Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami
Rama and Mahaprabhu
With Lord Rama there is prema, there is love, but the highest love as manifest by thegopis is not there. Hanuman had no such prema. It is quite absent between Lord Rama and his associates. Rama is maryada-purusottama — he very strictly followed Vedic etiquette. He refused to accept the munis of Dandakaranya. When they requested that he accept them as his wives, Lord Rama refused. "No. That cannot be. In this incarnation I have this vow, ekapatni-vrata. I cannot accept more than one wife. And if you all accept me you will be burned to ashes by the curse of Sitadevi. Wait for the next incarnation."
Mahaprabhu gave this highest understanding. Krishna as gopi-jana-vallabha, gopinatha, gopikanta. Mahaprabhu is giving the highest love — aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam, ramya kacid-upasana vrajavadhu-vargena ya kalpita. He is giving gopi-prema, radha-prema. Mahaprabhu has assumed the sentiment of Radharani,gopi-bhava. Therefore he is giving that prema.
— Darshan. Mayapur. February 1991.
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