02/11/23 morning – The Guru’s Mercy Awakens the Power that the Devotee Already Has (English translation) – Vrindavana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- Lila of Durvasa Rsi, astonished, seeing Krsna’s friends mocking Him lovingly.
- Krsna knows everything and is, at the same time, totally innocent.
- Vrajavasis are absorbed in the pastimes of Krsna’s childhood, boyhood and youth.
- Krsna corresponds with the devotee according to the devotee’s mood, and madhurya is the highest mood.
- Krsna presents more opulence in Vraja than anywhere else, but this opulence is covered by sweetness.
- Listening to harikatha, little by little, we will become absorbed.
- If the love of the gopis was material, why would great holy personalities pray to achieve such love? This love is transcendental.
- By listening to harikatha, the devotee’s heart will blossom.
- Uddhava and the Pandavas do not attain gopi-prema, despite association with Krsna, because the madhurya potency is not in their hearts.
- The devotee’s svarupa is not defined by the association.
- Our only hope is that we have come to the path of Mahaprabhu, for only He grants vraja-prema.
- The Guru’s mercy comes, but what manifests in the devotee is in accordance with his natural potency which results in his svarupa of service.
