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Sambandha, Abhidheya, Prayojana

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Chaitanya explained his teachings to Sanatana by summarizing them in three categories – sambandha (ones relationship with Godhead), abhidheya (the method to revive that relationship) and prayojana (the ultimate attainment of the supreme goal of life).

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Why do you say "Chaitanya" and not "Sri Chaitanya" or "Lord Chaitanya"?
Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu Gaura Nimai Caitanyacandra Gauracandra Gauranga Gaurahari Visvambhara Gaurasundara Caitanyadeva Gaurakrsna Nimai-Pandita Gaurapurusa Nimai-sundara

 

Jaya Sacinandana !

 

gHari

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Follow the Angels

The Path of Dedication

Swami B. R. Sridhara Maharaja

Part of Try To Go Ahead

The negative cannot exist without the positive, and so too the positive cannot exist without the negative. In the words of our Guru Maharaja, Radha and Krsna are the predominated and predominating Moieties. Two Moieties-two halves of the one whole. One predominated and one predominating, but both have equal importance in their existence. One cannot stand without the other, and the fullest expression of this principle is Radha-Govinda.

 

 

Our mantra, our guru-parampara, the Rupanuga-Sampradaya, all point towards this principle. In support of this we find dasya-rasa, sakhya-rasa vatsalya-rasa, and others. But the principal direction is towards madhurya-rasa. They are leading us to the full rasa. All others are partial, subordinate and subservient-supplemental to the main rasa, madhurya-rasa. But that supplemental service is also necessary. Madhurya-rasa does not stand alone. It must have its paraphernalia: the friends, the parents, all must be there with this rasa. Those who have an inner liking for such rasa are so fortunate! Vasudeva Datta has said,

 

 

yadi gaura na ha'ta, tabe ki haita, kemane dharitam de

radhara mahima, prema-rasa-sima, jagate janata ke?

 

 

"If Mahaprabhu had not appeared then how could we sustain our lives? How could we live? What type of ecstatic rasa has He imbibed that we have been able to have a little taste? Without this our lives would be impossible. Who else could take us to the acme of realization of the position of Srimati Radharani? She is the greatest victim to the consuming capacity of Sri Krsna. She stands as the greatest sacrifice before Krsna's infinite consuming power. Rasaraja-Mahabhava—the rasa is there, and She is the drawer of that rasa from the storehouse. She has such negative capacity that She can draw out the rasa to the highest degree both in quality and quantity."

 

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