Volume 3 - Prabhupada Books

Text 91] Talks Between the Lord and Ramananda Raya 143
worships the Lord as the creator cannot understand the relationship between a
devotee and the Lord in the five types of transcendental mellows, nor can he
understand the conception of Kr��a. One cannot understand the six transcenden­
tal opulences of the Lord simply by understanding the Supreme Personality of
Godhead as impersonal Brahman.
Impersonal realization of the Absolute Truth is certainly transcendental, but this
does not mean that one can understand the sac-cid-ananda form of the Lord.
Similarly, Paramatma realization is also an incomplete understanding of the Ab­
solute Truth. The plenary expansion of the Absolute Truth within everyone's
heart is the Paramatma feature of the Lord. A devotee of the Personality of God­
head Naraya�a cannot actually understand the transcendental attractive features
of Kr��a. On the other hand, the devotee of Kr��a who is attached to the sublime
attractive feature of the Lord does not consider Naraya�a very important. When
the gopis sometimes saw Kr��a in the form of Naraya�a, they were not very at­
tracted to Him. The gopis never addressed Kr��a as Rukmi�i-rama�a. Kr��a's
devotees in Vrndavana address Him as Radharama�a, Nandanandana and Yasoda­
nandana, but not as Vasudeva-nandana or Devaki-nandana. Although according
to the material conception, Naraya�a, Rukmi�i-rama�a and Kr��a are one and the
same, in the spiritual world one cannot use the name of Kr��a in the place of Ruk­
mi�i-rama�a or Naraya�a. If one does so out of a poor fund of knowledge, his
mellow with the Lord becomes spiritually faulty and is called rasabhasa, an over­
lapping of transcendental mellows. The advanced devotee who has actually
realized the transcendental features of the Lord will not commit the mistake of
creating a rasabhasa situation by using one name for another. Because of the in­
fluence of Kali-yuga, there is much rasabhasa in the name of extravagance and
liberal-mindedness. Such fanaticism is not very much appreciated by pure devo­
tees.
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mama vartmanuvartante
manu�yal; partha sarvasaf)
SYNONYMS
ye-they; yatha-as; mam -unto Me; prapadyante-surrender; tan-unto
them; tatha eva -in the same proportion; bhajami-bestow My favor; aham-1;
mama-My; vartma-way; anuvartante-follow; manu�yaf) -men; partha -My
dear Arjuna; sarvasaf:J-in all respects.