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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 9]
the Lord was his friend. Bhīṣmadeva takes this opportunity to address the Lord as  vijayasakhe  (friend of Arjuna) because the Lord is pleased when He is addressed conjointly with His devotees who are related with Him in different transcendental humors. While Kṛṣṇa was the charioteer of Arjuna, sun rays glittered on the dress of the Lord, and the beautiful hue created by the reflection of such rays was never forgotten by Bhīṣmadeva. As a great fighter he was relishing the relation of Kṛṣṇa in the chivalrous humor. Transcendental relation with the Lord in any one of the different  rasas  (humors) is relishable by the respective devotees in the highest ecstasy. Less intelligent mundaners who want to make a show of being transcendentally related with the Lord artificially jump at once to the relation of conjugal love, imitating the damsels of  Vrajadhāma . Such a cheap relation with the Lord exhibits only the base mentality of the mundaner because one who has relished conjugal humor with the Lord cannot be attached to worldly conjugal  rasa , which is condemned even by mundane ethics. The eternal relation of a particular soul with the Lord is evolved. A genuine relation of the living being with the Supreme Lord can take any form out of the five principal  rasas , and it does not make any difference in transcendental degree to the genuine devotee. Bhīṣmadeva is a concrete example of this, and it should be carefully observed how the great general is transcendentally related with the Lord.
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युधि तुरगरजोविधूम्रविष्वक्- कचलुलितश्रमवार्यलङ्कृतास्ये । मम निशितशरैर्विभिद्यमान- त्वचि विलसत्कवचेऽस्तु कृष्ण आत्मा ॥ ३४ ॥
yudhi turaga-rajo-vidhūmra-viṣvak kaca-lulita-śramavāryalaṅkṛtāsye mama niśita-śarair vibhidyamāna tvaci vilasat kavace'stu kṛṣṇa ātmā
yudhi —on the battlefield;  turaga —horses;  rajaḥ —dust;  vidhūmra —turned an ashen color;  viṣvak —waving;  kaca —hair;  lulita —scattered;  śramavāri —perspiration;  alaṅkṛta —decorated with;  āsye —unto the face;  mama —my;  niśita —sharp;  śaraiḥ —by the arrows;  vibhidyamāna —pierced by;  tvaci —in