14 Dec 2025 morning – Raganuga-bhakti (English) – San Jose, Costa Rica | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Conditioned souls do not have spontaneous love for Krishna, for this reason they have no taste for hearing Harikatha, chanting the Holy Names and performing devotional service.
We must first understand about ragatmika-bhakti, and then we can understand about raganuga-bhakti.
Raganuga means following in the footsteps of the Vrajavasis.
Radha and Krishna have the same svarupa.
Krishna disguises himself as Syamala-sakhi and steals butter.
We can obtain vraja-prema when greed arises in our hearts.
Greed is the cause of greed.
Another name for raganuga-bhakti is lobha-mayi-bhakti.
The vrajavasis are not jiva-tattva, they are nitya-siddha-parikaras.
Jiva-tattva and parikara-tattva are of different natures. You cannot mix them all together.
The parikaras have spontaneous affection for Krishna 24 hours a day. They are never deluded by Maya.
Krishna is playing with His own internal potency and they are no different from Krishna.
The gopis are sarva-sakti-svarupini.
The reason why Krishna performed rasa-lila.
The ultimate completion of rasa-lila.
Srimati Radhika is Rasesvari, the Supreme Controller of Rasa.
