Which is the abode for sakhya rasa?

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Which is the abode for Sakhi Rasa? We know that the Madhuri Rasa abode is Goloka Vrindavan Dasya Rasa abode is Vaikuntha and the Vatsalya is in Mathura so which is the abode for Sakhi Rasa? Answer we have to understand that the Rasa’s are not isolated even in Goloka Vrindavan there is there is Sakhi Rasa, there is Dasya Rasa, there is Vatsalya, there is Shanta but the mood of Madhuriya permeates all the Rasa’s so for example there are devotees who are in Sakhi Rasa but even the Sakhi Rasa devotees or even the Vatsalya Rasa devotees they all assist Krishna in the Madhuriya Rasa pastimes so when we say that Goloka Vrindavan is the Madhuriya Rasa abode that means primarily that the mood of intimate love is permeating all the Rasa’s so all the Rasa’s are present in Goloka but because this is the mood that permeates all Rasa’s that’s why it is called the Madhuriya Rasa abode and similarly if we look at the Vaikuntha planets there also there is great affection for the Lord and there also in the Vaikuntha planets Lakshmi is there and Lakshmi is also in Madhuriya Rasa her relationship with the Lord it may not be as intimate Madhuriya as it is of the Gopis with Krishna but still Lakshmi is the consort of Narayana and she is also in Madhuriya Rasa so we cannot say that the Vaikuntha or even Ayodhya is only in Dasya Rasa actually there are variety of relationships over there also so wherever the Lord is present it is not that in one particular abode he will have only one kind of relationship with everyone and what about others then will he not have any relationship with them no he is a person another person he reciprocates differently with different people but there is a particular mood at a particular place just like there is a person in office and there is a say the prime minister or the king in the court and the king in home or the prime minister at home so there is a variety of relationships but still there is a difference between the various relationships so like that we see that Vishnu Vishnu is also of course Vaikuntha is the home of Vishnu so in that sense it is not exactly the office but this is the example of home and office is primarily to illustrate the difference in moods and roughly in Vaikuntha or in a general sense in Vaikuntha the Dasya mood is more than in in Golokundavan so now what about Sakya and Vatsalya now if we say the Vatsalya Mathura is defined by Vatsalya we may say but we will see in Mathura there is Uddhava and Uddhava is not in Vatsalya it is in Sakya so it’s not that in Mathura there is only Sakya but the general mood is that in Mathura Chaitanya Mahaprabhu also mentions this to to one of his associates Jagadanand Pandit and Jagadanand Pandit wants to go to go to Vrindavan he tells them that be careful in associating with the Mathura Vasis because their mood in their mood is slightly different and Prabhupada explains in the Parpot about the Vatsalya so now it’s not that everybody in Mathura is in Vatsalya rather Vatsalya is the prominent mood of everyone there because Krishna was born there and Krishna is they consider Krishna to be their child over there and that is the prominent relationship although other relationships are also present so Sakya Krishna has Sakya relationships wherever he is we could say in one sense his relationship with Lakshman is in Dasya but there is also there is some amount of Sakya over there in the sense that Lakshman also consoles Ram when he is afflicted by separation from Sita and certainly there is Sakya in Dwarka certainly there is Sakya in Sakya in Mathura as I said and of course there is Sakya in Goloka Vrindavan also so some abodes may have some defining characteristics like Mathura has Mathura has Vatsalya Goloka has Mathura and Vaikuntha has Dasya but it is not that every abode has to have every Rasa has to have one particular abode only nor does that that the lord is a person who restricts his relationships at different abodes to only one particular relationship so the word Rasa we have to know that it means two things it means relationships and it also means flavor in a relationship so we could say when we say Goloka is the Mathura abode that means that it is not so much that Mathura relationship or the Mathura flavor so the Mathura flavor permeates all relationships whereas the Dasya flavor permeates all relationships in the Vaikuntha but as far as the relationships are concerned they are at various levels in different abodes Thank you