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Taliks Between the Lord and Rāmānanda Rāya
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tionships is completely manifest. Love of Godhead lacks nothing in the conjugal stage. The summary of this verse is that paternal love of Godhead is certainly higher than fraternal love and that conjugal love is higher yet. It was when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu requested Rāmānanda Rāya to go further that he came to the point of the conjugal relationship, which is the highest perfectional stage of transcendental love.
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नागरः शिक्षाउक दै निर्वासरतेः असानः
সধ্যেষিতাং নলিনগন্ধকচাং কতোংম্যা: ।।
রানোৎসবেহচ্যু ভজদণ্ডাহীতকণ্ঠ--
লক্ষাশিষ্যাং য উদগাদুব্রজহৃন্দরীণাম্ ॥ ৮০ ॥
nāyaṁ śriyo ‘ṅga u nitānta-rateḥ prasādaḥ svar-yoṣitāṁ nalina-gandha-rucāṁ kuto ‘nyāḥ rāsotsave ‘sya bhuja-daṇḍa-gṛhīta-kaṇṭha-labdhāśiṣāṁ ya udagād-vraja-sundarīṇām
SYNONYMS
na —not;  ayam —this;  śriyaḥ —of the goddess of fortune;  aṅge —on the chest;  u —alas;  nitānta-rateḥ —who is very intimately related;  prasādaḥ —the favor;  svaḥ —of the heavenly planets;  yoṣitām —of women;  nalina —of the lotus flower;  gandha —having the aroma;  rucām —and bodily luster;  kutaḥ —much less;  anyāḥ —others;  rāsa-utsave —in the festival of the  rāsa  dance;  asya —of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa;  bhuja-daṇḍa —by the arms;  gṛhīta —embraced;  kaṇṭha —their necks;  labdha-āśiṣām —who achieved such a blessing;  yaḥ —which;  udagāt —became manifest;  vraja-sundarīṇām —of the beautiful  gopīs , the transcendental girls of Vrajabhūmi.
TRANSLATION
“ ‘When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was dancing with the gopīs in the rāsa-līlā, the gopīs were embraced by the arms of the Lord. This transcendental favor was never bestowed upon the goddess of fortune or the other consorts in the spiritual world. Indeed, never was such a thing even imagined by the most beautiful girls in the heavenly planets whose bodily luster and aroma resemble the lotus flower. And what to speak of worldly women who are very beautiful according to the material estimation?’
PURPORT
This verse ( Bhāg.  10.47.60) was spoken by Uddhava when he visited Śrī Vṛndāvana to deliver a message from Kṛṣṇa to the  gopīs . Uddhava remained in Vṛndāvana to observe the movements of the  gopīs  there. When he saw the