Rädhä-Prema Makes Kåñëa Mad
The mystery is here: It is not an intoxicant but it makes one become intoxicated. When someone becomes intoxicated he becomes mad. Marijuana, or LSD, a very dreadful poison that made the hippies go mad; they were rolling around naked. Mad. How there are two opposites is described in Vidagdha-mädhava. “This prema You have developed is not fire, but it burns.” Is it not an opposite? It is not a weapon, but it pierces the heart. It is not water, but it inundates everything. When there is heavy downpour, a high flood has come and the whole land has been inundated, then you will not be able to find the way. So when there is such prema, which is not water, still it inundates everything. The gopés and Rädhäräëé become mad and kick all Vedic etiquette. It is like an inundation; it washes away everything. It is not poison, but it acts like poison. This is prema.
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