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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 10]
to the  śṛṅgāra-rasa , the mellow of conjugal love in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world the Supreme Personality of Godhead has all the dealings of love, displaying the symptoms called  sāttvika ,  sañcārī ,  vilāpa ,  mūrcchā  and  unmāda . Thus when Lord Rāmacandra was separated from Sītā, all these spiritual symptoms were manifested. The Lord is neither impersonal nor impotent. Rather, He is  sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha , the eternal form of knowledge and bliss. Thus He has all the symptoms of spiritual bliss. Feeling separation from one's beloved is also an item of spiritual bliss. As explained by Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī,  rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī-śaktiḥ : the dealings of love between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are displayed as the pleasure potency of the Lord. The Lord is the original source of all pleasure, the reservoir of all pleasure. Lord Rāmacandra, therefore, manifested the truth both spiritually and materially. Materially those who are attached to women suffer, but spiritually when there are feelings of separation between the Lord and His pleasure potency the spiritual bliss of the Lord increases. This is further explained in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.11):
avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto mama bhūta-maheśvaram
One who does not know the spiritual potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead thinks of the Lord as an ordinary human being. But the Lord's mind, intelligence and senses can never be affected by material conditions. This fact is further explained in the  Skanda Purāṇa , as quoted by Madhvācārya:
nitya-pūrṇa-sukha-jñāna- svarūpo 'sau yato vibhuḥ ato 'sya rāma ity ākhyā tasya duḥkhaṁ kuto 'ṇv api
tathāpi loka-śikṣārtham aduḥkho duḥkha-vartivat antarhitāṁ loka-dṛṣṭyā sītām āsīt smarann iva