Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 4.68

hlādinīra sāra 'prema', prema-sāra 'bhāva'

bhāvera parama-kāṣṭhā, nāma — 'mahā-bhāva'

SYNONYMS

hlādinīra — of the pleasure potency; sāra — the essence; prema — love for God; prema-sāra — the essence of such love; bhāva — emotion; bhāvera — of emotion; parama-kāṣṭhā — the highest limit; nāma — named; mahā-bhāva — mahābhāva.

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.

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