29 Apr 2024 morning – Identification with the Divine (Hindi) – Delhi, India| Srila BV Vana Maharaja

0:00 – Krishna and prema (divine love) in Goloka; why Krishna plays the flute; different manifestations of Krishna for His various associates.

6:00 – Transcendental things vs. material things.

8:00 – The difference between our world and the transcendental world.

12:00 – Attaining transcendental feelings – tadatma (identification with the divine); the ability to see the Deity in a stone – seva-unmukhi-vritti vs. bhoga-unmukhi-vritti; chit-buddhi (spiritual intelligence) and bhagavat-buddhi (God-centered intelligence).

22:00 – How to begin understanding transcendental things; the opposition between the material and spiritual worlds; relationships in the transcendental realm.

30:00 – Love and punishments meant to intensify love.

36:00 – The whirlpools of love inaccessible to the queens of Dvaraka; the prema of the gopis as witnessed by Uddhava.

45:00 – Comparison of the whirlpools of prema to a gigantic ship.

54:00 – Concepts like hava, bhava, hela, kilakincita, vikopa – the moods of the gopis in Ujjvala-nilamani.

1:05 – Briefly about the lila of Krishna being purified by the brahmanas.

1:05 – Various situations in the material world generate delayed suffering, while situations in the transcendental world generate the intensification of prema; examples and lilas.

1:17 – Examples of lilas where the gopis scold Krishna.

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