- Krsna’s curiosity about Radha’s feelings for Him.
- Krsna takes the form of Gouranga with the skin colour and moods of Radha.
- If Gouranga had not taken shelter of the Guru’s lotus feet, He would not have been able to taste the sweetness of Radha’s feelings.
- Mahaprabhu accepts sannyasi, He goes to Jagannatha Puri and there he freed Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya.
- Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya tells Mahaprabhu to meet Raya Ramananda, the governor of Prataparudra Maharaja.
- The first meeting of Mahaprabhu and Raya Ramananda.
- Mahaprabhu’s questions to Raya Ramananda go in a crescendo: varnasrama-dharma; give everything you do to Krsna; abandon even dharma/duties and surrender to the Lord; jnana-misra-bhakti; abandon the striving for knowledge (jnana) and offer respects to harikatha; the five main and seven secondary rasa; bhakti begins in dasya-bhava; madhurya-bhava of the gopis is the highest.
- Radha and the gopis are on the Lord’s list of servants. The nature of the soul is to serve the Lord and feel bliss in doing so: seva-ananda.
- Vaidhi-bhakti makes the soul reach Vaikuntha and raganuga-bhakti makes the soul reach Goloka Vrndavana.
- Tattva-jnana is important, we must listen to harikatha in the company of sadhus, from there bhakti begins.
- First vaidhi-bhakti, then raganuga-bhakti with the help of the sadhu plus the lobha (greed) of the sadhaka.
- Characteristics of those who have lobha.
- Prema is when one has possessiveness only for Visnu/Krsna.
- Diksa, divya-jnana, transcendental knowledge: if you don’t have common sense, how will you achieve transcendental knowledge?
- Diksa (relationship knowledge) takes time to fully realise.
- We must listen to the harikatha of the rasika-vaisnava, enter into tattva-siddhanta, understand the pure conceptions to enter into purity.
- Prema has no end.
- Sweet and wonderful explanation of Ramananda Raya’s fainting upon seeing Mahaprabhu’s rasa-raja-mahabhava-svarupa form
India, Lectures in Hindi, India 2024
