Verse Text
samprārthanātmikā dainya-bodhikā lālasāmayī |
ity ādir vividhā dhīraiḥ kṛṣṇe vijṣaptir īritā ||152||
Translation
The wise have explained that there are various types of entreaties to Kṛṣṇa, such as prayers, admission of incompetence and expressions of longing.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Samprārthanā (prayers) are statements coming from persons who have not attained the stage of bhāva. Lālasā statements come from persons who have attained bhāva. That is the difference.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
It is said there that those who are sober devotees can offer their submission to Kṛṣṇa in the following three ways: (1) samprārthanātmikā, very feelingly offering prayers; (2) dainya-bodhikā, humbly submitting oneself; (3) lālasā-mayī, desiring some perfectional stage. This desiring some perfectional stage in spiritual life is not sense gratification. When one realizes something of his constitutional relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he understands his original position and wants to be reinstated in this position, either as friend, servant, parent or conjugal lover of Kṛṣṇa. That is called lālasā-mayī, or very eagerly desiring to go to one’s natural position. This lālasā-mayī stage of submission comes in the stage of perfect liberation, which is technically called svarūpa-siddhi, when the living entity understands, by perfect spiritual advancement and revelation, his original relationship with the Lord.