Verses 1.19-1.20
Parakīya means ‘belonging to another, to a stranger, to a hostile’. A parakīyā is thus the wife of another. Parakīyā-bhāv is love for the wife of another, forbidden love.
Parakīyā-bhāv is traditionally denounced as a violation of traditional Vedic dharma. But in the Gaudya tradition it is venerated.
Rūpa Gosvāmī writes in Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi:
The supreme position of śṛngārara-rasa [loving feeling] is established in upapati [parakīyā-bhāv] or paramour love (1.19).
At first glance this notion may seem scandalous to us. Monogamous marriage is regarded as one of the pillars of society.
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