How wonderful is Śrī Raghunātha dāsa’s pure absorption in Rādhā’s service! He says: vilapāmi kāpi dāsī – “I am known as Your maidservant, Your real maidservant, and my life burns in the fire of separation from You!”
We also do bhajana in allegiance to the ācāryas, therefore we must also somehow attain this condition.
“I may be unqualified, but he who has offered me to Your lotus feet for Your maid service is Your qualified maidservant. Why will You not accept someone who is given to him? When merciful Śrī Gurudeva [in his form as guru manjari] offers me to Your lotus feet, You have to accept me.”
guru kṛṣṇa-rūpa hon śāstrera pramāṇe; guru-rūpe kṛṣṇa kṛpā koren bhaktagaṇe (C.C.).
“The scriptures prove that the guru is a form of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa bestows His grace on the devotees in the form of the guru.”
“This is in another way a gift of Your lover—can You refuse that?”
Śrīmat Dāsa Gosvāmīpāda’s example of rādhā-niṣṭhā is to be followed by the surrendered rasika bhāgavatas.
