15 Feb 2024 evening – Advaita Saptami (English) – Cochabamba, Bolivia | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Dialogue between Advaita Acarya and Vidyapati, author of the beautiful song “Madhava Bahuta Minati Kari Toya”.
  • ⁠Vidyapati’s song says: “O Madhava, with this offering of a tulasi leaf and sesame seeds I supplicate and surrender my body to Your service. I know that Your compassion is such that You will not reject me”.
  • ⁠Another Vidyapati song, “Tatala Saikate” which says: “Lord, completely forgetting You, I offered my mind to the society of women, children and friends – but this experience was like offering a drop of water to the scorching sands from beach. How can I free myself from this great misery?”
  • ⁠Four types of separation: purva-raga; maan; prema-vicittya; and pravasa.
  • ⁠Advaita Acarya cried a lot while listening to Vidyapati’s songs.
  • ⁠Two types of pravasa: kinciddur (short separation), sudur (long-term separation).
  • ⁠Six symptoms of mahabhava: brahmāṇḍa-kṣobha-kāritā; kṣaṇa-kalpatā or kṣanardhe-kalpatā; kalpa-kṣaṇatva or kalpate-kanardha; nirdhūta-bheda-bhramam; tīrtha-yoni-prāpti-lālasā; and, ātma-bīsmaya.
  • ⁠Madhanakiya-mahabhava and sudipta-mahabhava manifest only in the heart of Radha.
  • ⁠Radha’s pathetic lila in separation from Krsna.
  • ⁠Sloka that only Radha, Madhavendra Puri and Mahaprabhu spoke: ayi dīna-dayārdra nātha he (CC Madhya-lila 4.197).
  • ⁠Prema-bhandana: transcendental love has a padlock whose key locks, but does not open, and always increases. How beautiful, eternal love.
  • ⁠If you love your dog or people, but don’t love God, you don’t love anyone.
  • ⁠Lila of Radha telling Krsna that “in the next life” He will be Her to learn about Love. Visaya-vigraha does not know what the Love that asraya-vigraha experiences is.
  • ⁠Lila of Nitai and Advaita Acarya interfering with Mahaprabhu’s journey to Vrndavana.
  • ⁠Mahaprabhu experiencing the ecstasy of Radha’s deep moods, goes to the house of Advaita Acarya.
  • ⁠Only Visnu Priya Devi does not visit Mahaprabhu: Bhaja Gouranga Kaha Gouranga.
  • ⁠Mahaprabhu is always present in the house of Sati Mata, where Nitai dances, and in the house of Raghava and Damayanti.
  • Lila from Advaita Acarya cooking for Mahaprabhu.
  • ⁠Funny lila from Advaita Acarya who wants to be slapped by Mahaprabhu.
  • ⁠Very funny lila from Nitai throwing prasada on the walls of Advaita Acarya’s house.
  • ⁠Lila from Advaita Acarya warning Mahaprabhu that the hearts of the jivas were already filled with prema and He must return to the transcendental world.