Batula Kahaye Setha Saba Nirakara
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bātula kahaye – “sethā saba nirākāra”
nirviśeṣa tini yena śunyera prakāra
bātula-crazy man; kahaye–says; sethā saba nirākāra-the spiritual realm is formless; nirviśeṣa-without variety; tini-he; yena-like; śunyera-voidness; prakāra-type.
The undeveloped intelligence of immature philosophers considers the Supreme Absolute Truth to be impersonal and devoid of qualities.
rasera bhāṇḍāri tini “raso vai saḥ”
rasika bhāvuka seve hai tāṅra vaśa
rasera bhāṇḍari-reservoir of pleasure; tini-he; raso vai saḥ-he is the pleasure; rasika-of the rasa; bhāvuka-thoughtful men; seve-serve; hai-being; tāṅra vaśa-under his control.
Such philosophers do not know that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is storehouse of all transcendental mellows. The Vedic literatures emphatically describe the Supreme Absolute truth as raso vai saḥ, the source of all transcendental qualities, characteristics, and nectarean mellows of pure spiritual pleasures. Far from being impersonal, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is in fact the reservoir of transcendental rasa, or ecstatic mellow of personal loving exchanges. The pure devotees who serve the Lord in the different ecstatic mellows of devotional service are completely under the shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
sānta, dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya rasa āra
sarvarasa śreṣṭha mādhurya rasa sāra
sānta, dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya rasa-the four types of rasas; āra-and; sarva-rasa śreṣṭha-the best of all rasas; mādhurya rasa-conjugal love; sāra-the essence.
There in the spiritual world the pure devotees are engaged in the Lord’s loving devotional service in transcendental mellows starting from neutrality (sānta-rasa), servitude (dāsya-rasa), friendship (sakhya-rasa), paternal affection (vātsalya) and the topmost of all transcendental mellows of loving exchange, conjugal love (mādhurya-rasa), which contains all the essential characteristics of the other transcendental relationships.
cid-jagate ‘rasa’ saba haya upādeya
māyāte tāra chāyāmātra kintu saba heya
cid-jagate-in the spiritual world; rasa saba-all the rasas; haya-are; upādeya-excellent; māyāte-in the material world; tāra-its; chāyā-mātra-only the shadow; kintu-but; saba-all; heya-disagreeable.
The ecstatic mellows or loving exchanges existing in the spiritual world are all super-excellent and superb. This material world is expanded from the spiritual world, but is merely the shadow of that original spiritual world. All the eternal relationships that exist in the spiritual world are also represented in this material world in a limited or perverted way, just as the shadow of a real object has the complete outline of the object’s form, but doesn’t have the full detail and variety of the original.
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Batula Kahaye Setha Saba Nirakara was composed by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It appears in Vrindavane Bhajan.
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