Transcendental greed is the very life-force of rāga-bhakti.
When a devotee becomes greedy after the pure loving mood of the eternally perfect associates of Kṛṣṇa in Vraja, he enters into the field of rāgānugā bhakti. When a materialistic person becomes greedy he becomes like mad and he forgets his body and everything related to it while searching for his wanted object. This is mundane greed.
But that greed which appears in the heart at one moment and disappears again the next moment cannot be called real greed.
Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartīpāda writes in his ‘Rāga Vartma Candrikā’: atiśayena pravṛttiḥ syāt yathā kāmārthinaṁ kāmopāyeṣu – “The rāgānugā devotee is as absorbed in his desires for devotion as a lusty man is in thinking of the fulfillment of his desires.”
Unless there is strong eagerness, the sweetness of rāga bhajana cannot be understood. The devotee always thinks: “When will I get the service of my Beloved?” This eagerness is the life-force of raga-practise.
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