material qualities.”
Purport
This text is from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (1.12.69).
Bengali
ভগবানের সত্তা হয় যাহাতে বিশ্রাম ॥ ৬৪ ॥
Text
bhagavānera sattā haya yāhāte viśrāma
Synonyms
Translation
The essential portion of the sandhinī potency is śuddha-sattva. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s existence rests upon it.
Bengali
এসব কৃষ্ণের শুদ্ধসত্ত্বের বিকার ॥ ৬৫ ॥
Text
e-saba kṛṣṇera śuddha-sattvera vikāra
Synonyms
Translation
Kṛṣṇa’s mother, father, abode, house, bedding, seats and so on are all transformations of śuddha-sattva.
Purport
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s father, mother and household affairs are all displayed in the same viśuddha-sattva existence. A living entity situated in the status of pure goodness can understand the form, qualities and other features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa consciousness begins on the platform of pure goodness. Although there is a faint realization of Kṛṣṇa at first, Kṛṣṇa is actually realized as Vāsudeva, the absolute proprietor of omnipotence or the prime predominating Deity of all potencies. When the living entity is situated in viśuddha-sattva, transcendental to the three material modes of nature, he can perceive the form, quality and other features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through his service attitude. The status of pure goodness is the platform of understanding, for the Supreme Lord is always in spiritual existence.
Kṛṣṇa is always all-spiritual. Aside from the parents of the Personality of Godhead, all the other paraphernalia of His existence are also essentially a manifestation of sandhinī-śakti, or a transformation of viśuddha-sattva. To make this more clear, it may be said that this sandhinī-śakti of the internal potency maintains and manifests all the variegatedness of the spiritual world. In the kingdom of God, the Lord’s servants and maidservants, His consorts, His father and mother and everything else are all transformations of the spiritual existence of sandhinī-śakti. The existential sandhinī-śakti in the external potency similarly expands all the variegatedness of the material cosmos, from which we can have a glimpse of the spiritual field.
Bengali
যদীয়তে তত্র পুমানপাবৃতঃ ।
সত্ত্বে চ তস্মিন্ ভগবান্ বাসুদেবো
হ্যধোক্ষজো মে মনসা বিধীয়তে ॥ ৬৬ ॥
Text
yad īyate tatra pumān apāvṛtaḥ
sattve ca tasmin bhagavān vāsudevo
hy adhokṣajo me manasā vidhīyate
Synonyms
sattvam — existence; viśuddham — pure; vasudeva-śabditam — named vasudeva; yat — from which; īyate — appears; tatra — in that; pumān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; apāvṛtaḥ — without any covering; sattve — in goodness; ca — and; tasmin — that; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; vāsudevaḥ — Vāsudeva; hi — certainly; adhokṣajaḥ — who is beyond the senses; me — my; manasā — by the mind; vidhīyate — is procured.
Translation
“The condition of pure goodness [śuddha-sattva], in which the Supreme Personality of Godhead is revealed without any covering, is called vasudeva. In that pure state the Supreme Godhead, who is beyond the material senses and who is known as Vāsudeva, is perceived by my mind.”
Purport
This text from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (4.3.23), spoken by Lord Śiva when he condemned Dakṣa, the father of Satī, as an opponent of Viṣṇu, confirms beyond a doubt that Lord Kṛṣṇa, His name, His fame, His qualities and everything in connection with His paraphernalia exist in the sandhinī-śakti of the Lord’s internal potency.
Bengali
ব্রহ্মজ্ঞানাদিক সব তার পরিবার ॥ ৬৭ ॥
Text
brahma-jñānādika saba tāra parivāra
Synonyms
Translation
The essence of the samvit potency is knowledge that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is Lord Kṛṣṇa. All other kinds of knowledge, such as the knowledge of Brahman, are its components.
Purport
The activities of the samvit-śakti produce the effect of cognition. Both the Lord and the living entities are cognizant. Śrī Kṛṣṇa, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has full knowledge of everything everywhere, and therefore there are no hindrances to His cognition. He can have knowledge merely by glancing over an object, whereas innumerable impediments block the cognition of ordinary living beings. The cognition of the living beings has three divisions: direct knowledge, indirect knowledge and perverted knowledge. Sense perception of material objects by the mundane senses, such as the eye, ear, nose and hand, always produces definitely perverted knowledge. This illusion is a presentation of the material energy, which is influenced by the samvit-śakti in a perverted manner. Negative cognition of an object beyond the reach of sense perception is the way of indirect knowledge, which is not altogether imperfect but which produces only fragmentary knowledge in the form of impersonal spiritual realization and monism. But when the samvit factor of cognition is enlightened by the hlādinī potency of the same internal energy, they work together, and only thus can one attain knowledge of the Personality of Godhead. The samvit-śakti should be maintained in that state. Material knowledge and indirect spiritual knowledge are by-products of the samvit-śakti.
Bengali
ভাবের পরমকাষ্ঠা, নাম—‘মহাভাব’ ॥ ৬৮ ॥
Text
bhāvera parama-kāṣṭhā, nāma — ‘mahā-bhāva’
Synonyms
Translation
The essence of the hlādinī potency is love of God, the essence of love of God is emotion [bhāva], and the ultimate development of emotion is mahābhāva.
Purport
The product of the hlādinī-śakti is love of Godhead, which has two divisions — namely, pure love of Godhead and adulterated love of Godhead. Only when the hlādinī-śakti emanates from Śrī Kṛṣṇa and is bestowed upon the living being to attract Him does the living being become a pure lover of God. But when the same hlādinī-śakti is adulterated by the external, material energy and emanates from the living being, it does not attract Kṛṣṇa; on the contrary, the living being becomes attracted by the glamor of the material energy. At that time instead of becoming mad with love of Godhead, the living being becomes mad after material sense enjoyment, and because of his association with the qualitative modes of material nature, he is captivated by its interactions of distressful, unhappy feelings.
Bengali
সর্বগুণখনি কৃষ্ণকান্তাশিরোমণি ॥ ৬৯ ॥
Text
sarva-guṇa-khani kṛṣṇa-kāntā-śiromaṇi
Synonyms
Translation
Śrī Rādhā Ṭhākurāṇī is the embodiment of mahābhāva. She is the repository of all good qualities and the crest jewel among all the lovely consorts of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Purport
The unadulterated action of the hlādinī-śakti is displayed in the dealings of the damsels of Vraja and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, who is the topmost participant in that transcendental group. The essence of the hlādinī-śakti is love of Godhead, the essence of love of Godhead is bhāva, or transcendental sentiment, and the highest pitch of that bhāva is called mahābhāva. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the personified embodiment of these three aspects of transcendental consciousness. She is therefore the highest principle in love of Godhead and is the supreme lovable object of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Bengali
মহাভাবস্বরূপেয়ং গুণৈরতিবরীয়সী ॥ ৭০ ॥
Text
rādhikā sarvathādhikā
mahābhāva-svarūpeyaṁ
guṇair ativarīyasī
Synonyms
Translation
“Of these two gopīs [Rādhārāṇī and Candrāvalī], Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is superior in all respects. She is the embodiment of mahābhāva, and She surpasses all in good qualities.”
Purport
This is a quotation from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Rādhā-prakaraṇa 3).
Bengali
কৃষ্ণ–নিজশক্তি রাধা ক্রীড়ার সহায় ॥ ৭১ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa-nija-śakti rādhā krīḍāra sahāya
Synonyms
Translation
Her mind, senses and body are steeped in love for Kṛṣṇa. She is Kṛṣṇa’s own energy, and She helps Him in His pastimes.
Purport
Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is as fully spiritual as Kṛṣṇa. No one should consider Her to be material. She is definitely not like the conditioned souls, who have material bodies, gross and subtle, covered by material senses. She is all-spiritual, and both Her body and Her mind are of the same spiritual embodiment. Because Her body is spiritual, Her senses are also spiritual. Thus Her body, mind and senses fully shine in love of Kṛṣṇa. She is the personified hlādinī-śakti (the pleasure-giving energy of the Lord’s internal potency), and therefore She is the only source of enjoyment for Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Śrī Kṛṣṇa cannot enjoy anything that is internally different from Him. Therefore Rādhā and Śrī Kṛṣṇa are identical. The sandhinī portion of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s internal potency has manifested the all-attractive form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and the same internal potency, in the hlādinī feature, has presented Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, who is the attraction for the all-attractive. No one can match Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in the transcendental pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Bengali
স্তাভির্য এব নিজরূপতয়া কলাভিঃ ।
গোলোক এব নিবসত্যখিলাত্মভূতো
গোবিন্দমাদিপুরুষং তমহং ভজামি ॥ ৭২ ॥
Text
tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ
goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Synonyms
ānanda — bliss; cit — and knowledge; maya — consisting of; rasa — mellows; prati — at every second; bhāvitābhiḥ — who are engrossed with; tābhiḥ — with those; yaḥ — who; eva — certainly; nija-rūpatayā — with His own form; kalābhiḥ — who are parts of portions of His pleasure potency; goloke — in Goloka Vṛndāvana; eva — certainly; nivasati — resides; akhila-ātma — as the soul of all; bhūtaḥ — who exists; govindam — Lord Govinda; ādi-puruṣam — the original personality; tam — Him; aham — I; bhajāmi — worship.
Translation
“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency [hlādinī]. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa.”
Purport
This text is from the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.37).
Bengali
ক্রীড়ার সহায় যৈছে, শুন বিবরণ ॥ ৭৩ ॥
Text
krīḍāra sahāya yaiche, śuna vivaraṇa
Synonyms
Translation
Now please listen to how Lord Kṛṣṇa’s consorts help Him taste rasa and how they help in His pastimes.
Bengali
এক লক্ষ্মীগণ, পুরে মহিষীগণ আর ॥ ৭৪ ॥
ব্রজাঙ্গনা–রূপ, আর কান্তাগণ–সার ।
শ্রীরাধিকা হৈতে কান্তাগণের বিস্তার ॥ ৭৫ ॥
Text
eka lakṣmī-gaṇa, pure mahiṣī-gaṇa āra
śrī-rādhikā haite kāntā-gaṇera vistāra
Synonyms
kṛṣṇa-kāntā-gaṇa — the lovers of Lord Kṛṣṇa; dekhi — I see; tri-vidha — three; prakāra — kinds; eka — one; lakṣmī-gaṇa — the goddesses of fortune; pure — in the city; mahiṣī-gaṇa — the queens; āra — and; vraja-aṅganā — of the beautiful women of Vraja; rūpa — having the form; āra — another type; kāntā-gaṇa — of the lovers; sāra — the essence; śrī-rādhikā haite — from Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; kāntā-gaṇera — of the lovers of Kṛṣṇa; vistāra — the expansion.
Translation
The beloved consorts of Lord Kṛṣṇa are of three kinds: the goddesses of fortune, the queens, and the milkmaids of Vraja, who are the foremost of all. These consorts all proceed from Rādhikā.
Bengali
অংশিনী রাধা হৈতে তিন গণের বিস্তার ॥ ৭৬ ॥
Text
aṁśinī rādhā haite tina gaṇera vistāra
Synonyms
Translation
Just as the fountainhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, is the cause of all incarnations, so Śrī Rādhā is the cause of all these consorts.
Bengali
বিম্ব–প্রতিবিম্ব–রূপ মহিষীর ততি ॥ ৭৭ ॥
Text
bimba-pratibimba-rūpa mahiṣīra tati
Synonyms
Translation
The goddesses of fortune are partial manifestations of Śrīmatī Rādhikā, and the queens are reflections of Her image.
Bengali
মহিষীগণ বৈভব–প্রকাশস্বরূপ ॥ ৭৮ ॥
Text
mahiṣī-gaṇa vaibhava-prakāśa-svarūpa
Synonyms
Translation
The goddesses of fortune are Her plenary portions, and they display the forms of vaibhava-vilāsa. The queens are of the nature of Her vaibhava-prakāśa.
Bengali
কায়ব্যূহরূপ তাঁর রসের কারণ ॥ ৭৯ ॥
Text
kāya-vyūha-rūpa tāṅra rasera kāraṇa
Synonyms
Translation
The Vraja-devīs have diverse bodily features. They are Her expansions and are the instruments for expanding rasa.
Bengali
লীলার সহায় লাগি’ বহুত প্রকাশ ॥ ৮০ ॥
Text
līlāra sahāya lāgi’ bahuta prakāśa
Synonyms
Translation
Without many consorts, there is not such exultation in rasa. Therefore there are many manifestations of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī to assist in the Lord’s pastimes.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণকে করায় রাসাদিক–লীলাস্বাদে ॥ ৮১ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇake karāya rāsādika-līlāsvāde
Synonyms
Translation
Among them are various groups of consorts in Vraja who have varieties of sentiments and mellows. They help Lord Kṛṣṇa taste all the sweetness of the rāsa dance and other pastimes.
Purport
As already explained, Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā are one in two. They are identical. Kṛṣṇa expands Himself in multi-incarnations and plenary portions like the puruṣas. Similarly, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī expands Herself in multiforms as the goddesses of fortune, the queens and the damsels of Vraja. Such expansions from Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī are all Her plenary portions. All these womanly forms of Kṛṣṇa are expansions corresponding to His plenary expansions of Viṣṇu forms. These expansions have been compared to reflected forms of the original form. There is no difference between the original form and the reflected forms. The female reflections of Kṛṣṇa’s pleasure potency are as good as Kṛṣṇa Himself.
The plenary expansions of Kṛṣṇa’s personality are called vaibhava-vilāsa and vaibhava-prakāśa, and Rādhā’s expansions are similarly described. The goddesses of fortune are Her vaibhava-vilāsa forms, and the queens are Her vaibhava-prakāśa forms. The personal associates of Rādhārāṇī, the damsels of Vraja, are direct expansions of Her body. As expansions of Her personal form and transcendental disposition, they are agents of different reciprocations of love in the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa, under the supreme direction of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. In the transcendental realm, enjoyment is fully relished in variety. The exuberance of transcendental mellows is increased by the association of a large number of personalities similar to Rādhārāṇī, who are also known as gopīs or sakhīs. The variety of innumerable mistresses is a source of relish for Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and therefore these expansions from Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī are necessary for enhancing the pleasure potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Their transcendental exchanges of love are the superexcellent affairs of the pastimes in Vṛndāvana. By these expansions of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s personal body, She helps Lord Kṛṣṇa taste the rāsa dance and other, similar activities. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, being the central petal of the rāsa-līlā flower, is also known by the names found in the following verses.
Bengali
গোবিন্দসর্বস্ব, সর্বকান্তা–শিরোমণি ॥ ৮২ ॥
Text
govinda-sarvasva, sarva-kāntā-śiromaṇi
Synonyms
Translation
Rādhā is the one who gives pleasure to Govinda, and She is also the enchantress of Govinda. She is the be-all and end-all of Govinda, and the crest jewel of all His consorts.
Bengali
সর্বলক্ষ্মীময়ী সর্বকান্তিঃ সম্মোহিনী পরা ॥ ৮৩ ॥
Text
rādhikā para-devatā
sarva-lakṣmī-mayī sarva-
kāntiḥ sammohinī parā
Synonyms
devī — who shines brilliantly; kṛṣṇa-mayī — nondifferent from Lord Kṛṣṇa; proktā — called; rādhikā — Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; para-devatā — most worshipable; sarva-lakṣmī-mayī — presiding over all the goddesses of fortune; sarva-kāntiḥ — in whom all splendor exists; sammohinī — whose character completely bewilders Lord Kṛṣṇa; parā — the superior energy.
Translation
“The transcendental goddess Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the direct counterpart of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead. She is the primeval internal potency of the Lord.”
Purport
This text is from the Bṛhad-gautamīya-tantra.
Bengali
কিম্বা, কৃষ্ণপূজা–ক্রীড়ার বসতি নগরী ॥ ৮৪ ॥
Text
kimvā, kṛṣṇa-pūjā-krīḍāra vasati nagarī
Synonyms
Translation
“Devī” means “resplendent and most beautiful.” Or else it means “the lovely abode of the worship and love sports of Lord Kṛṣṇa.”
Bengali
যাঁহা যাঁহা নেত্র পড়ে তাঁহা কৃষ্ণ স্ফুরে ॥ ৮৫ ॥
Text
yāṅhā yāṅhā netra paḍe tāṅhā kṛṣṇa sphure
Synonyms
Translation
“Kṛṣṇa-mayī” means “one whose within and without are Lord Kṛṣṇa.” She sees Lord Kṛṣṇa wherever She casts Her glance.
Bengali
তাঁর শক্তি তাঁর সহ হয় একরূপ ॥ ৮৬ ॥
Text
tāṅra śakti tāṅra saha haya eka-rūpa
Synonyms
Translation
Or “kṛṣṇa-mayī” means that She is identical with Lord Kṛṣṇa, for She embodies the mellows of love. The energy of Lord Kṛṣṇa is identical with Him.
Purport
Kṛṣṇa-mayī has two different imports. First, a person who always thinks of Kṛṣṇa both within and without and who always remembers only Kṛṣṇa, wherever he goes or whatever he sees, is called kṛṣṇa-mayī. Also, since Kṛṣṇa’s personality is full of love, His loving potency, Rādhārāṇī, being nondifferent from Him, is called kṛṣṇa-mayī.
Bengali
অতএব ‘রাধিকা’ নাম পুরাণে বাখানে ॥ ৮৭ ॥
Text
ataeva ‘rādhikā’ nāma purāṇe vākhāne
Synonyms
Translation
Her worship [ārādhana] consists of fulfilling the desires of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the Purāṇas call Her Rādhikā.
Purport
The name “Rādhā” is derived from the root word ārādhana, which means “worship.” The personality who excels all in worshiping Kṛṣṇa may therefore be called Rādhikā, the greatest servitor.
Bengali
যন্নো বিহায় গোবিন্দঃ প্রীতো যামনয়দ্রহঃ ॥ ৮৮ ॥
Text
bhagavān harir īśvaraḥ
yan no vihāya govindaḥ
prīto yām anayad rahaḥ
Synonyms
anayā — by this one; ārādhitaḥ — worshiped; nūnam — certainly; bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; hariḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa; īśvaraḥ — the Supreme Lord; yat — from which; naḥ — us; vihāya — leaving aside; govindaḥ — Govinda; prītaḥ — pleased; yām — whom; anayat — lead; rahaḥ — to a lonely place.
Translation
“Truly the Personality of Godhead has been worshiped by Her. Therefore Lord Govinda, being pleased, has brought Her to a lonely spot, leaving us all behind.”
Purport
This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.30.28).
Bengali
সর্বপালিকা, সর্ব–জগতের মাতা ॥ ৮৯ ॥
Text
sarva-pālikā, sarva jagatera mātā
Synonyms
Translation
Therefore Rādhā is parama-devatā, the supreme goddess, and She is worshipable for everyone. She is the protectress of all, and She is the mother of the entire universe.
Bengali
সর্বলক্ষ্মীগণের তিহোঁ হয় অধিষ্ঠান ॥ ৯০ ॥
Text
sarva-lakṣmī-gaṇera tiṅho hana adhiṣṭhāna
Synonyms
Translation
I have already explained the meaning of “sarva-lakṣmī.” Rādhā is the original source of all the goddesses of fortune.
Bengali
তাঁর অধিষ্ঠাত্রী শক্তি—সর্বশক্তিবর্য ॥ ৯১ ॥
Text
tāṅra adhiṣṭhātrī śakti — sarva-śakti-varya
Synonyms
Translation
Or “sarva-lakṣmī” indicates that She fully represents the six opulences of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore She is the supreme energy of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Bengali
সর্বলক্ষ্মীগণের শোভা হয় যাঁহা হৈতে ॥ ৯২ ॥
Text
sarva-lakṣmī-gaṇera śobhā haya yāṅhā haite
Synonyms
Translation
The word “sarva-kānti” indicates that all beauty and luster rest in Her body. All the lakṣmīs derive their beauty from Her.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণের সকল বাঞ্ছা রাধাতেই রহে ॥ ৯৩ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇera sakala vāñchā rādhātei rahe
Synonyms
Translation
“Kānti” may also mean “all the desires of Lord Kṛṣṇa.” All the desires of Lord Kṛṣṇa rest in Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Bengali
‘সর্বকান্তি’–শব্দের এই অর্থ বিবরণ ॥ ৯৪ ॥
Text
‘sarva-kānti’-śabdera ei artha vivaraṇa
Synonyms
Translation
Śrīmatī Rādhikā fulfills all the desires of Lord Kṛṣṇa. This is the meaning of “sarva-kānti.”
Bengali
অতএব সমস্তের পরা ঠাকুরাণী ॥ ৯৫ ॥
Text
ataeva samastera parā ṭhākurāṇī
Synonyms
Translation
Lord Kṛṣṇa enchants the world, but Śrī Rādhā enchants even Him. Therefore She is the supreme goddess of all.
Bengali
দুই বস্তু ভেদ নাই, শাস্ত্র–পরমাণ ॥ ৯৬ ॥
Text
dui vastu bheda nāi, śāstra-paramāṇa
Synonyms
Translation
Śrī Rādhā is the full power, and Lord Kṛṣṇa is the possessor of full power. The two are not different, as evidenced by the revealed scriptures.
Bengali
অগ্নি, জ্বালাতে—যৈছে কভু নাহি ভেদ ॥ ৯৭ ॥
Text
agni, jvālāte — yaiche kabhu nāhi bheda
Synonyms
Translation
They are indeed the same, just as musk and its scent are inseparable, or as fire and its heat are nondifferent.
Bengali
লীলারস আস্বাদিতে ধরে দুইরূপ ॥ ৯৮ ॥
Text
līlā-rasa āsvādite dhare dui-rūpa
Synonyms
Translation
Thus Rādhā and Lord Kṛṣṇa are one, yet They have taken two forms to enjoy the mellows of pastimes.
Bengali
রাধা–ভাব–কান্তি দুই অঙ্গীকার করি’ ॥ ৯৯ ॥
শ্রীকৃষ্ণচৈতন্যরূপে কৈল অবতার।
এই ত’ পঞ্চম শ্লোকের অর্থ পরচার ॥ ১০০ ॥
Text
rādhā-bhāva-kānti dui aṅgīkāra kari’
ei ta’ pañcama ślokera artha paracāra
Synonyms
prema-bhakti — devotional service in love of Godhead; śikhāite — to teach; āpane — Himself; avatari — descending; rādhā-bhāva — the mood of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; kānti — and luster; dui — two; aṅgīkāra kari’ — accepting; śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya — of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; rūpe — in the form; kaila — made; avatāra — incarnation; ei — this; ta’ — certainly; pañcama — fifth; ślokera — of the verse; artha — meaning; paracāra — proclamation.
Translation
To promulgate prema-bhakti [devotional service in love of Godhead], Kṛṣṇa appeared as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya with the mood and complexion of Śrī Rādhā. Thus I have explained the meaning of the fifth verse.
Bengali
প্রথমে কহিয়ে সেই শ্লোকের আভাষ ॥ ১০১ ॥
Text
prathame kahiye sei ślokera ābhāsa
Synonyms
Translation
To explain the sixth verse, I shall first give a hint of its meaning.
Bengali
এহো বাহ্য হেতু, পূর্বে করিয়াছি সূচন ॥ ১০২ ॥
Text
eho bāhya hetu, pūrve kariyāchi sūcana
Synonyms
Translation
The Lord came to propagate saṅkīrtana. That is an external purpose, as I have already indicated.
Bengali
রসিকশেখর কৃষ্ণের সেই কার্য নিজ ॥ ১০৩ ॥
Text
rasika-śekhara kṛṣṇera sei kārya nija
Synonyms
Translation
There is a principal cause for Lord Kṛṣṇa’s appearance. It grows from His own engagements as the foremost enjoyer of loving exchanges.
Bengali
দামোদরস্বরূপ হৈতে যাহার প্রচার ॥ ১০৪ ॥
Text
dāmodara-svarūpa haite yāhāra pracāra
Synonyms
Translation
That most confidential cause is threefold. Svarūpa Dāmodara has revealed it.
Bengali
তাহাতে জানেন প্রভুর এসব প্রসঙ্গ ॥ ১০৫ ॥
Text
tāhāte jānena prabhura e-saba prasaṅga
Synonyms
Translation
Svarūpa Gosāñi is the most intimate associate of the Lord. He therefore knows all these topics well.
Purport
Prior to the Lord’s acceptance of the renounced order, Puruṣottama Bhaṭṭācārya, a resident of Navadvīpa, desired to enter the renounced order of life. Therefore he left home and went to Benares, where he accepted the position of brahmacarya from a Māyāvādī sannyāsī. When he became a brahmacārī, he was given the name Śrī Dāmodara Svarūpa. He left Benares shortly thereafter, without taking sannyāsa, and he came to Nilācala, Jagannātha Purī, where Lord Caitanya was staying. He met Caitanya Mahāprabhu there and dedicated his life for the service of the Lord. He became Lord Caitanya’s secretary and constant companion. He used to enhance the pleasure potency of the Lord by singing appropriate songs, which were very much appreciated. Svarūpa Dāmodara could understand the secret mission of Lord Caitanya, and it was by his grace only that all the devotees of Lord Caitanya could know the real purpose of the Lord.
Svarūpa Dāmodara has been identified as Lalitā-devī, the second expansion of Rādhārāṇī. However, text 160 of Kavi-karṇapūra’s authoritative Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā describes Svarūpa Dāmodara as the same Viśākhā-devī who serves the Lord in Goloka Vṛndāvana. Therefore it is to be understood that Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara is a direct expansion of Rādhārāṇī who helps the Lord experience the attitude of Rādhārāṇī.
Bengali
সেই ভাবে সুখ–দুঃখ উঠে নিরন্তর ॥ ১০৬ ॥
Text
sei bhāve sukha-duḥkha uṭhe nirantara
Synonyms
Translation
The heart of Lord Caitanya is the image of Śrī Rādhikā’s emotions. Thus feelings of pleasure and pain arise constantly therein.
Purport
Lord Caitanya’s heart was full of the feelings of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and His appearance resembled Hers. Svarūpa Dāmodara has explained His attitude as rādhā-bhāva-mūrti, the attitude of Rādhārāṇī. One who engages in sense gratification on the material platform can hardly understand rādhā-bhāva, but one who is freed from the demands of sense gratification can understand it. Rādhā-bhāva must be understood from the Gosvāmīs, those who are actually controllers of the senses. From such authorized sources it is to be known that the attitude of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the highest perfection of conjugal love, which is the highest of the five transcendental mellows, and it is the complete perfection of love of Kṛṣṇa.
These transcendental affairs can be understood on two platforms. One is called elevated, and the other is called superelevated. The loving affairs exhibited in Dvārakā are the elevated form. The superelevated position is reached in the manifestations of the pastimes of Vṛndāvana. The attitude of Lord Caitanya is certainly superelevated.
From the life of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, an intelligent person engaged in pure devotional service can understand that He always felt separation from Kṛṣṇa within Himself. In that separation He sometimes felt that He had found Kṛṣṇa and was enjoying the meeting. The significance of this separation and meeting is very specific. If someone tries to understand the exalted position of Lord Caitanya without knowing this, he is sure to misunderstand it. One must first become fully self-realized. Otherwise one may misidentify the Lord as nāgara, or the enjoyer of the damsels of Vraja, thus committing the mistake of rasābhāsa, or overlapping understanding.
Bengali
ভ্রমময় চেষ্টা, আর প্রলাপময় বাদ ॥ ১০৭ ॥
Text
bhrama-maya ceṣṭā, āra pralāpa-maya vāda
Synonyms
Translation
In the final portion of His pastimes, Lord Caitanya was obsessed with the madness of separation from Lord Kṛṣṇa. He acted in erroneous ways and talked deliriously.
Purport
Lord Śrī Caitanya exhibited the highest stage of the feelings of a devotee in separation from the Lord. This exhibition was sublime because He was completely perfect in the feelings of separation. Materialists, however, cannot understand this. Sometimes materialistic scholars think He was diseased or crazy. Their problem is that they always engage in material sense gratification and can never understand the feelings of the devotees and the Lord. Materialists are most abominable in their ideas. They think that they can enjoy directly perceivable gross objects by their senses and that they can similarly deal with the transcendental features of Lord Caitanya. But the Lord is understood only in pursuance of the principles laid down by the Gosvāmīs, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara. Doctrines like those of the nadīyā-nāgarīs, a class of so-called devotees, are never presented by authorized persons like Svarūpa Dāmodara or the six Gosvāmīs. The ideas of the gaurāṅga-nāgarīs are simply a mental concoction, and they are completely on the mental platform.
Bengali
সেই ভাবে মত্ত প্রভু রহে রাত্রিদিনে ॥ ১০৮ ॥
Text
sei bhāve matta prabhu rahe rātri-dine
Synonyms
Translation
Just as Rādhikā went mad at the sight of Uddhava, so Lord Caitanya was obsessed day and night with the madness of separation.
Purport
Those under the shelter of the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu can understand that His mode of worship of the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa in separation is the real worship of the Lord. When the feelings of separation become very intense, one attains the stage of meeting Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
So-called devotees like the sahajiyās cheaply imagine they are meeting Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana. Such thinking may be useful, but actually meeting Kṛṣṇa is possible through the attitude of separation taught by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Bengali
আবেশে আপন ভাব কহয়ে উঘাড়ি’ ॥ ১০৯ ॥
Text
āveśe āpana bhāva kahaye ughāḍi’
Synonyms
Translation
At night He talked incoherently in grief with His arms around Svarūpa Dāmodara’s neck. He spoke out His heart in ecstatic inspiration.
Bengali
সেই গীতি–শ্লোকে সুখ দেন দামোদর ॥ ১১০ ॥
Text
sei gīti-śloke sukha dena dāmodara
Synonyms
Translation
Whenever a particular sentiment arose in His heart, Svarūpa Dāmodara satisfied Him by singing songs or reciting verses of the same nature.
Bengali
আগে ইহা বিবরিব করিয়া বিস্তারে ॥ ১১১ ॥
Text
āge ihā vivariba kariyā vistāre
Synonyms
Translation
To analyze these pastimes is not necessary now. Later I shall describe them in detail.
Bengali
কৌমার, পৌগণ্ড, আর কৈশোর অতিমর্ম ॥ ১১২ ॥
Text
kaumāra, paugaṇḍa, āra kaiśora atimarma
Synonyms
Translation
Formerly in Vraja Lord Kṛṣṇa displayed three ages, namely childhood, boyhood and adolescence. His adolescence is especially significant.
Bengali
পৌগণ্ড সফল কৈল লঞা সখাবল ॥ ১১৩ ॥
Text
paugaṇḍa saphala kaila lañā sakhāvala
Synonyms
Translation
Parental affection made His childhood fruitful. His boyhood was successful with His friends.
Bengali
বাঞ্ছা ভরি’ আস্বাদিল রসের নির্যাস ॥ ১১৪ ॥
Text
vāñchā bhari’ āsvādila rasera niryāsa
Synonyms
Translation
In youth He tasted the essence of rasa, fulfilling His desires in pastimes like the rāsa dance with Śrīmatī Rādhikā and the other gopīs.
Bengali
রাসাদি–লীলায় তিন করিল সফল ॥ ১১৫ ॥
Text
rāsādi-līlāya tina karila saphala
Synonyms
Translation
In His youth Lord Kṛṣṇa made all three of His ages, and the entire universe, successful by His pastimes of amorous love like the rāsa dance.
Bengali
রেমে স্ত্রীরত্নকূটস্থঃ ক্ষপাসু ক্ষপিতাহিতঃ ॥ ১১৬ ॥
Text
mānayan madhusūdanaḥ
reme strī-ratna-kūṭa-sthaḥ
kṣapāsu kṣapitāhitaḥ
Synonyms
Translation
“Lord Madhusūdana enjoyed His youth with pastimes on autumn nights in the midst of the jewellike milkmaids. Thus He dispelled all the misfortunes of the world.”
Purport
This is a verse from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (5.13.60).
Bengali
ব্রীড়াকুঞ্চিতলোচনাং বিরচয়ন্নগ্রে সখীনামসৌ ।
তদ্বক্ষোরুহচিত্রকেলিমকরীপাণ্ডিত্যপারং গতঃ
কৈশোরং সফলীকরোতি কলয়ন্ কুঞ্জে বিহারং হরিঃ ॥ ১১৭ ॥
Text
vrīḍā-kuñcita-locanāṁ viracayann agre sakhīnām asau
tad-vakṣo-ruha-citra-keli-makarī-pāṇḍitya-pāraṁ gataḥ
kaiśoraṁ saphalī-karoti kalayan kuñje vihāraṁ hariḥ
Synonyms
vācā — by speech; sūcita — revealing; śarvarī — of the night; rati — in amorous pastimes; kalā — of the portion; prāgalbhyayā — the impudence; rādhikām — Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; vrīḍā — from shame; kuñcita-locanām — having Her eyes closed; viracayan — making; agre — before; sakhīnām — Her friends; asau — that one; tat — of Her; vakṣaḥ-ruha — on the breasts; citra-keli — with variegated pastimes; makarī — in drawing dolphins; pāṇḍitya — of cleverness; pāram — the limit; gataḥ — who reached; kaiśoram — adolescence; sa-phalī-karoti — makes successful; kalayan — performing; kuñje — in the bushes; vihāram — pastimes; hariḥ — the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Translation
“Lord Kṛṣṇa made Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī close Her eyes in shame before Her friends by His words relating Their amorous activities on the previous night. Then He showed the highest limit of cleverness in drawing pictures of dolphins in various playful sports on Her breasts. In this way Lord Hari made His youth successful by performing pastimes in the bushes with Śrī Rādhā and Her friends.”
Purport
This is a verse from the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (2.1.231) of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Bengali
ন্মথুরায়াং মধুরাক্ষি রাধিকা চ ।
অভবিষ্যদিয়ং বৃথা বিসৃষ্টি–
র্মকরাঙ্কস্তু বিশেষতস্তদাত্র ॥ ১১৮ ॥
Text
mathurāyāṁ madhurākṣi rādhikā ca
abhaviṣyad iyaṁ vṛthā visṛṣṭir
makarāṅkas tu viśeṣatas tadātra
Synonyms
hariḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa; eṣaḥ — this; na — not; cet — if; avātariṣyat — would have descended; mathurāyām — in Mathurā; madhura-akṣi — O lovely-eyed one (Paurṇamāsī); rādhikā — Śrīmatī Rādhikā; ca — and; abhaviṣyat — would have been; iyam — this; vṛthā — useless; visṛṣṭiḥ — the whole creation; makara-aṅkaḥ — the demigod of love, Cupid; tu — then; viśeṣataḥ — above all; tadā — then; atra — in this.
Translation
“O Paurṇamāsī, if Lord Hari had not descended in Mathurā with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, this entire creation — and especially Cupid, the demigod of love — would have been useless.”
Purport
This verse is spoken by Śrī Vṛndā-devī in the Vidagdha-mādhava (7.3) of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Bengali
যদ্যপি করিল রস–নির্যাস–চর্বণ ॥ ১১৯ ॥
তথাপি নহিল তিন বাঞ্ছিত পূরণ ।
তাহা আস্বাদিতে যদি করিল যতন ॥ ১২০ ॥
Text
yadyapi karila rasa-niryāsa-carvaṇa
tāhā āsvādite yadi karila yatana
Synonyms
ei mata — like this; pūrve — previously; kṛṣṇa — Lord Kṛṣṇa; rasera — of mellows; sadana — the reservoir; yadyapi — even though; karila — did; rasa — of the mellows; niryāsa — the essence; carvaṇa — chewing; tathāpi — still; nahila — was not; tina — three; vāñchita — desired objects; pūraṇa — fulfilling; tāhā — that; āsvādite — to taste; yadi — though; karila — were made; yatana — efforts.
Translation
Even though Lord Kṛṣṇa, the abode of all mellows, had previously in this way chewed the essence of the mellows of love, still He was unable to fulfill three desires, although He made efforts to taste them.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণ কহে,—‘আমি হই রসের নিদান ॥ ১২১ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa kahe, — ‘āmi ha-i rasera nidāna
Synonyms
Translation
I shall explain His first desire. Kṛṣṇa says, “I am the primary cause of all rasas.
Bengali
রাধিকার প্রেমে আমা করায় উন্মত্ত ॥ ১২২ ॥
Text
rādhikāra preme āmā karāya unmatta
Synonyms
Translation
“I am the full spiritual truth and am made of full joy, but the love of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī drives Me mad.
Bengali
যে বলে আমারে করে সর্বদা বিহ্বল ॥ ১২৩ ॥
Text
ye bale āmāre kare sarvadā vihvala
Synonyms
Translation
“I do not know the strength of Rādhā’s love, with which She always overwhelms Me.
Bengali
সদা আমা নানা নৃত্যে নাচায় উদ্ভট ॥ ১২৪ ॥
Text
sadā āmā nānā nṛtye nācāya udbhaṭa
Synonyms
Translation
“The love of Rādhikā is My teacher, and I am Her dancing pupil. Her prema makes Me dance various novel dances.”
Bengali
কুণ্ডারণ্যে কিমিহ কুরুতে নৃত্যশিক্ষাং গুরুঃ কঃ ।
তং ত্বন্মূর্তিঃ প্রতিতরুলতাং দিগ্বিদিক্ষু স্ফুরন্তী
শৈলূষীব ভ্রমতি পরিতো নর্তয়ন্তী স্ব–পশ্চাৎ ॥ ১২৫ ॥
Text
kuṇḍāraṇye kim iha kurute nṛtya-śikṣāṁ guruḥ kaḥ
taṁ tvan-mūrtiḥ prati-taru-lataṁ dig-vidikṣu sphurantī
śailūṣīva bhramati parito nartayantī sva-paścāt
Synonyms
kasmāt — from where; vṛnde — O Vṛndā; priyā-sakhi — O dear friend; hareḥ — of Lord Hari; pāda-mūlāt — from the lotus feet; kutaḥ — where; asau — that one (Lord Kṛṣṇa); kuṇḍa-araṇye — in the forest on the bank of Rādhā-kuṇḍa; kim — what; iha — here; kurute — He does; nṛtya-śikṣām — dancing practice; guruḥ — teacher; kaḥ — who; tam — Him; tvat-mūrtiḥ — Your form; prati-taru-latam — on every tree and vine; dik-vidikṣu — in all directions; sphurantī — appearing; śailūṣī — expert dancer; iva — like; bhramati — wanders; paritaḥ — all around; nartayantī — causing to dance; sva-paścāt — behind.
Translation
“O my beloved friend Vṛndā, where are you coming from?”
Purport
“I am coming from the feet of Śrī Hari.”
“Where is He?”
“In the forest on the bank of Rādhā-kuṇḍa.”
“What is He doing there?”
“He is learning dancing.”
“Who is His master?”
“Your image, Rādhā, revealing itself in every tree and creeper in every direction, is roaming like a skillful dancer, making Him dance behind.”
This text is from the Govinda-līlāmṛta (8.77) of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī.
Bengali
তাহা হ’তে কোটিগুণ রাধা–প্রেমাস্বাদ ॥ ১২৬ ॥
Text
tāhā ha’te koṭi-guṇa rādhā-premāsvāda
Synonyms
Translation
“Whatever pleasure I get from tasting My love for Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, She tastes ten million times more than Me by Her love.
Bengali
রাধাপ্রেম তৈছে সদা বিরুদ্ধধর্মময় ॥ ১২৭ ॥
Text
rādhā-prema taiche sadā viruddha-dharma-maya
Synonyms
Translation
“Just as I am the abode of all mutually contradictory characteristics, so Rādhā’s love is always full of similar contradictions.
Bengali
তথাপি সে ক্ষণে ক্ষণে বাড়য়ে সদাই ॥ ১২৮ ॥
Text
tathāpi se kṣaṇe kṣaṇe bāḍaye sadāi
Synonyms
Translation
“Rādhā’s love is all-pervading, leaving no room for expansion. But still it is expanding constantly.
Bengali
তথাপি গুরুর ধর্ম গৌরব–বর্জিত ॥ ১২৯ ॥
Text
tathāpi gurura dharma gaurava-varjita
Synonyms
Translation
“There is certainly nothing greater than Her love. But Her love is devoid of pride. That is the sign of its greatness.
Bengali
তথাপি সর্বদা বাম্য–বক্র–ব্যবহার ॥ ১৩০ ॥
Text
tathāpi sarvadā vāmya-vakra-vyavahāra
Synonyms
Translation
“Nothing is purer than Her love. But its behavior is always perverse and crooked.”
Bengali
গুরুরপি গৌরবচর্যয়া বিহীনঃ ।
মুহুরুপচিতবক্রিমাপি শুদ্ধো
জয়তি মুরদ্বিষি রাধিকানুরাগঃ ॥ ১৩১ ॥
Text
gurur api gaurava-caryayā vihīnaḥ
muhur upacita-vakrimāpi śuddho
jayati mura-dviṣi rādhikānurāgaḥ
Synonyms
vibhuḥ — all-pervading; api — although; kalayan — making; sadā — always; abhivṛddhim — increase; guruḥ — important; api — although; gaurava-caryayā vihīnaḥ — without proud behavior; muhuḥ — again and again; upacita — increased; vakrimā — duplicity; api — although; śuddhaḥ — pure; jayati — all glories to; mura-dviṣi — for Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of the demon Mura; rādhikā — of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; anurāgaḥ — the love.
Translation
“All glories to Rādhā’s love for Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of the demon Mura! Although it is all-pervading, it tends to increase at every moment. Although it is important, it is devoid of pride. And although it is pure, it is always beset with duplicity.”
Purport
This is a verse from the Dāna-keli-kaumudī (2) of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Bengali
সেই প্রেমার আমি হই কেবল ‘বিষয়’ ॥ ১৩২ ॥
Text
sei premāra āmi ha-i kevala ‘viṣaya’
Synonyms
Translation
“Śrī Rādhikā is the highest abode of that love, and I am its only object.
Bengali
আমা হৈতে কোটিগুণ আশ্রয়ের আহ্লাদ ॥ ১৩৩ ॥
Text
āmā haite koṭi-guṇa āśrayera āhlāda
Synonyms
Translation
“I taste the bliss to which the object of love is entitled. But the pleasure of Rādhā, the abode of that love, is ten million times greater.
Bengali
যত্নে আস্বাদিতে নারি, কি করি উপায় ॥ ১৩৪ ॥
Text
yatne āsvādite nāri, ki kari upāya
Synonyms
Translation
“My mind races to taste the pleasure experienced by the abode, but I cannot taste it, even by My best efforts. How may I taste it?
Bengali
তবে এই প্রেমানন্দের অনুভব হয় ॥ ১৩৫ ॥
Text
tabe ei premānandera anubhava haya
Synonyms
Translation
“If sometime I can be the abode of that love, only then may I taste its joy.”
Purport
Viṣaya and āśraya are two very significant words relating to the reciprocation between Kṛṣṇa and His devotee. The devotee is called the āśraya, and his beloved, Kṛṣṇa, is the viṣaya. Different ingredients are involved in the exchange of love between the āśraya and viṣaya, which are known as vibhāva, anubhāva, sāttvika and vyabhicārī. Vibhāva is divided into the two categories ālambana and uddīpana. Ālambana may be further divided into āśraya and viṣaya. In the loving affairs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, Rādhārāṇī is the āśraya feature and Kṛṣṇa the viṣaya. The transcendental consciousness of the Lord tells Him, “I am Kṛṣṇa, and I experience pleasure as the viṣaya. The pleasure enjoyed by Rādhārāṇī, the āśraya, is many times greater than the pleasure I feel.” Therefore, to feel the pleasure of the āśraya category, Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Bengali
হৃদয়ে বাড়য়ে প্রেম–লোভ ধক্ধকি ॥ ১৩৬ ॥
Text
hṛdaye bāḍaye prema-lobha dhakdhaki
Synonyms
Translation
Thinking in this way, Lord Kṛṣṇa was curious to taste that love. His eager desire for that love increasingly blazed in His heart.
Bengali
স্বমাধুর্য দেখি’ কৃষ্ণ করেন বিচার ॥ ১৩৭ ॥
Text
sva-mādhurya dekhi’ kṛṣṇa karena vicāra
Synonyms
Translation
That is one desire. Now please hear of another. Seeing His own beauty, Lord Kṛṣṇa began to consider.
Bengali
ত্রিজগতে ইহার কেহ নাহি পায় সীমা ॥ ১৩৮ ॥
Text
tri-jagate ihāra keha nāhi pāya sīmā
Synonyms
Translation
“My sweetness is wonderful, infinite and full. No one in the three worlds can find its limit.
Bengali
আমার মাধুর্যামৃত আস্বাদে সকলি ॥ ১৩৯ ॥
Text
āmāra mādhuryāmṛta āsvāde sakali
Synonyms
Translation
“Only Rādhikā, by the strength of Her love, tastes all the nectar of My sweetness.
Bengali
তথাপি স্বচ্ছতা তার বাড়ে ক্ষণে ক্ষণ ॥ ১৪০ ॥
Text
tathāpi svacchatā tāra bāḍhe kṣaṇe kṣaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
“Although Rādhā’s love is pure like a mirror, its purity increases at every moment.
Bengali
এ–দর্পণের আগে নব নব রূপে ভাসে ॥ ১৪১ ॥
Text
e-darpaṇera āge nava nava rūpe bhāse
Synonyms
Translation
“My sweetness also has no room for expansion, yet it shines before that mirror in newer and newer beauty.
Bengali
ক্ষণে ক্ষণে বাড়ে দোঁহে, কেহ নাহি হারি ॥ ১৪২ ॥
Text
kṣaṇe kṣaṇe bāḍe doṅhe, keha nāhi hāri
Synonyms
Translation
“There is constant competition between My sweetness and the mirror of Rādhā’s love. They both go on increasing, but neither knows defeat.
Bengali
স্ব–স্ব–প্রেম–অনুরূপ ভক্তে আস্বাদয় ॥ ১৪৩ ॥
Text
sva-sva-prema-anurūpa bhakte āsvādaya
Synonyms
Translation
“My sweetness is always newer and newer. Devotees taste it according to their own respective love.
Bengali
আস্বাদিতে হয় লোভ, আস্বাদিতে নারি ॥ ১৪৪ ॥
Text
āsvādite haya lobha, āsvādite nāri
Synonyms
Translation
“If I see My sweetness in a mirror, I am tempted to taste it, but nevertheless I cannot.
Bengali
রাধিকাস্বরূপ হইতে তবে মন ধায় ॥ ১৪৫ ॥
Text
rādhikā-svarūpa ha-ite tabe mana dhāya
Synonyms
Translation
“If I deliberate on a way to taste it, I find that I hanker for the position of Rādhikā.”
Purport
Kṛṣṇa’s attractiveness is wonderful and unlimited. No one can know the end of it. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī alone can relish such extensiveness from Her position in the āśraya category. The mirror of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s transcendental love is perfectly clear, yet it appears clearer and clearest in the transcendental method of understanding Kṛṣṇa. In the mirror of Rādhārāṇī’s heart, the transcendental features of Kṛṣṇa appear increasingly new and fresh. In other words, the attraction of Kṛṣṇa increases in proportion to the understanding of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Each tries to supersede the other. Neither wants to be defeated in increasing the intensity of love. Desiring to understand Rādhārāṇī’s attitude of increasing love, Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Bengali
স্ফুরতি মম গরীয়ানেষ মাধুর্যপূরঃ ।
অয়মহমপি হন্ত প্রেক্ষ্য যং লুব্ধচেতাঃ
সরভসমুপভোক্তুং কাময়ে রাধিকেব ॥ ১৪৬ ॥
Text
sphurati mama garīyān eṣa mādhurya-pūraḥ
ayam aham api hanta prekṣya yaṁ lubdha-cetāḥ
sarabhasam upabhoktuṁ kāmaye rādhikeva
Synonyms
aparikalita — not experienced; pūrvaḥ — previously; kaḥ — who; camatkāra-kārī — causing wonder; sphurati — manifests; mama — My; garīyān — more great; eṣaḥ — this; mādhurya-pūraḥ — abundance of sweetness; ayam — this; aham — I; api — even; hanta — alas; prekṣya — seeing; yam — which; lubdha-cetāḥ — My mind being bewildered; sa-rabhasam — impetuously; upabhoktum — to enjoy; kāmaye — desire; rādhikā iva — like Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Translation
“Who manifests an abundance of sweetness greater than Mine, which has never been experienced before and which causes wonder to all? Alas, I Myself, My mind bewildered upon seeing this beauty, impetuously desire to enjoy it like Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.”
Purport
This text is from the Lalita-mādhava (8.34) of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. It was spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa when He saw the beauty of His own reflection in a jeweled fountain in Dvārakā.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণআদি নরনারী করয়ে চঞ্চল ॥ ১৪৭ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa-ādi nara-nārī karaye cañcala
Synonyms
Translation
The beauty of Kṛṣṇa has one natural strength: it thrills the hearts of all men and women, beginning with Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself.
Bengali
আপনা আস্বাদিতে কৃষ্ণ করেন যতন ॥ ১৪৮ ॥
Text
āpanā āsvādite kṛṣṇa karena yatana
Synonyms
Translation
All minds are attracted by hearing His sweet voice and flute, or by seeing His beauty. Even Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself makes efforts to taste that sweetness.
Bengali
তৃষ্ণাশান্তি নহে, তৃষ্ণা বাড়ে নিরন্তরে ॥ ১৪৯ ॥
Text
tṛṣṇā-śānti nahe, tṛṣṇā bāḍhe nirantare
Synonyms
Translation
The thirst of one who always drinks the nectar of that sweetness is never satisfied. Rather, that thirst increases constantly.
Bengali
অবিদগ্ধ বিধি ভাল না জানে সৃজন ॥ ১৫০ ॥
Text
avidagdha vidhi bhāla nā jāne sṛjana
Synonyms
Translation
Such a person, being unsatisfied, begins to blaspheme Lord Brahmā, saying that he does not know the art of creating well and is simply inexperienced.
Bengali
তাহাতে নিমেষ,—কৃষ্ণ কি দেখিব মুঞি ॥ ১৫১ ॥
Text
tāhāte nimeṣa, — kṛṣṇa ki dekhiba muñi
Synonyms
Translation
He has not given millions of eyes to see the beauty of Kṛṣṇa. He has given only two eyes, and even those eyes blink. How then shall I see the lovely face of Kṛṣṇa?
Bengali
ত্রিটির্যুগায়তে ত্বামপশ্যতাম ।
কুটিলকুন্তলং শ্রীমুখং চ তে
জড় উদীক্ষতাং পক্ষ্মকৃদ্দৃশাম্ ॥ ১৫২ ॥
Text
truṭir yugāyate tvām apaśyatām
kuṭila-kuntalaṁ śrī-mukhaṁ ca te
jaḍa udīkṣatāṁ pakṣma-kṛd dṛśām
Synonyms
aṭati — goes; yat — when; bhavān — Your Lordship; ahni — in the day; kānanam — to the forest; truṭiḥ — half a second; yugāyate — appears like a yuga; tvām — You; apaśyatām — of those not seeing; kuṭila-kuntalam — adorned with curled hair; śrī-mukham — beautiful face; ca — and; te — Your; jaḍaḥ — stupid; udīkṣatām — looking at; pakṣma-kṛt — the maker of eyelashes; dṛśām — of the eyes.
Translation
[The gopīs said:] “O Kṛṣṇa, when You go to the forest during the day and we do not see Your sweet face, which is surrounded by beautiful curling hair, half a second becomes as long as an entire age for us. And we consider the creator, who has put eyelids on the eyes we use for seeing You, to be simply a fool.”
Purport
This verse is spoken by the gopīs in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.31.15).
Bengali
যৎপ্রেক্ষণে দৃশিষু পক্ষ্মকৃতং শপন্তি ।
দৃগ্ভির্হৃদীকৃতমলং পরিরভ্য সর্বা–
স্তদ্ভাবমাপুরপি নিত্যযুজাং দুরাপম্ ॥ ১৫৩ ॥
Text
yat-prekṣaṇe dṛśiṣu pakṣma-kṛtaṁ śapanti
dṛgbhir hṛdī-kṛtam alaṁ parirabhya sarvās
tad-bhāvam āpur api nitya-yujāṁ durāpam
Synonyms
gopyaḥ — the gopīs; ca — and; kṛṣṇam — Lord Kṛṣṇa; upalabhya — seeing; cirāt — after a long time; abhīṣṭam — desired object; yat-prekṣaṇe — in the seeing of whom; dṛśiṣu — in the eyes; pakṣma-kṛtam — the maker of eyelashes; śapanti — curse; dṛgbhiḥ — with the eyes; hṛdī kṛtam — who entered the hearts; alam — enough; parirabhya — embracing; sarvāḥ — all; tat-bhāvam — that highest stage of joy; āpuḥ — obtained; api — although; nitya-yujām — by perfected yogīs; durāpam — difficult to obtain.
Translation
“The gopīs saw their beloved Kṛṣṇa at Kurukṣetra after a long separation. They secured and embraced Him in their hearts through their eyes, and they attained a joy so intense that not even perfect yogīs can attain it. The gopīs cursed the creator for creating eyelids that interfered with their vision.”
Purport
This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.82.39).
Bengali
যেই জন কৃষ্ণ দেখে, সেই ভাগ্যবান্ ॥ ১৫৪ ॥
Text
yei jana kṛṣṇa dekhe, sei bhāgyavān
Synonyms
Translation
There is no consummation for the eyes other than the sight of Kṛṣṇa. Whoever sees Him is most fortunate indeed.
Bengali
সখ্যঃ পশূননুবিবেশয়তোর্বয়স্যৈঃ ।
বক্ত্রং ব্রজেশসুতয়োরনুবেণুজুষ্টং
যৈর্বা নিপীতমনুরক্তকটাক্ষমোক্ষম্ ॥ ১৫৫ ॥
Text
sakhyaḥ paśūn anuviveśayator vayasyaiḥ
vaktraṁ vrajeśa-sutayor anuveṇu-juṣṭaṁ
yair vā nipītam anurakta-kaṭākṣa-mokṣam
Synonyms
akṣaṇvatām — of those who have eyes; phalam — the fruit; idam — this; na — not; param — other; vidāmaḥ — we know; sakhyaḥ — O friends; paśūn — the cows; anuviveśayatoḥ — causing to enter one forest from another; vayasyaiḥ — with Their friends of the same age; vaktram — the faces; vraja-īśa — of Mahārāja Nanda; sutayoḥ — of the two sons; anuveṇu-juṣṭam — possessed of flutes; yaiḥ — by which; vā — or; nipītam — imbibed; anurakta — loving; kaṭa-akṣa — glances; mokṣam — giving off.
Translation
[The gopīs said:] “O friends, those eyes that see the beautiful faces of the sons of Mahārāja Nanda are certainly fortunate. As these two sons enter the forest, surrounded by Their friends, driving the cows before Them, They hold Their flutes to Their mouths and glance lovingly upon the residents of Vṛndāvana. For those who have eyes, we think there is no greater object of vision.”
Purport
Like the gopīs, one can see Kṛṣṇa continuously if one is fortunate enough. In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is said that sages whose eyes have been smeared with the ointment of pure love can see the form of Śyāmasundara (Kṛṣṇa) continuously in the centers of their hearts. This text from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.21.7) was sung by the gopīs on the advent of the śarat season.
Bengali
লাবণ্যসারমসমোর্ধ্বমনন্যসিদ্ধম্ ।
দৃগ্ভিঃ পিবন্ত্যনুসবাভিনবং দুরাপ–
মেকান্তধাম যশসঃ শ্রিয় ঐশ্বরস্য ॥ ১৫৬ ॥
Text
lāvaṇya-sāram asamordhvam ananya-siddham
dṛgbhiḥ pibanty anusavābhinavaṁ durāpam
ekānta-dhāma yaśasaḥ śriya aiśvarasya
Synonyms
gopyaḥ — the gopīs; tapaḥ — austerities; kim — what; acaran — performed; yat — from which; amuṣya — of such a one (Lord Kṛṣṇa); rūpam — the form; lāvaṇya-sāram — the essence of loveliness; asama-ūrdhvam — not paralleled or surpassed; ananya-siddham — not perfected by any other ornament (self-perfect); dṛgbhiḥ — by the eyes; pibanti — they drink; anusava-abhinavam — constantly new; durāpam — difficult to obtain; ekānta-dhāma — the only abode; yaśasaḥ — of fame; śriyaḥ — of beauty; aiśvarasya — of opulence.
Translation
[The women of Mathurā said:] “What austerities must the gopīs have performed? With their eyes they always drink the nectar of the form of Lord Kṛṣṇa, which is the essence of loveliness and is not to be equaled or surpassed. That loveliness is the only abode of beauty, fame and opulence. It is self-perfect, ever fresh and extremely rare.”
Purport
This text from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.44.14) was spoken by the women of Mathurā when they saw Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma in the arena with King Kaṁsa’s great wrestlers Muṣṭika and Cāṇūra.
Bengali
যাহার শ্রবণে মন হয় টলমল ॥ ১৫৭ ॥
Text
yāhāra śravaṇe mana haya ṭalamala
Synonyms
Translation
The sweetness of Lord Kṛṣṇa is unprecedented, and its strength is also unprecedented. Simply by one’s hearing of such beauty, the mind becomes unsteady.
Bengali
সম্যক্ আস্বাদিতে নারে, মনে রহে ক্ষোভ ॥ ১৫৮ ॥
Text
samyak āsvādite nāre, mane rahe kṣobha
Synonyms
Translation
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s own beauty attracts Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. But because He cannot fully enjoy it, His mind remains full of sorrow.
Bengali
তৃতীয় হেতুর এবে শুনহ লক্ষণ ॥ ১৫৯ ॥
Text
tṛtīya hetura ebe śunaha lakṣaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
This is a description of His second desire. Now please listen as I describe the third.
Bengali
স্বরূপগোসাঞি মাত্র জানেন একান্ত ॥ ১৬০ ॥
Text
svarūpa-gosāñi mātra jānena ekānta
Synonyms
Translation
This conclusion of rasa is extremely deep. Only Svarūpa Dāmodara knows much about it.
Bengali
চৈতন্যগোসাঞির তেঁহ অত্যন্ত মর্ম যাতে ॥ ১৬১ ॥
Text
caitanya-gosāñira teṅha atyanta marma yāte
Synonyms
Translation
Anyone else who claims to know it must have heard it from him, for he was the most intimate companion of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Bengali
বিশুদ্ধ নির্মল প্রেম, কভু নহে কাম ॥ ১৬২ ॥
Text
viśuddha nirmala prema, kabhu nahe kāma
Synonyms
Translation
The love of the gopīs is called rūḍha-bhāva. It is pure and spotless. It is not at any time lust.
Purport
As already explained, the position of the gopīs in their loving dealings with Kṛṣṇa is transcendental. Their emotion is called rūḍha-bhāva. Although it is apparently like mundane sex, one should not confuse it with mundane sexual love, for it is pure and unadulterated love of Godhead.
Bengali
ইত্যুদ্ধবাদয়োঽপ্যেতং বাঞ্ছন্তি ভগবৎপ্রিয়াঃ ॥ ১৬৩ ॥
Text
kāma ity agamat prathām
ity uddhavādayo ’py etaṁ
vāñchanti bhagavat-priyāḥ
Synonyms
Translation
“The pure love of the gopīs has become celebrated by the name ‘lust.’ The dear devotees of the Lord, headed by Śrī Uddhava, desire to taste that love.”
Purport
This is a verse from the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.285).
Bengali
লৌহ আর হেম যৈছে স্বরূপে বিলক্ষণ ॥ ১৬৪ ॥
Text
lauha āra hema yaiche svarūpe vilakṣaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
Lust and love have different characteristics, just as iron and gold have different natures.
Purport
One should try to discriminate between sexual love and pure love, for they belong to different categories, with a gulf of difference between them. They are as different from one another as iron is from gold.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণেন্দ্রিয়প্রীতি–ইচ্ছা ধরে ‘প্রেম’ নাম ॥ ১৬৫ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇendriya-prīti-icchā dhare ‘prema’ nāma
Synonyms
Translation
The desire to gratify one’s own senses is kāma [lust], but the desire to please the senses of Lord Kṛṣṇa is prema [love].
Purport
The revealed scriptures describe pure love as follows:
yad bhāva-bandhanaṁ yūnoḥ sa premā parikīrtitaḥ
“If there is ample reason for the dissolution of a conjugal relationship and yet such a dissolution does not take place, such a relationship of intimate love is called pure.”
The predominated gopīs were bound to Kṛṣṇa in such pure love. For them there was no question of sexual love based on sense gratification. Their only engagement in life was to see Kṛṣṇa happy in all respects, regardless of their own personal interests. They dedicated their souls only for the satisfaction of the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. There was not the slightest tinge of sexual love between the gopīs and Kṛṣṇa.
The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta asserts with authority that sexual love is a matter of personal sense enjoyment. All the regulative principles in the Vedas pertaining to desires for popularity, fatherhood, wealth and so on are different phases of sense gratification. Acts of sense gratification may be performed under the cover of public welfare, nationalism, religion, altruism, ethical codes, Biblical codes, health directives, fruitive action, bashfulness, tolerance, personal comfort, liberation from material bondage, progress, family affection or fear of social ostracism or legal punishment, but all these categories are different subdivisions of one substance — sense gratification. All such good acts are performed basically for one’s own sense gratification, for no one can sacrifice his personal interest while discharging these much-advertised moral and religious principles. But above all this is a transcendental stage in which one feels himself to be only an eternal servitor of Kṛṣṇa, the absolute Personality of Godhead. All acts performed in this sense of servitude are called pure love of God because they are performed for the absolute sense gratification of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. However, any act performed for the purpose of enjoying its fruits or results is an act of sense gratification. Such actions are visible sometimes in gross and sometimes in subtle forms.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণসুখতাৎপর্য–মাত্র প্রেম ত’ প্রবল ॥ ১৬৬ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa-sukha-tātparya-mātra prema ta’ prabala
Synonyms
Translation
The object of lust is only the enjoyment of one’s own senses. But love caters to the enjoyment of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and thus it is very powerful.
Bengali
লজ্জা, ধৈর্য, দেহসুখ, আত্মসুখ–মর্ম ॥ ১৬৭ ॥
দুস্ত্যজ আর্যপথ, নিজ পরিজন ।
স্বজনে করয়ে যত তাড়ন–ভর্ৎসন ॥ ১৬৮ ॥
সর্বত্যাগ করি’ করে কৃষ্ণের ভজন ।
কৃষ্ণসুখহেতু করে প্রেম–সেবন ॥ ১৬৯ ॥
Text
lajjā, dhairya, deha-sukha, ātma-sukha-marma
sva-jane karaye yata tāḍana-bhartsana
kṛṣṇa-sukha-hetu kare prema-sevana
Synonyms
loka-dharma — customs of the people; veda-dharma — Vedic injunctions; deha-dharma — necessities of the body; karma — fruitive work; lajjā — bashfulness; dhairya — patience; deha-sukha — the happiness of the body; ātma-sukha — the happiness of the self; marma — the essence; dustyaja — difficult to give up; ārya-patha — the path of varṇāśrama; nija — own; parijana — family members; sva-jane — one’s own family; karaye — do; yata — all; tāḍana — punishment; bhartsana — scolding; sarva-tyāga kari’ — giving up everything; kare — do; kṛṣṇera — of Lord Kṛṣṇa; bhajana — worship; kṛṣṇa-sukha-hetu — for the purpose of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s happiness; kare — do; prema — out of love; sevana — service.
Translation
Social customs, scriptural injunctions, bodily demands, fruitive action, shyness, patience, bodily pleasures, self-gratification and the path of varṇāśrama-dharma, which is difficult to give up — the gopīs have forsaken all these, as well as their own relatives and their punishment and scolding, for the sake of serving Lord Kṛṣṇa. They render loving service to Him for the sake of His enjoyment.
Bengali
স্বচ্ছ ধৌতবস্ত্রে যৈছে নাহি কোন দাগ ॥ ১৭০ ॥
Text
svaccha dhauta-vastre yaiche nāhi kona dāga
Synonyms
Translation
That is called firm attachment to Lord Kṛṣṇa. It is spotlessly pure, like a clean cloth that has no stain.
Purport
The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta advises everyone to give up all engagements of sense gratification and, like the gopīs, dovetail oneself entirely with the will of the Supreme Lord. That is the ultimate instruction of Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā. We should be prepared to do anything and everything to please the Lord, even at the risk of violating the Vedic principles or ethical laws. That is the standard of love of Godhead. Such activities in pure love of Godhead are as spotless as white linen that has been completely washed. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura warns us in this connection that we should not mistakenly think that the idea of giving up everything implies the renunciation of duties necessary in relation to the body and mind. Even such duties are not sense gratification if they are undertaken in a spirit of service to Kṛṣṇa.
Bengali
কাম—অন্ধতমঃ, প্রেম—নির্মল ভাস্কর ॥ ১৭১ ॥
Text
kāma — andha-tamaḥ, prema — nirmala bhāskara
Synonyms
Translation
Therefore lust and love are quite different. Lust is like dense darkness, but love is like the bright sun.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণসুখ লাগি মাত্র, কৃষ্ণ সে সম্বন্ধ ॥ ১৭২ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa-sukha lāgi mātra, kṛṣṇa se sambandha
Synonyms
Translation
Thus there is not the slightest taint of lust in the gopīs’ love. Their relationship with Kṛṣṇa is only for the sake of His enjoyment.
Bengali
ভীতাঃ শনৈঃ প্রিয় দধীমহি কর্কশেষু ।
তেনাটবীমটসি তদ্ব্যথতে ন কিং স্বিৎ
কূর্পাদিভির্ভ্রমতি ধীর্ভবদায়ুষাং নঃ ॥ ১৭৩ ॥
Text
bhītāḥ śanaiḥ priya dadhīmahi karkaśeṣu
tenāṭavīm aṭasi tad vyathate na kiṁ svit
kūrpādibhir bhramati dhīr bhavad-āyuṣāṁ naḥ
Synonyms
yat — which; te — Your; sujāta — very fine; caraṇa-ambu-ruham — lotus feet; staneṣu — on the breasts; bhītāḥ — being afraid; śanaiḥ — gently; priya — O dear one; dadhīmahi — we place; karkaśeṣu — rough; tena — with them; aṭavīm — the path; aṭasi — You roam; tat — they; vyathate — are distressed; na — not; kim svit — we wonder; kūrpa-ādibhiḥ — by small stones and so on; bhramati — flutters; dhīḥ — the mind; bhavat-āyuṣām — of those of whom Your Lordship is the very life; naḥ — of us.
Translation
“O dearly beloved! Your lotus feet are so soft that we place them gently on our breasts, fearing that Your feet will be hurt. Our life rests only in You. Our minds, therefore, are filled with anxiety that Your tender feet might be wounded by pebbles as You roam about on the forest path.”
Purport
This text from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.31.19) was spoken by the gopīs when Kṛṣṇa left them in the midst of the rāsa-līlā.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণসুখহেতু চেষ্টা মনোব্যবহার ॥ ১৭৪ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa-sukha-hetu ceṣṭā mano-vyavahāra
Synonyms
Translation
The gopīs do not care for their own pleasures or pains. All their physical and mental activities are directed toward offering enjoyment to Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণসুখহেতু করে শুদ্ধ অনুরাগ ॥ ১৭৫ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa-sukha-hetu kare śuddha anurāga
Synonyms
Translation
They renounced everything for Kṛṣṇa. They have pure attachment to giving Kṛṣṇa pleasure.
Bengali
স্বানাং হি বো ময্যনুবৃত্তয়েঽবলাঃ ।
ময়া পরোক্ষং ভজতা তিরোহিতং
মাসূয়িতুং মার্হথ তৎ প্রিয়ং প্রিয়াঃ ॥ ১৭৬ ॥
Text
svānāṁ hi vo mayy anuvṛttaye ’balāḥ
mayā parokṣaṁ bhajatā tirohitaṁ
māsūyituṁ mārhatha tat priyaṁ priyāḥ
Synonyms
evam — thus; mat-artha — for Me; ujjhita — rejected; loka — popular customs; veda — Vedic injunctions; svānām — own families; hi — certainly; vaḥ — of you; mayi — Me; anuvṛttaye — to increase regard for; abalāḥ — O women; mayā — by Me; parokṣam — invisible; bhajatā — favoring; tirohitam — withdrawn from sight; mā — Me; asūyitum — to be displeased with; mā arhatha — you do not deserve; tat — therefore; priyam — who is dear; priyāḥ — O dear ones.
Translation
“O My beloved gopīs, you have renounced social customs, scriptural injunctions and your relatives for My sake. I disappeared behind you only to increase your concentration upon Me. Since I disappeared for your benefit, you should not be displeased with Me.”
Purport
This text from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.32.21) was spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa when He returned to the arena of the rāsa-līlā.
Bengali
যে যৈছে ভজে, কৃষ্ণ তারে ভজে তৈছে ॥ ১৭৭ ॥
Text
ye yaiche bhaje, kṛṣṇa tāre bhaje taiche
Synonyms
Translation
Lord Kṛṣṇa has a promise from before to reciprocate with His devotees according to the way they worship Him.
Bengali
মম বর্ত্মানুবর্তন্তে মনুষ্যাঃ পার্থ সর্বশঃ ॥ ১৭৮ ॥
Text
tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham
mama vartmānuvartante
manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ
Synonyms
Translation
“In whatever way My devotees surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.”
Purport
Kṛṣṇa was never ungrateful to the gopīs, for as He declares to Arjuna in this verse from the Bhagavad-gītā (4.11), He reciprocates with His devotees in proportion to the transcendental loving service they render unto Him. Everyone follows the path that leads toward Him, but there are different degrees of progress on that path, and the Lord is realized in proportion to one’s advancement. The path is one, but the progress in approaching the ultimate goal is different, and therefore the proportion of realization of this goal — namely the absolute Personality of Godhead — is also different. The gopīs attained the highest goal, and Lord Caitanya affirmed that there is no method of worshiping God higher than that followed by the gopīs.
Bengali
তাহাতে প্রমাণ কৃষ্ণ–শ্রীমুখবচনে ॥ ১৭৯ ॥
Text
tāhāte pramāṇa kṛṣṇa-śrī-mukha-vacane
Synonyms
Translation
That promise has been broken by the worship of the gopīs, as Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself admits.
Bengali
স্বসাধুকৃত্যং বিবুধায়ুষাপি বঃ ।
যা মাঽভজন্ দুর্জয়গেহশৃঙ্খলাঃ
সংবৃশ্চ্য তদ্বঃ প্রতিযাতু সাধুনা ॥ ১৮০ ॥
Text
sva-sādhu-kṛtyaṁ vibudhāyuṣāpi vaḥ
yā mābhajan durjaya-geha-śṛṅkhalāḥ
saṁvṛścya tad vaḥ pratiyātu sādhunā
Synonyms
na — not; pāraye — am able to make; aham — I; niravadya-saṁyujām — to those who are completely free from deceit; sva-sādhu-kṛtyam — proper compensation; vibudha-āyuṣā — with a lifetime as long as that of the demigods; api — although; vaḥ — to you; yāḥ — who; mā — Me; abhajan — have worshiped; durjaya-geha-śṛṅkhalāḥ — the chains of household life, which are difficult to overcome; saṁvṛścya — cutting; tat — that; vaḥ — of you; pratiyātu — let it be returned; sādhunā — by the good activity itself.
Translation
“O gopīs, I am not able to repay My debt for your spotless service, even within a lifetime of Brahmā. Your connection with Me is beyond reproach. You have worshiped Me, cutting off all domestic ties, which are difficult to break. Therefore please let your own glorious deeds be your compensation.”
Purport
This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.32.22) was spoken by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself when He returned to the gopīs upon hearing their songs of separation.
Bengali
সেহো ত’ কৃষ্ণের লাগি, জানিহ নিশ্চিত ॥ ১৮১ ॥
Text
seho ta’ kṛṣṇera lāgi, jāniha niścita
Synonyms
Translation
Now, whatever affection we see the gopīs show for their own bodies, know it for certain to be only for the sake of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Purport
The selfless love of Godhead exhibited by the gopīs cannot have any parallel. We should not, therefore, misunderstand the carefulness of the gopīs in their personal decoration. The gopīs dressed themselves as beautifully as possible just to make Kṛṣṇa happy by seeing them. They had no ulterior desires. They dedicated their bodies, and everything they possessed, to the service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, taking it for granted that their bodies were meant for His enjoyment. They dressed themselves with the understanding that Kṛṣṇa would be happy by seeing and touching them.
Bengali
তাঁর ধন তাঁর ইহা সম্ভোগ–সাধন ॥ ১৮২ ॥
Text
tāṅra dhana tāṅra ihā sambhoga-sādhana
Synonyms
Translation
[The gopīs think:] “I have offered this body to Lord Kṛṣṇa. He is its owner, and it brings Him enjoyment.
Bengali
এই লাগি’ করে দেহের মার্জন–ভূষণ ॥ ১৮৩ ॥
Text
ei lāgi’ kare dehera mārjana-bhūsaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
“Kṛṣṇa finds joy in seeing and touching this body.” It is for this reason that they cleanse and decorate their bodies.
Bengali
তাভ্যঃ পরং ন মে পার্থ নিগূঢ়প্রেমভাজনম্ ॥ ১৮৪ ॥
Text
mameti samupāsate
tābhyaḥ paraṁ na me pārtha
nigūḍha-prema-bhājanam
Synonyms
Translation
“O Arjuna, there are no greater receptacles of deep love for Me than the gopīs, who cleanse and decorate their bodies because they consider them Mine.”
Purport
This verse is spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Ādi Purāṇa.
Bengali
বুদ্ধির গোচর নহে যাহার প্রভাব ॥ ১৮৫ ॥
Text
buddhira gocara nahe yāhāra prabhāva
Synonyms
Translation
There is another wonderful feature of the emotion of the gopīs. Its power is beyond the comprehension of the intelligence.
Bengali
সুখবাঞ্ছা নাহি, সুখ হয় কোটিগুণ ॥ ১৮৬ ॥
Text
sukha-vāñchā nāhi, sukha haya koṭi-guṇa
Synonyms
Translation
When the gopīs see Lord Kṛṣṇa, they derive unbounded bliss, although they have no desire for such pleasure.
Bengali
তাহা হৈতে কোটিগুণ গোপী আস্বাদয় ॥ ১৮৭ ॥
Text
tāhā haite koṭi-guṇa gopī āsvādaya
Synonyms
Translation
The gopīs taste a pleasure ten million times greater than the pleasure Lord Kṛṣṇa derives from seeing them.
Purport
The wonderful characteristics of the gopīs are beyond imagination. They have no desire for personal satisfaction, yet when Kṛṣṇa is happy by seeing them, that happiness of Kṛṣṇa makes the gopīs a million times more happy than Kṛṣṇa Himself.
Bengali
তথাপি বাড়য়ে সুখ, পড়িল বিরোধ ॥ ১৮৮ ॥
Text
tathāpi bāḍhaye sukha, paḍila virodha
Synonyms
Translation
The gopīs have no inclination for their own enjoyment, and yet their joy increases. That is indeed a contradiction.
Bengali
গোপিকার সুখ কৃষ্ণসুখে পর্যবসান ॥ ১৮৯ ॥
Text
gopikāra sukha kṛṣṇa-sukhe paryavasāna
Synonyms
Translation
For this contradiction I see only one solution: the joy of the gopīs lies in the joy of their beloved Kṛṣṇa.
Purport
The situation of the gopīs is perplexing, for although they did not want personal happiness, it was imposed upon them. The solution to this perplexity is that Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s sense of happiness is limited by the happiness of the gopīs. Devotees at Vṛndāvana therefore try to serve the gopīs, namely Rādhārāṇī and Her associates. If one gains the favor of the gopīs, he easily gains the favor of Kṛṣṇa because on the recommendation of the gopīs Kṛṣṇa at once accepts the service of a devotee. Lord Caitanya, therefore, wanted to please the gopīs instead of Kṛṣṇa. But His contemporaries misunderstood Him, and for this reason Lord Caitanya renounced the order of householder life and became a sannyāsī.
Bengali
সে মাধুর্য বাড়ে যার নাহিক সমতা ॥ ১৯০ ॥
Text
se mādhurya bāḍhe yāra nāhika samatā
Synonyms
Translation
When Lord Kṛṣṇa sees the gopīs, His joy increases, and His unparalleled sweetness increases also.
Bengali
এই সুখে গোপীর প্রফুল্ল অঙ্গমুখ ॥ ১৯১ ॥
Text
ei sukhe gopīra praphulla aṅga-mukha
Synonyms
Translation
[The gopīs think:] “Kṛṣṇa has obtained so much pleasure by seeing me.” That thought increases the fullness and beauty of their faces and bodies.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণ–শোভা দেখি’ গোপীর শোভা বাড়ে তত ॥ ১৯২ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa-śobhā dekhi’ gopīra śobhā bāḍhe tata
Synonyms
Translation
The beauty of Lord Kṛṣṇa increases at the sight of the beauty of the gopīs. And the more the gopīs see Lord Kṛṣṇa’s beauty, the more their beauty increases.
Bengali
পরস্পর বাড়ে, কেহ মুখ নাহি মুড়ি ॥ ১৯৩ ॥
Text
paraspara bāḍhe, keha mukha nāhi muḍi
Synonyms
Translation
In this way a competition takes place between them in which no one acknowledges defeat.
Bengali
তাঁর সুখে সুখবৃদ্ধি হয়ে গোপীগণে ॥ ১৯৪ ॥
Text
tāṅra sukhe sukha-vṛddhi haye gopī-gaṇe
Synonyms
Translation
Kṛṣṇa, however, derives pleasure from the beauty and good qualities of the gopīs. And when the gopīs see His pleasure, the joy of the gopīs increases.
Bengali
এই হেতু গোপী–প্রেমে নাহি কাম–দোষে ॥ ১৯৫ ॥
Text
ei hetu gopī-preme nāhi kāma-doṣe
Synonyms
Translation
Therefore we find that the joy of the gopīs nourishes the joy of Lord Kṛṣṇa. For that reason the fault of lust is not present in their love.
Purport
By looking at the beautiful gopīs Kṛṣṇa becomes enlivened, and this enlivens the gopīs, whose youthful faces and bodies blossom. This competition of increasing beauty between the gopīs and Kṛṣṇa, which is without limitations, is so delicate that sometimes mundane moralists mistake these dealings to be purely amorous. But these affairs are not at all mundane, because the gopīs’ intense desire to satisfy Kṛṣṇa surcharges the entire scene with pure love of Godhead, with not a spot of sexual indulgence.
Bengali
স্মিতাঙ্কুরকরম্বিতৈর্নটদপাঙ্গভঙ্গীশতৈঃ ।
স্তন–স্তবকসঞ্চরন্নয়নচঞ্চরীকাঞ্চলং
ব্রজে বিজয়িনং ভজে বিপিনদেশতঃ কেশবম্ ॥ ১৯৬ ॥
Text
smitāṅkura-karambitair naṭad-apāṅga-bhaṅgī-śataiḥ
stana-stavaka-sañcaran-nayana-cañcarīkāñcalaṁ
vraje vijayinaṁ bhaje vipina-deśataḥ keśavam
Synonyms
upetya — having mounted their palaces; pathi — on the path; sundarī-tatibhiḥ ābhiḥ — by the women of Vraja; abhyarcitam — who is worshiped; smita-aṅkura-karambitaiḥ — intermingled with the sprouts of gentle smiles; naṭat — dancing; apāṅga — of glances; bhaṅgī-śataiḥ — with a hundred manners; stana-stavaka — the multitude of breasts; sañcarat — wandering about; nayana — of the two eyes; cañcarīka — like bees; añcalam — Him whose corners; vraje — in Vraja; vijayinam — coming; bhaje — I worship; vipina-deśataḥ — from the forest; keśavam — Lord Keśava.
Translation
“I worship Lord Keśava. Coming back from the forest of Vraja, He is worshiped by the gopīs, who mount the roofs of their palaces and meet Him on the path with a hundred manners of dancing glances and gentle smiles. The corners of His eyes wander, like large black bees, around the gopīs’ breasts.”
Purport
This statement appears in the Keśavāṣṭaka (8) of the Stava-mālā, compiled by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Bengali
যে প্রকারে হয় প্রেম কামগন্ধহীন ॥ ১৯৭ ॥
Text
ye prakāre haya prema kāma-gandha-hīna
Synonyms
Translation
There is another natural symptom of the gopīs’ love that shows it to be without a trace of lust.
Bengali
মাধুর্যে বাড়ায় প্রেম হঞা মহাতুষ্টি ॥ ১৯৮ ॥
Text
mādhurye bāḍhāya prema hañā mahā-tuṣṭi
Synonyms
Translation
The love of the gopīs nourishes the sweetness of Lord Kṛṣṇa. That sweetness in turn increases their love, for they are greatly satisfied.
Bengali
তাঁহা নাহি নিজসুখবাঞ্ছার সম্বন্ধ ॥ ১৯৯ ॥
Text
tāṅhā nāhi nija-sukha-vāñchāra sambandha
Synonyms
Translation
The happiness of the abode of love is in the happiness of the object of that love. This is not a relationship of desire for personal gratification.
Bengali
প্রীতিবিষয়সুখে আশ্রয়ের প্রীতি ॥ ২০০ ॥
নিজ–প্রেমানন্দে কৃষ্ণ–সেবানন্দ বাধে ।
সে আনন্দের প্রতি ভক্তের হয় মহাক্রোধে ॥ ২০১ ॥
Text
prīti-viṣaya-sukhe āśrayera prīti
se ānandera prati bhaktera haya mahā-krodhe
Synonyms
nirupādhi — without identification; prema — love; yāṅhā — which; tāṅhā — that; ei — this; rīti — style; prīti-viṣaya — of the object of love; sukhe — in the happiness; āśrayera — of the abode of that love; prīti — the pleasure; nija — one’s own; prema — of love; ānande — by the joy; kṛṣṇa — to Lord Kṛṣṇa; seva-ānanda — the joy of service; bādhe — is obstructed; se — that; ānandera prati — toward the joy; bhaktera — of the devotee; haya — is; mahā-krodhe — great anger.
Translation
Whenever there is unselfish love, that is its style. The reservoir of love derives pleasure when the lovable object is pleased. When the pleasure of love interferes with the service of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the devotee becomes angry toward such ecstasy.
Purport
As mentioned above, the gopīs are the predominated lovers, and Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the predominator, the beloved. The love of the predominated nourishes the love of the predominator. The gopīs had no desire for selfish enjoyment. Their feeling of happiness was indirect, for it was dependent on the pleasure of Kṛṣṇa. Causeless love of Godhead is always so. Such pure love is possible only when the predominated is made happy by the happiness of the predominator. Such unadulterated love is exemplified when the lover deprecates her happiness if it hinders her from discharging her service.
Bengali
নন্দং দারুকো নাভ্যনন্দৎ ।
কংসারাতের্বীজনে যেন সাক্ষাদ–
ক্ষোদীয়ানন্তরায়ো ব্যধায়ি ॥ ২০২ ॥
Text
premānandaṁ dāruko nābhyanandat
kaṁsārāter vījane yena sākṣād
akṣodīyān antarāyo vyadhāyi
Synonyms
aṅga — of the limbs; stambha-ārambham — the beginning of stupefaction; uttuṅgayantam — which was causing him to reach; prema-ānandam — the joy of love; dārukaḥ — Dāruka, the Lord’s chariot driver; na — not; abhyanandat — welcomed; kaṁsa-arāteḥ — of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Kaṁsa; vījane — in fanning with a cāmara fan; yena — by which; sākṣāt — clearly; akṣodīyān — greater; antarāyaḥ — obstacle; vyadhāyi — has been created.
Translation
“Śrī Dāruka did not relish his ecstatic feelings of love, for they caused his limbs to become stunned and thus obstructed his service of fanning Lord Kṛṣṇa.”
Purport
This verse is from the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (3.2.62).
Bengali
উচ্চৈরনিন্দদানন্দমরবিন্দবিলোচনা ॥ ২০৩ ॥
Text
bāṣpa-pūrābhivarṣiṇam
uccair anindad ānandam
aravinda-vilocanā
Synonyms
Translation
“The lotus-eyed Rādhārāṇī powerfully condemned the ecstatic love that caused a flow of tears that hindered Her sight of Govinda.”
Purport
This verse is also from the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (2.3.54).
Bengali
স্বসুখার্থ সালোক্যাদি না করে গ্রহণে ॥ ২০৪ ॥
Text
sva-sukhārtha sālokyādi nā kare grahaṇe
Synonyms
āra — and; śuddha-bhakta — the pure devotee; kṛṣṇa-prema — out of love for Lord Kṛṣṇa; sevā — service; vine — without; sva-sukha-artha — for the purpose of one’s own pleasure; sālokya-ādi — the five types of liberation, beginning from sālokya (residing on the same spiritual planet as the Lord); nā kare — do not do; grahaṇe — acceptance.
Translation
Furthermore, pure devotees never forsake the loving service of Lord Kṛṣṇa to aspire for their own personal pleasure through the five kinds of liberation.
Purport
A pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa who loves Him exclusively will flatly refuse to accept any sort of liberation, beginning from merging with the body of the Lord and extending to the other varieties of liberation, such as equality of form, opulence or abode and the opulence of living near the Lord.
Bengali
মনোগতিরবিচ্ছিন্না যথা গঙ্গাম্ভসোঽম্বুধৌ ॥ ২০৫ ॥
Text
mayi sarva-guhāśaye
mano-gatir avicchinnā
yathā gaṅgāmbhaso ’mbudhau
Synonyms
mat — of Me; guṇa — of the qualities; śruti-mātreṇa — only by hearing; mayi — to Me; sarva-guhā — in all hearts; āśaye — who am situated; manaḥ-gatiḥ — the movement of the mind; avicchinnā — unobstructed; yathā — just as; gaṅgā-ambhasaḥ — of the celestial waters of the Ganges; ambudhau — to the ocean.
Translation
“Just as the celestial waters of the Ganges flow unobstructed into the ocean, so when My devotees simply hear of Me, their minds come to Me, who reside in the hearts of all.
Bengali
অহৈতুক্যব্যবহিতা যা ভক্তিঃ পুরুষোত্তমে ॥ ২০৬ ॥
Text
nirguṇasya hy udāhṛtam
ahaituky avyavahitā
yā bhaktiḥ puruṣottame
Synonyms
lakṣaṇam — the symptom; bhakti-yogasya — of devotional service; nirguṇasya — beyond the three modes of nature; hi — certainly; udāhṛtam — is cited; ahaitukī — causeless; avyavahitā — uninterrupted; yā — which; bhaktiḥ — devotional service; puruṣottame — to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Translation
“These are the characteristics of transcendental loving service to Puruṣottama, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: it is causeless, and it cannot be obstructed in any way.
Bengali
দীয়মানং ন গৃহ্ণন্তি বিনা মৎসেবনং জনাঃ ॥ ২০৭ ॥
Text
sāmīpyaikatvam apy uta
dīyamānaṁ na gṛhṇanti
vinā mat-sevanaṁ janāḥ
Synonyms
sālokya — being on the same planet as Me; sārṣṭi — having opulence equal to Mine; sārūpya — having the same form as Me; sāmīpya — having direct association with Me; ekatvam — oneness with Me; api — even; uta — or; dīyamānam — being given; na — not; gṛhṇanti — accept; vinā — without; mat-sevanam — My service; janāḥ — the devotees.
Translation
“My devotees do not accept sālokya, sārṣṭi, sārūpya, sāmīpya or oneness with Me — even if I offer these liberations — in preference to serving Me.”
Purport
These three verses from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.29.11-13) were spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the form of Kapiladeva.
Bengali
নেচ্ছন্তি সেবয়া পূর্ণাঃ কুতোঽন্যৎ কালবিপ্লুতম্ ॥ ২০৮ ॥
Text
sālokyādi-catuṣṭayam
necchanti sevayā pūrṇāḥ
kuto ’nyat kāla-viplutam
Synonyms
Translation
“My devotees, having fulfilled their desires by serving Me, do not accept the four kinds of salvation that are easily earned by such service. Why then should they accept any pleasures that are lost in the course of time?”
Purport
This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (9.4.67) was spoken by the Lord in connection with the characteristics of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa. Merging into the existence of the Absolute is as temporary as living in the celestial kingdom. Both of them are controlled by time; neither position is permanent.
Bengali
নির্মল, উজ্জ্বল, শুদ্ধ যেন দগ্ধ হেম ॥ ২০৯ ॥
Text
nirmala, ujjvala, śuddha yena dagdha hema
Synonyms
Translation
The natural love of the gopīs is devoid of any trace of lust. It is faultless, bright and pure, like molten gold.
Bengali
গোপিকা হয়েন প্রিয়া শিষ্যা, সখী, দাসী ॥ ২১০ ॥
Text
gopikā hayena priyā śiṣyā, sakhī dāsī
Synonyms
Translation
The gopīs are the helpers, teachers, friends, wives, dear disciples, confidantes and serving maids of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
Bengali
সত্যং বদামি তে পার্থ গোপ্যঃ কিং মে ভবন্তি ন ॥ ২১১ ॥
Text
bhujiṣyā bāndhavāḥ striyaḥ
satyaṁ vadāmi te pārtha
gopyaḥ kiṁ me bhavanti na
Synonyms
Translation
“O Pārtha, I speak to you the truth. The gopīs are My helpers, teachers, disciples, servants, friends and consorts. I do not know what they are not to Me.”
Purport
This verse was spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Gopī-premāmṛta.
Bengali
প্রেমসেবা–পরিপাটী, ইষ্ট–সমীহিত ॥ ২১২ ॥
Text
prema-sevā-paripāṭī, iṣṭa-samīhita
Synonyms
Translation
The gopīs know Kṛṣṇa’s desires, and they know how to render perfect loving service for His enjoyment. They perform their service expertly for the satisfaction of their beloved.
Bengali
জানন্তি গোপিকাঃ পার্থ নান্যে জানন্তি তত্ত্বতঃ ॥ ২১৩ ॥
Text
mac-chraddhāṁ man-mano-gatam
jānanti gopikāḥ pārtha
nānye jānanti tattvataḥ
Synonyms
Translation
“O Pārtha, the gopīs know My greatness, My loving service, respect for Me, and My mentality. Others cannot really know these.”
Purport
This verse was spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna in the Ādi Purāṇa.
Bengali
রূপে, গুণে, সৌভাগ্যে, প্রেমে সর্বাধিকা ॥ ২১৪ ॥
Text
rūpe, guṇe, saubhāgye, preme sarvādhikā
Synonyms
Translation
Among the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhikā is the foremost. She surpasses all in beauty, in good qualities, in good fortune and, above all, in love.
Purport
Among all the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the most exalted. She is the most beautiful, the most qualified and, above all, the greatest lover of Kṛṣṇa.
Bengali
সর্বগোপীষু সৈবৈকা বিষ্ণোরত্যন্তবল্লভা ॥ ২১৫ ॥
Text
tasyāḥ kuṇḍaṁ priyaṁ tathā
sarva-gopīṣu saivaikā
viṣṇor atyanta-vallabhā
Synonyms
Translation
“Just as Rādhā is dear to Lord Kṛsṇa, so Her bathing place [Rādhā-kuṇḍa] is dear to Him. She alone is His most beloved of all the gopīs.”
Purport
This verse is from the Padma Purāṇa.
Bengali
তত্রাপি গোপিকাঃ পার্থ যত্র রাধাভিধা মম ॥ ২১৬ ॥
Text
yatra vṛndāvanaṁ purī
tatrāpi gopikāḥ pārtha
yatra rādhābhidhā mama
Synonyms
Translation
“O Pārtha, in all the three planetary systems, this earth is especially fortunate, for on earth is the town of Vṛndāvana. And there the gopīs are especially glorious because among them is My Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.”
Purport
This verse, spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna, is cited from the Ādi Purāṇa.
Bengali
আর সব গোপীগণ রসোপকরণ ॥ ২১৭ ॥
Text
āra saba gopī-gaṇa rasopakaraṇa
Synonyms
Translation
All the other gopīs help increase the joy of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes with Rādhārāṇī. The gopīs act as the instruments of Their mutual enjoyment.
Purport
It is said that the gopīs are divided into five groups, namely the sakhīs, nitya-sakhīs, prāṇa-sakhīs, priya-sakhīs and parama-preṣṭha-sakhīs. All these fair-complexioned associates of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, the Queen of Vṛndāvana-dhāma, are expert artists in evoking erotic sentiments in Kṛṣṇa. The parama-preṣṭha-sakhīs are eight in number, and in the ecstatic dealings of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā they side sometimes with Kṛṣṇa and at other times with Rādhārāṇī, just to create a situation in which it appears that they favor one against the other. That makes the exchange of mellows more palatable.
Bengali
তাঁহা বিনু সুখহেতু নহে গোপীগণ ॥ ২১৮ ॥
Text
tāṅhā vinu sukha-hetu nahe gopī-gaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
Rādhā is the beloved consort of Kṛṣṇa, and She is the wealth of His life. Without Her, the gopīs cannot give Him pleasure.
Bengali
রাধামাধায় হৃদয়ে তত্যাজ ব্রজসুন্দরীঃ ॥ ২১৯ ॥
Text
vāsanā-baddha-śṛṅkhalām
rādhām ādhāya hṛdaye
tatyāja vraja-sundarīḥ
Synonyms
kaṁsa-ariḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Kaṁsa; api — moreover; saṁsāra — for the essence of enjoyment (rāsa-līlā); vāsanā — by the desire; baddha — tied on; śṛṅkhalām — who was like the chains; rādhām — Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; ādhāya — taking; hṛdaye — in the heart; tatyāja — left aside; vraja-sundarīḥ — the other gopīs.
Translation
“Lord Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Kaṁsa, left aside the other gopīs during the rāsa dance and took Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī to His heart, for She is the helper of the Lord in realizing the essence of His desires.”
Purport
In this verse from the Gīta-govinda (3.1), Jayadeva Gosvāmī describes Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s leaving the rāsa-līlā to search for Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Bengali
যুগধর্ম নাম–প্রেম কৈল পরচার ॥ ২২০ ॥
Text
yuga-dharma nāma-prema kaila paracāra
Synonyms
Translation
Lord Caitanya appeared with the sentiment of Rādhā. He preached the dharma of this age — the chanting of the holy name and pure love of God.
Bengali
অবতারের এই বাঞ্ছা মূল–কারণ ॥ ২২১ ॥
Text
avatārera ei vāñchā mūla-kāraṇa
Synonyms
Translation
In the mood of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, He also fulfilled His own desires. This is the principal reason for His appearance.
Bengali
রসময়–মূর্তি কৃষ্ণ সাক্ষাৎ শৃঙ্গার ॥ ২২২ ॥
Text
rasa-maya-mūrti kṛṣṇa sākṣāt śṛṅgāra
Synonyms
Translation
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa [Vrajendra-kumāra], the embodiment of rasas. He is amorous love personified.
Bengali
আনুষঙ্গে কৈল সব রসের প্রচার ॥ ২২৩ ॥
Text
ānusaṅge kaila saba rasera pracāra
Synonyms
Translation
He made His appearance to taste that conjugal mellow and incidentally to broadcast all the rasas.
Bengali
শ্রেণীশ্যামলকোমলৈরুপনয়ন্নঙ্গৈরনঙ্গোৎসবম্ ।
স্বচ্ছন্দং ব্রজসুন্দরীভিরভিতঃ প্রত্যঙ্গমালিঙ্গিতঃ
শৃঙ্গারঃ সখি মূর্তিমানিব মধৌ মুগ্ধো হরিঃ ক্রীড়তি ॥ ২২৪ ॥
Text
śreṇī-śyāmala-komalair upanayann aṅgair anaṅgotsavam
svacchandaṁ vraja-sundarībhir abhitaḥ praty-aṅgam āliṅgitaḥ
śṛṅgāraḥ sakhi mūrtimān iva madhau mugdho hariḥ krīḍati
Synonyms
viśveṣām — of all the gopīs; anurañjanena — by the act of pleasing; janayan — producing; ānandam — the bliss; indīvara-śreṇī — like a row of blue lotuses; śyāmala — bluish black; komalaiḥ — and soft; upanayan — bringing; aṅgaiḥ — with His limbs; anaṅga-utsavam — a festival for Cupid; svacchandam — without restriction; vraja-sundarībhiḥ — by the young women of Vraja; abhitaḥ — on both sides; prati-aṅgam — each limb; āliṅgitaḥ — embraced; śṛṅgāraḥ — amorous love; sakhi — O friend; mūrtimān — embodied; iva — like; madhau — in the springtime; mugdhaḥ — perplexed; hariḥ — Lord Hari; krīḍati — plays.
Translation
“My dear friends, just see how Śrī Kṛṣṇa is enjoying the season of spring! With the gopīs embracing each of His limbs, He is like amorous love personified. With His transcendental pastimes, He enlivens all the gopīs and the entire creation. With His soft bluish-black arms and legs, which resemble blue lotus flowers, He has created a festival for Cupid.”
Purport
This is also a verse from the Gīta-govinda (1.11).
Bengali
অশেষ–বিশেষে কৈল রস আস্বাদন ॥ ২২৫ ॥
Text
aśeṣa-viśeṣe kaila rasa āsvādana
Synonyms
Translation
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is the abode of rasa. He Himself tasted the sweetness of rasa in endless ways.
Bengali
চৈতন্যের দাসে জানে এই সব মর্ম ॥ ২২৬ ॥
Text
caitanyera dāse jāne ei saba marma
Synonyms
Translation
Thus He initiated the dharma for the Age of Kali. The devotees of Lord Caitanya know all these truths.
Purport
Lord Caitanya is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, the absolute enjoyer of the love of the gopīs. He Himself assumes the role of the gopīs to taste the predominated happiness of transcendental mellows. He appeared in that mode, but simultaneously He propagated the religious process for this age in a most fascinating way. Only the confidential devotees of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu can understand this transcendental secret.
Bengali
গদাধর, দামোদর, মুরারি, হরিদাস ॥ ২২৭ ॥
আর যত চৈতন্য–কৃষ্ণের ভক্তগণ ।
ভক্তিভাবে শিরে ধরি সবার চরণ ॥ ২২৮ ॥
Text
gadādhara, dāmodara, murāri, haridāsa
bhakti-bhāve śire dhari sabāra caraṇa
Synonyms
advaita ācārya — Advaita Ācārya; nityānanda — Lord Nityānanda; śrīnivāsa — Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita; gadādhara — Gadādhara Paṇḍita; dāmodara — Svarūpa Dāmodara; murāri — Murāri Gupta; haridāsa — Haridāsa Ṭhākura; āra — other; yata — all; caitanya-kṛṣṇera — of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya; bhakta-gaṇa — devotees; bhakti-bhāve — with a devotional attitude; śire — on my head; dhari — I take; sabāra — of all of them; caraṇa — the lotus feet.
Translation
Advaita Ācārya, Lord Nityānanda, Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita, Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Murāri Gupta, Haridāsa Ṭhākura and all the other devotees of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya — bowing down with devotion, I hold their lotus feet on my head.
Purport
The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta teaches us that we must offer our respectful obeisances to all such pure confidential devotees of Lord Caitanya if we indeed want to know Him in truth.
Bengali
মূল শ্লোকের অর্থ শুন করিয়ে প্রকাশ ॥ ২২৯ ॥
Text
mūla ślokera artha śuna kariye prakāśa
Synonyms
Translation
I have given a hint of the sixth verse. Now please hear as I reveal the meaning of that original verse.
Bengali
স্বাদ্যো যেনাদ্ভুতমধুরিমা কীদৃশো বা মদীয়ঃ ।
সৌখ্যঞ্চাস্যা মদনুভবতঃ কীদৃশং বেতি লোভা–
ত্তদ্ভাবাঢ্যঃ সমজনি শচীগর্ভসিন্ধৌ হরীন্দুঃ ॥ ২৩০ ॥
Text
svādyo yenādbhuta-madhurimā kīdṛśo vā madīyaḥ
saukhyaṁ cāsyā mad-anubhavataḥ kīdṛśaṁ veti lobhāt
tad-bhāvāḍhyaḥ samajani śacī-garbha-sindhau harīnduḥ
Synonyms
śrī-rādhāyāḥ — of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; praṇaya-mahimā — the greatness of the love; kīdṛśaḥ — of what kind; vā — or; anayā — by this one (Rādhā); eva — alone; āsvādyaḥ — to be relished; yena — by that love; adbhuta-madhurimā — the wonderful sweetness; kīdṛśaḥ — of what kind; vā — or; madīyaḥ — of Me; saukhyam — the happiness; ca — and; asyāḥ — Her; mat-anubhavataḥ — from realization of My sweetness; kīdṛśam — of what kind; vā — or; iti — thus; lobhāt — from the desire; tat — Her; bhāva-āḍhyaḥ — richly endowed with the emotions; samajani — took birth; śacī-garbha — of the womb of Śacī-devī; sindhau — in the ocean; hari — Lord Kṛṣṇa; induḥ — like the moon.
Translation
“Desiring to understand the glory of Rādhārāṇī’s love, the wonderful qualities in Him that She alone relishes through Her love, and the happiness She feels when She realizes the sweetness of His love, the Supreme Lord Hari, richly endowed with Her emotions, appeared from the womb of Śrīmatī Śacī-devī, as the moon appeared from the ocean.”
Bengali
না কহিলে, কেহ ইহার অন্ত নাহি পায় ॥ ২৩১ ॥
Text
nā kahile, keha ihāra anta nāhi pāya
Synonyms
Translation
All these conclusions are unfit to disclose in public. But if they are not disclosed, no one will understand them.
Bengali
বুঝিবে রসিক ভক্ত, না বুঝিবে মূঢ় ॥ ২৩২ ॥
Text
bujhibe rasika bhakta, nā bujhibe mūḍha
Synonyms
Translation
Therefore I shall mention them, revealing only their essence, so that loving devotees will understand them but fools will not.
Bengali
এসব সিদ্ধান্তে সেই পাইবে আনন্দ ॥ ২৩৩ ॥
Text
e-saba siddhānte sei pāibe ānanda
Synonyms
Translation
Anyone who has captured Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Nityānanda Prabhu in his heart will become blissful by hearing all these transcendental conclusions.
Bengali
ভক্তগণ–কোকিলের সর্বদা বল্লভ ॥ ২৩৪ ॥
Text
bhakta-gaṇa-kokilera sarvadā vallabha
Synonyms
Translation
All these conclusions are like the newly grown twigs of a mango tree; they are always pleasing to the devotees, who in this way resemble cuckoo birds.
Bengali
তবে চিত্তে হয় মোর আনন্দ–বিশেষ ॥ ২৩৫ ॥
Text
tabe citte haya mora ānanda-viśeṣa
Synonyms
Translation
The camellike nondevotees cannot enter into these topics. Therefore there is special jubilation in my heart.
Bengali
ইহা বই কিবা সুখ আছে ত্রিভুবনে ॥ ২৩৬ ॥
Text
ihā va-i kibā sukha āche tribhuvane
Synonyms
Translation
For fear of them I do not wish to speak, but if they do not understand, then what can be happier in all the three worlds?
Bengali
নিঃশঙ্কে কহিয়ে, তার হউক্ চমৎকার ॥ ২৩৭ ॥
Text
niḥśaṅke kahiye, tāra hauk camatkāra
Synonyms
Translation
Therefore after offering obeisances to the devotees, for their satisfaction I shall speak without hesitating.
Bengali
পূর্ণানন্দ–পূর্ণরসরূপ কহে মোরে ॥ ২৩৮ ॥
Text
pūrṇānanda-pūrṇa-rasa-rūpa kahe more
Synonyms
Translation
Once Lord Kṛṣṇa considered within His heart, “Everyone says that I am complete bliss, full of all rasas.
Bengali
আমাকে আনন্দ দিবে—ঐছে কোন্ জন ॥ ২৩৯ ॥
Text
āmāke ānanda dibe — aiche kon jana
Synonyms
Translation
“All the world derives pleasure from Me. Is there anyone who can give Me pleasure?
Bengali
সেইজন আহ্লাদিতে পারে মোর মন ॥ ২৪০ ॥
Text
sei-jana āhlādite pāre mora mana
Synonyms
Translation
“One who has a hundred times more qualities than Me could give pleasure to My mind.
Bengali
একলি রাধাতে তাহা করি অনুভব ॥ ২৪১ ॥
Text
ekali rādhāte tāhā kari anubhava
Synonyms
Translation
“One more qualified than Me is impossible to find in the world. But in Rādhā alone I feel the presence of one who can give Me pleasure.
Bengali
অসমোর্ধ্বমাধুর্য—সাম্য নাহি যার ॥ ২৪২ ॥
মোর রূপে আপ্যায়িত হয় ত্রিভুবন ।
রাধার দর্শনে মোর জুড়ায় নয়ন ॥ ২৪৩ ॥
Text
asamordhva-mādhurya — sāmya nāhi yāra
rādhāra darśane mora juḍāya nayana
Synonyms
koṭi-kāma — ten million Cupids; jini’ — conquering; rūpa — beauty; yadyapi — although; āmāra — Mine; asama-ūrdhva — unequaled and unsurpassed; mādhurya — sweetness; sāmya — equality; nāhi — there is not; yāra — of whom; mora — My; rūpe — in beauty; āpyāyita — pleased; haya — becomes; tri-bhuvana — all three worlds; rādhāra — of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; darśane — seeing; mora — My; juḍāya — satisfies; nayana — eyes.
Translation
“Although My beauty defeats the beauty of ten million Cupids, although it is unequaled and unsurpassed, and although it gives pleasure to the three worlds, seeing Rādhārāṇī gives pleasure to My eyes.
Bengali
রাধার বচনে হরে আমার শ্রবণ ॥ ২৪৪ ॥
Text
rādhāra vacane hare āmāra śravaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
“The vibration of My transcendental flute attracts the three worlds, but My ears are enchanted by the sweet words of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Bengali
মোর চিত্ত–প্রাণ হরে রাধা–অঙ্গ–গন্ধ ॥ ২৪৫ ॥
Text
mora citta-prāṇa hare rādhā-aṅga-gandha
Synonyms
Translation
“Although My body lends fragrance to the entire creation, the scent of Rādhārāṇī’s limbs captivates My mind and heart.
Bengali
রাধার অধর–রস আমা করে বশ ॥ ২৪৬ ॥
Text
rādhāra adhara-rasa āmā kare vaśa
Synonyms
Translation
“Although the entire creation is full of different tastes because of Me, I am charmed by the nectarean taste of the lips of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Bengali
রাধিকার স্পর্শে আমা করে সুশীতল ॥ ২৪৭ ॥
Text
rādhikāra sparśe āmā kare suśītala
Synonyms
Translation
“And although My touch is cooler than ten million moons, I am refreshed by the touch of Śrīmatī Rādhikā.
Bengali
রাধিকার রূপগুণ আমার জীবাতু ॥ ২৪৮ ॥
Text
rādhikāra rūpa-guṇa āmāra jīvātu
Synonyms
Translation
“Thus although I am the source of happiness for the entire world, the beauty and attributes of Śrī Rādhikā are My life and soul.
Bengali
বিচারি’ দেখিয়ে যদি, সব বিপরীত ॥ ২৪৯ ॥
Text
vicāri’ dekhiye yadi, saba viparīta
Synonyms
Translation
“In this way My affectionate feelings for Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī may be understood, but on analysis I find them contradictory.
Bengali
আমার দর্শনে রাধা সুখে অগেয়ান ॥ ২৫০ ॥
Text
āmāra darśane rādhā sukhe ageyāna
Synonyms
Translation
“My eyes are fully satisfied when I look upon Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, but by looking upon Me, She becomes even more advanced in satisfaction.
Bengali
মোর ভ্রমে তমালেরে করে আলিঙ্গন ॥ ২৫১ ॥
Text
mora bhrame tamālere kare āliṅgana
Synonyms
Translation
“The flutelike murmur of the bamboos rubbing against one another steals Rādhārāṇī’s consciousness, for She thinks it to be the sound of My flute. And She embraces a tamāla tree, mistaking it for Me.
Bengali
কৃষ্ণসুখে মগ্ন রহে বৃক্ষ করি’ কোলে ॥ ২৫২ ॥
Text
kṛṣṇa-sukhe magna rahe vṛkṣa kari’ kole
Synonyms
Translation
“ ‘I have gotten the embrace of Śrī Kṛṣṇa,’ She thinks, ‘so now My life is fulfilled.’ Thus She remains immersed in pleasing Kṛṣṇa, taking the tree in Her arms.
Bengali
উড়িয়া পড়িতে চাহে, প্রেমে হয় অন্ধ ॥ ২৫৩ ॥
Text
uḍiyā paḍite cāhe, preme haya andha
Synonyms
Translation
“When a favorable breeze carries to Her the fragrance of My body, She is blinded by love and tries to fly into that breeze.
Bengali
আনন্দসমুদ্রে ডুবে, কিছুই না জানে ॥ ২৫৪ ॥
Text
ānanda-samudre ḍube, kichui nā jāne
Synonyms
Translation
“When She tastes the betel chewed by Me, She merges in an ocean of joy and forgets everything else.
Bengali
শতমুখে বলি, তবু না পাই তার অন্ত ॥ ২৫৫ ॥
Text
śata-mukhe bali, tabu nā pāi tāra anta
Synonyms
Translation
“Even with hundreds of mouths I could not express the transcendental pleasure She derives from My association.
Bengali
তাহা দেখি’ সুখে আমি আপনা পাশরি ॥ ২৫৬ ॥
Text
tāhā dekhi’ sukhe āmi āpanā pāśari
Synonyms
Translation
“Seeing the luster of Her complexion after Our pastimes together, I forget My own identity in happiness.
Bengali
আমার ব্রজের রস সেহ নাহি জানে ॥ ২৫৭ ॥
Text
āmāra vrajera rasa seha nāhi jāne
Synonyms
Translation
“The sage Bharata has said that the mellows of lover and beloved are equal. But he does not know the mellows of My Vṛndāvana.
Purport
According to expert sexologists like Bharata Muni, the male and the female enjoy equally in material sexual pleasure. But in the spiritual world the relationships are different, although this is unknown to mundane experts.
Bengali
তাহা হৈতে রাধা–সুখ শত অধিকাই ॥ ২৫৮ ॥
Text
tāhā haite rādhā-sukha śata adhikāi
Synonyms
Translation
“The happiness I feel when meeting Rādhārāṇī is a hundred times greater than the happiness I get from meeting others.
Bengali
বক্ত্রং পঙ্কজসৌরভং কুহরিতশ্লাঘাভিদস্তে গিরঃ ।
অঙ্গং চন্দনশীতলং তনুরিয়ং সৌন্দর্যসর্বস্বভাক্
ত্বামাস্বাদ্য মমেদমিন্দ্রিয়কুলং রাধে মুহুর্মোদতে ॥ ২৫৯ ॥
Text
vaktraṁ paṅkaja-saurabhaṁ kuharita-ślāghā-bhidas te giraḥ
aṅgaṁ candana-śītalaṁ tanur iyaṁ saundarya-sarvasva-bhāk
tvām āsādya mamedam indriya-kulaṁ rādhe muhur modate
Synonyms
nirdhūta — defeats; amṛta — of nectar; mādhurī — the sweetness; parimalaḥ — whose flavor; kalyāṇi — O most auspicious one; bīmba-adharaḥ — red lips; vaktram — face; paṅkaja-saurabham — which smells like a lotus flower; kuharita — of the sweet sounds made by the cuckoos; ślāghā — the pride; bhidaḥ — which defeat; te — Your; giraḥ — words; aṅgam — limbs; candana-śītalam — as cool as sandalwood pulp; tanuḥ — body; iyam — this; saundarya — of beauty; sarva-sva-bhāk — which displays the all-in-all; tvām — You; āsādya — tasting; mama — My; idam — this; indriya-kulam — all the senses; rādhe — O Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; muhuḥ — again and again; modate — become pleased.
Translation
“ ‘My dear auspicious Rādhārāṇī, Your body is the source of all beauty. Your red lips are softer than the sense of immortal sweetness, Your face bears the aroma of a lotus flower, Your sweet words defeat the vibrations of the cuckoo, and Your limbs are cooler than the pulp of sandalwood. All My transcendental senses are overwhelmed in ecstatic pleasure by tasting You, who are completely decorated by beautiful qualities.’
Purport
This verse, spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa to Rādhā, is recorded in the Lalita-mādhava (9.9) of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Bengali
বাণ্যামুৎকলিতশ্রুতিং পরিমলে সংহৃষ্টনাসাপুটাম্ ।
আরজ্যদ্রসনাং কিলাধরপুটে ন্যঞ্চন্মুখাম্ভোরুহাং
দম্ভোদ্গীর্ণমহাধৃতিং বহিরপি প্রোদ্যদ্বিকারাকুলাম্ ॥ ২৬০ ॥
Text
vāṇyām utkalita-śrutiṁ parimale saṁhṛṣṭa-nāsā-puṭām
ārajyad-rasanāṁ kilādhara-puṭe nyañcan-mukhāmbho-ruhāṁ
dambhodgīrṇa-mahā-dhṛtiṁ bahir api prodyad-vikārākulām
Synonyms
rūpe — in the beauty; kaṁsa-harasya — of Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Kaṁsa; lubdha — captivated; nayanām — whose eyes; sparśe — in the touch; ati-hṛṣyat — very jubilant; tvacam — whose skin; vāṇyām — in the vibration of the words; utkalita — very eager; śrutim — whose ear; parimale — in the fragrance; saṁhṛṣṭa — stolen by happiness; nāsāpuṭām — whose nostrils; ārajyat — being completely attracted; rasanām — whose tongue; kila — what to speak of; adhara-puṭe — to the lips; nyañcat — bending down; mukha — whose face; ambhaḥ-ruhām — like a lotus flower; dambha — by pride; udgīrṇa — manifesting; mahā-dhṛtim — great patience; bahiḥ — externally; api — although; prodyat — manifesting; vikāra — transformations; ākulām — overwhelmed.
Translation
“ ‘Her eyes are enchanted by the beauty of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Kaṁsa. Her body thrills in pleasure at His touch. Her ears are always attracted to His sweet voice, Her nostrils are enchanted by His fragrance, and Her tongue hankers for the nectar of His soft lips. She hangs down her lotuslike face, exercising self-control only by pretense, but She cannot help showing the external signs of Her spontaneous love for Lord Kṛṣṇa.’
Purport
Thus Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī describes the countenance of Rādhārāṇī.
Bengali
আমার মোহিনী রাধা, তারে করে বশ ॥ ২৬১ ॥
Text
āmāra mohinī rādhā, tāre kare vaśa
Synonyms
Translation
“Considering this, I can understand that some unknown mellow in Me controls the entire existence of My captivator, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Bengali
তাহা আস্বাদিতে আমি সদাই উন্মুখ ॥ ২৬২ ॥
Text
tāhā āsvādite āmi sadāi unmukha
Synonyms
Translation
“I am always eager to taste the joy that Rādhārāṇī derives from Me.
Bengali
সেই সুখমাধুর্য–ঘ্রাণে লোভ বাড়ে চিত্তে ॥ ২৬৩ ॥
Text
sei sukha-mādhurya-ghrāṇe lobha bāḍhe citte
Synonyms
Translation
“In spite of various efforts, I have not been able to taste it. But My desire to relish that pleasure increases as I smell its sweetness.
Bengali
প্রেমরস আস্বাদিব বিবিধ প্রকার ॥ ২৬৪ ॥
Text
prema-rasa āsvādila vividha prakāra
Synonyms
Translation
“Formerly I appeared in the world to taste mellows, and I tasted the mellows of pure love in various ways.
Bengali
তাহা শিখাইব লীলা–আচরণ–দ্বারে ॥ ২৬৫ ॥
Text
tāhā śikhāila līlā-ācaraṇa-dvāre
Synonyms
Translation
“I taught devotional service that springs from the devotees’ spontaneous love by demonstrating it with My pastimes.
Bengali
বিজাতীয়–ভাবে নহে তাহা আস্বাদন ॥ ২৬৬ ॥
Text
vijātīya-bhāve nahe tāhā āsvādana
Synonyms
Translation
“But these three desires of Mine were not satisfied, for one cannot enjoy them in a contrary position.
Bengali
সেই তিন সুখ কভু নহে আস্বাদনে ॥ ২৬৭ ॥
Text
sei tina sukha kabhu nahe āsvādane
Synonyms
Translation
“Unless I accept the luster of the ecstatic love of Śrī Rādhikā, these three desires cannot be fulfilled.
Bengali
তিনসুখ আস্বাদিতে হব অবতীর্ণ ॥ ২৬৮ ॥
Text
tina-sukha āsvādite haba avatīrṇa
Synonyms
Translation
“Therefore, assuming Rādhārāṇī’s sentiments and bodily complexion, I shall descend to fulfill these three desires.”
Bengali
হেনকালে আইল যুগাবতার–সময় ॥ ২৬৯ ॥
Text
hena-kāle āila yugāvatāra-samaya
Synonyms
Translation
In this way Lord Kṛṣṇa came to a decision. Simultaneously, the time came for the incarnation of the age.
Bengali
তাঁহার হুঙ্কারে কৈল কৃষ্ণে আকর্ষণ ॥ ২৭০ ॥
Text
tāṅhāra huṅkāre kaila kṛṣṇe ākarṣaṇa
Synonyms
Translation
At that time Śrī Advaita was earnestly worshiping Him. Advaita attracted Him with His loud calls.
Bengali
রাধিকার ভাব–বর্ণ অঙ্গীকার করি’ ॥ ২৭১ ॥
নবদ্বীপে শচীগর্ভ–শুদ্ধদুগ্ধসিন্ধু ।
তাহাতে প্রকট হৈলা কৃষ্ণ পূর্ণ ইন্দু ॥ ২৭২ ॥
Text
rādhikāra bhāva-varṇa aṅgīkāra kari’
tāhāte prakaṭa hailā kṛṣṇa pūrṇa indu
Synonyms
pitā-mātā — parents; guru-gaṇa — teachers; āge — first; avatāri’ — descending; rādhikāra — of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī; bhāva-varṇa — the luster of transcendental ecstasy; aṅgīkāra kari’ — accepting; navadvīpe — in Navadvīpa; śacī-garbha — the womb of Śacī; śuddha — pure; dugdha-sindhu — the ocean of milk; tāhāte — in that; prakaṭa — manifested; hailā — became; kṛṣṇa — Lord Kṛṣṇa; pūrṇa indu — full moon.
Translation
First Lord Kṛṣṇa made His parents and elders appear. Then Kṛṣṇa Himself, with the sentiments and complexion of Rādhikā, appeared in Navadvīpa, like the full moon, from the womb of mother Śacī, which is like an ocean of pure milk.
Bengali
শ্রীরূপ–গোসাঞির পাদপদ্ম করি’ ধ্যান ॥ ২৭৩ ॥
Text
śrī-rūpa-gosāñira pāda-padma kari’ dhyāna
Synonyms
Translation
Meditating on the lotus feet of Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, I have thus explained the sixth verse.
Bengali
শ্রীরূপ–গোসাঞির শ্লোক প্রমাণ সমর্থ ॥ ২৭৪ ॥
Text
śrī-rūpa-gosāñira śloka pramāṇa samartha
Synonyms
Translation
I can support the explanation of these two verses [verses 5 and 6 of the first chapter] with a verse by Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Bengali
রসস্তোমং হৃত্বা মধুরমুপভোক্তুং কমপি যঃ ।
রুচং স্বামাবব্রে দ্যুতিমিহ তদীয়াং প্রকটয়ন্
স দেবশ্চৈতন্যাকৃতিরতিতরাং নঃ কৃপয়তু ॥ ২৭৫ ॥
Text
rasa-stomaṁ hṛtvā madhuram upabhoktuṁ kam api yaḥ
rucaṁ svām āvavre dyutim iha tadīyāṁ prakaṭayan
sa devaś caitanyākṛtir atitarāṁ naḥ kṛpayatu
Synonyms
apāram — boundless; kasya api — of someone; praṇayi-jana-vṛndasya — of the multitude of lovers; kutukī — one who is curious; rasa-stomam — the group of mellows; hṛtvā — stealing; madhuram — sweet; upabhoktum — to enjoy; kam api — some; yaḥ — who; rucam — luster; svām — own; āvavre — covered; dyutim — luster; iha — here; tadīyām — related to Him; prakaṭayan — manifesting; saḥ — He; devaḥ — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; caitanya-ākṛtiḥ — having the form of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; atitarām — greatly; naḥ — unto us; kṛpayatu — may He show His mercy.
Translation
“Lord Kṛṣṇa desired to taste the limitless nectarean mellows of the love possessed by one of His multitude of loving damsels [Śrī Rādhā], and so He has assumed the form of Lord Caitanya. He has tasted that love while hiding His own dark complexion with Her effulgent yellow color. May that Lord Caitanya confer upon us His grace.”
Purport
This is the third verse of the second Caitanyāṣṭaka of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Stava-mālā.
Bengali
প্রয়োজনঞ্চাবতারে শ্লোকষট্কৈর্নিরূপিতম্ ॥ ২৭৬ ॥
Text
caitanya-tattva-lakṣaṇam
prayojanaṁ cāvatāre
śloka-ṣaṭkair nirūpitam
Synonyms
Translation
Thus the auspicious invocation, the essential nature of the truth of Lord Caitanya, and the need for His appearance have been set forth in six verses.
Bengali
চৈতন্যচরিতামৃত কহে কৃষ্ণদাস ॥ ২৭৭ ॥
Text
caitanya-caritāmṛta kahe kṛṣṇadāsa
Synonyms
Translation
Praying at the lotus feet of Śrī Rūpa and Śrī Raghunātha, always desiring their mercy, I, Kṛṣṇadāsa, narrate Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, following in their footsteps.
Purport
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā, fourth chapter, describing the confidential reasons for the appearance of Lord Caitanya.