20260113 - Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta, Fifth Stream — Preya-bhakti-rasa (Sakhya-rasa) part 8

What did they done that. Krishna sa.

Hare Krishna. Dear devotees, today we'll continue with the reading from Sri Chaitanya shikshamrita Sachidananda Bhakti Natakur. Continuing on the subject matter of Sakiras, quotation from bhakti rasamrita sindhu 3 point. What's that number in Bengali? 86 to 96. The Anubhavas pleasing Krishna by wrestling, playing ball and dice, riding on each other's shoulder, stick fighting, sleeping and sitting with Krishna on a bed seat or swing, telling pleasing jokes, playing in the water and singing and dancing with Krishna are the activities anubhavas common to all types of friends. Prabhupada's translation of the above mentioned verse from Bhakti Rasamruta Sindhu. Krishna played with his intimate friends, sometimes by fighting or wrestling with their arms, sometimes by playing ball and sometimes playing chess. Sometimes they carried one another on their shoulders and sometimes they exhibited their expertness by holding locks. And the coward friends used to please Krishna by sitting together with him on the couches or on swings, by lying together on the beds, by by joking together, by swimming in the pool. All these activities are called Anubhava. Whenever all the friends would assemble in the company of Krishna, they would immediately engage in all these functions, especially in dancing together.

I say that I hear someone asked when you start to read other Acharya's works.

So here you can see that like how someone asks when can we start to read other Acharya's works? Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu is written by Rupa.

Goswami and that was translated by Baba.

And that was translated by Srila Prabhupada as nectar of devotion.

So here our translators giving Prabhupada's translation.

So here our translator is giving Srila Prabhupada's translation. And.

Chariots they saw the Mahatria Sindhu.

So that shows that our previous Acharyas they show us Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu.

And that is also.

And that's also given by Srila Prabhupada. Is also published by the bpt.

So natural devotion is that will be presented in the future. That sounds right.

Yeah. Bhakti Rasam, nectar of devotion would be also presented as Bhakti Rasamruta Sindhu by the BBT in Sanskrit and word to word translation.

You know, the essential things and this we'll have all these other things also.

So the essential things Srila Prabhupada gave us in the future we'll have the other things also.

So here we're taking a Sagarasa how the friends of Krishna engage in different activities which are their honorable.

So here it is stating in Sakirasa how the friends of Krishna, they are engaged in different Anubhavas.

They dance together, they all together.

They dance together, they play ball together. They play chess together.

Various sports.

So they do various sports such as swinging, wrestling and swing. Prabhupada told us that wrestling and swimming are Vaishnava sports.

And we were doing that in the.

And we were doing that in Mayapur. Swimming in the Ganges and rest and wrestling. Jai.

One time. I challenged the person one time Bhakti.

Charu Maharaj was defeated. And I challenged the person who defeated Bhakti Cheraswamy. Remembering that he was Remembering that I was defending him. I was defending him.

All right. These are very blissful, very blissful things.

So they've been very blissful things.

Are the invalid.

Now I'm physically invalid and I cannot do. And many things I cannot do.

But you can say that eternally, these friends of Krishna, they do this.

But we can see that eternally the friends of Krishna, they do this.

Hare Krishna.

Hare Krishna.

Are these friends blessed?

Are these friends blessed? Yes. Yes. Guru Maharaj. How many think they are? Okay.

Wow.

Wow. Pleasing.

Wow. Okay.

Pleasing Krishna by wrestling.

Wow.

Killer of Agar. With your fists you clenched and arms itching for battle, you wander amongst your friends praising your own proverbs. But tell me, aren't you now standing here helplessly having given up your fighting pastime because of the action of my fear fierce wrought like arms. Prabhupada's translation of this verse. Regarding their wrestling, one one friend once asked Krishna, my dear friend, O killer of the Aga demon. You are very proudly wandering among your friends trying to exhibit your. Your arms. Your arms as very strong. Is it that you are envious of me? I know that you cannot defeat me in wrestling. And I also know that you were sitting idly for a long time because you're hopeless in defeating hopeless of defeating me.

So like this. See how the friends. I think not only they're equal with Krishna. Maybe they're better like this.

The friends, they don't only think that they're equal with Krishna. They think they are better.

And so Krishna, everybody respects him as Vaikuntha as the supreme personality.

Krishna, everybody respects him in Vaikuntha as the supreme personality of Godhead.

Allah's devotees are religious, you know, like Allah Adar.

In the material world. Those who are devotees, those who are religious, they do things like Allahu Akbar.

Krishna likes a break.

Actually Krishna likes a break.

He likes to have. Some devotees are so non envious, so dedicated, they can tell you all these things.

He wants devotees, those who are so non envious, so dedicated, they can do all this and still they can do all these things.

This is out of love.

This is out of love for Krishna.

So we can. What they do with Krishna, it's so.

Amazing what they do with Krishna. Haribo. Another verse from Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu the activities of Sruhrit friends older than Krishna are giving advice on what should be done and what should not. Engaging Krishna in beneficial acts and walking in front of Krishna, putting tambula in Krishna's mouth, applying tilaka and smearing sandalwood on his body and painting designs on his face are the activities of the saka friends younger than Krishna. Prabhupada's translation of the above mentioned verse from Bhakti Rasamrata Sindhu all the friends were very dying and would risk any difficulty because they were confident that Krishna would help them to be victorious in all adventures. They used to sit together and advise one another what to do. Sometimes inducing one another to be engaged in welfare work. Sometimes they would offer betel nuts to one another, decorate one another's face with tilaka and smear pulp of chandana on one another's bodies. Sometimes for the sake of amusement, they used to decorate their faces in strange ways.

So Prabhupada mentioned this.

So Prabhupada mentions these activities in different ways. Expands on it a bit and expands on it a bit.

But you can see that the friends of Krishna and Rajan, they see Krishna eagle has run.

So here we can see that the friends of Krishna and Braja, they see Krishna as equal as their friends.

The activity with Krishna is based on this.

The activities with Krishna is based on this reciprocation.

Other boys, in addition to other activities, they walk and run a Krishna to protect him.

The other boys, they do the other activities. Inducing others to do other other activities. They walk in front of Krishna to protect him. Or they may give.

What not to do.

They may give Krishna advice what to do, what not to do.

Yeah, younger friends.

The younger friends, they do different sevas.

It's like this. All the friends are. Staying with Krishna.

So like this the friends are playing with Krishna. What was the second one? Decorating Krishna and wrestling with Krishna and doing different activities.

Krishna is the center.

Krishna is the center.

So I mean bingo said no. What the supreme personality does so people.

Say, oh, what does what the supreme personality of Godhead does on airplanes, travel.

People reading magazines, some airplanes, several artists.

Okay. Some people, while we are traveling in the apple, we see people are reading different magazines and we can see it's about cinema artists.

Rumors are different type of things.

Gossips, rumors and different types of things.

And well, they just put their consciousness to Krishna. Their life will be progressed.

People, if they just put their consciousness towards Krishna then their life would be perfect.

Why is the use giving all that figures are just going to die.

What's the use of giving attention to these temporary figures? Who's going to die? Who's going to die? Defeating Krishna in battle, pulling him by his cloth, snatching flowers and other things from hand, being decorated by Krishna and hand to hand combat and other are the activities of the Priyasakas friends the same age as Krishna Prabhupada's translation of the above mentioned verse from Bhakti Rasamitha Sindhu. Another business of the friends was each of them wanted to defeat Krishna. Sometimes they used to snatch his clothing and snatch away the flowers from his hands. Sometimes one would try to induce another to decorate his body for him. In failing this, they were always ready to fight, challenging one another to combat in wrestling. These were some of the general activities of Krishna and his friends.

Prabhupada is generalizing friends.

So Prabhupada is generalizing the friends.

I just friends.

But Bhakti Vinath Thakur is describing there are different kinds of friends. Simplified it.

I don't think that. Western devotees one day will digest.

Maybe the Srihad sakas, Priya sakas, Priya Narma sakas, they're not mentioned because maybe the western devotees they might digest. He just called them friends. But we can see that there are different variety. There are different varieties of friends.

No contradiction.

There is no contradiction. Hare Krishna.

Well, sorry.

Yeah, yeah, I'll get. I'll find out the match.

I used to take fisherman friend. My doctor said fisherman friend. I got licorice, I shouldn't take licorice.

So I used to take fisherman's friend. And my doctor told me that fisherman's friends has liquorized. So I can't take that.

He's a good father.

So I. I told him to find some of the lozenges that doesn't have liquors.

Now he's telling me clear my throat.

Now he's telling me to clear my throat.

You know any cure for the throat?

Tell me if any, any of you know any cure for that. Please tell Me?

Ginger. Ginger.

Ginger.

Ginger.

Sh. Are saying ginger.

I was yesterday.

Oh, you were taking that yesterday.

Oh.

Okay, okay, okay, we'll continue. Go and get. Okay. Prabhupada's translation okay. Caring messages among the young Gopis of Braj encouraging their love for Krishna Taking Krishna's time during fun quarrels when the Gopas are present and Krishna is not present Showing skill at siding with the chief Gopis when Krishna is present but the Gopis are not and whispering in each other's ears are the activities of the Priya Narma circus. Another important pastime of the friends of Krishna was they served as messenger to and from the Gopis they introduced the Gopis to Krishna and canvassed for Krishna. When the Gopis were in disagreement with Krishna these friends would support Krishna's side in his presence but when Krishna was not present they would support the side of the Gopis in this way Sometimes supporting one another, supporting one one side, sometimes the other. They would talk very privately with much whispering in in the years over none of the business was very serious. So.

Krishna was it all Narama Priya, Priya Narmasakas Priyanaramasakas they were engaged in these confidential.

Activities so the Preya Narmasakas they are engaged in this confidential activities.

So some of them are very expert.

Someone. Someone would be very expert and they would. They would whisper something to a Gopi.

And she would be very much affected by this and she would be very.

Much affected by this.

I guess not. This whole display of spiritual activities like this.

This whole display of spiritual activities. They were.

Helping his dial his.

So like this the Priya Naramasakas, they're helping Krishna in his conjugal activities with the Gopis. Goodwise it's eight o' clock now. Shall we stop here? Okay. Since we make use of the ginger. Okay. Decorating Krishna with forest items and jewels Singing and dancing with music in front of Krishna, caring for the cows, massaging Krishna's body, fanning him are some of the activities of the peer friends Vaya share in common with the Dasas Prabhupada's translation of the above mentioned verse the servants of Krishna were sometimes engaged in collecting flowers, decorating his body with valuable ornaments and trinkets Excuse me. Dancing before your throat. Okay, we'll continue. I've cleared. Dancing before him, singing, helping him hurt the cows, massaging his body, preparing flower garlands and sometimes fanning his body these were some of the primary duties of the servants of Krishna. The friends and the servants of Krishna were combined together in Serving him. And all of their activities are known as Anubhava. In this Rasa Sakyasa all transitory emotions via Bachari bhavas are present except for ferocity, Ugra, fear, trasa and laziness. When disconnected Ayoga, all the vivachari Bhavas manifest except intoxication, mother joy, Harsha, pride, Garva, sleep, Nidra and patient Griti. When connected Yoga all emotions appear except death, exhaustion, Klama disease, forgetfulness and humility. So this is very technical.

I don't know the only ones I don't remember.

I don't know if anyone is trying to remember.

But you see there are Stai Bhavas and transitory Bhavas.

You see there are Stai Bhavas and transitory Bhavas.

So. Some of the, I mean the Stai Bhavas, Satyarasa, the Staiva, Sakurasa, Sakya, Vasa, transitory Bhavas in the sakura says they.

Are transitory Bhavas or transitory emotions or transitory emotions.

But some of those are present and some not.

With some of those present and some not.

So the. Yeah.

So here it's being explained.

That means that some people, some Acharyas, they have studied all this.

That means some people, some Acharyas they have studied all this and so they.

See Krishnas activities very deeply.

So they see Krishna's activities very deeply.

You know what. See that has studied us exactly what transitory emotions?

Was it all Vyabachari Bhava? Yeah, so they've studied this and they see that in Sakyasa what are the transitory emotions? Vyabichari Bhavas, what are present and what are not present.

So there's science of Krishna consciousness.

So this is science of Krishna consciousness.

The materialists, they don't understand that even the impersonalists they can understand Krishna has so much variety.

The materialists, even the impersonalists they can't understand that Krishna has so much variety.

And different devotees, they also have so much variety.

And his different devotees, they also have so much variety.

So now.

So if you're a friend of Krishna, what kind of friend? There are different types of friends. So this is very interesting.

So you know the science.

So we know the science of Krishna consciousness.

Non traditional Varanasram.

So in Kaliyuga people are so mixed up, there is no traditional varanashrama system.

Or Bhagavad Gita 18th chapter, verse 40 to age 60, Krishna tells us the most, most confidential knowledge.

So in bhagavad Gita chapter 18, verse 42 and 1660. Krishna says this is the most most confidential knowledge.

It is work for me. Don't lie to me.

Just work for me and go back to me.

So that means that you don't anyone externally with workers that may be businessmen or farmers.

So externally that means externally people may be workers. They could be businessmen, farmers.

Then holiday. They sell the animals for slaughter.

Even the who sends the animal?

Dairymen.

Dairymen. Even the dairymen they send their animals to slaughter. But in the Bhagavad Gita it says.

Go Raksha Protecting the cows.

Protect the cows. Protecting the cows.

We never sell the cow.

We never sell the cows.

Never sell the bull.

We never sell the bull.

Somehow some 160 golds online in R18 months.

Okay.

There's something about the GDG or the girl looking into Hare Krishna. So anyway, that's why I was encouraging the holis to read radar books to get their degrees.

That's why I'm encouraging the devotees to reachla Prabhupada's books and get the degrees.

They said. Now this.

They say no, you should know about Krishna.

Only the Lord is all about Krishna.

Only the devotees know about Krishna.

Other people go over their head.

Other people. It will go over their heads.

All right. Thank you very much.

All right. Thank you very much.

I offer you all my blessings.

I offer all my blessings. Iskcon guru vrindaki the friends of krishna ki nitai gor premanande hari haribo.

Hare Krishna Dear devotees, welcome to Kuruma's virtual book table and book table physical book table here.

Last night. Last night we should mention number of the road.

Yeah, Last night a record number of devotees. 120. What? What were you saying?

No answer. Number. A record number of devotees.

I'll find it out because it's recorded. I'll find it out because it's recorded. Whatever you were saying just now.

Initiation had to have again all these.

So it's important in order to get the second initiation you have to giddy of Bhakti shasti. At least have to read up to the third canto.

Well, last night they read to me the Haribhakti Villas translation.

So last night they were reading to me the Haribhakti Villas translation and how.

Great Narayana Mantra is, How great Narasimha mantra is.

How great the Narayana Mantra is. How great the Narasinga mantra is, how great the Ramadra is, How great the Rama Mantra is.

But then he said that Krishna Mantra is the greatest.

But then it says Krishna Mantra is The greatest. And it's glorifying the 18 syllable mantra of Lord Krishna.

And that's sixth mantra we held in our Hydra.

And that's the sixth mantra we have in our Gayathri.

Six hours.

Six out of seven.

So. But I can't tell you that unless you qualify for the second initiation.

I can't tell you this unless you qualify for second initiation.

What the glories of that is we'll reveal later.

What's the glories of that is we will reveal later.

Wow. Wow. It's amazing.

It's amazing.

Hare Krishna.

Hare Krishna.

Don't chant it unless you want second initiation.

Don't chant it unless you want second initiation. Hare Krishna.

I was thinking that unless I wander from Prabhupada, you know, I don't feel comfortable.

I was thinking that unless I get the mantra from Srila Prabhupada I wouldn't feel comfortable.

Then I realized that 18 is the sixth mantra in our Gayathri.

Then I was thinking that this 18 syllable mantra is the sixth mantra in our Gayatri.

Did you know that?

Did you know that?

It's the most powerful mantra.

It is the most powerful mantra.

Especially given to the devotees.

Especially given to the devotees.

Prabhupada told me very strict.

Prabhupada told me be very strict when it comes to second initiation.

First initiation be a little lenient. Second is very strict.

First initiation a bit lenient. But second initiation it should be very strict.

Hare krishna. Dear devotees. There were a number of devotees who contributed for the gurumaja's book table. So first nayan bhomik from usa 20 gitas ujjal prema bhakti devadasi from punjab. 8 gitas and 2 small books. Dhairupasham devdasi bangalore to gitas brajaraj nandada nandandas from oman 152gitas jeevananda balram das from mumbai. 2gitas tapamay nitay das from mumbai. 3gita sugunamai keshavidasi from chennai. 8gitas nilambari padma devidasi. 18gitas madhuri mamata mai devdasi from bombay. 7gitas hari rajesh das from bombay. 2gitas bharakrishna rajesh das from andhra pradesh. 2gitas rajipur from uttar dinaspur. 1gita sameer maithi from midnapur 4gitas shobha mai champaklata devdasi from bangalore 11gita shyama sanjay das from bhopal to gita. Sheila prabhupada.