18/09/23 morning – Radha Tattva – Sri Caitanya Caritamrta: Madhya-lila, Chap. 8 (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- Srimati Radhika is hladini-sakti, She gives pleasure to Krsna, thus He tastes ananda-rasa.
- Srimati Radhika is mahabhava-svarupini.
- The six symptoms of mahabhava.
- The sakhis are different manifestations of Srimati Radhika.
- Adi-rasa is sringara-rasa: conjugal love, the source of all rasas, and Srimati Radhika is the source of all rasas who satisfies Krsna’s desires.
- Krsna is rasa-svarupa: the personification of all rasas.
- The main philosophical differences between impersonalists and Vaisnavas.
- The powers of God: jiva-sakti, maya-sakti and cit-sakti.
- Verse: mamaivāṁśo jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ (Bhagavad Gita, 15.7).
- The material world is not false according to Vaisnava philosophy, but it is a truth with a predetermined time, that is, temporary.
- For monists, this life in this material world is false.
- Krsna is rasa-svarupa, sweetness personified, and also the lover of sweetness.
- Verse: rādhā-preyān vidhur jayati (Bhakti Rasamrta Sindhu, Srila Rupa Gosvami).
- How and why Krsna manifested Radha.
- By knowing Krsna’s desires, Srimati Radhika serves Him completely and absolutely. She is madanakhya-mahabhava: the source of all bhavas.
- The eight symptoms of mahabhava ecstasy. Only Radha and Caitanya Mahaprabhu manifest all the symptoms simultaneously (sudipta-mahabhava).
- Uddhava witnessed the transcendental wrath of Srimati Radhika in Vrndavana.
- The explanation about the golden color of Gauranga and Srimati Radhika.
- Meaning of pranaya.
- Meaning of Sri Krsna’s pranama-mantra.
