50 / Further Analysis of Mixed Rasas

As already described, if certain kinds of mellows become mixed
and there is a joining of opposite mellows, then the situation is called
incompatible. When one is eating sweet rice and something salty or
sour is mixed in, the mixture is not very tasteful, and it is called in-
compatible.

An exemplary instance of incompatibility is the following state-
ment by an impersonalist who was lamenting aloud, “I have been at-
tached simply to the impersonal Brahman feature, and I have passed
my days uselessly in practicing trance. I have not given any proper at-
tention to Sri Krsna, who is the source of the impersonal Brahman
and who is the reservoir of all transcendental pleasures.” In this
statement there are traces of neutrality and conjugal love, and the
resulting humor is incompatible.

Sometimes it is found in places like Vrndavana that a person with
a slight devotional attitude of neutral love for Krsna may immediate-
ly and artificially try to attain to the platform of conjugal love. But
because of the incompatibility of neutrality and conjugal love, the
person is found to fall from the standard of devotional service.

Incompatibility was expressed by a great devotee on the platform
of neutrality when he sarcastically prayed, “I am very anxious to see
Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is many millions of
times more affectionate than the pitrs (forefathers) in the Pitr-loka,
and who is always worshiped by the great demigods and sages. I am a
little surprised, however, that although Krsna is the husband of the
goddess of fortune, His body is often marked with the nail pricks of
ordinary society girls!”’ Here is an example of incompatibility due to
a mixture of neutrality and high conjugal love.

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