Srimati Radhika is hladini-sakti, She gives pleasure to Krsna, thus He tastes ananda-rasa. Srimati Radhika is mahabhava-svarupini. The six symptoms of mahabhava. The sakhis are different manifestations of Srimati Radhika. Adi-rasa is sringara-rasa: conjugal love, the source of all rasas, and Srimati Radhika is the source of all rasas who satisfies Krsna’s desires. Krsna is rasa-svarupa: the personification of all rasas. The main philosophical differences between impersonalists and...
Chaitanya-charitamrita 2023
18 Sep 2023 morning – Radha Tattva – Sri Caitanya Caritamrta: Madhya-lila, Chap. 8 (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Srimati Radhika is hladini-sakti, She gives pleasure to Krsna, thus He tastes ananda-rasa. Srimati Radhika is mahabhava-svarupini. The six symptoms of mahabhava. The sakhis are different manifestations of Srimati Radhika. Adi-rasa is sringara-rasa: conjugal love, the source of all rasas, and Srimati Radhika is the source of all rasas who satisfies Krsna’s desires. Krsna is rasa-svarupa: the personification of all rasas. The main philosophical differences between impersonalists and...
19 Aug 2023 morning – The Sweetness of Separation Described in Caitanya Caritamrta (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave His darsana in the form of rasa-raja-mahabhava to Raya Ramananda. The higher moods are confidential. Krsna is the object of divine love (eka-rasa), while the gopis and Srimati Radhika are the shelter of divine love (bahu-rasa). The glories of separation in the transcendental world. Lila of Radhaji in maan and the bumblebee. The four types of separation and the different types of maan. Lila of when Krsna embraces the gopis. The comparison of Srimati...
19 Aug 2023 morning – The Sweetness of Separation Described in Caitanya Caritamrta (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
About when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave His darsana in the form of rasa-raja-mahabhava to Raya Ramananda. The higher moods are confidential. Krsna is the object of divine love (eka-rasa), while the gopis and Srimati Radhika are the shelter of divine love (bahu-rasa). The glories of separation in the transcendental world. Lila of Radhaji in maan and the bumblebee. The four types of separation and the different types of maan. Lila of when Krsna embraces the gopis. The comparison of Srimati...
27 Jul 2023 morning – Caitanya-caritamrita, Madhya lila (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Krishna is the possessor of all the potencies and Srimati Radhika is potency itself. The different moods are manifested from the potencies and each of them has a name. Antaranga-sakti (svarupa-sakti), bahiranga-sakti (maya-sakti), and tatastha-sakti (jiva-sakti). Sloka: ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥkṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam (SB 1.3.28). On hladini, sandini, and samvit. Through hladini-sakti Krsna tastes the sweets and offers them to His devotees. The root of all types of bliss/hladini-sakti is Srimati...
27 Jul 2023 morning – Caitanya-caritamrita, Madhya lila (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Krishna is the possessor of all the potencies and Srimati Radhika is potency itself. The different moods are manifested from the potencies and each of them has a name. Antaranga-sakti (svarupa-sakti), bahiranga-sakti (maya-sakti), and tatastha-sakti (jiva-sakti). Sloka: ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥkṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam (SB 1.3.28). On hladini, sandini, and samvit. Through hladini-sakti Krsna tastes the sweets and offers them to His devotees. The root of all types of bliss/hladini-sakti is Srimati...
15 Jul 2023 morning – Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya 9 (Hindi) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Mahaprabhu meets Raya Ramananda. By having Mahaprabhu’s darshan, everyone became a Vaishnava. Srimati Uma Didi and her mother cooked beautifully. And Srimati Uma Didi made Jagannatha’s favourite sweet pitha pana very well. Mahaprabhu’s favourite sweet, dudh lauki lauki. Lila of Mahaprabhu and Sridhara. Mahaprabhu and Sri Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. At this age it is best to hear, remember (read the scriptures – smaranakhya-bhakti) and chant the holy names. At the stage of...
15 Jul 2023 morning – Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya 9 (English translation) – Delhi, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
Mahaprabhu meets Raya Ramananda. By having Mahaprabhu’s darshan, everyone became a Vaishnava. Srimati Uma Didi and her mother cooked beautifully. And Srimati Uma Didi made Jagannatha’s favourite sweet pitha pana very well. Mahaprabhu’s favourite sweet, dudh lauki lauki. Lila of Mahaprabhu and Sridhara. Mahaprabhu and Sri Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. At this age it is best to hear, remember (read the scriptures – smaranakhya-bhakti) and chant the holy names. At the stage of...