aher iva gatiḥ premṇaḥ
svabhāva-kuṭilā bhavet
ato hetor ahetoś ca
yūnor māna udañcati

 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.


Text

“ ‘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).