17 Oct 2023 morning – Bhakti-rasayana chapter of Brhad-bhagavatamrta (English) – Christchurch, New Zealand | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Sanatana Gosvamipada collected all verses of Srimad Bhagavatam and he explained the highest moods in Vraja.
  • Krishna is called akhila-rasamrta-sindhu, the ocean of mellows.
  • Krishna relishes all the moods in the hearts of His devotees, He is visaya-vigraha, the object of Divine love.
  • How will we serve Krishna? Under the guidance of Srimati Radhika who is asraya-vigraha, the shelter of Divine love.
  • When the forty nine ingredients manifest in our heart then we can taste the mellows, rasas.
  • First, our sthayi-bhava, fixed mood, will be among one of the five primary rasas: shanta, dasya, sakya, vatsalya or madhurya.
  • Further description of the forty nine ingredients.
  • The process for understanding is to listen, read, listen again and to read again, and to chant holy names.
  • Srila Bhaktivinoda sang, “radha-kunda-tata” : when we go to Radha-kunda, all remembrance of Radha-Krishna’s pastimes will manifest in our hearts. (Sri Gaudiya-giti-guccha, pg 218)
  • Descriptions of Radha-kunda and Svananda Sukhada Kunj.
  • To be a maidservant of Srimati Radhika we are to follow three principles.
  • Where we need to stay in Vrindavana.
  • Raghunatha das Gosvami rejects Krishna’s mercy.
  • Pastime of Sanatana Gosvamipada and Rupa Gosvamipada’s meeting to discuss the first shloka of Srimad Bhagavatam and the sweet village girl making sweet-rice for them.
  • Continued discussion of the ingredients coming after sthayi-bhava to experience rasa, which in turn nourishes the sthayi-bhava.
  • Pariksit Maharaja asks Sukadeva Gosvamipada, “What were the previous pious activities of Nanda Maharaja and Mother Yashoda?”
  • What is the meaning of achintya?
  • The Lords’ mercy will come when we fully surrender at the lotus feet of Guru and Krishna, then everything will manifest in your heart.
  • The nature of material things is to give anxiety and unhappiness.
  • Only one process to attain perfection in Kali-yuga: nama sankirtana.

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