Speaker: Ramananda dasa (Volcano, HI)

June 20, 2014

CC Ādi 4.42 — 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.
CC Ādi 4.43 — Each kind of devotee feels that his sentiment is the most excellent, and thus in that mood he tastes great happiness with Lord Kṛṣṇa.
CC Ādi 4.44 — But if we compare the sentiments in an impartial mood, we find that the conjugal sentiment is superior to all others in sweetness.
CC Ādi 4.45 — “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.”
CC Ādi 4.46 — Therefore I call it madhura-rasa. It has two further divisions, namely wedded and unwedded love.
CC Ādi 4.47 — There is a great increase of mellow in the unwedded conjugal mood. Such love is found nowhere but in Vraja.
CC Ādi 4.48 — This mood is unbounded in the damsels of Vraja, but among them it finds its perfection in Śrī Rādhā.
CC Ādi 4.49 — 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.
CC Ādi 4.50 — Therefore Lord Gaurāṅga, who is Śrī Hari Himself, accepted the sentiments of Rādhā and thus fulfilled His own desires.

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