- Actually we don’t know what is bhakti, Krishna, karma, jnana.
- One can hear harikatha only after hearing it directly from the lotus mouth of the Guru, just as Prahlada Maharaja heard it from Narada Muni – sabda-brahma.
- Mahaprabhu appreciates the illiterate young man because he followed his Guru’s instructions, even without knowing how to read properly, and all the tattvas appeared in his heart.
- Sweet dialogue between Mahaprabhu and the illiterate youth.
- Sloka: nāyam ātmā pravacanena labhyo na medhayā na bahunā śrutena (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.23)
- Only with surrender – atma nivedana – the Lord bestows the mercy of bhakti to realize the Lord.
- The Lord resides only in the heart that is pure and tender.
- The illiterate youth received Mahaprabhu’s boon to stay with Him during the four months of Caturmasya.
- About the lila of how the Lord decided what time of life each living being would have; the man and the donkey.
- Rarer than attaining the human form of life is attaining association with a pure devotee.
- During the four months of Caturmasya, Srimam Mahaprabhu stayed in the house of Venkatta Bhatta, who formerly worshiped Laksmi-Narayana.
- Mahaprabhu jokes with the Bhatta family that Laksmi is chaste but wants to be with Krishna.
- Types of tapasya (austerity).
- About the tapasya that Laksmi does.
- The many forms of Krishna.
- Four special and unique qualities of Krishna: rupa-madhurya, venu-madhurya, lila-madhurya and prema-madhurya.
- In tattva siddhanta Narayana and Krishna are not different, but in rasa siddhanta They are different.
- Why was Laksmi unable to enter the rasa dance? Because She does not accept leaving Her body and taking birth in the body of a gopi and from the womb of a gopi.
- Krishna only accepts gopis.
- Lord Shiva also tried to enter the rasa dance.
- After listening to Mahaprabhu’s harikatha, the Bhatta family understood that Krishna is the Supreme Lord and they stopped worshiping Laksmi-Narayana.
India, Lectures in Hindi, India 2023
