KC Nectar Pages - August 24

The holy name is a touch stone and fulfills all desires (Harinam Chintamani) . So you have to be very careful about what you desire. Heart is full of desires. But we have to be careful to only cultivate the bhakti-lata-bija (the seed of devotional service). Because chanting the holy name will enliven all those desires in the heart. So therefore we have to be very careful to weed out, to uproot the weeds ... in the beginning itself, before they take deep root. Deeper the root, the more painful ... It hurts. These anarthas take deep root in the heart so we have to pull them out by the root. Not just trim them out so that they look nice. But pull them out, Lord Caitanya says, at the root and protect the bhakti-lata-bija

Protect them especially from the mad elephant which breaks everything and destroys the creeper. The way to keep the offenses, the weeds, from coming back is to keep the heart flooded. The heart is like a field full of many seeds. The rice paddy field - you have to keep it flooded. Because the rice grows in water and the weeds don't. When the water dries out, the weeds grow and the rice doesn't. And then another thing happens. The ground cracks and whatever water you put in, just flows right out the cracks. 

So the idea is to keep the heart flooded at all times and keep it flooded not with water, but with nectar. The nectar of enthusiasm for hearing and chanting the holy name. And then whatever weeds may arise, being fertilized by the holy name, we have to pull them out. Otherwise they take all the nourishment that the holy name wants and needs to take us back home back to Godhead. So we have to encourage each other ... whatever anarthas arise, to pull them out. So that all the nourishment and sustenance that arises goes to the devotional process and makes us strong in devotional service.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

    ... "Japa is not a short burst but a long haul.  One round after another, you have to enter gradually, deeply, into the mellows of the holy name - by numerical strength.  It takes time.  Keep chanting ... O Krishna, O Rama, O energy of the Lord, Hare, please engage me in your service".  (HH Satsvarup Maharaj in Japa Reform Notebook)

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Nectar from Journal and Poems - Book One - HH Satsvarup Maharaj

Airport - Feb 17, London

Bound for Calcutta,
I get ready for my jet seat
with Prabhupada tapes and books.
Nine hours with Srimad Bhagavatam
is an excellent proposal,
but this body and mind
are too weak and fickle
for in-flight samadhi.

I wish I was thinking of the Deity,
Mayapur's Radha-Madhava,
tall, broad, Their large eyes blessing us.
And I wish my heart would gladden
when I rejoin with many friends.
But this body Iam in
is a complaining clod,
and the mind I restrain
is ungrateful and sorrowful.
Yet Prabhupada has packed me in with the best,
and for his kindness
even I am grateful.

... As I reflect upon the times with Prabhupada in New York, I wish there was some means, like a time machine, to go back and relive those days.  But in 1966 I was such a neophyte.  What would be the benefit of seeing my raw beginning? I might see how in the beginning I did not appreciate Prabhupada fully and that only gradually did I begin to perceive his greatness.  And wouldn't I mostly be immersed in the mundane surroundings of those times - the hippies, the antiwar movement and all the rest ? Wouldn't I see mainly how we failed to properly receive His Divine Grace? Or would it be worthwhile to collect just a few rough gems from that holy time when Prabhupada first gave us Krishna's love in the transcendental world he created on Second Avenue ?

Give us a scrap
of his cloth
of his life,
a view.

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Why is She so much in love with Me ? - from Caitanya Caritamrita - Adi Lila

The above quote is by Lord Krishna Himself...that is part of the following, from Srila Prabhupada's Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila: 

Radha and Krsna are one, and when Krsna desires to enjoy pleasure, He manifests Himself as Radharani. The spiritual exchange of love between Radha and Krsna is  the actual display of the internal pleasure potency of Krsna. Although we speak of "when" Krsna desires, just when He did desire we cannot say. We only speak in this way because in conditional life we take it that everything has a beginning; however, in the absolute or spiritual life there is neither beginning nor end. Yet in order to understand that Radha and Krsna are one and that They also become divided, the question "When?" automatically comes to mind. When Krsna desired to enjoy His pleasure potency, He manifested Himself in the separate form of Radharani, and when He  wanted to understand Himself through the agency of Radha, He united with Radharani, and that unification is called Lord Caitanya.

Why did Krsna assume the form of Caitanya Mahaprabhu? It is explained that Krsna desired to know the glory of Radha's love. "Why is She so much in love with Me?" Krsna asked. "What is My special qualification that attracts Her so? And what is the actual way in which She loves Me?" It seems strange
that Krsna, as the Supreme,should be attracted by anyone's love. We search after the love of a woman or a man because we are imperfect and lack something. The love of a woman, that potency and pleasure, is absent in man, and therefore a man wants a woman, but this is notthe case with Krsna, who is full in Himself. Thus Krsna expressed surprise: "Why am I attracted by Radharani? And when Radharani feels My love, what is She actually feeling?" In order to taste the essence of that loving affair, Krsna appeared just as the moon appears on the horizon of the sea. Just as the moon was produced by the churning of the sea, by the churning of spiritual love affairs the moon of Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared. Indeed, Caitanya's complexion was golden, just like the moon. Although this is figurative language, it conveys the meaning behind the appearance of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The full significance of His appearance will be explained in later chapters.

All glories unto Srila Prabhupada, our dearmost master who revealed Srimati Radharani and Her Madana Mohana to the living entities of the entire planet.
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Names of Srimati Radharani - from Caitanya Caritamrita Adi Lila

From: Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila 

...please read on to understand the significance of the names "Radha", "Radhika", "Kanti"...before Srila Prabhupada, I never knew the meaning of Radha or Krishna, although being born in Hindu society...how indebted we are to his fragrant lotus feet, for he is the intimate servant of Srimati Radharani.

TEXT 83
de vi krsnamayiprokta
radhika para-de vata
sarva-laksmimayi sarva-
kantih sanmohinipara

Translation
"The transcendental goddess Srimati Radharani is the direct counterpart of Lord Sri Krsna. She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead. She is the primeval internal potency of the Lord."

Purport
This text is from the Brhad-gautamiya-tantra.

Text 84
`de vi' kahi dyotamana, parama sundari
kim va, krsna-puja-kridara vasati nagari

Translation
"Devi" means "resplendent and most beautiful." Or else it means "the lovely abode of the worship and love sports of Lord Krsna."

TEXT 85
krsnamayi--krsna yara bhitare
bahire
yanha yanha netra pade tanha krsna
sphure

Translation
"Krsnamayi" means "one whose within and without are Lord Krsna." She sees Lord Krsna wherever She casts Her glance.

TEXT 86
kimva, prema-rasamaya krsnera svarupa
tanra sakti tanra saha haya eka-rupa

Translation
Or, She is identical with Lord Krsna, for She embodies the mellows of love. The energy of Lord Krsna is identical with Him.

Purport
Krsnamayi has two different imports. First, a person who always thin ks of Krsna both within and without and who always remembers only Krsna, wherever he goes or whatever he sees, is called krsnamayi. Also, since Krsna's personality is full of love, His loving potency, Radharani, being nondifferent from Him, is called krsnamayi.

TEXT 87
krsna-vancha-purti-rupa kare aradhane
ataeva `radhika' nama purane vakhane

Translation
Her worship [aradhana] consists of fulfilling the desires of Lord Krsna. Therefore the Puranas call Her Radhika.

Purport
The name Radha is derived from the root word aradhana, which means "worship." The personality who excels all in worshiping Krsna may therefore be called Radhika, the greatest servitor.

TEXT 88
anayaradhito nunam
bhagavan harir isvarah
yan no vihaya govindah
prito yam anayad rahah

Translation
"Truly the Personality of Godhead has been worshiped by Her. Therefore Lord Govinda, being pleased, has brought Her to a lonely spot, leaving us all behind."

Purport
This text is from the Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.30.28).

TEXT 89
ataeva sarva-pujya, parama-de vata
sarva-palika, sarva jagatera mata

Translation
Therefore Radha is parama-devata, the supreme goddess, and She is worshipable for everyone. She is the protectress of all, and She is the mother of the entire universe.

TEXT 90
`sarva-laksmi'-sabda purve kariyachi vyakhyana
sarva-laksmi-ganera tinho hana adhisthana

Translation
I have already explained the meaning of "sarva-laksmi." Radha is the original source of all the goddesses of fortune.

TEXT 91
kim va, `sarva-laksmi,--krsnera
sad-vidha aisvarya
tanra adhisthatri
sakti--sarva-sakti-varya

Translation
Or "sarva-laksmi" indicates that She fully represents the six opulences of Krsna. Therefore She is the supreme energy of Lord Krsna.

TEXT 92
sarva-saundarya-kanti vaisaye yanhate
sarva-laksmi-ganera sobha haya yanha haite

Translation
The word "sarva-kanti" indicates that all beauty and luster rest in Her body. All the laksmis derive their beauty from Her.

TEXT 93
kimva `kanti'-sabde krsnera saba iccha kahe
krsnera sakala vancha radhatei rahe

Translation

"Kanti" may also mean "all the desires of Lord Krsna." All the desires of Lord Krsna rest in Srimati Radharani.

TEXT 94
radhika karena krsnera vanchita purana
`sarva-kanti'-sabdera ei artha vivarana

Translation 
Srimati Radhika fulfills all the desires of Lord Krsna. This is the meaning of "sarva-kanti."

TEXT 95
jagat-mohana krsna, tanhara mohini
atae va samastera para thakurani

Translation
Lord Krsna enchants the world, but Sri Radha enchants even Him. Therefore She is the supreme goddess of all.

TEXT 96
radha--purna-sakti,
krsna--purna-saktiman
dui vastu bheda nai,
sastra-paramana

Translation
Sri Radha is the full power, and Lord Krsna is the possessor of full power. The two are not different, as evidenced by the revealed scriptures.

If you are intoxicated with Srimati Radharani's nectar, for more...read Srila Prabhupada's Caitanya Caritamrita! (Adi Lila).

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