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conditioned life, we have forgotten our relationship with God, but by regulative principles, we
can make alert the inert activities. Just like a rheumatic crippled man is gradually elevated
by some bodily exercises. Similarly, the regulative principles are to make us habituated to
our dormant service attitude, but when that is mature, it becomes spontaneous, and that is
pure Krishna Consciousness. And such highly elevated Consciousness makes one eligible to
enter into the Krishna Loka. The living example for much spontaneous love are exhibited
by the Gopis and inhabitants of Vrindaban. We can learn this from Srimad-Bhagavatam
how much they love Krishna spontaneously.”
Your question: what is the relationship of sweethearts in Vaikuntha to each other and
to Lord Narayana? Is conjugal love, parental affection, and unalloyed friendship there in
the Vaikunthas?
No. In Vaikuntha there are two kinds of transcendental mellows, dasya and the lower
half of sakya rasa. The lower half of sakhya means friendship in adoration. And the
higher half of sakhya rasa is friendship on equal level. So in Vrindaban the reciprocation
of transcendental humor is higher than in Vaikuntha. It is there more free and spontaneous
without any restriction arranged by yogamaya principle.

In Goloka Vrindaban, yogamaya acts to facilitate the spontaneous love
and devotion of the devotees. But yogamaya does not act in Vaikuntha where
the worship is one of awe and reverence without any hint of spontaneity and
relaxation of formal rules of conduct.
Purport: Actually the activities of yogamaya are absent in the spiritual sky and the
Vaikuntha planets. She simply works in the supreme planet, Goloka Vrindavana, and she
works to manifest the activities of Krishna when He descends to the material universe to
please His innumerable devotees within the material world. (CC Madhya 21.104 )
The many wonderful rasas are more specifi cally described and examples
given of devotees who have attained them by Srila Prabhupada. According to
the Caitanya Charitramita, there are fi ve transcendental rasas, or mellows, that
devotees can attain in the spiritual world.
In the spiritual world there are fi ve kinds of relationships with the Supreme Lord—
santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya. The perverted refl ections of these rasas
are found in the material world. Land, home, furniture and other inert material objects
are related in santa, or the neutral and silent sense, whereas servants work in the dasya
relationship. The reciprocation between friends is called sakhya, the affection of a parent for
a child is known as vatsalya, and the affairs of conjugal love constitute madhurya. These fi ve
relationships in the material world are distorted refl ections of the original, pure sentiments,
which should be understood and perfected in relationship with the Supreme Personality
of Godhead under the guidance of a bona fi de spiritual master. In the material world the
perverted rasas bring frustration. If these rasas are re-established with Lord Krishna, the
result is eternal, blissful life. (CC Adi 1.56)
In the “Teachings of Lord Chaitnaya” Srila Prabhupada writes: The initial
stage is called santa-rati, wherein one who is liberated from material contamination
appreciates the greatness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One who attains this
stage does not exactly engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, for this is the
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