CC Madhya 14.163

Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā, Chapter 14: Performance of the Vṛndāvana Pastimes

CC Madhya 14.162

CC Madhya 14.164

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 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 (Śṛṅgāra-bheda-prakaraṇa 102).