Verse Text
vyatītya bhāvanā-vartma yaś camatkāra-kāra-bhūḥ |
hṛdi sattvojjvale bāḍhaṁ svadate sa raso mataḥ ||132||
Translation
That which becomes even more intensely relished in the heart made bright with hlādinī and saṁvit śaktis (attainment of bhāva), after surpassing the stage of distinguishing the constituent bhāvas, and which becomes more astonishing in bliss than bhāva, is called rasa.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
The difference between bhāva (sthāyi-bhāva) and rasa is now described in two verses, though they are the same in one sense, since they exist as cause and effect. Sattva here refers to śuddha-sattva-viśeṣa previously described as the cause of bhāva (rati). The difference is like that between samādhi (realization) and dhyāna (meditation, by which one achieves realization).
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
When one transcends the status of ecstatic love and thus becomes situated on the highest platform of pure goodness, one is understood to have cleansed the heart of all material contamination. In that pure stage of life, one can taste this nectar, and this tasting capacity is technically called rasa, or transcendental mood.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta summary study of the second division of Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, in the matter of general devotional service.