अमेरिका  अमेरिका के एक राज्य है।
Śrī   Caitanya-caritāmrta
[[Madhya-lilā, Ch. 23]]
TEXT 13
সেই ‘ভাব’ গাঢ় হৈলে ধরে ‘প্রেম’-নাম । সেই প্রেমা—‘প্রয়োজন’ সর্বানন্দ-ধাম ॥ ১৩ ॥
sei ‘bhāva’ gāḍha haile dhare ‘prema’-nāma sei premā — ‘prayojana’ sarvānanda-dhāma
SYNONYMS
sei bhāva —that emotional condition;  gāḍha haile —when it becomes intensified;  dhare —takes;  prema-nāma —the name love of Godhead;  sei premā —that love of Godhead;  prayojana —the ultimate goal of life;  sarva-ānanda-dhāma —the reservoir of all pleasure.
TRANSLATION
“When that ecstatic emotional stage intensifies, it is called love of God-head. Such love is life’s ultimate goal and the reservoir of all pleasure.
PURPORT
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Țhākura summarizes this growth of love of Godhead as a gradual process. A person becomes interested in devotional service by some good fortune. Eventually he becomes interested in pure devotional service without material contamination. At that point, a person wants to associate with devotees. As a result of this association, he becomes more and more interested in discharging devotional service and hearing and chanting. The more one is interested in hearing and chanting, the more he is purified of material contamination. Liberation from material contamination is called  anartha-nivṛtti , indicating a diminishing of all unwanted things. This is the test of development in devotional service. If one actually develops the devotional attitude, he must be freed from the material contamination of illicit sex, intoxication, gambling and meat-eating. These are the preliminary symptoms. When one is freed from all material contamination, his firm faith awakens in devotional service. When firm faith develops, a taste arises, and by that taste, one becomes attached to devotional service. When this attachment intensifies, the seed of love of Kṛṣṇa fructifies. This position is called  prīti  or  rati  (affection) or  bhāva  (emotion). When  rati  intensifies, it is called love of Godhead. This love of Godhead is actually life's highest perfection and the reservoir of all pleasure.
Thus devotional life is divided into two stages — sādhana-bhakti  and  bhāva-bhakti .  Sādhana-bhakti  refers to the development of devotional service through the regulative principles. The basic principle for the execution of devotional service is faith. Above that, there is association with devotees, and after that there is initiation by a bona fide spiritual master. After initiation, when one follows the