60 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 10

to the Srrigara-rasa, the mellow of conjugal love in the spiritual world. In
the spiritual world the Supreme Personality of Godhead has all the deal-
ings of love, displaying the symptoms called sdttvika, saricari, vilapa,
mirccha and unmdda. Thus when Lord Ramacandra was separated from
Sita, all these spiritual symptoms were manifested. The Lord is neither
impersonal nor impotent. Rather, He is sac-cid-dnanda-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 Srila Svartipa Damodara Gosvami, radha-
krsna-pranaya-vikrtir hladini-saktih: the dealings of love between
Radha and Krsna are displayed as the pleasure potency of the Lord. The
Lord is the original source of all pleasure, the reservoir of all pleasure.
Lord Ramacandra, therefore, manifested the truth both spiritually and
materially. Materially those who are attached to women suffer, but spiri-
tually 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-gita (9.11):

avajananti mam midha
madnusim tanum dsritam

param bhavam ajdnanto
mama. bhita-mahesvaram

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 Purdna, as
quoted by Madhvacarya:

nitya-piirna-sukha-jnana-
svaripo ’sau yato vibhuh
ato ’sya rama ity akhya
tasya duhkharh kuto ’nv api

tathapi loka-siksartham
aduhkho duhkha-vartivat

antarhitarn loka-drstya
sitam Gsit smarann iva
