Volume 3 - Prabhupada Books

Text 84] Talks Between the Lord and Ramananda Raya 135
one's eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord. Svarupa-siddhi, the eternal rela­
tionship with the Supreme Lord, may be situated in one of the transcendental
mellows. Each and every one of them is as perfect as the others. However, by
comparative study an unbiased person can realize that the mellow of servitorship
is better than the mellow of neutrality. The mellow of fraternity is better than the
mellow of servitorship. Similarly, the mellow of paternity is better than that of fra­
ternity. Above all the mellows is the mellow of conjugal love. However, these are
all spiritually situated on the same platform because all these relationships of per­
fection in love are based on a central point-Kr�J;�a.
These mellows cannot be compared to the feelings one derives from demigod
worship. Kr�J;�a is one, but the demigods are different. They are material. Love for
Kr�J;�a cannot be compared to material love for different demigods. Because
Mayavadis are on the material platform, they recommend the worship of Siva or
Durga and say that worship of KaiT and Kr�J;�a are the same. However, on the
spiritual platform there is no demigod worship. The only worshipable object is
Kr�t;�a. Therefore although there is no difference between a devotee in santa-rasa
or dasya-rasa, v;Itsalya-rasa or madhurya-rasa, one can still make a comparative
study of the intensity of love in these different transcendental positions. For ex­
ample, it may be said that dasya-rasa is better than santa-rasa, yet transcendental
love of God is there in both of them. Similarly, we can judge that love of Godhead
in fraternity is better than love of Godhead in neutrality and servitorship. Similarly,
love of Godhead in paternal affection is better than love in fraternity. And, as
stated before, love of God in the conjugal rasa is superior to that in the paternal
rasa.
The analysis of different types of love of Godhead has been made by expert
acaryas who know all about devotional service on the transcendental platform.
Unfortunately, inexperienced and unauthorized persons in the mundane world,
not understanding the transcendental position of pure love, try to find some ma­
terial fault in the transcendental process. This is simply impudence on the part of
spiritually inexperienced people. Such faultfinding is symptomatic of unfortunate
mundane wranglers.
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