20211212 The Gradations in the Intensity of Love in the Five Kinds of Mellows, Part 2

The following is a Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on 12th December 2021 in Śrīdhāma Māyāpur, India

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram

Hariḥ oṁ tat sat!

Hare Kṛṣṇa! Dear Devotees! Today is the compilation of Caitanya līlā book, the chapter today is entitled:

The Gradations in the Intensity of Love in the Five Kinds of Mellows, Part 2
Under the section: Life’s Ultimate Goal — Love of Godhead

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.58

adhirūḍha-mahābhāva dvividha—

(1) sambhogemādana’-saṁjñā, (2) vilambhemohana’-saṁjñāḥ—

adhirūḍha-mahābhāva—dui ta’ prakāra
sambhogemādana’, virahemohana’ nāma tāra

Translation: “Highly advanced ecstasy is divided into two categories — mādana and mohana. Meeting together is called mādana, and separation is called mohana.

Jayapatākā Swami: Rādhārānī and only a few devotees following Her can experience māha-bhāva, so two kinds are explained here.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.59

sambhogamayamādana’ o vipralambhamayamohane’ nānā bhāva-bheda-vaicitryaḥ—

‘mādane’—cumbanādi haya ananta vibheda
‘udghūrṇā’,citra-jalpa’—‘mohane’ dui bheda

Translation: “On the mādana platform there are kissing and many other symptoms, which are unlimited. In the mohana stage, there are two divisions — udghūrṇā [unsteadiness] and citra-jalpa [varieties of mad emotional talks].

Purport (by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupāda): For further information, see Madhya-līlā 1.87.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.60

bhāg 10.47 aḥ—bhramaragītāya vipralambhe rādhikādi gopīgaṇera divyonmādaḥ—

citra-jalpera daśa aṅga—prajalpādi-nāma
‘bhramara-gītā’ra daśa śloka tāhāte pramāṇa

Translation: “Mad emotional talks include ten divisions, called prajalpa and other names. An example of this is the ten verses spoken by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī called 'The Song to the Bumblebee.’

Purport (by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda): Imaginative mad talks, known as citra-jalpa, can be divided into ten categories — prajalpa, parijalpa, vijalpa, ujjalpa, sañjalpa, avajalpa, abhijalpa, ājalpa, pratijalpa and sujalpa. There are no English equivalents for these different features of jalpa (imaginative talk).

Jayapatākā Swami: The ecstasy that Śrīmatī Rādhārānī and Her gopīs friends feel for Kṛṣṇa, the mad talks in separation are divided in ten categories for which no equivalent in English exist.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.61

vipralambhe divyonmādera carama avasthā—

aprākṛta kṛṣṇa-sevāmayī paramacamatkāriṇī sarvottamāvasthāḥ—

udghūrṇā, vivaśa-ceṣṭā—divyonmāda-nāma
virahe kṛṣṇa-sphūrti, āpanākekṛṣṇa’-jñāna

Translation: “Udghūrṇā [unsteadiness] and vivaśa-ceṣṭā [boastful activities] are aspects of transcendental madness. In separation from Kṛṣṇa, one experiences the manifestation of Kṛṣṇa, and one thinks oneself to be Kṛṣṇa.

Jayapatākā Swami: The feeling of such intense separation from Kṛṣṇa creates mad ecstasies.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.62

śṛṅgāra -rasa dvividha—(1) sambhoga o (2) vipralambha; sambhoga asaṁkhyavidhaḥ—

‘sambhoga’-‘vipralambha’-bhede dvividha śṛṅgāra
sambhogera ananta aṅga, nāhi anta tāra

Translation: “In conjugal love [śṛṅgāra] there are two departments — meeting and separation. On the platform of meeting, there are unlimited varieties that are beyond description.

Purport (by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupāda): Vipralambha is described in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Vipralambha-prakaraṇa 3-4):

“When the lover and the beloved meet, they are called yukta (connected). Previous to their meeting, they are called ayukta (not connected). Whether connected or not connected, the ecstatic emotion arising due to not being able to embrace and kiss each other as desired is called vipralambha. This vipralambha helps nourish emotions at the time of meeting.”

Similarly, sambhoga is described in the following verse quoted from the Vedic literature by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura in his Anubhāṣya:

“Meeting each other and embracing each other are aimed at bringing about the happiness of the lover and the beloved. When this stage becomes increasingly jubilant, the resultant ecstatic emotion is called sambhoga.”

When awakened, sambhoga is divided into four categories:

(1) pūrva-rāga-anantara — after pūrva-rāga (attachment prior to meeting), sambhoga is called brief (saṅkṣipta);

(2) māna-anantara — after māna (anger based on love), sambhoga is called encroached (saṅkīrṇa);

(3) kiñcid-dūra-pravāsa-anantara — after being a little distance away for some time, sambhoga is called accomplished (sampanna);

(4) sudūra-pravāsa-anantara — after being far away, sambhoga is called perfection (samṛddhimān).

The meetings of the lovers that take place in dreams also have these four divisions.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, to study of different kinds of separation and different kinds of meeting, vipralambha and sambhoga is studed very scientifically, how the devotee is feeling such intense ecstasy by giving Kṛṣṇa pleasure in this way. So that’s why this exchange of emotions is possible in the śṛṅgāra rasa, the conjugal relationship.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.63

vipralambha caturvidhadaḥ—

‘vipralambha’ catur-vidha—pūrva-rāga, māna
pravāsākhya, āra prema-vaicittya-ākhyāna

Translation: “Vipralambha has four divisions — pūrva-rāga, māna, pravāsa and prema-vaicittya.

Purport: Pūrva-rāga is described in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Vipralambha-prakaraṇa 5):

“When attachment produced in the lover and beloved before their meeting by seeing, hearing and so on becomes very palatable by the mixture of four ingredients, such as vibhāva and anubhāva, this is called pūrva-rāga.”

The word māna is also described in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Vipralambha-prakaraṇa 68):

“Māna is a word used to indicate the mood of the lover and the beloved experienced whether they are in one place or in different places. This mood obstructs their looking at each other and embracing each other, despite the fact that they are attached to each other.”

Pravāsa is also explained in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Vipralambha-prakaraṇa 139), as follows:

“Pravāsa is a word used to indicate the separation of lovers who were previously intimately associated. This separation is due to their being in different places.”

Similarly, prema-vaicittya is also explained in the Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Vipralambha-prakaraṇa 134):

“Prema-vaicittya is a word used to indicate an abundance of love that brings about grief from fear of separation, although the lover is present.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, different types of separation are explained here, there are four types, this intense concentration on Kṛṣṇa gives Kṛṣṇa and His devotees intense ecstasy. So, the activities in the material world are the perverted reflections and pure love is existing in the spiritual relationship.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.64

vraje rādhikādi gopīgaṇa o dvārakāya mahiṣīgaṇera vipralambha-bhāva-vaicitryaḥ—

rādhikādyepūrva-rāga’ prasiddhapravāsa’,māne’
‘prema-vaicittya’ śrī-daśame mahiṣī-gaṇe

Translation: “Of the four kinds of separation, three [pūrva-rāga, pravāsa and māna] are celebrated in Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the gopīs. In Dvārakā, among the queens, feelings of prema-vaicittya are very prominent.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, how the gopīs, Rādhikādī and all the gopīs experience more varieties of madness in separation. The Queens of Dvārakā experience some.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 23.65

mahiṣīgaṇera kṛṣṇa-vicchedāśaṅkāḥ—

Śrīmad-Bhāgavate (10.90.15)—

kurari vilapasi tvaṁ vīta-nidrā na śeṣe svapiti jagati rātryām īśvaro gupta-bodhaḥ
vayam iva sakhi kaccid gāḍha-nirviddha-cetā nalina-nayana-hāsodāra-līlekṣitena

Translation: “My dear friend kurarī, it is now night, and Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is sleeping. You yourself are not asleep or resting but are lamenting. Should I presume that you, like us, are affected by the smiling, liberal, playful glances of lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa? If so, your heart is deeply pierced. Is that why you are showing these signs of sleepless lamentation?’

Purport: This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.90.15) was spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa’s queens. Although they were with Kṛṣṇa, they were still thinking of losing His company.

Jayapatākā Swami: This intense love even when one is with Kṛṣṇa, they are afraid of losing His association that is one type of ecstasy.

In the prema-saravora līlā although Kṛṣṇa was there because His friend Madhumaṅgala said that Madhusūdana has left, indicating that a bumble bee had left but Rādhārānī took it that Kṛṣṇa left, although He was still there. She was crying in separation of love from Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is seeing how much Rādhārānī loved Him, He started to cry. The tears of both created a lake called prema-sarovara.

Thus ends the chapter entitled, The Gradations in the Intensity of Love in the Five Kinds of Mellows, Part 2
Under the section: Life’s Ultimate Goal — Love of Godhead