02/05/24 morning – Questions and Answers (English) – Germany| Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Krsna is brhad-caitanya (immense) and Jiva is anu-caitanya (diminutive).
  • ⁠The power of the jivas is equal to that of Krsna, but it is small.
  • ⁠Just as there is fire in wood, which can only be seen when the great fire touches it, the jiva needs to practice devotional service to awaken its potency.
  • ⁠Sat and cite are present in Radha but ananda is in greater proportion.
  • ⁠Meaning of prana-pratistha (deity installation), but, separating the words, prana is “vital air”, and pratista is “fame or reputation”.
  • ⁠The meaning of words must be understood according to the circumstance and instruction.
  • ⁠About sambhandatmika and kamatmika, depending on the mood of service, one of the two will be prominent.
  • ⁠Parakiya: “para” means “the best”, therefore, parakiya-rasa does not exist in this material world, only in Vraja, in the heart of the vraja-gopis.
  • ⁠About the five rasas and their qualities.
  • ⁠Nistha, seva-vrtti, mamata and the rasas (sweetnesses) are within srngara-rasa (Madhurya-rasa).
  • ⁠The tat-tad-bhava-icchamayi of the manjaris who never meet Krsna separately.
  • ⁠The sambhoga-mayi of the gopis who meet Krsna separately.
    -⁠Lila das gopis arguing with Krishna and defeating his arguments.
  • ⁠The four feelings (bhavas) existing in the parakiya mood of the gopis: Nivaranata, Durlabhata, Pracchana-kamakata, Vamyata.

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