22 Aug 2023 midday – The Glories of Sri Rupa Gosvamipada (English) – Hong Kong | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • How Srila Narottama das Thakura glorified Srila Rupa Gosvamipada.
  • Rupa Gosavami receives all the treasure of Mahaprabhu’s heart.
  • Atma-nivedana explained.
  • Krishna tells Arjuna how to surrender to Him.
  • The six limbs of saranagati.
  • Gurupadpadma takes us to the shelter of Rupa Gosvamipada.
  • The process of how Srimati Radhika is served.
  • Everyone is to learn the verse of Srila Narrotama dasa Thakura: anyabhilasita sunyam.
  • How we enter the moods of rasa-lila by developing our bhajana and sadhana.
  • Only the causeless mercy of Guru will carry us across this material ocean.
  • Our aim and object, how Gurudeva will be pleased with us.
  • How we come to Gurupadpadma by His inconceivable mercy.
  • Description of who Sri Rupa Gosvami is and His life history, along with Sri Sanatana Gosvami.
  • Rupa Gosvamipada and Sanatana Gosvamipada glorify Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
  • The instructions Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu gives to them, including the four essential instructions in Ramakeli-goan.
  • Reasons they gave for Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu to not go to Vrindavana while many were following Him.
  • Description of the differences of Vrindavana five hundred years ago and now.
  • Rupa Gosvamipada and Sanatana Gosvamipada relinquish their ministerial posts from the Muslim king respectively.
  • Why Rupa Gosvamipada wrote to Sanatana Gosvamipada whilst he was in jail, surreptitiously.
  • Rupa-siksa, in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, is very important in our spiritual lives: Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu.
  • Why did Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu give these valuable things to Srila Rupa Gosvamipada and not others? We are to remember this question.