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Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā, Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Atmārāma Verse

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 30

’bhakti’-śabdera artha haya daśa-vidhākāra
eka—‘sādhana’, ‘prema-bhakti’—nava prakāra

SYNONYMS

bhakti-śabdera—of the word bhakti; artha—meanings; haya—are; daśa-vidha-ākāra—ten varieties; eka—one; sādhana—the execution of regulative devotional service; prema-bhakti—ecstatic love of Godhead; nava prakāra—nine kinds.

TRANSLATION

“There are ten meanings for the word ‘bhakti’ [‘devotional service’]. One is sādhana-bhakti, execution of devotional service according to the regulative principles, and the other nine are varieties of prema-bhakti, ecstatic love of Godhead.

PURPORT

The nine varieties of prema-bhakti are rati, prema, sneha, māna, praṇaya, rāga, anurāga, bhāva and mahābhāva—attraction, love, affection, adverse feelings, intimacy, attachment, subattachment, ecstatic love and sublime ecstatic love. For the word sādhana-bhakti there is only one meaning, “the execution of devotional service according to regulative principles.”