Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya-lila Chapter 14 Verse 163

Madhya-līlā | Chapter 14: Performance of the Vṛndāvana Pastimes

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 14.163

aher iva gatiḥ premṇaḥ

svabhāva-kuṭilā bhavet

ato hetor ahetoś ca

yūnor māna udañcati

SYNONYMS

aheḥ — of the snake; iva — like; gatiḥ — the movement; premṇaḥ — of the loving affairs; svabhāva — by nature; kuṭilā — crooked; bhavet — is; ataḥ — therefore; hetoḥ — from some cause; ahetoḥ — from the absence of a cause; ca — and; yūnoḥ — of the young couple; mānaḥ — anger; udañcati — appears.

TRANSLATION

"'The progress of loving affairs between a young boy and a young girl is by nature crooked, like the movement of a snake. Because of this, two types of anger arise between a young boy and girl — anger with a cause and anger without a cause.'"

PURPORT

This is a quotation from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī's Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi (Śṛńgāra-bheda-prakaraṇa 102).

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