Hare Krishna! The Personality of Lord Rama
By Giriraj Swami
We have many lessons to learn from the pastimes of Lord Ramacandra, but in relation to today’s verse, in particular, Srila Prabhupada is pointing out the most fundamental of all lessons, that the Personality of Godhead is a person with all of the sentiments of a person and that we too are persons, eternally. Even in the liberated stage we have such sentiments, and we should respect them. We do not necessarily reject “negative” emotions that arise within us as being material, because they may in fact be spiritual. Even a “negative” emotion engaged in Krsna’s service is spiritual, and a so-called noble sentiment outside of Krsna consciousness is material.
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