PART 1
PART 2
- Sri Rupa Gosvami is nitya-parikara, he does not need instruction. Mahaprabhu instructs him to help bhada-jivas who have forgotten their identity.
- Mahaprabu invested all the power of His heart in these instructions, so Rupa Gosvami can fulfill all of Mahaprabhu’s desires.
- Sloka: śrī-caitanya-mano-’bhīṣṭaṁ sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale (CC Antya-lila 1.117).
- Mahaprabhu instructed Rupa and Sanatana to manifest a sacred book on good Vaisnava behavior, the Hari Bhakti Vilasa.
- Sloka: om apavitrah pavitro vā (Srimad Bhagavatam 6.8.4-6).
- The devotees and ragatmika-jana of Vrndavana, so loving and affectionate, are Krsna’s eternal associates, nitya-siddha-parikaras. They think of Krsna as a family member and an intimate friend.
- The parikaras come from the internal potency of Krsna; jivas are another category, they come from the marginal potency of Krsna.
- Symptoms of intimate associates – parikaras: spontaneous love, and longing to lovingly serve Krsna exclusively. This is what the Vrajavasis are like.
- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada says that Vrajavasis are those who follow Rupa and Sanatana Gosvamis, it is not enough to just live in Vrndavana.
- Absorb your mind as the Six Gosvamis do, they performed their sadhana and bhajana in Vrndavana absorbed in Krsna (abhistata) and with the intense desire to have His darsan (utkantha).
- Sloka: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ (CC Antya-lila 20.12).
- Sing Hare Krsna, for with self-realisation the answer will come. When you feel happy, it is because Krsna is happy.