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Caitanya-caritāmṛta 24.30

‘bhakti’-śabdera artha haya daśa-vidhākāra eka — ‘sādhana’, ‘prema-bhakti’ — nava prakāra
[‘bhakti’-shabdera artha haya dasha-vidhaakaara eka — ‘saadhana’, ‘prema-bhakti’ — nava prakaara]
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‘bhakti’-śabdera artha haya daśa-vidhākāra eka — ‘sādhana’, ‘prema-bhakti’ — nava prakāra
“There are ten meanings for the word ‘bhakti’ [‘devotional service’]. One is sādhana-bhakti, execution of devotional service according to the regulative principles, and the other nine are varieties of prema-bhakti, ecstatic love of Godhead.

The nine varieties of prema-bhakti are rati, prema, sneha, māna, praṇaya, rāga, anurāga, bhāva and mahābhāva — attraction, love, affection, adverse feelings, intimacy, attachment, subattachment, ecstatic love and sublime ecstatic love. For the word sādhana-bhakti there is only one meaning, “the execution of devotional service according to regulative principles.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
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