26 Jun 2023 morning – Mahaprabhu’s Mood of Separation in the Ratha Yatra (English) – Lisbon, Portugal | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mood in Gambhira is the same as Viyogini-Radha, in Ratha Yatra His mood is like Samyogini-Radha.
  • Sudirgha-vipralambha-bhava: mood after long separation Srimati Radhika meets Sri Krishna in Kurukshetra.
  • Three types of meeting and separation: bhavi (future), bhavan (continuous present) and bhavia (past).
  • Prema-vaichittya: a kind of love that gopis feel when they meet Krishna and think that He is not there.
  • In the Ratha Yatra, Mahaprabhu thinks he is Radha and meets her beloved Krsna after a long separation (sudirgha-vipralamba).
  • Parakiya-bhava is not possible in the material world, but only in Goloka Vrndavana, in the heart of the vraja-gopis.
  • Even after the meeting, Radha’s heart is not jubilant; that happens only when She returns to Vrindavana.
  • Kurukshetra and Jagannatha Puri are part of Dvaraka Puri, that is, Krishna in the mood of opulence.
  • Everything depends on three things: desha (place), kala (time, circumstance) and patra (hero or heroine).
    -Krishna did not physically go from Kurukshetra to Vrndavana, but He told the gopis that He would go in the chariot of their minds.
  • Physically, Krishna returned from Kurukshetra to Dvaraka to fulfil His duties of killing demons.
  • God is one (Parama-tattva) and manifests in various forms with His inconceivable potency (acintya-shakti).
  • Svabhavik-acintya-shakti: This is the spontaneous unimaginable potency of Krishna.
  • Four forms arise from this potency: svarupa, bhava, jiva, and pradana (maya).
  • With His svarupa-shakti potency, He manifests His original form, Vrajendra-nandana Syamasundara.
  • Krishna is one, but He manifests in different incarnations, with different moods.
  • Sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya are the moods that manifest in Goloka Vrindavana.
  • Without following the rules (vaidhi-marga) it is not possible to enter into sweetness.
  • Srimati Radhika is testing Krsna to know whether Krsna will spontaneously go to Vrindavana.
    -Srimati Radhika is the one who brings Krsna from Dvaraka to Vrindavana with her love.
  • The difference between sadhaka and siddha form: sadhaka should follow rules and regulations, with mood of opulence, and siddha is spontaneous.
  • Spontaneous love exists only in Goloka Vrndavana, in the material world love always has a cause.
  • Sambhanda-atmika and kamatmika.
  • The book Prema Samputa explains what material love and transcendental love are.
  • The souls, the jivas, are ashraya-tattva (the shelter of love).
  • Divine love happens when ashraya and vishaya unite, that is, as a relationship between the jiva and Krishna, not between jiva and jiva.
  • Krishna is the enjoyer and the devotees are the enjoyed.
  • Story of when Shankaracharya entered the body of a king with the power of yoga.
  • Story of Ramachandra Kaviraja and the nose ring of Srimati Radhika.