23 July 2025 midday – Krishna’s Relations with Friends, Parents and Srimati Radhika (English) | Seattle, USA | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 1

PART 2

• Don’t go to maya. It’s hard to come back.
• The gopis always remember Krishna. They feel what He feels, yet they never believe that He is Bhagavan.
• The relationship between Krishna and His friends, and between Krishna and Nanda and Yashoda.
• Dama-bandhana-lila. Song: Damodarashtaka.
• Verse: kṛṣṇera yateka khelā, sarvottama nara-līlā…(CC Madhya 21.101).
• Verse: iṣṭe svārasikī rāgaḥ paramāviṣṭatā bhavet…(CC Madhya 22.150).
• Verse: yugāyitaṁ nimeṣeṇa cakṣuṣā prāvṛṣāyitam…(CC Antya 20.39).
• Verse: āśliṣya vā pāda-ratāṁ pinaṣṭu mām…(Shikshashtaka 8).
• Verse: yā dohane ’vahanane mathanopalepa…(SB 10.44.15).
• Lila: Srimati Radhika’s durjaya-mana (unbreakable anger).
• Lila: Krishna believes that all the trees at Radha-kunda are Radha, who taught Krishna how to dance.
• Lila: Srimati Radhika teaches Krishna about mana.
• Types of mana.
• Funny story of the criminal who pretended to be crazy even to his lawyer.