“When a young couple are bound to each other by a feeling that is not destroyed in spite of immense threat (unfavorable conditions) we call it \u2018love’,”<\/p>\n
– (U.N. Sth\u00e2yi-63)<\/p>\n
Example – Srimati R\u00e2dh\u00e2r\u00e2ni is infinitely greater than Chandr\u00e2vali in all respects – beauty, qualities, sweetness, expertise, charm etc. Chandr\u00e2vali is well aware of this fact and Sri Krishna too knows it. She also knows that He has extreme anur\u00e2g for Srimati R\u00e2dh\u00e2r\u00e2ni. Yet the bond of bh\u00e2v between Sri Krishna and Chandr\u00e2vali never fades.<\/p>\n
Here, Srimati R\u00e2dh\u00e2r\u00e2ni’s extreme beauty and excellences and Sri Krishna’s tremendous love for Her are the causes that can sever Chandr\u00e2vali’s love for Sri Krishna; yet their love does not die. This is the true nature of love. Why? Because both the lovers are completely without any desire for sense gratification.<\/p>\n
This sort of love is of three types –<\/p>\n
1. manda (feeble)<\/p>\n
2. madhya (intermediate)<\/p>\n
3. proudha (mature )<\/p>\n
“Mature love is the one in which the lovers cannot bear separation” – (U.N.)<\/p>\n
“When the lovers tolerate separation with great sorrow we call it intermediate love” – (U.N.)<\/p>\n
“When the lovers may forget each other sometimes, it is feeble love.”- (U.N.)<\/p>\n
Leel\u00e2-shakti creates such different types of love to enhance the ras of love and make it variegated. Of course, we should realize that Sri Krishna’s love is proportional to the type of love that the sweetheart feels for Him.<\/p>\n
“Love increases gradually from sneha, m\u00e2n, pranay, r\u00e2g, anur\u00e2g, bh\u00e2v and mah\u00e2bh\u00e2v. Just as the taste is increasingly sweet from the seed of sugarcane, sugarcane, sugarcane juice, jaggery, lump sugar, sugar, refined sugar, double refined sugar and pure sugar, similarly the enjoyment increases from one level of love to the next.” – (C.C.Madhya.23.22-24)<\/p>\n
The chemical analysts say that once we get the product, the reactant disappears – for instance – when the sugarcane is squeezed, we get the juice, however the sugarcane stick is no more; and when we thicken this juice to obtain jaggery, the juice disappears. Similarly when love deepens and reach the level of m\u00e2n, we will not get the previous stage. When sneha turns into m\u00e2n, sneha will vanish. This logic does not hold well in the case of love. Love has inconceivable power. It arouses the pleasure of all the levels in the heart of a lover.<\/p>\n
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