– verse 8 Damodarastakam; – Krsna and the rope around His waist (the rope they tie to babies’ bellies in Bengal for protection); – Mother Yashoda sees Krsna’s universal form twice (eating the mud lila and yawning lila); – Some bondages bring happiness, others bring distress; – Krsna accepts being bound by His mother; – The “krsna krpa kataksa” song; – How Krsna performs rasa-lila if He appeared to establish varnashrama-dharma;...
Damodarashtaka 2020
2020, Discourses in Hindi 2020, Undisclosed, India 2020, Damodarashtaka 8, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020, Damodarashtaka 2020, rasa dance: rasa-lila, varnashrama-dharma, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020
29 Nov 2020 evening – Damodarastakam verse 8 (Hindi) – India
– verse 8 Damodarastakam; – Krsna and the rope around His waist (the rope they tie to babies’ bellies in Bengal for protection); – Mother Yashoda sees Krsna’s universal form twice (eating the mud lila and yawning lila); – Some bondages bring happiness, others bring distress; – Krsna accepts being bound by His mother; – The “krsna krpa kataksa” song; – How Krsna performs rasa-lila if He appeared to establish varnashrama-dharma;...
2020, Discourses in Hindi 2020, Undisclosed, India 2020, Damodarashtaka 6, Damodarashtaka 7, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020, Damodarashtaka 2020, anugatya: following in the footsteps (submissive following of devotees; mood of guidance and service), samskaras, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020
28 Nov 2020 – Q&A + Sri Damodarashtakam. Sloka 6, 7 (Hindi) – India
– Meaning of “deva”;- Our meeting and separation is according to the influence of time (example of the islands, the bundle of grass, the birds in the tree)- The restlessness of Krsna in the rasa lila;- Krsna coming as a peace messenger to the Kauravas;- You need to cross the river of material existence but you have no “money”;- Harikatha makes you renounce;- Krsna manifests different forms depending on the devotee;- The speciality of the service that women can do;...
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26 Nov 2020 – Kartik – Damodarastakam Sloka 5 and 6 (Hindi) – India
– Verse 5 and 6 Damodarastakam;- Gopis did their bodily activities and household chores only by habit and by the arrangement of Yogamaya (because they are completely absorbed in Krsna);- Gopis had no kids of their own;-Importance of listening to harikatha and finding a balance between chanting, serving and listening to harikatha;- Gopis curse Brahma for the creation of eyelids;- Symptom of vatsalya-rasa: kissing the cheeks and sniffing the head of the child;- Anisthita bhajana kriya...
2020, Discourses Translated into English 2020, Undisclosed, India 2020, Damodarashtaka 5, Damodarashtaka 6, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020, Damodarashtaka 2020, sleeping: dreams, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020
26 Nov 2020 – Kartik – Damodarastakam Sloka 5 and 6 (English translation) – India
Part 1 – Verse 5 and 6 Damodarastakam;- Gopis did their bodily activities and household chores only by habit and by the arrangement of Yogamaya (because they are completely absorbed in Krsna);- Gopis had no kids of their own;-Importance of listening to harikatha and finding a balance between chanting, serving and listening to harikatha;- Gopis curse Brahma for the creation of eyelids;- Symptom of vatsalya-rasa: kissing the cheeks and sniffing the head of the child;- Anisthita bhajana...
2020, Discourses Translated into English 2020, Govardhana 2020, Vraja 2020, India 2020, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020, Damodarashtaka 2020, anugatya: following in the footsteps (submissive following of devotees; mood of guidance and service), body: bodily conception, liberation (mukti): types, Pradyumna Misra, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020
25 Nov 2020 – Damodarastakam 4: Developing taste for vraja-raganuga-bhakti only (English translation) – India
4th sloka Damodarastakam;Children are very restless, but when we grow up, we get more serious (we see this in Krsna as well);In the Bhagavatam, Shukadeva Gosvami described the lilas of only one single day of Krsna.- Sukadeva using the word “etah” means that he is directly seeing all those lilas he’s described;This material body cannot tolerate prema (when one attains bhava, one dies);Uddhava glorifies the rudha-bhava of the gopis: what is the use of being Lord Brahma if we...
2020, Discourses in Hindi 2020, Govardhana 2020, Vraja 2020, India 2020, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020, Damodarashtaka 2020, anugatya: following in the footsteps (submissive following of devotees; mood of guidance and service), body: bodily conception, liberation (mukti): types, Pradyumna Misra, Vraja-mandala Parikrama 2020
25 Nov 2020 (room class) – Damodarastakam 4: Developing taste for vraja-raganuga-bhakti only (Hindi) – India
4th sloka Damodarastakam;Children are very restless, but when we grow up, we get more serious (we see this in Krsna as well);In the Bhagavatam, Shukadeva Gosvami described the lilas of only one single day of Krsna.- Sukadeva using the word “etah” means that he is directly seeing all those lilas he’s described;This material body cannot tolerate prema (when one attains bhava, one dies);Uddhava glorifies the rudha-bhava of the gopis: what is the use of being Lord Brahma if we...