Always Be Transcendental

No matter happens to you in this material world, always be transcendental. In this world there will always be dualities: good and bad, beautiful and ugly, honor and dishonor, etc. Not allowing ourselves to be carried away by these dualities, we should simply remain always absorbed in the mood of serving the Lord with love. If we base our happiness on this, we will always be happy. Nothing will ever be able to bring us down.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Seemingly Inauspicious

During this winter holiday, I am reading Nectar of Devotion. When I read that in Krishna's pastimes 5,000 years ago, some pure devotees even displayed some seemingly inauspicious qualities -- namely envy, fear, anger, presumption, proud, etc, etc. E. g. Satyabhama displays her envy over Rukmini, other gopis sometimes displayed their envy over Radharani. Etc. But these qualities are supposed to be inauspicious. Why did they display these sentiments?

Your humble servant

Yechen Zhang

Answer: But Actually Most Auspicious

In the pastimes of the Lord there are unlimited varieties of experiences and tastes. There are five primary and seven secondary rasas or tastes that are experienced between the Lord and His devotees. All of these rasas are great great reservoirs of transcendental pleasure for the Lord and His devotees, even the seemingly inauspicious ones.

For example, sometimes Krishna puts His pure devotees into a fearful situation just so their feelings of dependence on Him become intensified and so that He can personally rescue them from their fearful situation. Just like one time there was forest fire in Vrindavan and the devotees were very much afraid that they would be consumed in its flames. But they took complete shelter of Krishna and He relieved them from the danger of the forest fire. There are countless other examples for all of the rasas.

The rasas experienced in the spiritual world are listed as follows:

Primary Rasas:
1. neutrality (passive adoration)
2. servitorship
3. friendship
4. parenthood
5. conjugal love

Secondary Rasas:
1. comedy
2. compassion
3. fear
4. chivalry
5. ghastliness
6. wonder
7. devastation

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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