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.
