Nanda Mahaaraaja in daasya rasa?

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Although no one is a more respected elder for Krsna than Nanda Maharaja in

Vraja, who in transcendental paternal love has no knowledge that his son is

the Supreme Personality of Godhead, still ecstatic love makes him, what to

speak of others, feel himself to be a servant of Lord Krsna.

 

Cc Adi 6.55-56

 

Please see verses and purports preceding and following this for further

elucidation of how daasya, the desire to please Krsna, is the basis of all

higher rasas.

 

Also:

 

The cowherd men were brought by Lord Krsna to the Brahma-hrada, made to

submerge in the water, and then lifted up. From the same vantage point that

Akrura saw the spiritual world, the cowherd men saw the planet of the

Absolute Truth.

 

Nanda Maharaja and the other cowherd men felt the greatest happiness when

they saw that transcendental abode. They were especially amazed to see Krsna

Himself there, surrounded by the personified Vedas, who were offering Him

prayers.

 

SB 10.28.16-17

 

Even the gopis know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead (See

for instance SB 10.31.4). That Nanda Maharaja and other vrajavasis know

Krsna to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead is overshadowed and thus

'forgotten' by their intense love for Him, by which they don't care very

much that He is God, but see Him simply as their darling. This is explained

by Srila Jiva Goswami (I don't have references handy).

 

That the vrajavasis both know and don't know that Krsna is the Supreme

Personality of Godhead is clear from CC Adi 6.58, which apparently

contradicts 6.56. Both bhaavas, although apparently contradictory, exist

simultaneously in vrajavasis; this is effected by lila-sakti, which arranges

everything for Krsna's pleasure.