रतिरनिशनिसर्गोष्णप्रबलतरानन्दपूररूपैव ।
उष्माणमपि वमन्ती सुधांशुकोटेरपि स्वाद्वी ॥
ratir aniśa-nisargoṣṇa-prabalatarānanda-pūra-rūpaiva |
uṣmāṇam api vamantī sudhāṁśu-koṭer api svādvī ||
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.3.61)
“Verily of the nature of a flood of bliss that is very strong and hot as a result of [its] incessant nature, rati, although [thus] emitting heat, is relishable more so than even a crore of nectar-rayed moons.”
Commentary
uttarottarābhilāṣa-vṛddheḥ aśānta-svabhāvatvam uṣṇatvam, ullāsātmakatvād ānandatvam, aniśo’nādita eva yo nisargaḥ svabhāvas tena uṣmā cāsau prabalatarānanda-rūpā ceti vigrahaḥ | uṣmāṇaṁ tad-vidha-nānā-sañcāri-bhāva-lakṣaṇam |
(Durgama-saṅgamanī-ṭīkā)
“The hotness (uṣṇatva) [in rati] refers to [rati’s] being of unstable nature (svabhāva) as a result of the increasing of desire more and more, and the blissfulness (ānandatva) [in rati] is because of [rati’s] being constituted of elation (ullāsa). ‘That which is of the nature (rūpā) of very powerful (prabalatara) bliss (ānanda) and [which is] hot (uṣṇa) as a result of [having] a nature (nisarga) which is incessant (aniśa), that is, verily beginningless (anādi)’ is the analysis (vigraha) [of the compound aniśa-nisargoṣṇa-prabalatarānanda-pūra-rūpā]. ‘Heat’ [i.e., the ‘heat’ that rati is said to emit in the phrase uṣmāṇam api vamantī] is that the character of which is various sañcari-bhāvas of that type [i.e., that are integral to rati].”
aniśaṁ nirantaraṁ yo nisargaḥ svabhāvas tena uṣṇā ca sā prabalatarānanda-rūpā ceti vigrahaḥ | rater uṣṇatvaṁ nāma uttarottarābhilāṣa-vṛddhyāśānta-svabhāvatvam, ullāsakatvād ānanda-rūpatvaṁ ceti jñeyam | uṣmāṇaṁ tad-vidha-nānā-sañcāri-bhāva-lakṣaṇaṁ vamanti abhivyaktaṁ karotīty arthaḥ |
(Bhakti-sāra-pradarśinī-ṭīkā)
“‘That which is of the nature (rūpā) of very powerful (prabalatara) bliss (ānanda) and [which is] hot (uṣṇa) as a result of [having] a nature (nisarga) which is incessant (aniśa), that is, without end’ is the analysis (vigraha) [of the compound aniśa-nisargoṣṇa-prabalatarānanda-pūra-rūpā]. The hotness (uṣṇatva) of rati is to be understood as [rati’s] being of unstable nature (svabhāva) as a result of the increasing of desire more and more, and [rati’s] being of the nature of bliss (ānanda-rūpatva) is [to be understood as being] because of [rati’s] being constituted of elation (ullāsa). ‘Emitting heat’ (uṣmāṇaṁ vamanti) means it manifests that [heat] the character of which is various sañcari-bhāvas of that type [i.e., that are integral to rati].”