07/12/23 morning – Vaidhi-bhakti and Raganuga-bhakti (English translation) – Bhuj, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Vrajavasis have spontaneous anuraga (deep attachment) to Krsna.
  • To achieve the mood of vrajavasis one must practice raganuga-bhakti under the guidance of a parikara.
  • ⁠Detailed explanations on: dasya, sakhya and vatsalya bhavas.
  • ⁠About the senses and the objects of the senses.
  • ⁠The jiva (tatastha-sakti), cit-sakti, sanvit, sandini, hladini, are the various potencies of the Lord.
  • ⁠Ragatmika are those eternal servants of Krsna. One should serve under their guidance.
  • ⁠The sadhaka should not think that he is Mother Yasoda or another parikara as this is impersonalism and destroys Bhakti.
  • ⁠What is true greed. With sukrti alone one cannot achieve prema-bhava.
  • ⁠One must listen to harikatha from a pure devotee, the payment is his longing to hear and thus can achieve understanding.
  • ⁠First sravana and kirtana in perfect form, then it will be possible to do smarana.
  • ⁠About sadhana-rupena and siddha-rupena.
  • ⁠About the fire of separation. In the alternation of separation and meeting, the sweetness of love manifests itself.
  • ⁠Analogy between the whirlpools of the wild ocean and the oceanic feelings of the gopis in the rasa dance: vibhava (alambhana and uddhipana), anubhava, sattvika, vyabhicari, visaya-alambhana, and asraya-alambhana.
  • ⁠Rasa arises when the forty-nine ingredients unite in the devotee’s staybhava.
  • ⁠Parties in this world are made by Maha-Maya, fleeting; In the spiritual world, happiness is eternal.
  • ⁠In the tumultuous ocean of the gopis’ unfathomable feelings, Krsna holds on to the gopis’ necks so as not to fall into the rasa dance.
  • ⁠All the demigods are perplexed and faint as soon as the rasa dance begins.
  • ⁠Even Krsna of Dvaraka faints upon seeing His own Tribhanga-lalita form.

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