Can there be any doubt that the devotees who are surrendered to Śrī Rādhā and who are absorbed in mañjarī bhāva are floating endlessly on the waves of rasa? The lives of such devotees are thoroughly pervaded by the highest experience of rasa, this is proven by the books written by the sensitive rasika saints. This material world is the playground of God’s endlessly variegated pastimes, and there are innumerable creatures there with innumerable different feelings. Some feel like a karmī (result-oriented worker), some like a yogī (mystic), some like a jñānī (wise man), some like a bhakta (devotee of a personal God) and there are so many other feelings with which people wander over the earth, but beyond all these classes of people there are those who have been ornamenting the earth since time immemorial by carrying a particular kind of extraordinary feeling, and these people are known as rasikas. Rasa is the very heart of the Lord, and therefore it is endless, complete and not limited by time, place or circumstances. It is universal and self-manifest and finds its culmination in Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in Vraja, and most particularly in Śrī-Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava’s nikuñja-līlā-rasa. The ācāryas relished this personally and recorded their experiences in their books out of their endless mercy on the practising devotees of this material world.

Srila Ananta das Babaji