09 Jan 2025, morning walk – Prema (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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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
