276 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

On hearing this, Ramananda Roy said, “It is very difficult for me to express
anything beyond this. But I can only say that there is an emotional activity
which is called Prembilasa Bivarta. I may try to explain the Prembilasa. I do
not know whether You will be happy to hear it, but I must explain it to You.”
In the Prembilasa emotion there are two kinds of emotional activities, which
are called separation and meeting. That transcendental separation is so acute
that it becomes more ecstatic than meeting. Ramananda Roy was expert
in understanding such highly elevated dealings between Radha and Krishna,
and he composed a very nice song which he narrated to the Lord. The purport
of that song is as follows: the lover and the beloved, before their meeting,
by the exchange of their transcendental activities, generate a kind of emotion.
That emotion is called Raga, or attraction. Srimati Radharani expressed Her
willingness, that “This attraction and affection between Ourselves has risen
to the highest extent”—but the cause of such attraction is Radharani Herself.
“Whatever the cause may be, that affection between Yourself and Myself,”
said Radharani, “has mixed Us in oneness. Now it is the time of separation,
so I cannot see the history of the evolution of this love between You and Me.
There was no other cause or mediator in Our love, the only cause was Our
meeting and visionary exchange of feelings.”

This exchange of feelings between Krishna and Radharani is very difficult
to understand, unless one is elevated onto the pure platform of goodness.
Such transcendental reciprocation between Radha and Krishna is not possible
to understand even on the platform of material goodness. One has to transcend
even material goodness in order to understand. Such an exchange of feelings
between Radha and Krishna is not any subject matter of the material world.
Even the highest mental speculators cannot understand this, directly or indirec-
tly. Material activities are manifested either for the gross body or the subtle
mind, but this exchange of feeling between Radha and Krishna is beyond such
intellectual mental speculation. This transcendental subject matter can be
understood by purified senses, freed from all the designations of the material
world.

Purified senses can understand these transcendental features, but those who
are impersonalists, who have no knowledge of spiritual senses, can simply
discriminate within the scope of the material senses, and cannot understand the
spiritual exchange or spiritual-sensual activities. Persons who are elevated in
experimental knowledge can simply satisfy their blunt material senses, either
by gross bodily activities or by mental speculation. Everything generated from
the body or the mind is always imperfect and perishable, but transcendental
