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| Ādi-līlā | Chapter 4: The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Ādi 4.195
ataeva sei sukha krishna-sukha poshe
ei hetu gopī-preme nāhi kāma-doshe
SYNONYMS
ataeva — therefore; sei — that; sukha — happiness; krishna-sukha — the happiness of Lord Krishna; poshe — nourishes; ei — this; hetu — reason; gopī-preme — in the love of the gopīs; nāhi — there is not; kāma-doshe — the fault of lust.
TRANSLATION
Therefore we find that the joy of the gopīs nourishes the joy of Lord Krishna. For that reason the fault of lust is not present in their love.
PURPORT
By looking at the beautiful gopīs Krishna becomes enlivened, and this enlivens the gopīs, whose youthful faces and bodies blossom. This competition of increasing beauty between the gopīs and Krishna, 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 Krishna surcharges the entire scene with pure love of Godhead, with not a spot of sexual indulgence.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness