The Gosvamis say that although the Supreme Lord is Self-delighted, Self-satisfied and totally indifferent, He always remains greedy to drink the nectar of His devotees’ love. But this desire to relish the love of His devotees does not contradict His Self-delight, for prema is a part of the Lord’s innnate potency.

Just as a greedy bee can never leave a honey-filled lotuswhorl, where he is immersed in relishing its honey, the Lord can never leave the hearts of His pure devotees, since He is inebriated by drinking the nectar of their pure love for Him.

If even a drop of the hladini sakti (pleasure potency) appears in the heart of the devotee, that is enough to constantly subdue the Lord, and if the Lord enters into the boundless ocean of the love of the embodiment and presiding goddess of this hladini sakti, sakshat madanakhya mahabhavavati Sri Radharani, then there’s no limit to the ways in which He swims in it.

The transcendental lila-rasa of Sri Radha-Madhava that the realized rasika devotees have relished and preached in this world, is the soul of their poetry, and this poetry has attained immortality in this mortal world, there’s no doubt about that at all. Although they use concrete words, what they are expressing reveals rasa and is eternal, true, immortal and complete. One of these great transcendentally realised poets is Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. His immortal poetry gives shape to the taste of Sri Radha and Madhava’s pastimes.

Srila Ananta das Babaji