- Nanda and Yashoda serve Krsna with sambandha, parental relationship.
- The gopis serve Krsna as lovers.
- In Kurukshetra, in the mood of separation, the gopis asked Krsna why He left them.
- The difference between Nanda and Yashoda’s feeling of separation from Krsna and that of the gopis from Krsna.
- The difference between material love (temporary) and transcendental love (eternal and indestructible).
- Love means sacrifice and surrender, even in the material world.
- The love of the gopis for Krishna is called samartha-rati.
- Why Ravana did not kill Ramachandra directly.
- Deep down Ravana knows that Ramachandra is Lord Vishnu.
- The reason Ramachandra came to perform His lila was to experience separation from Sita-devi.
- The Lord fulfills all our desires, even material ones.
- The 3 modes of maya’s nature are very strong and control us.
- We don’t know how to use our free will.
- Those who choose maya instead of serving the Lord have the punishment of maya.
- All souls are feminine, as they are expressions of the Lord’s “shakti” potency.
- Knowledge (jnana) is perishable and bhakti (devotion) is not.
- Sri Krishna’s vow to Arjuna: “My devotee shall not perish” (Bhagavad-gita).
- The Lord is controlled by the bhakti of His devotees.
- The lila of King Akbar and his minister Birbal (Srimad-Bhagavatam).
- The demigods discuss how fallen people can become one-pointed devotees of the Lord.
- Verse: api cet su-duracāro
Darshans, France, Lectures in English
