What are the 7 secondary relationships? Do demons have those relationships with Krishna?

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Question from Lata Mataji.
I read in Shatravapada’s books that there are twelve types of relationships. Five are direct relationships and seven are indirect relationships. What are the seven indirect relationships and do demons fall under those relationships? Answer, Shatravapada explains in his Parpo based on the Bhakti Rasa Amrit Sindhu.
And the Bhakti Rasa Amrit Sindhu is based on the Rasa literature which has been a part of the Vedic tradition since time immemorial. So these twelve Rasa’s which can be translated as relationships or they can be translated as emotional orientations of feelings within the relationships. The five primary are what are the eternal relationships between the souls and the Supreme Lord, Shanta, Dasya, Sakya, Vatsalya and Madhurya.
So different souls fall in these five different relationships. Now these are relationships as well as feelings. So the predominant feeling that the devotee in Dasya experiences in relationship with Krishna is that I am the servant of Krishna.
The predominant feeling that a devotee in Vatsalya like Yashoda Mai experiences is that Krishna is my child. Now in all these relationships also there are other feelings that are experienced. So these secondary feelings which flavor the relationship further are Raudra that is anger, Adbhuta that is wonder, Shringara Shringara comes as one of those Shringara is the same as Madhurya that comes as one of the primary relationships.
Then there is Haasya, comedy, then Veera is chivalry, Daya is mercy, Dasya comes in the earlier set of relationships, Bhayanaka and Vibhatsa. Bhayanaka is horror and Vibhatsa is shock. So what do we actually mean by all these? That in any relationship, for example Yashoda Mai feels that Sitrunavarth has come as a wind-fiery, wind has taken Krishna away.
So Yashoda Mai is blinded initially, she is blinded not just by the wind but blinded by her tears and she is blinded by her fear. So at that time she goes through, because of Vatsalya Bhava, she goes through other feelings also. She may go through Bhayanaka, horror, she may go through Vibhatsa, shock and similarly Krishna, his prominent relationship with the Gopis is Shringara.
But when the Vrajavasis or the Gopis are in danger, Krishna protects them. So he exhibits the Veerarasa. So he may lift up Govardhan Hill and he will thereby display his power for their pleasure and for the reciprocation of love.
So at that time within the Madhurya, the Veerar can manifest. So similarly in various relationships, among those five prominent relationships, five eternal types of relationships, these other feelings also manifest and thereby the emotions get flavored. The relationship becomes deep, multilayered and relishably complex.
So now do the demons have this relationship with Krishna? Not exactly. The demons are demons only in the material world. In the spiritual world, they will be back with Krishna and they will also have their own Swaroopa.
So in their Swaroopa, they may be in Shanta, Dasa, Sakya, Vatsalya, Madhurya and they will accordingly experience emotions. these seven indirect, they are not exactly relationships in terms of the eternal forms of relationship. It is not that there is any devotee who is forever in say Hasyarasa.
There is Madhumangal who is almost like a clown in Krishna’s friend circle and seeing his antics and by making fun of him, everybody enjoys Hasyarasa. But his relationship with Krishna is not Hasyarasa, it is Sakyarasa. And Hasyam flavors that relationship.
So the demons also have one of the five primary relationships with Krishna depending on their Swaroopa and even in their relationship, the seven secondary emotions will flavor that relationship. So in this way, the seven emotions, they enhance, enrich, deepen the five primary emotions based on which the five primary forms of relationships are there. So there are no seven additional types of relationships that are eternally there.
There will be a temporary relationship which is primarily based on Hasya at a particular time. So when Krishna and Madhumangal does something which causes everyone to laugh, then they are all immersed in Hasyarasa. And they are in that sense, at that time, related in Hasyarasa.
But if the Sakhas are having that laugh, their primary relationship is in Sakya and Hasya is an additional flavor to that relationship. Thank you.