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From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 7 – Love in separation is the culmination of love

ByChaitanya Charan

[Chaitanya Charitamrita class on Madhya 8.111 at ISKCON, Denver, USA] Transcription of  Summary :  I spoke about how whatever is present in the material world is present in the spiritual world also. So, here Kama and Krodha is talked about being present. So, Kama I talked elaborately. Kama can refer to lust. It can also refer…

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From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 6 – Parakiya-rasa is not immoral, but trans-moral

ByChaitanya Charan

Transcription of Summary I spoke today about how here in Gauridia Vaisnivism the relationship between Krishna and the Gopis is in Parakhiya rasa, and what is the purpose of… how do we understand the Parakhiya rasa. So, I talked about… in the spiritual world everything is arranged for the enhancement of loving reciprocation between Krishna…

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From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 5 – Radha and Krishna are one soul in two bodies

ByChaitanya Charan

[Radhashtami morning class on Chaitanya Charitamrita Madhya 8.100 at ISKCON, Denver, USA] Transcription of  Summary Lecture  I spoke today about Radharani on her appearance day, and in this verse it is said that, ‘This gopi must have served Krishna in a special way; that is why… The gopi is saying… ‘Krishna has gone alone with her.’…

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From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 4 – Relishing the transformational legacy of God’s greatness and sweetness

ByChaitanya Charan

[Chaitanya Charitamrita class on Madhya 8.76 at ISKCON, Denver, USA] Transcription of Lecture Summary :  We talked about how this progression in devotion which is described over here… from santa rasa to vatsalya rasa, and santa rasa… the word rasa can mean emotion and rasa can also refer to relation or the prominent defining emotion in…

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From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 3 – PEAR acronym for becoming a rasika

ByChaitanya Charan

[Chaitanya Charitamrita class on Madhya 8.70 at ISKCON, Denver, USA] Transcription of  Summary Lecture  I spoke today about how in this section Ramananda Ray has described various levels and now he has come to the level of bhakti… and karma and jnana are both material consciousness… attachment to matter and aversion to matter. Bhakti is in…

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From Love Universal to Bhakti Confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism Glories 2 – How Karma and Jnana Culminate in Bhakti

ByChaitanya Charan

(Chaitanya Charitamrita class on Madhya 8.28 at ISKCON, Denver, USA)     Transcription of Summary I will summarize: The theme which I focussed on was how bhakti inverts the social hierarchy…. that normally the brahmanas… they are the guardians of religious truth and they consider everyone as the outsiders, but here Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Ramanada…

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From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories 1 – Understanding how love culminates in bhakti

ByChaitanya Charan

[Chaitanya Charitamrita class on Madhya 8.1 at ISKCON, Denver, USA] Transcription of summary : So, I spoke today about the evolution from love universal to bhakti confidential. I started by… in this verse… First I talked about the principle of… that God who is the source of all knowledge is now becoming the receiver of…