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Šri Caitanya-caritāmrta
[[Madhya-lilā, Ch. 19]
sakhyera guṇa —‘asaṅkoca’, ‘agaurava’ sāra mamatādhikye tāḍana-bhartsana-vyavahāra
SYNONYMS
sakhyera guṇa —the quality of fraternity;  asaṅkoca —without any formality;  agaurava —without any veneration;  sāra —the essence;  mamatā-adhikye —on account of greater intimacy;  tāḍana —of chastisement;  bhartsana —of rebuking;  vyavahāra —behavior.
TRANSLATION
“The essence of fraternal love is intimacy devoid of the formality and veneration found in the dāsya-rasa. Due to a greater sense of intimacy, the devotee functioning in paternal love chastises and rebukes the Lord in an ordinary way.
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আপনারে ‘পালক’ জ্ঞান, কৃষ্ণে ‘পাল্য’-জ্ঞান । ‘চারি’ গুণে বাৎসল্য রস – অমৃত-সমান ॥ ২২৮ ॥
āpanāre ‘pālaka’ jñāna, kṛṣṇe ‘pālya’-jñāna ‘cāri’ guņe vātsalya rasa—amṛta-samāna
SYNONYMS
āpanāre —unto himself;  pālaka jñāna —the notion of a caretaker;  kṛṣṇe —in Lord Kṛṣṇa;  pālya —as object of protection;  jñāna —notion;  cāri —four;  guṇe —in qualities;  vātsalya rasa —the mellow of parental love;  amṛta-samāna —like nectar.
TRANSLATION
“On the platform of paternal love, the devotee considers himself the Lord’s maintainer. Thus the Lord is the object of maintenance, like a son, and therefore this mellow is full of the four qualities of śānta-rasa, dāsya-rasa, fraternity and parental love. This is more transcendental nectar.
PURPORT
In his  Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya , Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives us a short summary of this complicated description of the different  rasas . He states that by becoming firmly fixed in the Lord's service, one is devoid of all material desires. There are two transcendental qualities on the  śānta-rasa  platform. In all the material elements, sound vibration is found. Similarly,  śānta-rasa  is spread over all the other transcendental mellows, which are known as  dāsya-rasa ,  sakhya-rasa ,  vāt-