25/08/24 morning – The Sweet Guidance of Sakhis (Hindi) | Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

00:00 About anuraga, the three types of prema, gopi-prema as sahajiya-prema being the highest, and the symptoms of love
05:00 Transcendental love in the spiritual world
11:00 Two qualities of anuraga, competition of beauty
15:00 Functions of separation, sahajiya (spontaneous) prema, example with messengers (dutas), examples of dutas
19:00 The 15 arrows of Cupid, a shloka from Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, description
22:00 The flute as a means of controlling the gopis, and gopis’ mana as a means of controlling Krishna
25:00 Cupid’s arrows in the material and spiritual worlds
27:00 The goal of Radha-prema, explanations by Raya Ramananda
29:00 Madhurya-lilas are incomprehensible to other rasas, example of the frog and the lotus, reference to Rupa Gosvami’s explanations
31:00 Explanation that to realize others one must realize oneself
36:00 How Krishna moved swiftly among the gopis in the rasa dance, similar example in Dvaraka
42:00 Why one must not imitate the lilas
47:00 Two important shlokas
51:00 Overview of the duties of a sakhi
57:00 Service of Krishna’s cowherd boyfriends, madhurya-lilas
1:03:00 Very brief description of the lila where Krishna disguises Himself as Radha
1:07:00 Sixteen activities of the sakhi, arranging meetings between Radha and Krishna
1:13:00 Short story-metaphor of a donkey falling in the mountains, brief story of King Nimi being saved from a flood
1:20:00 Analysis of specific skills of the sakhis, punishments from elders
1:29:00 The fire of separation of Srimati Radhika – expressed as instructions to the maidservants

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