The relationship, as we experience in this material world . . . just like you are my brother, or she is my sister, or he is my father, he is my, so many relationship we have got. So all these relationships are calculated into five. There are . . . practically, there are twelve relationships. Seven relationships are contra, against. Just like you are my enemy. I want to kill you; you want to kill me.
That is also one of the relationships, but this is contra. This is not favorable. This is called vivarta. Hāsya, something I see in you, I begin to laugh, or something you see in me, you begin to laugh. So there are different . . . altogether, there are twelve relationships in every activities of our life. Out of that, five relationships is very favorable. What is that? Not five exactly, but . . . yes, five.
Just like I am sitting here on this dais. So I have got some relationship. What is that relationship? That this dais is giving me service silently. There is relationship. I am comfortably sitting here. So this is one relationship. The next relationship is that one wants to serve me or I want to serve him. Out of love, I want . . . oh. Just like some of you: "Swāmījī, I have brought some fruits for you." This is out of love. That means you want to serve me. So this relationship with the dais and that relationship, who comes, and brings forth some fruit for me, that is higher. That is called dāsya, or friendship. So the silent relationship, the servitude relationship, the friendly relationship, then paternal relationship, then conjugal relationship.
So these relationships which we find here in this material world, they are reflections of the original relationship with Kṛṣṇa. Because in the Vedānta-sūtra you find, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1): "Everything, whichever you find in this material world, that is born from the Absolute Truth." So in the Absolute Truth there is the relationships, these relationships which we are experiencing here.
But they are perverted. Perverted. Because suppose I accept somebody as master, and I am serving, and as soon as the salary stops, my service is also stopped. Therefore it is perverted. Or I am . . . there is a girl I love, or there is a man I love. Oh, as soon as there is some misunderstanding, we break. So that relationship, that conjugal relationship, that paternal relationship, that friendly relationship.
Just like you'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā that Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, they are in relationship of friendship. Now, when Kṛṣṇa . . . when Kṛṣṇa says that, "I told this yoga, Bhagavad-gītā yoga, to the sun-god, say, some millions of years before," and Arjuna, just to represent our interest, he said, "Oh, Kṛṣṇa, You are my contemporary. How is that You spoke Bhagavad-gītā forty millions of years before to sun-god?" So Kṛṣṇa answered that bahūni me janmāni tava cārjuna (BG 4.5): "Both you and Myself, we were born many times, but you have forgotten. I remember." That is the distinction.