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The lord lost ructs Śrila Rüna Gosvāmi
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to render some service and thus become favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A devotee in the  śānta-rati  is not very much willing to render service to the Lord, but a devotee in the  dāsya-rati  voluntarily wants to render service. Due to this attitude, the devotee in the  dāsya-rati  realizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead more fully than a devotee in the  śānta-rati . He considers the Lord to be a worshipable object, and this means that his attachment for the Lord increases. On the  dāsya-rati  platform a devotee is attached to rendering service to the Lord, and he is detached from material activities. The  śānta-rati  is neither material nor spiritual, but the  dāsya-rati  is actually on the spiritual platform. There is no attachment for material things on the spiritual platform. A devotee in  dāsya-rati  has no attachment for anything but Kṛṣṇa’s service.
Sakhya-rati is described in  Bhakti-rasāmrta-sindhu  (2.5.30) as follows:
ye syus tulyā mukundasya te sakhāyaḥ satāṁ matāḥ sāmyād viśrambha-rūpaiṣāṁ ratiḥ sakhyam ihocyate
According to the opinion of advanced devotees and learned scholars, a devotee in  sakhya-rati  feels equal to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is a relationship in friendship. Due to having a friendly relationship with the Lord, not only is one free from material attachment, but one believes in equal dealings with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is called  sakhya-rati . The  sakhya-rati  devotee is so advanced that he treats the Lord on an equal level and even exchanges joking words. Although one is never equal to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the  sakhya-rati  devotee feels equal to the Lord, and he does not feel guilty because of this. Actually it is offensive to consider oneself equal to the Lord. The Māyāvādīs consider themselves equal to the Lord, but such feelings entail bereavement because they are material. The  sakhya-rati , however, is a feeling experienced in the mind by a pure devotee, and he is eternally related with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in that feeling.
Vātsalya-rati is described as follows in the  Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu  (2.5.33):
guravo ye harer asya te pūjyā iti viśrutāḥ anugrahamayī teṣāṁ ratir vātsalyam ucyate idaṁ lālana-bhavyāśīś cibuka-sparśanādi-kṛt
When a living entity is situated on the platform of  vātsalya-rati , he thinks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His childhood feature. In this feature, the Lord