Chiang Mai 2019 - The Ropes of Mercy
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The Ropes of Mercy
Chira-Dadhi-Mahotsava: Lord Nitai's Flat Rice and Yoghurt Festival at Sripat Panihati
The qualities, the ropes of Mahaprabhu's mercy. – The role of separation in the pastimes. - Raghunath Das Goswami's attempts to leave material life. - Krishna cancels your destiny, if you surrender to Him. - The single focus of a devotee. - By the mercy of Nityananda Prabhu everything is possible. - Who can see the spiritual illumination? - Nityananda Prabhu’s “punishment” of Raghunath Das Goswami: “Feed Me and my associates.” – Flat rice and yogurt – a cowboy picnic. - By Nityananda’s meditation Mahaprabhu appears. - 4 occasions when Mahaprabhu appears. - Why does Radharani cook for Krishna? – Raghava-bhavan. - Raghunath Das Goswami's successful escape and his life in Puri. - Progress: what was acceptable before, now is not acceptable. – Vairagya, renunciation is a result of inner evolution, not vice versa. – Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita comes from Raghunath Das Goswami. - Inner joy. - Mahaprabhu says, “What I don’t know, Swarup Damodar knows fully.” – Govardhan-shila is Krishna’s body – no installation needed, He is Krisnha. – Braja-gopis’ praise of Govardhan. – Mahaprabhu’s personal Govardhan-shila and gunja-mala He gave to Raghunath Das Goswami. – “Govardhan, please, give me shelter nearby!” - Raghunath Das Goswami's prayers: life's purpose is the service to Radharani. - Aparadha: service without Radharani is a hallucination. - A speck of dust or a super-servitor? – Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita: the greatest literature of the day.
Author: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami
Cycle: Chiang Mai 2019
Uploaded by: Priyanana
Created at: 15 June, 2019
On the banks of the Ganga, sitting on the rock, there’s Nityananda Prabhu with a radiance of hundred thousand suns. And we should stop for a moment and think: “Who will see that sort of divine radiance?” - We are our own obstruction. When they say that it means a type of spiritual illumination beheld by those who is spiritually awakened, who have spiritual vision.
Why is this what they’re fed? We should think: chira and dadhi means some chipped rice, flat rice and yogurt. Why don’t they make some other big kind of feast? That will happen later, but… - Why? – Because they are cowherd boys. And this is a cowherd boy picnic – on the banks of the Ganga, Jamuna – the kind of things they would do in Vrindavan. It makes them very happy. So, really, it’s Balaram and a bunch of cowherd boys having a picnic – from another point of view.
We should not think that vairagya yields devotion. By vairagya meaning: renunciation, penance, austerity – you’ll do this and then you’ll get devotion. No such thing. These devotees on account of their inner evolution, what Guru Maharaj called “the gradual unfoldment of heart”, they are less and less dependent upon external things. So it’s a consequence of what’s going on internally, otherwise it would be mistakenly assert that some external thing you can do will produce something internal. That can never be in pursuit of substantial Krishna consciousness… The superior internal joy consequence: less involve, less necessity for the external.