- The conditioned souls, baddha-jivas, are contaminated by maya, so they do not see their true identity.
- Some people are influenced by ghosts.
- Jada-abhimana (false identity) is the ghost of false-ego.
- Verse by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: nāhaṁ vipro na ca nara-patir nāpi vaiśyo na śūdro (Cc, Madhya-lila, 13.80)
- The real cause of fear is attachment to maya.
- The 3 modes of nature (gunas) of maya, goodness (sattva), passion (raja) and ignorance (tama).
- Verse from Bhagavad Gita: śrī-bhagavān uvāca kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ mahāśano mahā-pāpmā viddhy enam iha vairiṇam (Bhagavad Gita 3.37).
- The Guru gives instructions to the disciple, as a doctor gives the patient a prescription for medicine.
- The types of offences we have in our hearts (aparadhas).
- The medicine of this age is the maha-mantra, the highest medicine.
- Duskriti-utha-anartha: sinful activities of past lives.
- These activities result in a lack of taste in chanting the holy names.
- Example of Bhishma Pitamaha’s question to Krsna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra about his karma.
- Bhishma is one of the 12 mahajanas, great souls. Because of a sin in his 101st life, he lay on a bed of arrows.
- A great devotee of the Lord does not do karma, all these pastimes are done for the learning of the living entities.
- By chanting a namabhasa, all one’s sins will be destroyed, and also the desire to commit sinful activities.
- Chant the holy names with unshakable faith (atyantika-shraddha).
- The 4 types of anarthas are removed in 5 stages, step-by-step.
- 1) Ekadesha-varthini: the anarthas are partially removed. This happens in the shraddha and sadhu-sanga stages.
- 2) Bahudesha-varthini: More than half of the anarthas are removed from the heart, it happens in the stage of bhajana-kriya.
- 3) Prayiki: Almost all anarthas are removed from the sadhaka’s heart, in the stages of nistha, ruci and asakti.
- 4) Purna: All types of anarthas are removed from the heart, in the stage of bhava.
- 5) Atyantiki: There is no chance at all for the anarthas to return to the heart of the sadhaka, in the stage of prema.
- The step-by-step procedure is explained in Madhurya Kadambini by Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura.
- By learning to speak Sanskrit, Devanagari (the language of the demigods), various diseases disappear from the body.
- Why does the sadhaka suffer? 2 reasons.
- Maya-vijivrinta-lila: that which is not true but appears to be.
- An example of indrajalika-lila: the story of the hunter who shot the arrow into Lord Krishna’s chest and at the same time Krishna left the prakata-lila.
- The same hunter had participated in the Rama-lila, in Treta-yuga, as Bali, the brother of Sugriva.
- The soul touches neither water nor air, is neither born nor dies (Srimad Bhagavad Gita).
- Mahishi-harana-lila: the kidnapping of the queens of Dvaraka.
- These lilas have the purpose of teaching the jivas, the karmis.
- Sri Krishna does not need this, He is atmarama and aptakama, self-satisfied and gets all desires from Him, the cause of all causes.
- Prema-vijivrinta-lila: The Lord accomplishes everything because of the divine love of His devotee.
- One is ayshvarya (opulence) and the other is madhurya (sweetness).
- Lord Krishna does not bond with the devotee who worships Him in a mood of opulence.
- In Ayodya, Dvaraka, whoever has a relationship with the Lord cannot control the Lord with his love; but in Vraja, Krsna is controlled by Subala and Sridama through the mood of friendship.
— Song: Sri Damodarastakam, recited by Satyavrata Muni and recorded in the Padma Purana by Sri Krishna Dvaipayana Vedavyasa. - The example in Srī Damodarastakam of Krsna’s lila with Mother Yasoda is an example of prema-vijivrinta-lila.
- The most precious crown of all the jewels of prema is the love of Srimati Radhika, Radha-prema.
- The lilas that Sri Krsna makes are like a human being, but He is Bhagavan.
- In Caitanya-caritamrta it is explained that sweetness is the essence of opulence.
- Without seeing opulence, there is no way to see the sweetness of Krsna.
- The prominent mood in Mathura, Vaikuntha, Dvaraka, the mood of opulence is prominent.
- Krsna is doing His lilas to steal the love of the Vrajavasis, although Krsna is the personification of divine love.
- By chanting krsna-nama, Krsna takes away all the sins from your heart.
- The gopis control Krsna with their divine prema, which is like the waves of the ocean, uncontrollable.
- Brahma, Shiva, Narada, Lakshmi-devi cannot attain this prema.
- The 4 stages of bhava of the vraja-gopis: bhava-udaya, a mood that manifests and increases; bhava-shabalya, when another mood arises that supersedes the first; bhava-sandhi, a new kind of mood comes along with the other; and bhava-shanti, calm and quiet mood.
- To understand this, read Sri Ujjvala-nilamani with Srila Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakur’s commentary.
- Rasa-raja-mahabhava-svarupa: Sri Caitnaya Mahaprabhu in gaura-lila.
- Venu-madhurya: the sweetness of Lord Krishna’s flute, and rasa-raja-mahabhava, the form of Lord Krishna.
- Gaura-lila is not less important than krsna-lila.
- He who immerses himself in the ocean of gaura-prema will be enabled to reach Vrndavana.
Trancoso, Brazil
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