29 Jan 2024 evening – The Story of Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami (English) – Seattle, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed the Gosvamis to manifest the Deities, Krsna’s pastime places in Vrndavana, and also told them to manifest books on Vaisnava etiquette, Vaisnava-suddha-sadacara.
  • Srila Gopala Batta Gosvami collected the slokas of Sri Sampradaya, from where he and his family received diksa-mantras, and then he handed them over to Srila Sanatana Gosvamipada who manifested the book Hari-Bhakti-Vilasa.
  • The Batta family had Mahaprabhu’s darsan and invited Him to stay in their house for four months of caturmasya.
  • Mahaprabhu speaks to the Batta family about His Adorable Deity, Krsna.
  • Verse: ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas (Caitanya-matta-manjusa, Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura).
  • Laksmi Devi performs austerities on the banks of the river Yamuna to try to enter rasa-lila.
  • Krsna has sixty-four qualities, four of which are unique: rupa, lila, venu and prema-madhurya (the sweetness of His form, His pastimes, His flute and His love).
  • Verse: kṛṣṇera yateka khelā sarvottama (CC Madhya-Lila 21.101).
  • The story of the salagrama-sila that Gopala Batta found, and who later manifested Himself as Sri Radha Ramana.
  • The three prominent Deities for the Gaudiya Vaisnavas: Govinda Deva (presides over abidheya, the process), Gopinatha (presides over the goal, prayojana) and Madhana Mohana (presides over the knowledge of relationship, sambandha).
  • The origin of the Deities Govinda Deva, Gopinatha and Madhana Mohana.
  • Radha Ramana is the combined form of Govinda, Gopinatha and Madhana Mohana.
  • Gopala Batta Gosvami is Guna Manjari.

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