Glories of Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami, the most prominent rupanuga acarya – Srila Dasa Gosvami did his bhajana only in Radha kunda; – Mahaprabhu offered Srila Raghunatha Das Gosvami to Svarupa Damodar (Svarupera Raghu); – After the disappearance of Mahaprabhu, Srila Das Gosvami shifted from Puri to Vrindavana (Radha-kunda); – Srimati Radhika Herself made a shade for Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami with Her veil; – Raganuga and rupanuga; – Bhakti and bhakti...
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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...
26 Nov 2020 – Srila Raghunatha Das Gosvami Vraja Pastimes (Hindi) – India
Glories of Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami, the most prominent rupanuga acarya – Srila Dasa Gosvami did his bhajana only in Radha kunda; – Mahaprabhu offered Srila Raghunatha Das Gosvami to Svarupa Damodar (Svarupera Raghu); – After the disappearance of Mahaprabhu, Srila Das Gosvami shifted from Puri to Vrindavana (Radha-kunda); – Srimati Radhika Herself made a shade for Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami with Her veil; – Raganuga and rupanuga; – Bhakti and bhakti...
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...
25 Nov 2020 – Gopis who attained the panchayati rasa – Vraja mandala parikrama (English translation) – India
Importance of dancing + Seva of Raghava Pandit (English translation) – Shape of Giriraja is like a sleeping cow and a peacock; – Autumn season rasa-lila vs. spring season rasa-lila; – Panchayati rasa that took place in Vrndavana, and which kind of gopis attained to it; – How the Sarna Sitas (golden statues of Sita) became gopis; – Dandakaranya rsis saw to Lord Rama and got His blessing to be born as a gopi in krishna-lila; – Rsis of Dandakaranya waited so...
25 Nov 2020 – Disappearance of Srila Gaura Kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja (English translation) – India
– The internal and external meaning of the renunciation;- Raghunatha Das to Sanatana Gosvami: vairagya-yug-bhakti-rasam prayatnair (Vilapa Kusumanjali);- Srila Gaura Kishora Dasa Babaji Maharaja would defeat the arguments and cut the philosophy of even great panditas such as Prana Gopal Gosvami;- Srila Gaura Kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja didn’t want to give initiation to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada;- Some newly married man comes to seek Babaji Marahaja’s blessings for his...
25 Nov 2020 – Disappearance of Srila Gaura Kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja (Hindi) – India
– The internal and external meaning of the renunciation;- Raghunatha Das to Sanatana Gosvami: vairagya-yug-bhakti-rasam prayatnair (Vilapa Kusumanjali);- Srila Gaura Kishora Dasa Babaji Maharaja would defeat the arguments and cut the philosophy of even great panditas such as Prana Gopal Gosvami;- Srila Gaura Kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja didn’t want to give initiation to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada;- Some newly married man comes to seek Babaji Marahaja’s blessings for his...
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...