- Dialogue about prema between the gopis and Krsna.
- Categories of prema:
Hetu-prema: love with a cause;
Ahetu-prema: love without a cause;
Aptakama: self-satisfied;
Aptarama: fulfills one’s desires;
Gurudrohi: offender;
Krtajnata: gratitude;
Akrtajnata: ingratitude. - Krsna tells the gopis that His feelings are not in these categories of prema because He has sahaja-prema: spontaneous love.
- It is not perfect to say “I love Gurudeva” because Guru is asraya-tattva and we feel love for visaya-tattva Sri Krsna.
- We should have asakti (attachment) for the Guru.
- Prema appears only in the highest stage of bhakti.
- Song: Sad Gosvami Astakam
- The material body does not tolerate prema.
- Rama’s lila telling Laksmana that He was going to test Sita Devi.
- The Guru keeps remembering Krsna’s pastimes. Krsna is sarvajnata (everything-knowing) and mugdhata (completely innocent).
- Krsna responds exactly according to the devotee’s surrender.
- Radha’s lila with Her parrot Sukadeva.
- Sukadeva is Radha’s parrot, and Pariksiti is a gopi, who is higher?
- You will see your eternal soul form when your heart is purified of all anarthas.
- Siddha-pranali is the perfect process from sradha to prema.
- The disciple should open his heart to the Guru and tell his problems: kandiya kandiya janaiba duhkha-gram samsara-anala haite magiba visrama… (Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s prayer). “Weeping, I will convey my sorrows to the Vaisnava and pray for shelter from the fire of material existence.”
- The three gunas force our actions to be in accordance with
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