Caitanya Mahāprabhu

śrutvā rāsa-vilāsa-vaibhava-rasaṁ śrī-gauracandro hariḥ
premonmāda-vibhinna-dhairya-nivaho mādhurya-sārojjvalaḥ |
rādhā-kṛṣṇaṁ vraja-vadhū-gaṇair veṣṭitaṁ saṁvibhāvya
prākaṭyaṁ tat svātmani tayor darśayan sambabhau sma ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 4.9.20)

“Upon hearing of the rasa of the magnificence of the play of rāsa, Hari—blessed Gauracandra—causing the severance of his composure as a result of the madness of prema, becoming effulgent with the essence of sweetness (mādhurya), and meditating on Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa surrounded by the ladies of Vraja, shined displaying a manifestation of them within his own self [i.e., causing his own form to appear as Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa].”

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rādhā-mādhavayor aikyāt tat-tad-bhāva-vibhāvitaḥ |
tat-tal-līlānukaraṇaṁ gaurāṅgaḥ samadarśayat ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 4.8.10)

“Absorbed in their bhāvas on account of the unity of Rādhā and Mādhava [in him], Gaurāṅga exhibited emulation of their līlās.”

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jñāto’si bhagavān sākṣāt śrī-kṛṣṇa-bhakta-rūpa-dhṛk |
śrī-rādhā-bhāvam āpanno mādhurya-rasa-lampaṭaḥ ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.15.23)

“You are known to be Bhagavān in person bearing the form of a bhakta of Śrī Kṛṣṇa—[to be] the Coveter of mādhurya-rasa possessed of the bhāva of Śrī Rādhā.”

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meru-sundara-tanū rasikeśaḥ kṛṣṇa-nāma-guṇa-kīrtana-mattaḥ |
rādhikā-rasa-vinoda-gadgada-prema-vāri-paripūrita-dehaḥ ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.15.18)

“His figure beautiful like [the golden Mount] Meru, the best of relishers of rasa, inebriated by chanting the names and qualities of Kṛṣṇa, stammering with the delight of Rādhikā’s rasa, his body completely drenched by tears of prema, … ”

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kāścid vidagdhāḥ sphuṭam eva cāhur
gopāṅganā-bhāva-vibhāvito’sau |
śrī-nanda-putraḥ svayam āvirāsīt
sannyāsa-veśena sva-kārya-sādhakaḥ ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.1.18)

“Some astute ladies [then] clearly said, ‘Absorbed in the bhāva of the gopīs, he, the blessed Son of Nanda himself, has appeared and is accomplishing his own aims in the garb of a sannyāsī.”

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gopī-bhāvair dāsa-bhāvair īśa-bhāvaiḥ kvacit kvacit |
ātma-tantraḥ svātma-rataḥ śikṣayan svajanān ayam ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.3.17)

“With the bhāvas of a gopī, the bhāvas of a servant, and the bhāvas of the Lord from time to time [i.e., at various times adopting these various bhāvas] he who is self-sufficient and satisfied within his own self [i.e., Bhagavān Caitanya Mahāprabhu] taught his own people.”

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