Uttamasloka Dasa..... only Subala's prema reaches mahabhava? This is quite wrong. tesv eva subaladinam bhavantam eva gacchati
(Ujjvalanilamani 14.233) Here Srila Rupa Gosvami clearly says "The love of the boys headed by Subala reaches up to mahabhava." Look at the Sanskrit. Subala + adi (etc) = Subala and the boys following him. Your idea is based on a wrong translation of the verse in your version of Sri Ujjvalanilamani.
Uttamasloka Dasa.....you wrote : "No it didn't happen. Uddhava did not become a blade of grass in Vrndavana. Where did you hear that?" Wrong again. The history of Uddhava becoming a blade of grass is described in the Skanda Purana. Just because he is an eternal associate of Dvaraka does not preclude his having other forms, just as the Pandavas are also present engaged in bhajana in the form of trees on the bank of Shyama Kunda. Uddhava always resides nearby Uddhava Kunda as grass in order to be sprinkled by the foot-dust of the gopis. In the Srimad-Bhägavatam Mähätmya of the Skanda Purana one can find the following description:
After the disappearance of Sri Krsna, His queens in Dvärakä were greatly afflicted by sorrow. Once, Vajranäbha came here with them and they loudly performed sankirtana. In that great sankirtana, all the associates of Krsna started to appear one by one. Suddenly, that exalted soul, Sri Uddhava emerged from the grass and shrubs, and he also became immersed in dancing in that mahä-sankirtana.
Wrong that among the priya-narma sakhas only Subala reaches mahabhava. Wrong that only Sri Radha's group have Mahabhava. Wrong that Uddhava is not doing bhajan as a blade of grass. And that is only in this short thread. Need I go on?
Niscala Devi Dasi ....please bear in mind I am not reading the demonstrably inaccurate translation you are reading. You are at a considerable disadvantage if you cannot read the texts in their original sanskrit, hindi, or bengali. Both Ujjvalanilamani and the Srimad Bhagavatam describe that the gopis and some sakhas experience the blinking of an eye to be a yuga during separation. This is the first symptom of rudha-mahabhava.
Other sampradayas follow the parama=prestha sakhis. SVCT has sometimes written in a way to include their conceptions. They may follow the moods of Lalita and Visakha according to their taste. However, they will attain a service in a Goloka Tattva. Not in Vraja. Srila Raghunath Das Gosvami clearly states this in Manah Siksa verse 3.
