sakhya-vÄtsalya-rati pÄya 'anurÄga'-sÄ«mÄ
subalÄdyera 'bhÄva' paryanta premera mahimÄ
sakhya — in friendship; vÄtsalya — in parental affection; rati — affection; pÄya — obtains; anurÄga-sÄ«mÄ — up to the limit of subordinate spontaneous love; subala-Ädyera — of friends like Subala and others; bhÄva — ecstatic love; paryanta — up to; premera mahimÄ — the glory of love of Godhead

 sakhya-vÄtsalya-rati pÄya 'anurÄga'-sÄ«mÄsubalÄdyera 'bhÄva' paryanta premera mahimÄsakhya - in friendship; vÄtsalya - in parental affection; rati - affection; pÄya - obtains; anurÄga-sÄ«mÄ - up to the limit of subordinate spontaneous love; subala-Ädyera - of friends like Subala and others; bhÄva - ecstatic love; paryanta - up to; premera mahimÄ - the glory of love of Godhead


Text

“After the mellow of servitorship, there are the mellows of friendship and parental love, which increase to subordinate spontaneous love. The greatness of the love found in friends like Subala extends to the standard of ecstatic love of Godhead.

Purport

ÅšrÄ«la BhaktisiddhÄnta SarasvatÄ« ṬhÄkura says that the mellow of neutrality increases to simple love of Godhead. In the mellow of servitorship, love of Godhead increases beyond that to affection, counterlove (anger based on love), love and attachment. Similarly, the mellow of friendship increases to affection, counterlove, love, attachment and subattachment. It is the same with the mellow of parental affection. The special feature of the mellow of friendship exhibited by personalities like Subala is that it increases from fraternal affection to counterlove, to spontaneous attachment, to subordinate attachment, and finally to the ecstasy where all the ecstatic symptoms continuously exist.