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PART 2
– His name was Vinoda-bihari Brahmachari.
– He was born in East Bengal and was extremely compassionate towards living beings.
– A story is told of how his mother wanted to punish him for coming home late, but burst into tears when she found out that he was late because he had been helping a woman in need.
– External compassion is giving cloth, food or medicine, but internal compassion is helping someone reach a transcendental world.
– Verse: tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanaṁ… (Gopi-gita 9).
– In transcendental Vrindavana, the wish-fulfilling trees provide the Vrajavasis with everything they need.
– Verse: cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa… (Brahma-samhita 5.29)
– Verse: jayati te ’dhikaṁ janmanā vrajaḥ… (SB 10.31.1 or Gopi-gita 1).
– Vinoda-bihari Brahmacari left school with a Mayavadi professor and surrendered to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.
– Vinoda-bihari Brahmachari chanted the holy names at night, but his godbrothers were unaware of this and thought he was a materialist.
– Verse: guru-śuśrūṣayā bhaktyā… (SB 7.7.30).
– Vapu-seva and vani-seva (brihad mridanga seva).
– Rupanuga guru-varga.
– If you want to develop your bhajana and sadhana, you must listen to your guru’s hari-katha every day.
– Srila Bhakti Prajnana Keshava Gosvami Maharaja had two titles: Acharya Keshari and Pasanda Gajaika Simha, meaning ‘a lion who destroys the elephants of atheism’.
– Srila BV Narayana Maharaja called himself the son of a lion.
– Srila Bhakti Prajnana Keshava GM manifested white Krishna deity (sveta vigraha).
