- When harinama dances on the tongue, the devotee longs to have thousands of tongues and ears to chant and hear the holy names.
- Logicians only accept things according to their brains.
- Three labels are needed: pranipatena/pranipata (surrender), pariprasnena (submissive questioning) and savaya (tendency to serve).
- We hear harikatha a thousand times and don’t understand, we teach and don’t understand. One understands transcendental things only when the Lord manifests them in our hearts, and that is because of seva-vrtti, the tendency to serve.
- Sloka:
brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti - We already have everything in the heart:
nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema ‘sādhya’ kabhu naya
śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya - One has to associate with the sadhu for everything to manifest.
- Even if one lives millions of lives with accumulated sukrti, one cannot attain vraja-prema without associating with the guru whose heart is filled with vraja-prema.
- Surrender and pay with your desire to hear harikatha.
- Desire is something spontaneous and does not depend on anything.
- Desire has three characteristics: following the rules of the sastras, being in Vraja, and associating with a pure rasika Vaisnava.
- The process begins by taking the shelter of the guru, taking diksa and following the instructions of the guru and the sastra.
- Begin by studying the Upadesamrta:
vāco vegaḿ manasaḥ krodhavegaḿ
jihvā vegam udaropastha vegam
etān vegān yo viṣaheta dhīraḥ
sarvām apīmāḿ pṛthivīḿ sa śiṣyāt - This is very important: Look up (get to know the lives of the acaryas), look around (the practice of the devotees) and look within (look within yourself, your own heart).
- Fix your mind, without duplicity and without hypocrisy.
- It is important to self-evaluate: how many rounds of japa are you singing, serving, absorbing yourself in Krishna.
- On the bhajana of Rupa and Sanatana Gosvamis: Sad Gosvami Astakam.
- Sanatana Gosvami and Sivaji.
- Oh Lord! Manifest Your lilas in my heart and my life will be successful.
- Without association with the sadhu, bhakti will never manifest in our hearts.
- Rupa and Sanatana were doing bhajana in Vrndavana, associating together to discuss transcendental matters, Srimad Bhagavatam, and even Srimati Radhika came to listen.
- Srimati Radhika lights the fire with a single sweet breath.
- You have to balance tattva and rasa-siddhanta.
- Difference between brahmana and krpana (miserly).
- Dogs bark without reason, so are quarrelsome people.
- Story of how Indra was born as a pig.
- Why Mahaprabhu was upset when Govinda woke Him.
- The 9 outward symptoms of bhava awakening in the heart.
France, Lectures in English
