362 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 19

“When one is completely free from all doubts and material attachments, he at-
tains the neutral position called santa.”.

vihaya visayonmukhyarm
nijananda-sthitir yatah

atmanah kathyate so ‘tra
svabhavah sama ity asau

prayah sama-pradhananam
mamatd-gandha-varjita
paramatmataya krsne
jata santa-ratir mata

The santa-rati realization of Krsna is in the neutral stage between the conception
of impersonalism and personalism. This means that one is not very strongly at-
tached to the personal feature of the Lord. An appreciation of the greatness of the
Lord is called santa-rati. This is attachment not to the personal feature but to the
impersonal feature. Generally, one in this stage is attached to the Paramatma
feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

isvarah sarva-bhitanam
hrd-dese ‘rjuna tisthati

bhramayan sarva-bhatani
yantraridhani mayaya

“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the
wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the ma-
terial energy.” (Bg. 18.61)

On the strength of this statement from Bhagavad-gitd, we can understand that
in the santa-rasa, a devotee sees the Lord’s representation everywhere. Dasya-rati
is explained in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (2.5.27) thus:

svasmdad bhavanti ye nydnds
te ‘nugrahyd harer matah
aradhyatvatmikda tesam
ratih pritir itirita
tatrasaktikrd anyatra
priti-samhdrini hy asau

When the Supreme Lord in His localized aspect is appreciated and a great devo-
tee understands his subordinate position, not only does he surrender to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, but, due to his subordinate position, he wishes
