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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. Śrī Prem Prayojan Prabhu 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.
Nearness is measured by what fills the heart.
Source: Rāya Rāmānanda Saṃvāda · part 15
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