From love universal to bhakti confidential – Gaudiya Vaishnavism glories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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. I talk about the five chapters of Rasatila, there is a brief overview and then before we can understand the Rasatila, Prabhupada is very careful, he uses Radharani's name only once in the Bhagavad Gita and he uses the double honour of Srimati and Rani, why? Because he wants us to not misunderstand and a misunderstanding is very possible because it can seem like a male-female interaction and to avoid a misunderstanding I discuss elaborately about how actually God is not just the best of all beings, he is the basis of all beings and that means that everybody is expanded from Krishna, everybody's existence is sustained by Krishna and Krishna and Radharani are the same person. So God is satisfied within himself but he wants to share his completeness with others, just like a person who is happy and wants to dance to express that happiness.

So to share his completeness, Krishna manifests himself in another form and that form is Radharani. So Radharani, by everything that she does, she gives happiness to Krishna and she also, for those who want to serve him, serve Krishna, she manifests in their heart and she gives them ecstasy. So she gives ecstasy to Krishna and she gives ecstasy to the devotees of Krishna who are trying to serve.

So philosophically, Radharani is not a person different from Krishna, practically of course she is a different person and she has her own mood and sometimes it is, sometimes she does what Krishna wants, sometimes she does something other than what Krishna wants but that is also for the pleasure of Krishna and her defining characteristic is her total selflessness for the sake of Krishna and that we discussed in the Rasleela pastime wherein Radharani, first of all she is ready to give up, Radharani along with all the Gopis are ready to give up even their own, their perception of chastity for the sake of pleasing Krishna. For the sake of God, the bad has to be given up and even the good has to be given up. Krishna doesn't say sarva dharman parityajya, he says sarva dharman parityajya.

And then, at an external level it may say that Krishna leaves the Gopis because they become proud, but that is external, actually Krishna leaves the Gopis because he wants to demonstrate the sublimity of the love of Him and Radharani. So if the Gopis act proud, that is simply so that Krishna can demonstrate Radharani's special love. And eventually when Radharani acts as if she is proud, that is not pride, that is her concern for the other Gopis.

And when Krishna acts as if he is angry, he is not angry, he is actually trying to reveal the glory of Radharani's love even when he is separated from her, when she is separated from him. And Radharani's love is not just her absorption in Krishna, it is her absorption in a way that is pleasing to Krishna. So Prabhupada, he connects Radharani's mercy with the success of the preaching machine.

And the mood is that Radharani wants Krishna's service to expand, that Prabhupada wants more and more souls to come and serve Krishna. And Prabhupada left Vrindavan and he carried Vrindavan with him wherever he went. He manifested Vrindavan.

Prabhupada's devotion for Krishna was manifested through his dedication to bring others to Krishna. And if you follow in his footsteps, we also try in our capacity to try to share Krishna's message with more and more people. And by his mercy, we will get Radharani's mercy and we will become also absorbed in Krishna.

Thank you very much. Hare Krishna. So let's offer one prayer to conclude.

This is a prayer from Chaitanya Charitamrita itself. Devi Krishnamai prokta.