Uddhava and Separation Mood: A series of lectures by Srila B.V. Narayana Maharaja

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The Gopi's Mercy Upon Uddhava - Florida - Feb 9 2003

 

Please Do Not Be Late <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>Uddhava was unaware that Krsna's intention was to send him to be admitted in ... Uddhava finally told Nanda Baba, "Your son Krsna is not really your son.

 

Come With Me to Nandagaon - Florida - Feb 9 2003 <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>Uddhava arrived in the darkness of night, and therefore hardly anyone saw him. ... When Uddhava finished his ahnik, the sun was about to rise. ...

 

 

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Separation Is Such A Thing <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>Sri Uddhava related to Narada Muni how he went to Vrndavana and saw how, in separation from Lord Krsna, the Vrajavasis meet with Him internally. ...

 

 

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Sri Narada Muni's ecstacy

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>Sri Uddhava himself then asked him, “O Narada, what happened to you? ... Rsi Narada replied, "O Uddhava, you are the real recipient of Krsna’s mercy." ...

 

The Highest Summits of Prema <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>Not the prema of Hanuman or the Pandavas or even Uddhava. ... Sukadeva Gosvami said: The supremely intelligent Uddhava was the best counselor of the Vrsni ...

 

Our Goal of Life <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>Yesterday we were discussing Sri Uddhava, who is the most prominent member ... However, when Uddhava first reached Vrndavana from Mathura and got his first ...

 

He Only Saw The School Building <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>He told Uddhava, “Don’t think I am in Mathura. Perhaps you are afraid; you don’t want to ... Uddhava should therefore be trained in the school of the gopis. ...

A Very High Topic <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>Yesterday I told you that Lord Krsna sent Uddhava to Vraja. ... Uddhava heard this and thought, “Why did I come on a golden chariot? ...</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

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What The Pure Devotee Thinks While Chanting <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=j>As tears fell from His eyes, Krsna glanced toward Uddhava, placed his hand ... He stared at Uddhava as He watched him go far into the distance until he was ...

 

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If any neutral,open minded or sympathetic reader examines this material in an attempt to better understand the subject matter they can get great benefit. If all you want to do is look for what you think are contradictions between the words of one acarya and others then please keep in mind this statement by His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada:

“ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was an ideal acarya. An acarya is an ideal teacher who knows the purpose of the revealed scriptures, behaves exactly according to their injunctions and teaches his students to adopt these principles also. As an ideal acarya, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu devised ways to capture all kinds of atheists and materialists. Every acarya has a specific means of propagating his spiritual movement with the aim of bringing men to Krsna consciousness. Therefore, the method of one acarya may be different from that of another, but the ultimate goal is never neglected. Srila Rupa Gosvami recommends:

tasmat kenapy upayena

manah krsne nivesayet

sarve vidhi-nisedha syur

etayor eva kinkarah

An acarya should devise a means by which people may somehow or other come to Krsna consciousness. First they should become Krsna conscious, and all the prescribed rules and regulations may later gradually be introduced. In our Krsna consciousness movement we follow this policy of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu...”

Cc.Adi lila 7.37

and the warning of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura made with regard to Srila Jiva Gosvami in the 37th purport to Brahma Samhita and in connection to understanding the differences betweent he prakat and aprakat lilas of Sri Krsna.

"There are some who, being unable to understand the drift of his statements, give meanings of their own invention and indulge in useless controversies. Sri Rupa and Sanatana say that there is no real and essential distinction between the lilas visible and nonvisible, the only distinction lies in this that one is manifest in the mundane sphere whereas the other is not so. In the supermundane manifestation there is absolute purity in the seer and the seen. A particularly fortunate person when he is favored by Krsna, can shake off worldly shackles and connections, enter the transcendental region after attaining the realized taste of the varieties of rasa that is available during the period of novitiate. Only such a person can have a view and taste of the perfect and absolutely pure lila of Goloka. Such receptive natures are rarely to be found. He, who exists in the mundane sphere, can also realize the taste of cid-rasa by the grace of Krsna by being enabled to attain the realized state of service. Such a person can have a view of the pastimes of Goloka manifested in the mundane lila of Gokula. There is certainly a difference between these two classes of eligible seekers of the truth. Until one attains the perfectly transcendental stage he must be hampered by his lingering limitations, in his vision of the pastimes of Goloka. Again, the vision of the transcendental reality varies according to the degree of self-realization. The vision of Goloka must also vary accordingly.

It is only those fettered souls who are excessively addicted to worldliness that are devoid of the devotional eye. Of them some are enmeshed by the variegatedness of the deluding energy while others aspire after self-annihilation under the influence of centrifugal knowledge. Though they might have a view of the mundanely manifested pastimes of the Supreme Lord, they can have only a material conception of those visible pastimes, this conception being devoid of transcendental reality. Hence the realization of Goloka appears in proportion to eligibility due to the degree of one's self-realization. The underlying principle is this, that, though Gokula is as holy and free from dross as Goloka, still it is manifested on the mundane plane by the influence of the cit potency. Yogamaya. In visible and nonvisible matters of transcendental regions there is no impurity. contamination and imperfection inherent in the world of limitation; only there is some difference in the matter of realization in proportion to the self-realization of the seekers after the Absolute. Impurity. unwholesomeness, foreign elements, illusion, nescience, unholiness, utter inadequacy. insignificance, grossness--these appertain to the eye, intellect, mind and ego stultified by the material nature of conditioned souls; they have nothing to do with the essential nature of transcendence. The more one is free from these blots the more is one capable of realizing the unqualified Absolute. The truth who has been revealed by the scriptures, is free from dross. But the realizations of the seekers of the knowledge of these realities, are with or without flaw in accordance with the degree of their individual realization. . . "

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

 

 

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