"Her bhāva can be felt as a wave — the bhāva itself can never be owned"
"Her bhāva can be felt as a wave — the bhāva itself can never be owned"
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"But love, and it is her love. She can only experience it like her love. … This is an enormous difference, because if … the actual mood itself came to you, then you will think, I am Krishna's most beloved."
Gurudeva stops on a single word. There is a word that means the action, the function — and there is a word that means the existence, the having. The mahābhāva of Rādhikā comes to the mañjarīs only in the first way. They are always near, they are inside her heart; when the wave comes out of that heart it passes through them, and they feel it as their own. Yet the mahābhāva itself does not move into their hearts and settle there as theirs. The difference is enormous. Otherwise a maidservant would think: I am the most beloved, it is me He embraces in so many universes. The maidservants of Rādhikā do not allow such thoughts at all.
Today on your beads: ask for the place beside her.