Verse Text
kiṁ ca –
dvāyor ekatarasyeha bādhyatvenopavarṇane |
smaryamāṇatayāpy uktau sāmyena vacane ’pi ca ||63||
rasāntareṇa vyavadhau taṭa-sthena priyeṇa vā |
viṣayāśraya-bhede ca gauṇena dviṣatā saha |
ity ādiṣu na vairasyaṁ vairiṇo janayed yutiḥ ||64||
Translation
However, the combination of two unfriendly rasas will not produce distaste under the following conditions: where one of the two conflicting rasas is negated by a statement; where two conflicting rasas are present through remembrance; where two rasas are compared; where a friendly or neutral rasa intervenes between two conflicting rasas; where the viṣayas or āśrayas of two conflicting rasas (one of which is a secondary rasa) are different.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Referring to the first condition, the word bādhya here means “suitable for being rejected.” One of the conflicting rasas should be rejected because of indications in the description that it is proper to do so. When two conflicting rasas are described, but with indications that one of those rasas should be rejected as being unsuitable, distaste does not arise. In the phrase smaryamāṇatayāpy (when a conflicting rasa appears through memory), the word api means that it is possible (though it will produce distaste in some cases.) Thus, in the midst of hāsya-rasa, even remembrance of karuṇa-rasa will produce distaste. The same possibility applies in statements where two rasas are compared as being similar. Thus, it is always improper to mix madhura-rasa with bībhatsa-rasa even in comparisons. Other cases can also be found. By mentioning api twice (thus putting conditions on those cases) and then adding ca, it should be understood that the cases mentioned in verse 64 also have exceptions.
Thus, in combining vatsala-rasa with an enemy rasa, even if there are hundreds of intervening rasas, the distaste cannot be removed. Some persons show the harmony of a devotee’s particular rasa with some other contrary rasa because the viṣaya or āśraya are different, and consider the combination excellent. However, that particular devotee may still find that combination of his cherished rasa with a contrary rasa distasteful (even though the āśraya and viṣaya of the two rasas are different), though distaste is not acknowledged by both parties.