CHAPTER 23
Life’s Ultimate Goal—Love of Godhead
The following summary study of the Twenty-third Chapter is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thākura in his  Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya . In this chapter Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes the symptoms of emotion and love and the awakening of one's original loving relationship with the Lord, as well as the characteristics of a devotee who has actually attained that stage. He then describes the gradual increase of love of God up to the point of  mahābhāva . He then describes the five divisions of attraction and how they continue. He also describes the mellow derived from conjugal love, which is the supreme emotion. Conjugal love is divided into two categories— svakīya  and  parakīya .  Svakīya  refers to loving affairs between husband and wife, and  parakīya  refers to loving affairs between two lovers. There are a number of descriptions in this connection. There is also a description of the sixty-four transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī has twenty-five transcendental qualities.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then describes those candidates who are eligible to taste the mellows of devotional service. Their fundamental natures and their varieties are also described. The Lord also informs Sanātana Gosvāmī about all the confidential paraphernalia of devotional service. He gives a description of Goloka Vṛndāvana, where the Lord is engaged in His eternal pastimes described in the  Hari-varṅśa . There is also an opposing and favorable description of  keśa-avatāra . All these instructions are mentioned herein.
In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu blessed Sanātana Gosvāmī, placing His own hand on his head. Thus Sanātana received the power to describe these subjects in books like  Hari-bhakti-vilāsa .
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ठिब्रोननखुर   निजी-७७सुविखुर है।
স্বপ্রেম-নামামৃতমৃত্যোর  : ।।
আপামরং  বোা বিভভার গৌরঃঃ
কুক্কো জনৈভ্যস্তমহং প্রপত্তে ॥ ১ ॥
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