392 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 19

sakhyera guna—‘asankoca’, ‘agaurava’ sara
mamatadhikye tadana-bhartsana-vyavahdra

SYNONYMS

sakhyera guna—the quality of fraternity; asarkoca—without any formality;
agaurava—without any veneration; sdra—the essence; mamata-adhikye—on ac-
count of greater intimacy; tadana—of chastisement; bhartsana—of rebuking;
vyavahdra —behavior.

TRANSLATION

“The essence of fraternal love is intimacy devoid of the formality and
veneration found in the dasya-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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apanare ‘palaka’ jana, krsne ‘palya’-jhana
‘cari’ gune vatsalya rasa—amrta-samana

SYNONYMS

dpandre—unto himself; palaka jAana—the notion of a caretaker; krsne—in Lord
Krsna; palya—as object of protection; jfiana—notion; cari—four; gune—in
qualities; vatsalya rasa—the mellow of parental love; amrta-samana—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 Sinta-rasa, dasya-rasa, fra-
ternity and parental love. This is more transcendental nectar.

PURPORT

In his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura gives us a short sum-
mary of this complicated description of the different rasas. He states that by be-
coming firmly fixed in the Lord’s service, one is devoid of all material desires.
There are two transcendental qualities on the santa-rasa platform. In all the ma-
terial elements, sound vibration is found. Similarly, sdnta-rasa is spread over all the
other transcendental mellows, which are known as dasya-rasa, sakhya-rasa, vat-
