Follow the Angels
Our mantra, our guru-parampara, the Rupanuga-Sampradaya, all point towards this principle.
In support of this we find dasya-rasa, sakhya-rasa vatsalya-rasa, and others.
But the principal direction is towards madhurya-rasa. They are leading us to the full rasa.
All others are partial, subordinate and subservient-supplemental to the main rasa, madhurya-rasa.
But that supplemental service is also necessary.
Madhurya-rasa does not stand alone. It must have its paraphernalia: the friends, the parents, all must be there with this rasa.
Those who have an inner liking for such rasa are so fortunate!
Vasudeva Datta has said,
yadi gaura na ha'ta, tabe ki haita, kemane dharitam de
radhara mahima, prema-rasa-sima, jagate janata ke?
"If Mahaprabhu had not appeared then how could we sustain our lives? How could we live? What type of ecstatic rasa has He imbibed that we have been able to have a little taste?
Without this our lives would be impossible. Who else could take us to the acme of realization of the position of Srimati Radharani?
She is the greatest victim to the consuming capacity of Sri Krsna. She stands as the greatest sacrifice before Krsna's infinite consuming power.
Rasaraja-Mahabhava—the rasa is there, and She is the drawer of that rasa from the storehouse. She has such negative capacity that She can draw out the rasa to the highest degree both in quality and quantity."
