76 St Caitanya-caritamrta {Adi-fila, Ch. 13
sociates for this purpose were Sri Ramananda Raya and Sri Svarbpa Damodara
Gosvami. These intimate associates of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu helped the Lord
very much in the pastimes in which He felt like Radharani.

Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvat? Thakura comments in this connection that such
feelings of separation as Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu enjoyed from the books of
Vidyapati, Candidasa and Jayadeva are especially reserved for persons like Sri
Ramananda Raya and Svardpa Damodara, who were paramaharnsas, men of the
topmost perfection, because of their advanced spiritual consciousness. Such topics
are not to be discussed by ordinary persons imitating the activities of Lord Caitanya
Mahaprabhu. For critical students of mundane poetry and literary men without God
consciousness who are after bodily sense gratification, there is no need to read such
a high standard of transcendental literature. Persons who are after sense gratification
should not try to imitate rag@nuga devotional service. in their songs, Candidasa,
Vidyapati and Jayadeva have described the transcendental activities of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Mundane reviewers of the songs of Vidydapati, Jayadeva
and Candidasa simply help people in general become debauchees, and this leads only
to social scandals and atheism in the world. One should not misunderstand the
pastimes of Radha and Krsna to be the activities of a mundane young boy and girl.
The mundane sexual activities of young boys and girls are most abominable. There-
fore, those who are in bodily consciousness and who desire sense gratification are
forbidden to indulge in discussions of the transcendental pastimes of Sri Radha and
Krsna.

TEXT 43
Hwa FACHICH AS Cela-HRS |
aratfenl yf Cam cia athe 1 80 II
Risnera viyoge yata premo-cestita
Gsv@diyd purna Raila dpana vafichita
SYNONYMS

Rrsqera—of Lord Krsna; viyoge—in separation; yata—as many; prema—loving
affairs; cestita—activities; @svadiyd—tasting them; pérna—fulfilled; Rai/a—made;
Gpana—own; vafichita— desires.

TRANSLATION

In separation from Krsna, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu relished all these ecstatic

activities, and thus He fulfilled His own desires.
PURPORT

In the beginning of Caitanya-carita@mrta it is said that Lord Caitanya appeared to
taste the feelings Radharani felt upon seeing Krsna. Krsna Himself could not under-
stand the ecstatic feelings of Radharani toward Him, and therefore He desired to ac-
cept the role of Radharani and thereby taste these feelings. Lord Caitanya is Krsna
