Category:Conjugal Love for God
Theme Analysis
The spiritual world is categorized by different mellows, or rasas, through which the living entities eternally relate to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. These relationships develop progressively. Beginning with neutrality (śānta-rasa), the affection increases into servitude, fraternity, and parenthood, ultimately reaching the absolute highest platform: conjugal love (mādhurya-rasa or śṛṅgāra-rasa). Just as the material elements evolve from ether down to earth, adding characteristics at each stage, conjugal love encompasses all the transcendental qualities of the preceding mellows. It contains the reverence of servitude, the intimacy of friendship, and the profound affection of parenthood, combined with the unparalleled sweetness of conjugal love itself.
Because it is the most complete expression of devotion, conjugal love completely satisfies Lord Kṛṣṇa. In fact, the intimacy is so perfectly sweet that the Supreme Lord willingly agrees to be completely controlled by His devotees in this mellow. They can even rebuke Him to correct His behavior, and the Lord relishes these loving rebukes far more than the reverential prayers of the Vedic hymns. The devotees situated in this relationship, particularly the internal potencies of the Lord, are considered the most confidential and the best of all devotees.
The ecstasy experienced in conjugal love knows no bounds. While advanced spiritual ecstasy is found in Lord Kṛṣṇa's pastimes in Dvārakā, the highest platform of highly advanced ecstasy, known as mahābhāva, is exhibited exclusively by the gopīs in Goloka Vṛndāvana. Historically, the deep intricacies of this topmost relationship were not fully revealed by other incarnations or Vaiṣṇava philosophies. It was by the causeless mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the golden avatāra, that this supreme gift was widely distributed. He practically demonstrated how to love Kṛṣṇa in this mood, teaching the world that one must humbly follow in the footsteps of the gopīs to attain the ultimate perfection of conjugal love for God.
- The Progression of Devotion: Conjugal love encompasses all the qualities found in the lower mellows, just as earth contains the qualities of all other material elements.
- Supreme Satisfaction: The Lord is most pleased and intimately controlled by devotees in conjugal love, relishing their affection over reverential prayers.
- The Highest Ecstasy: The platform of mahābhāva is achievable exclusively in the conjugal relationship, perfectly exhibited by the gopīs of Vṛndāvana.
- The Golden Avatāra's Gift: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu descended specifically to distribute this most elevated mellow of devotional service to the fallen souls.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Conjugal Love for God - The Zenith of Spiritual Mellows.
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Pages in category "Conjugal Love for God"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- Above that (the mellow of fraternity) is service to the Lord in vatsalya-rasa (parental love), and above all is the relationship with the Lord in the madhurya-rasa - conjugal love
- Although they (other scriptures) officially promote love of Godhead, they have no idea how to execute it. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu gives a practical demonstration of how to love God in a conjugal relationship - CC Intro
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- By impartially judging, one can find that the internal potencies of the Supreme Lord who are engaged in conjugal love with the Lord are the best of all devotees
- By sincere efforts to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam one realizes his constitutional relationship with the Lord in the transcendental humor of servitude, friendship, paternal affection or conjugal love
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- Devotees in a conjugal relationship with the Lord rebuke Him to correct His behavior, and the Lord enjoys those rebukes more than the prayers of the Vedas
- Devotees who are in a relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in conjugal love are considered to be the most confidential devotees of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
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- If someone simply desires conjugal love, but does not follow in the footsteps of the gopis, he is promoted to association with the Lord at Dvaraka
- In conjugal love there are the qualities of neutrality, servitorship, fraternity and parental affection, as well as those of conjugal love itself. The conclusion is that through conjugal love the Lord is completely satisfied
- In earth we can find all the qualities of material nature. The same can be applied to the rasa known as madhurya-rasa, or conjugal love
- In the capacity of servitor, friend, parent or conjugal lover of the Lord (the devotee of God desires to associate with the Lord), either in one of the innumerable Vaikuntha planets or in Goloka Vrndavana, the planet of Lord Sri Krsna
- In the mature stage the developed transcendental feeling culminates in realization of the particular relationship with the Lord by which a living entity is originally constituted - up to the relationship of conjugal love with the Lord
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- Self-realization with a sense of servitude for the Lord is certainly transcendental, but when a sense of fraternity is added the relationship develops, and as affection increases, this relationship develops into parenthood and conjugal love
- Servitude, friendship, parental affection and conjugal love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead are the basis of the four kinds of devotional activities
- Svakiya and parakiya conjugal love of Godhead have no existence in the material world, and parakiya is not exhibited anywhere in Vaikuntha, but only in the portion of Goloka Vrndavana known as Vraja
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- The confidential devotees attached to the service of the Lord are divided into several categories: some of them are servants, some are friends, some are parents, and some are conjugal lovers
- The devotees or potencies who are engaged in conjugal love are better situated than the others
- The five rasas (mellows) in the transcendental world are practiced by the inhabitants of Goloka Vrndavana in neutrality, servitorship, friendship, parental affection & conjugal love. All these please the Lord so much that He is controlled by the devotees
- The goddess of fortune is engaged in the service of the Lord in the rasa of madhurya, conjugal love
- The highest platform of service rendering to God is conjugal love
- The Lord enjoyed His pastimes, both in this world and in other worlds (higher planets), specifically in the association of the Yadu dynasty. At leisure hours offered by night, He enjoyed the friendship of conjugal love with women
- The loving services in parental love, fraternity and servitude are included in conjugal love of God. In conclusion, therefore, every confidential devotee is a pure devotee of the Lord
- The platform of mahabhava includes rudha and adhirudha. These platforms are possible only in conjugal love. Advanced ecstasy is found in Dvaraka, whereas highly advanced ecstasy is found among the gopis
- The servant of the Lord is engaged in the service of the Lord as a servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover, all of whom are equally as opulent as the Lord. This is acintya-bhedabheda-tattva
- The very sweet attraction of conjugal love increases through affection, counterlove, love, attachment, subattachment, ecstasy and highly advanced ecstasy (mahabhava)
- There are two kinds of dresses worn in that relationship of conjugal love, and they are called sambhoga and vipralambha. On the sambhoga platform, the dresses are unlimited, and on the vipralambha they are four in number
- Those who are in love with God as His parents are elevated to the point of transcendental emotion. only those who are related with the Supreme in conjugal love can experience the highest of ecstasies. Thus there are different meanings for the word bhakti
- To attain such service (of the Lord in conjugal love), one has to follow in the footsteps of the gopis in the ecstasy of sakhi-bhava. Then only can one understand the transcendental mellow of conjugal love
- To explain the topmost quality of conjugal love, Krsnadasa Kaviraja gives the example of the material elements - sky, air, fire, water & earth. In the sky (space) there is the quality of sound. Similarly, in air there are the qualities of sound and touch
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- What is to be said of one who is related to the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover
- When a devotee is completely purified, he becomes anyabhilasita-sunya. In other words, all of his material desires become zero, being burnt to ashes, and he exists either as the Lord's servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover
- When one attains that stage he can understand how he is related with the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a servant or friend or as a parent or conjugal lover. This stage of understanding is called svarupa-sthah