- Vakresvara Pandita has committed an offence against Srivasa Thakura.
- Srivasa Thakura is Narada Rsi and is very dear to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
- The letter from Yudhishthira Maharaja and the 99 kings in Jarasandha prison, inviting Sri Krishna to visit them simultaneously.
- Uddhava replied that Yudhisthira’s fire ceremony could be postponed so that Krsna could kill Jarasandha and free the kings from prison, protecting them and creating a deeper bond with them.
- Uddhava is Lord Krishna’s adviser.
- Uddhava has worshipped Sri Krishna since childhood.
- Uddhava’s guru is Brhaspati, a demigod.
- Uddhava was an expert in six subjects.
- Uddhava learnt all the sastras from Brhaspati except the Prema-sastra, so he could not enter the school of the gopis.
- In Gurudeva’s book, Jewels of the Heart, there are instructions on the five subjects that must be studied to enter the school of the gopis.
- Prema has two and a half syllables, Pa, Ma and ekar in the middle, meaning the lover, the beloved and the love and affection between them.
- The meaning of prtti (love).
- Vishaya and Asraya: the object of divine love and the shelter of divine love; Bhagavan and bhakta, including prema, ananda and mamata.
- Prema is ananda-mamata, the feeling of one-pointed possession.
- Without mamata, prema does not manifest in the heart.
- There are two kinds of mamata: ghrita-sneha (ghee) and madhu-sneha (honey).
- Love is a two-way street.
- The mood of service, seva-vritti, comes when love manifests.
- Sneha is spontaneous affection.
- Aishwarya is opulence: the mood of worship in Vaikuntha, Dvaraka.
- In Vrndavana, the mood is madhurya (sweetness): worshipping Krsna as a member of the family.
- When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s parikaras left this planet, Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami declared that Vraja Mandala was empty like a graveyard, because he felt a great pain of separation.
- Without taking shelter of Giriraj Govardhana, one cannot take shelter of Krsna.
- Srimati Radhika glorifies Giriraj Govardhana and says that Giriraj is a very dear servant of Krsna.
- Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami glorified Giriraj Govardhana and Radha Kunda by being no different from Srimati Radhika.
- The six symptoms of maha-bhava.
- When Srimati Radhika feels the pain of separation from Krsna, innumerable universes shake (earthquakes), and the minds of the living entities are also disturbed.
- Srimati Radhika’s letter to Sri Krishna.
- She thought She was Krsna, and She wrote a letter to Srimati Radhika.
- When Sriman Mahaprabhu took sannyasa, Mother Saci cried a lot, but He pacified her by saying that He would give krsna-prema.
- In Gambhira, Sriman Mahaprabhu cried incessantly in the mood of separation from Krsna, as did Srimati Radhika.
- Bhakti Dayita Gosvami Maharaja’s article entitled ” Cry”.
- In the stage of maha-bhava, nine external and three internal symptoms manifest.
- When the bhava matures, prema arises. At that time the sadhaka leaves his body and is born from the womb of a vraja-gopi.
- The difference between ruci (attachment) and bhava.
- The books Sri Bhakti-Rasamrta-Sindhu and Sri Ujjvala-Nilamani explain these stages well.
- In the rasa dance, the gopis think they have met Krsna for a few seconds, and a blink of an eye without His darshan seems like an eternity.
Brazil, Festivals, Glories of Vaishnavas, Lectures in English, Translated into Portuguese, Brazil 2023
