24/08/24 morning – The Nature of Love: Separation and Encounter (English translation) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Lila of Srimati Radhika suffering from separation from Sri Krsna and asking the sakhis to place Her body under a tamal tree.
  • The nature of love is encounter and separation.
  • Lila of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mood of separation.
  • In the spiritual world it is impossible to forget one’s beloved.
  • The description of prema, as the combination of poison and nectar simultaneously, heat and cold.
  • Story of the two brothers who were in Vrndavana meditating on the banks of Radha-kunda for fifteen years.
  • Krsna can only be controlled in Vrndavana, for example, by the sidelong glance of Srimati Radhika.
  • Lila of Kamadeva challenging Krsna to a fight.
  • The conversation between Raya Ramananda and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu about the elevated moods of Srimati Radhika.
  • Only one who receives gopi-mantra can understand the moods of the gopis.
  • The story of the sick businessman who did not want to leave his shop.
  • We should become completely absorbed in raganuga-bhakti.
  • The story of the guru who dipped his disciple’s head in water to exemplify the meaning of greed and spiritual absorption.
  • Remember this Sloka: kṛṣṇa tvadīya-pada-paṅkaja-pañjarāntam… (Mukunda-mala-stotra, 33).
  • We should start practising bhajana from an early age, not only when we grow old, and always hear and remember Harikatha and do kirtana.

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