PART 1
- Krishna surrenders completely to Srimati Radhika.
- Radha calls Krsna a lampata (debauchee), but keeps Him in Her heart.
- Saranagati-akincana, total surrender, is fundamental.
- Saranagati in this world is temporary, but in the transcendental world it is eternal.
- Six symptoms of saranagati/surrender, sloka:
ānukūlyasya saṅkalpaḥ
prātikūlyasya varjanam
rakṣiṣyatīti viśvāso
goptṛtve varaṇaṁ tathā
ātma-nikṣepa-kārpaṇye
ṣaḍ-vidhā śaraṇāgatiḥ - Six debts: to the demigods, to the sadhus, to the parents, to the mother, to the relatives, to the king.
- Krishna says:
sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śharaṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣhayiṣhyāmi mā śhuchaḥ
But this saranagati is not complete. - The complete saranagati is presented in the 8th sloka of Siksastakam:
āśliṣya vā pāda-ratāṁ pinaṣṭu mām
adarśanān marma-hatāṁ karotu vā
yathā tathā vā vidadhātu lampaṭo
mat-prāṇa-nāthas tu sa eva nāparaḥ - Touching lila in which Radha cries with Lalita because people say She is a kalankini/unchaste woman because She loves Krsna.
- Lalita tells Radha to meditate on Brahma, but she cannot, because Krsna is everywhere, inside and outside Her.
- The devotee’s saranagati must begin in relationship to Gurudeva and develop in the 9 steps of bhakti: from sraddha to prema; from sneha to mohan and madhanakhya-mahabhava.
- At the transcendental level of love, even if there are reasons that prevent prema, prema grows more and more, as does Radha’s prema for Krishna.
- For the last three years of Srila Gurudeva Vamana Gosvami Maharaja’s life in this world, he was crying non-stop and just chanting Hare Krsna.
- Beautiful lila in which Radha is crying for Krsna and Lalita tells Her to write a letter to Him. She becomes so absorbed in Him that She thinks She is Him and simply writes: “He Radha”. Krsna cries when He sees this sentence with Radha’s tears on the sheet of paper.
- Funny katha about Radha and Chandravali’s spy parrots.
- Krsna is samvit and Radha is hladini.
- – Definition of sneha.
- Anger is not the correct translation of the word mana, because Radha is never angry with Krsna.
- Tears and transcendental divine love are two enemies/impediments for Radha to have Krsna’s darshana.
- Tears of meeting after a long separation are cold, and tears of longing/separation are hot.
- Mana is like the flow of a river with its many tributaries.
- Radha is not angry with Krishna or Chandravali, She is upset because She knows that Krishna will not be pleased.
- As the milk condenses, different flavours arise, so is the course of prema: prema, sneha, mana, and so on. So mana is not anger, it is a very condensed feeling of love.
- You have to enter the training school of the gopis: learn to whisper, cover your mouth with your hand and so on.
PART 2
