Text 91] Talks Between the Lord and Ramananda Raya 143
worships the Lord as the creator cannot understand the relationship between a
devotee and the Lord in the five types of transcendental mellows, nor can he
understand the conception of Krsna. One cannot understand the six transcenden-
tal opulences of the Lord simply by understanding the Supreme Personality of
Godhead as impersonal Brahman.

Impersonal realization of the Absolute Truth is certainly transcendental, but this
does not mean that one can understand the sac-cid-dnanda form of the Lord.
Similarly, Paramatma realization is also an incomplete understanding of the Ab-
solute Truth. The plenary expansion of the Absolute Truth within everyone's
heart is the Paramatma feature of the Lord. A devotee of the Personality of God-
head Narayana cannot actually understand the transcendental attractive features
of Krsna. On the other hand, the devotee of Krsna who is attached to the sublime
attractive feature of the Lord does not consider Narayana very important. When
the gopis sometimes saw Krsna in the form of Narayana, they were not very at-
tracted to Him. The gopis never addressed Krsna as Rukmini-ramana. Krsna’s
devotees in Vrndavana address Him as Radharamana, Nandanandana and YaSoda-
nandana, but not as Vasudeva-nandana or Devaki-nandana. Although according
to the material conception, Narayana, Rukmini-ramana and Krsna are one and the
same, in the spiritual world one cannot use the name of Krsna in the place of Ruk-
mini-ramana or Narayana. If one does so out of a poor fund of knowledge, his
mellow with the Lord becomes spiritually faulty and is called rasabhdsa, an over-
lapping of transcendental mellows. The advanced devotee who has actually
realized the transcendental features of the Lord will not commit the mistake of
creating a rasabhdsa situation by using one name for another. Because of the in-
fluence of Kali-yuga, there is much rasdbhdsa in the name of extravagance and
liberal-mindedness. Such fanaticism is not very much appreciated by pure devo-
tees.

TEXT 91
CAN A AICS TIT GAA |
HA WTTASCS ARTI tf Aas vay
ye yatha mam prapadyante
tams tathaiva bhajamy aham
mama vartmanuvartante
manusyah partha sarvasah
SYNONYMS

ye—they; yathad—as; mam—unto Me; prapadyante—surrender; tan—unto
them; tatha eva—in the same proportion; bhajami—bestow My favor; aham—I;
mama—My; vartma—way; anuvartante—follow; manusyah—men; partha—My
dear Arjuna; sarvasah—in all respects.
