In separation Rādhā sees a meeting; in His lap she weeps over separation
prema-vilāsa-vivarta"the reversal within love's play" — a kind of prema-vaicittya
In separation Rādhā sees a meeting; in His lap she weeps over separation
prema-vilāsa-vivarta
"the reversal within love's play" — a kind of prema-vaicittya
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"Rādhikā is in Vṛndāvana, Kṛṣṇa is in Mathurā — and it's the other way around: though she is in separation, she experienced, "Kṛṣṇa came and by force he caught me." … Or she is sitting in the lap of Kṛṣṇa and begins to cry, that Kṛṣṇa had left."
Separation is usually measured by distance: near means together, far means apart. For the highest love that measure fails. Separation grows so dense that it becomes a meeting, and the meeting is so keen that within it one already weeps over parting. Gurudeva shows that at the summit the experience does not mirror the position of bodies; it lives by its own depth. From here one sees how far this love stands from what we call feeling: our mood turns on who walked into the room, while here the heart follows its own law.