11 March 2025 afternoon – The Gopis’ Mood of Separation (English translation) | Navadvipa, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • A beautiful description of Krsna returning from herding, covered in dust.
  • Radharani’s tears become enemies, as they disturb Her vision of Krsna.
  • All of Bhagavan’s avataras are upright, but Krsna is crooked.
  • The gopis’ hearts are caught by Krsna’s crooked form, like a hook that sticks and never comes out.
  • About the gopis’ insults: this is the characteristic language of the vrajavasis.
  • Story of a king who knew several languages, and the minister’s provocation to reveal the original language.
  • The gopis insult Brahma, saying that he is stupid.
  • The vision of Krsna once is never forgotten.
  • The gopis never think that Krsna is God.
  • The vrajavasis see Krsna as a member of the family.
  • How the first bhava arises.
  • Verse from the Gopi Gita, where the gopis tell Brahma about the qualities of Krsna that make the cows intoxicated, the deer, and all the animals go crazy in ecstasy.
  • Sukadeva Gosvami explains that the birds of Vrndavana are eager to see Krsna.
  • Gurudeva relates that a pure devotee, upon seeing a small plant, immediately thinks that it is Vrndavana, a small river is the Yamuna, a tree or a small mountain is Giriraja Govardana.
  • Srimati Radhika herself prays to Brahma ji, wishing to be born as an animal, a deer, so that in this way there will be no obstacle to seeing the beautiful form of Krsna.
  • ⁠The mood of maan is like a mountain that can be covered by the ocean.
  • In this material world what is seen is a perverted reflection of the spiritual world.
  • Everything in the spiritual world is for the service of Krsna, just as the anger (mood of maan) of the gopis is for the happiness of Krsna.
  • We should memorize the 6 symptoms of Mahabhava: brahmāṇḍa-kṣobha-kāritā; kṣaṇa-kalpatā or kṣanardhe-kalpatā; kalpa-kṣaṇatva or kalpate-kanardha; āsana-janatā-hṛta-bilolam; tīrtha-yoni-prāpti-lālasā; ātma-bīsmaram.

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