292 Sti Caitanya-caritam¢ta

bhdva-marti, the attitude of Radharanf. One who engages in sense gratification on
the material platform can hardly understand rddhd-bhdva, but one who is freed
from the demands of sense gratification can understand it. Raédhd-bhdva must be
understood from the Gosvamis, those who are actually controllers of the senses.
From such authorized sources it is to be known that the attitude of Srimati
Radharani is the highest perfection of conjugal love, which is the highest of the
five transcendental mellows, and it is the complete perfection of love of Krsna.

These transcendental affairs can be understood on two platforms. One is called
elevated, and the other is called super-elevated. The loving affairs exhibited in
Dvaraka are the elevated form. The super-elevated position is reached in the mani-
festations of the pastimes of Vrndavana. The attitude of Lord Caitanya is certainly
super-elevated.

From the life of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, an intelligent person engaged in pure
devotional service can understand that He always felt separation from Krsna within
Himself. In that separation He sometimes felt that He had found Krsna and was
enjoying the meeting. The significance of this separation and meeting is very specific.
If someone tries to understand the exalted position of Lord Caitanya without
knowing this, he is sure to misunderstand it. One must first become fully self-
realized. Otherwise he may misidentify the Lord as ndgara, or the enjoyer of the
damsels of Vraja, thus committing the mistake of ras@bhdsa, or overlapping
understanding.

TEXT 107
CARAT Shea SHlqaE-Gay |
GRAD CO, BA LTHAAA ANF I 909 I
Sesa-lilaya prabhura kysna-viraha-unmdda
bhrama-maya cesta, dra praldpa-maya vada
SYNONYMS

Sesa-lilaya—in the final pastimes; prabhura—of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; Aysna-
viraha—from separation from Lord Krsna; unmdda—the madness; bhrama-maya—
erroneous; cestd—efforts; ara—and; pralapa-maya—delirious; va@da—talk.

TRANSLATION

In the final portion of His pastimes, Lord Caitanya was obsessed with the madness

of separation from Lord Krsna. He acted in erroneous ways and talked deliriously.
PURPORT

Lord Sri Caitanya exhibited the highest stage of the feelings of a devotee in
separation from the Lord. This exhibition was sublime because He was completely
perfect in the feelings of separation. Materialists, however, cannot understand this.
Sometimes materialistic scholars think He was diseased or crazy. Their problem is
that they always engage in material sense gratification and can never understand
