21 Sep 2025 evening – True Love (English translation) | Perth, Australia

  • About the Srimad-Bhagavatam: From the 1st to the 9th Canto, the text discusses sambandha-jñana; the 10th Canto presents prayojana; the 11th and 12th Canto discuss abhidheya.
  • Our goal (prayojana) is not to achieve liberation or salvation, but rather krsna-prema, krsna-sambandha, krsna-prayojana.
  • We must first understand material love before we can discuss transcendental love.
  • Srila Gurudeva tells a story about the path of love to explain material love.
  • The love of the material world is not fixed; it moves from one place to another. In this material world, everything is temporary.
  • Prema and material love are similar from above, but their activities are completely opposite.
  • The punishment given to us by those we love is sweeter than the glorifications of the Vedas.
  • Parakiya-rasa is superior to svakiya-rasa.
  • Where there is pride, pure love cannot manifest.
  • About the feeling of separation that Krsna feels from the Vrajavasis when He goes to Mathura.
  • Uddhava goes to Vrndavana to pacify the Vrajavasis when Krsna is in Mathura.
  • The definition of love is that, even with reason for prema to be destroyed, it is not destroyed and, instead, increases more and more.