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one's eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord.  Svarūpa-siddhi , the eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord, may be situated in one of the transcendental mellows. Each and every one of them is as perfect as the others. However, by comparative study an unbiased person can realize that the mellow of servitorship is better than the mellow of neutrality. The mellow of fraternity is better than the mellow of servitorship. Similarly, the mellow of paternity is better than that of fraternity. Above all the mellows is the mellow of conjugal love. However, these are all spiritually situated on the same platform because all these relationships of perfection in love are based on a central point—Krsna.
These mellows cannot be compared to the feelings one derives from demigod worship. Krṣṇa is one, but the demigods are different. They are material. Love for Krṣṇa cannot be compared to material love for different demigods. Because Māyāvādīs are on the material platform, they recommend the worship of Śiva or Durgā and say that worship of Kālī and Krṣṇa are the same. However, on the spiritual platform there is no demigod worship. The only worshipable object is Krṣṇa. Therefore although there is no difference between a devotee in  śānta-rasa  or  dāsya-rasa ,  vātsalya-rasa  or  mādhurya-rasa , one can still make a comparative study of the intensity of love in these different transcendental positions. For example, it may be said that  dāsya-rasa  is better than  śānta-rasa , yet transcendental love of God is there in both of them. Similarly, we can judge that love of Godhead in fraternity is better than love of Godhead in neutrality and servitorship. Similarly, love of Godhead in paternal affection is better than love in fraternity. And, as stated before, love of God in the conjugal  rasa  is superior to that in th
The analysis of different types of love of Godhead has been made by expert  ācāryas  who know all about devotional service on the transcendental platform. Unfortunately, inexperienced and unauthorized persons in the mundane world, not understanding the transcendental position of pure love, try to find some material fault in the transcendental process. This is simply impudence on the part of spiritually inexperienced people. Such faultfinding is symptomatic of unfortunate mundane wranglers.
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yathottaram asau svāda-viśeṣollāsa-mayy api ratir vāsanayā svādvī bhāsate kāpi kasyacit