Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Ādi 4.50

ataeva sei bhāva ańgīkāra kari'

sādhilena nija vāñchā gaurāńga-śrī-hari

SYNONYMS

ataeva — therefore; sei bhāva — that mood; ańgīkāra kari' — accepting; sādhilena — fulfilled; nija — His own; vāñchā — desire; gaurāńga — Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; śrī-hari — the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

Therefore Lord Gaurāńga, 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 Krishna as a formally married husband, and parakīya is the relationship with Krishna 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 Vaikuntha, but only in the portion of Goloka Vrindāvana known as Vraja.

Some devotees think that Krishna is eternally the enjoyer in Goloka Vrindāvana but only sometimes comes to the platform of Vraja to enjoy parakīya-rasa. The six Gosvāmīs of Vrindāvana, however, have explained that Krishna's pastimes in Vraja are eternal, like His other activities in Goloka Vrindāvana. Vraja is a confidential part of Goloka Vrindāvana. Krishna exhibited His Vraja pastimes on the surface of this world, and similar pastimes are eternally exhibited in Vraja in Goloka Vrindāvana, where parakīya-rasa is ever existent.

In the Third Chapter of this epic, Śrīla Krishnadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has explicitly accepted the fact that Krishna 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-caritāmrita 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 Rādhārānī. Mature assimilation of the transcendental humor of conjugal love is represented by Śrīmatī Rādhārānī, 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 Rādhārānī in relishing the qualities of the Lord through this supreme transcendental mellow. Therefore the Lord Himself agreed to assume the position of Rādhārānī in the form of Lord Śrī Gaurāńga. He then relished the highest position of parakīya-rasa, as exhibited in the transcendental abode of Vraja.

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