0:10 – Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu describes how Krishna met the Gopis; Krishna’s qualities; He is eternally youthful
5:25 – Krishna is the embodiment of rasa, especially madhurya-rasa; for rasa to exist, there must be one who tastes and one who is tasted
10:28 – The prema of Radhika: when Radharani sees a Tamala tree, darkness, or dark rain clouds, She thinks it is Krishna; Krishna cannot express such prema
12:10 – A dialogue between Vrinda Devi and Radhika: “Where did Krishna learn to dance? Who is His Guru?” Vrinda replies: “Nature teaches Him — trees, creepers — and He thinks it is Radhika”
15:20 – Krishna says, “Uddhava, go to Vraja and learn from My prema-guru. Only then can we share each other’s moods; without this, we won’t understand one another”
22:40 – The Vrajavasis think Krishna is just a family member and give Him blessings; they don’t believe He is God
30:03 – Devaki and Vasudeva don’t allow Krishna’s feet to be touched
32:00 – The sweetness of divine love — Krishna goes to Mathura for this; separation nourishes reunion
35:00 – Shrila Shukadeva Goswami pad quotes the Venu-gita: four types of separation
38:00 – Krishna’s beauty; His flute playing; discussion of rasa-vichar and tattva-vichar 47:40 – Prema is always increasing; like a glass of water overflows in the material world, but in the spiritual world, it’s different — ever-expanding
50:30 – A true Guru chastises the disciple and points out their faults
51:40 – In the material world, people squeeze everything out of you, like an orange or a mango; in the spiritual world, it’s the opposite — the beauty of the spiritual realm
55:50 – Krishna’s contradictory qualities: atmā-rāma (self-satisfied) and ātma-kāma (all His desires are fulfilled)
1:00:00 – Examples of renunciation: Shrila Shukadeva Goswami pad and Janaka Maharaja
1:03:00 – The attachment of Bharata Maharaja
1:06:00 – Prayers of Vritrasura; explanation of a shloka: a woman performs her duties perfectly but her mind is elsewhere — and no one knows
1:13:00 – Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakur says: who will practice manjari-bhava? Manjaris don’t need to be called — they come on their own
1:19:00 – Krishna’s contradictory dharma: renounced yet attached to the Gopis; Radhika is very simple; in parakiya-rasa, four weapons are present
India, Lectures in Hindi, India 2024
