"Pure love on the transcendental platform is the paragon of purity devoid of material affection and completely spiritual. Lord Caitanya admitted that the exchange of feeling between Radha and Krsna is the highest position of transcendental loving reciprocation, and He told Ramananda Raya: 'Such a position cannot be attained without the performance of transcendental activities. So will you kindly explain to Me how I can raise Myself to this platform?'"Ramananda Raya then began to relate the confidential and transcendental activities of Radha and Krsna. These activities cannot be understood in the emotional relationship with the Supreme Lord as master and servant, friend and friend, or parent and son.This confidential subject matter can be understood only in the association of the damsels of Vraja, for the confidential activities have arisen from the feeling and emotions of those damsels. Without the mercy of the gopis one cannot understand the confidential pastimes of Radha and Krsna". (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, ch. 31).Sri Krsna's love affairs with the gopis of Vraja are the completely spiritual pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Krsna's gopi girlfriends are transcendental expansions of His own blissful spiritual potency, hladini sakti.When Krsna sports with the gopis, who are actually expansions of His own transcendental body, it is compared to a boy dancing with his own shadow.Although Krsna's outward movements with the gopis may resemble the activities of ordinary lovers of the mundane world, they have no similarity. Material relationships are ruled by lust to fulfill selfish desires; whereas spiritual love, prema, is self-less dedication for the pleasure of the beloved. "Therefore, lust and love are quite different.Lust is like dense darkness; but love is like the bright sun. Thus there is not the slightest taint of lust in the gopi's love. Their relationship with Krsna is only for the sake of His enjoyment" (Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 4.171).There is an apparent similarity between Krsna' spiritual love affairs with His gopis and the exploits of worldly people. This is because the material world is simply a perverted reflection of the perfect reality existing eternally in the spiritual world, Goloka, Vrndavana. In the material world sexual enjoyment is considered the highest form of pleasure.Similarly, in the spiritual world, Krsna's conjugal love sports with the Vraja gopis exhibit the highest and most perfect expression of spiritual bliss. Material sex desire, however, is an imperfect and contaminated imitation of Krsna's perfectly pure desire to enjoy with His own energies, or sakis, the gopis of Vrndavana.Madhurya rasa or Srngara rasa, as it is sometimes called, provides the highest experience of ecstasy, because it incorporates and condenses all the sweet tastes found in the four subordinate rasas. "Attraction for Krsna in santa-rasa, rendering service to the Lord in dasya-rasa, rendering relaxed service in fraternity, and serving in parental love with feelings of maintenance; all combine on the platform of conjugal love (madhurya rasa), when the devotee wants to serve the Lord by offering Him his personal body.Thus the qualities of the other rasas combine to form the nectar of conjugal love. On this platform, all the different feelings of a devotee are amalgamated" (CC Madhya 19.230).
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