- Mahaprabhu spent four months in Caturmasya with the Bhatta family.
- Mahaprabhu talks with the Bhatta family about Laksmidevi’s chastity.
- Caitanya Caritamrta – Madhya-lila, chapter 9.
- Krishna manifests different ways to savor the prema of devotees.
- The 4 extraordinary sweetnesses of Krishna.
- Krishna’s own avatars yearn to see His supreme beauty.
- Family life is painful.
- The gopis leave everything for Krishna.
- Krishna feels indebted to the love of the gopis.
- Krishna corresponds to the devotee according to his surrender, but towards the gopis, He feels indebted.
- According to siddhanta there is no difference between Narayana and Krishna, but according to rasa-siddhanta, Krishna is superior and more attractive.
- Krishna is expert at joking. Ramacandra is always serious and cares more for His subjects than His family.
- No one equals Laksman in seva and nistha towards Ramacandra.
- It is very difficult to get a real servant in Kali-yuga.
- The person who practices too much bhakti, who shows too much devotion, actually has the symptom of being a thief, a faker.
- Description of an event in a Temple of Srila Gurudeva about a pujari who served too much and then stole the jewels of the Deities.
- Prema has no worries, but the gopis are always worried desiring Krishna’s happiness.
- In Bengala devotees cook a lot, at least ten types of preparations.
- Various information about the cuisine of Bengal residents.
- Maryada-Purushottama Sri Rama is bound by the rules and therefore He had to give up Laksmana. But, Sri Krishna breaks all the rules for the love/prema of devotees.
- The qualities of Krishna dhira-lalita-nayaka.
- During the different seasons the rasa-lila takes place in different places.
- Sloka: yadi hari-smarane sarasam mana (Gita Govinda 1.3).
- At the same time Sri Krishna introduces himself to each devotee according to his prema: as a baby and little child for Mother Yasoda; with 7 to 9 years for friends; and 12 to 14 years for the gopis.
- Rama has 12 arts and 62.5 qualities; Krishna has 16 arts and 64 qualities; Narayana has 60 qualities.
- Demigods can assume any form, but they don’t touch the Earth’s soil.
- Ghosts always have their feet turned backwards.
- Bhagavan is only one, has many forms, tastes different kinds of sweets according to time, place and circumstance.
07 Jul 2023 morning – Krishna and His Avataras (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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