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the Lord was his friend. Bhismadeva 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 Krsna 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 Bhismadeva. As a
great fighter he was relishing the relation of Krsna 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 transcen-
dentally related with the Lord artificially jump at once to the relation of
conjugal love, imitating the damsels of Vrajadhama. 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 transcen-
dental degree to the genuine devotee. Bhismadeva is a concrete example of
this, and it should be carefully observed how the great general is transcen-
dentally related with the Lord.
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yudhi turaga-rajo-vidhiimra-visvak
kaca-lulita-sramavaryalankrtasye
mama nisita-sarair vibhid yamana
tvaci vilasat kavace’stu krsna atma
yudhi—on the battlefield; twraga—horses; rajah—dust; vidhumra—turned
an ashen color; visvak—waving; kaca—hair; lulita—scattered; sramavari—
perspiration; alankrta—decorated with; adsye—unto the face; mama—my;
nisita—sharp; saraih—by the arrows; vibhidyamana—pierced by; tvaci—in
