Re: Gadadhara's pure ecstatic love in the mood of Rukmini-devi

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! This is another proof that the Pastimes of Shri Shri Gaura Gadadhara are not duplication or exact imitation or imitation of Their Pastimes as Shri Shri Radha Krishna. In Madhurya Rasa or a Conjugal relationship, vamya or left-wing bhava (mood) in conducive to increase the ecstasy of the Pastimes of Lord Krishna. When Shrimati Radha refuses to Lord Krishna in a sulky mood, it increases the Lord's bliss specificially in such a relationship of lovers. But this is not the case in the Dasya (mixed with a little Sakhya) Relationship which Shri Gadadhara had with Lord Gauranga Mahaprabhu. Here Vamya bhava or the anti-mood is not favorable for the Sankirtana Pastimes. That is why Shrimati Radha accepted the right-wing submissive Saumya mood of Shrimati Rukmini and advented as Shri Gadadhara because this mood is more favorable for the Sankirtana Pastimes. All Associates are order-carriers (not conjugal lovers) of Lord Gaura in the Sankiratana Pastimes so they need to be in this submissive mood.

There is a view which states that since Shri Gadadhara lost his left-wing bhava (mood) to Lord Gaura (since Gaura = Radha + Krishna), he because right-wing or saumya (empty of left-wing vamya bhava) in Gaura lila. But I personally do not find scriptural evidence for this view in any of authorized biographies. In the Lord's Pastimes, there is no question of anyone becoming empty of anything as spiritual mathematics means 1-1 = still 1.  My explanation of this is as explained above in the first paragraph.

Shri Shri Gaura Gadadhara are not enacting again their previous conjugal pastimes as Shri Shri Radha Krishna but They are simply relishing those pastimes by dancing and singing in Sankirtana. There are absolutely no physical actions between Them which are like their previous conjugal pastimes of Shri Shri Radha Krishna. This is where the Gauranga Nagaris get it wrong. They both are in male forms as Shri Shri Gaura Gadadhara and They are Their own exemplary devotees. They act in a pure and transcendental male friendship relationship (no tinge of the other mundane gay relationship either) though Shri Gadahdara also feels Himself a transcendental servant of the Lord.

Daaso'smi, Swami Gaurangapada.

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