Vilapa Kusumanjali verse 7.1

Satsang and lecture by Pratibha Goswami on Vilāpa Kusumāñjali, the sweet rasik book of Ragunātha das Gosvāmī with the commentaries of Ananta dās Bābaji, Part 1.

Verse 7:

»O Svāmini (my mistress Rādhe)! The heart of this maidservant constantly burns in a great fire of separation from You. Being thus afflicted, and crying with great love, I lament in the following verses!«

After addressing his Gurus in the verses 4–6 in his sadhaka-deha, his physical form, Srila Raghunath das Goswami now starts to praise Radhey ju in his siddha-deha, in his spiritual form. The main topic of this talk is the feeling of separation from the beloved (vipralambha bhava), which is relished by rasik bhaktas in the same way like meeting (sambhoga).

»One may ask now how this kind of apparent agony can be recognized as the goal of life, since all goals of life are supposed to be blissful. It is natural that someone who has no experience with prema (love of God), especially Vraja-prema, will ask such a question. Although the feelings of separation from Krishna appear to be miserable, they are actually a special culmination of transcendental ecstasy. Prema has two bodies – one is meeting and the other is separation. Consequently, the loving devotees always swim in the ocean of very painful love-in-separation as well as in the ocean of most blissful love-in-meeting. These feelings can never be compared to the ordinary feelings of joy and sorrow that are experienced in this material world; only experienced devotees know this.« (From the commentary of Ananta das Babaji)

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