Sri Bepin Sakhi Vilas by RSB in Vrindavan - 1970: PART I

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Sri Bepin Sakhi Vilas © 1970

 

SANSKRIT TEXT

 

Oh foolish people today or tomorrow will come your unhappy end! At the

time of your death your family and relations will not be able to help

you. Remembering always that cruel death is hanging over your head

ready to strike you down, you should run to Sri Vrindavan!

 

SANSKRIT TEXT

 

In the whole universe there is none who is a greater sinner than myself

nor will one such ever be born. Therefore, the divine land of Sri Radha

Govinda, Sri Vrindavan, is my only shelter, which is ever overflowing

with Divine love.

 

SANSKRIT TEXT

 

Seated in some lonely bower of Vraja daily meditate and serve mentally

the Divine Couple, Sri Sri Radha Krishna, in the Vrindavan in your

heart. With eyes overflowing with the divine tears of Prema (Divine

Love), pray always for Their sight and await patiently the shower of

Their Grace.

 

 

Sri Prabodanand Saraswati's

Sri Vrindavanastaka.

 

 

" OBEISANCE'S "

My real self is the eternal maid of Sri Radha, the Divine Goddess of

the eternal land of music and joy, Sri Vraja Dham. But having neglected

the divine service of Her Lotus Feet, I am now surrounded on all sides

by a temporary material body and an invisible subtle mind, which are

both something other than the real me both being the product of a

particular External Potency, Maya, of the Moon of Vraja, the Supreme

Lord Shyam Sundara.

 

Having fallen into the endless ocean of birth and death and being

separated from the Lotus Feet of my Life of Life, Sri Radha, I am now

busily engaged in wrong and sinful pursuits in this world of misery.

 

Therefore I seek the soothing shelter of the glorious FIVE: Sri Sri

Guru Deva, Sri Sri Gouranga and Nityanada, Sri Sri Radha-Krishna, Sri

Sri Vraja Dham, and Sri Sri Vaishnavas, Who are the only shelter for

those who have no shelter whatsoever.

 

I prostrate and surrender my very existence to these glorious FIVE and

beg a little of Their Mercy, Because then only may my eternal,

all-spiritual divine mind and body become on with my heart, the eternal

playground of the Supreme Truth, Sri Sri Radha-Krishna and all Their

dearest Sakhis, " Sri Bepin Sakhi-Vilas "

 

The glorious FIVE are the ocean of kindness and as They are all-glory

personified, I bow down to each of Them separately that They may give

me the power to write this humble summary of the principle of Sir Sri

Radha Krishna Vraja Lila, for the pleasure of all real devotees

everywhere, among whom the greatest is my Guru Deva, Sri Bhakti Hridaya

Bon, He Who's Heart is the eternal playground of Sri Radha Krishna:

 

Whose rose petal Feet ever emit the divine Fragrance of the Glades of

Sri Vrindavan; Whose Legs, like the lotus stalk, may keep me afloat in

this dark and endless ocean of kama (lust);

 

Whose golden Waist, which attracts Govinda, may be the turning point of

my life;

 

Whose Heart, warm with the divine heat of Prema (Holy love) may save me

from all severe cold;

 

Whose divine Arms, like the creepers of Vraja, may grace my head with

their flower like palms;

 

And at the very height of all, Whose lotus Face is decorated with doe

like eyes, the very reflection of the Divine Couple and beautified with

the collerium of loving anger (Bamya Madhya), below which shyly resides

His budding mouth, the divine Fount eternally flowing forth the

nectar-like love dalliances of Sri Radha and Her Beloved.

 

To this divine Kunda Flower of Vraja, named Latita, the red glow of

Who's Body may one day illuminate for me the way to Sri Radha's

Darling, Shyam Sunder, I surrender my life!

 

From the mercy of the first of the glorious FIVE, Sri Guru Deva, comes

the ocean of mercy of the second, Sri Krishna Chaitanya and Prabhu

Nityananda, Who are the same Krishna and Baladeva Who eternally tend

cows in Sri Vrindavan. They are the Jewels of the earth and the One

Supreme Truth. I shall live at the Feet of Them Both, for They are

eternally distributing the sweet mango fruits of Divine Love (Prema)

and even though I am unworthy, still at Their Lotus Feet I may fine a

fruit of love which They have dropped in Their overabundance of joy.

 

If I get the mercy of the Sun and the Moon and happen to taste the

sweetness (Rasa) of a fruit of Prema then only I shall get the mercy of

the glorious Third, Sri Sri Radha Srila Govinda Deva, Who are the

embodiment of all Rasa and the glory of the blue and the gold lotus

Personified; the glorious Fourth, Sri Vrajadham, the eternal playground

of the Divine couple; and the glorious Fifth, the holy Feet of all

devotees everywhere, Because when the Sun and Moon arise together all

can be seen with the removal of all darkness. Hey Gurudev! Hey Gaura

Nitai! Hey Sri Radhe! Hey Nanda Kumar! Vrinda Bepin, and all devotees

everywhere, may You all be pleased with this unworthy insect and Sri

Bepin Sakhi Vilas.

 

REALITY

 

Before I or anyone can venture into the land of the heart, the divine

and eternal Realm of God, Sri Vraja, and fully appreciate the love-play

of the Supreme Lord with His Own Projected Counter Parts ion Their true

light, free from any sensuality, lust, and mundane sex-thinking of this

material world, he must first take unconditional shelter unto the

glorious FIVE!

 

After surrendering to Their Lotus Feet one must then cross the ocean of

Sadhana (spiritual practices) until he reaches the opposite shore with

the complete destruction of the perverted ego, all sensual desires, and

false relationship with the temporary material mind, body, and

universe. So, before attempting to give a taste of Sri Bepin Sakhi

Vilas I mentally take shelter unto the glorious FIVE mentally take

shelter unto the glorious FIVE and place my head on the Lotus Feet of

my Dearest in divine love, my Gurudeva Paramahansa Sri Srimad Bhakti

Hridaya Bona [bengali pronunciation of the sannyasa title of " Vana " ]

Maharaj, along with the source of all His divine power, Om Visnupad

Parivrajakacharya Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada,

Paramahansa Sri Goura Kishore Das Babaji Maharaj, Paramahansa Sri

Bhakti Vinode Thakura, Paramahansa Sri Srila Jagannatha das Babaji

Maharaj, and ultimately to the source of all blessedness and the very

stream of all Divine Love flowing into this world, Sri Sri Jahnava

Devi, Who eternally sports in Vraja at the Lotus Feet of Sri Krishna as

Ananga Manjari.

 

So, at the Feet of my Guru Deva and by His power I shall attempt to

explain briefly the purely spiritual and most secret nature of the

eternal, all-conscious love sports of the Supreme lord Himself with all

his Eternal Associates in Vraja.

 

Without the correct comprehension of the purely Suddha Satva Chetan

(spiritually pure all conscious) nature of this subject, none can

understand or even imagine the Vraja love games, so at first I shall

attempt here a short explanation of the nature of all realities

(spiritual and material) for my own benefit and success in this most

misunderstood subject as well as for all sincere readers of this humble

booklet. May the glorious FIVE bless all, including my unworthy self,

with proper understanding and admission into the Realm of God.

 

Let us first ponder over the word " Reality " and then try to determine

its nature. Once during the time of the appearance of the Supreme

Person, Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, one of His Own Eternal

Associates, Sri Sanatana Goswami Prabhu, asked Him these questions for

the benefit of the world.

 

Who am I? Where have I come from? What is this world of suffering, and

where am I going?

 

So, out of infinite mercy the nature of all realities thus flowed froth

from the Lotus Lips of the supreme Reality Himself. Sri Chaitanya thus

answered Sri Sanatana and all mankind: " You, Oh Sanatana, and all

living beings, both animate and inanimate, are the eternal servants of

Krishna! "

 

" You are now thrown into the ocean of birth and death, the material

universe, and you must all go again to the eternal Realm of Krishna! "

 

" The material universe is external and the product of a potency of

Krishna known as Maya shakti. "

 

ORIGIN OF JIVATMA

 

The spiritual realm of Krishna is internal and the product of a potency

of the Lord, known as Antaranga or Yogamaya shakti; and you are a soul

belonging to a potency of Krishna, called Jiva Shakti, which lies

in-between. You reside in the all-blissful Realm of the Lord or in the

material ocean of misery according to the correct or wrong use of your

God-given free will.

 

So THREE specific points have been determined in the concept of

Reality:

 

The eternal, all blissful, spiritual universe which is the playground

of the Lord and lies within.

The temporary changeable, material universe, the endless ocean of birth

and death, which lies without.

All living beings seen or unseen who belong to the Jiva (soul) potency

which is all spiritual and blissful by nature and lies in between the

external and internal worlds.

You and all beings, as completely different from the temporary

changeable material mind and bodies, are souls who belong to the jiva

potency that is all-conscious and composed of spiritually pure light

(Chetan).....In the beginning God said " let there be light and there

was light " (Bible). The jivas were created by the Lord out of a divine

Particle of His Own Self.... In the beginning He was all-alone. So out

of infinite love and with a desire to sport He became many and yet

Himself remained unchanged (Upanishad).

 

Jivas are possessed of free will, and all souls have the choice to go

to the spiritual Realm of God on one side and experience eternal bliss

in the loving service of the Lord, their normal condition, or they can

choose the material universe with the desire to be the enjoyer and

taste temporary enjoyments, which are really sufferings in disguise.

 

Then, putting on the ever-changing material gross and subtle bodies

they enter into this endless ocean of misery passing through 84 lakhs

varieties of material bodies from the atom (anu) , to one-celled,

creatures, plants, insects, and animals, to man, rising and falling,

until by the mercy of the glorious FIVE they experience devotion to the

Lord again.

 

By Their Grace all can once again enter the spiritual all-conscious

Realm to engage their pure spiritual mind and body of soul in His

loving service, never to return to this material ocean of birth and

death again. Although the jiva shakti lies in-between the spiritual and

material Realms still the souls are always engaged in one or the other

and do not reside in the middle but only emanate from that position on

the whole. The jivas are placed into the Maha maya potency by

Sarva-karana-karanam Sri Krishna Himself. It is the purpose of the Jiva

to pass through Maya.

 

There is a complete difference between the jivatma's making the

material choice as opposed to the mundane idea that Jivas can fall

(down) from Goloka-dham after already being liberated, which goes

against Lord Krishna's promise to Arjuna. The Jivas are a potency of

Krishna, Who has injected them into His Mahamaya potency. It is simply

a matter of ignorance in the beginning and certainly not a fall down

from the eternal attainment of svarupa siddhi.

 

So, Reality is KRISHNA! He has three main points: (1) Maya (2) Yoga

Maya (3) Jivas (souls), which are His potencies and rest in Him but are

not He. All are souls belonging to the Jiva shakti and are His eternal

servants, but having turned away from their Lord from time immemorial

all are now groping in the dense darkness of this world of misery,

trying to find a drop of the happiness which can only be found in the

all-blissful Realm of God. All souls can be classified into two groups:

(1) the deluded and disloyal atheists who are called badha jivas (those

in bondage), and (2) the loyal and enlightened souls who are called

mukta jivas or those who are freed.

 

But the latter are rare, less than one in one million. " Oh Arjuna, know

it that of all beings caught in this ocean of time only a few seek for

truth and of a million seekers only one finds that truth and of a

million seekers only one finds that truth and becomes the devotee of

God. " (Gita). The devotees appear like people of the world to the eyes

blinded by ignorance but they are purely spiritual people. They appear

amongst us only by the mercy of the Lord and they will surely leave

this world never to return. They are one of the glorious FIVE and all

wise people should seek the limitless mercy of their feet.

 

If Reality is KRISHNA, how to approach and return to HIM?

 

Approach to God is called Dharma (religion), and Dharma is a way given

by the Lord leading back to him. But, as all beings on their journey

back to Godhead in this world of repeated births ad deaths, are at

different stages in this progression (life), the all-merciful Lord has

so kindly given a divine stairway back to Him and His loving service.

Unfortunately the fallen living beings, due to ignorance, have mistaken

the different steps to be so many different religions and having

accepted one step, they denounce all others and thus fight in the name

of god, not knowing that the Lord is One and religion also, is one

progressive ladder to be climbed to the top.

 

So, what lies at the top step? From the platform of the top step we

shall be in a position to know the Personality of Godhead Himself,

along with all His Eternal Associates, as also His Divine Realm and the

eternal Lilas (pastimes) therein. This most secret knowledge of the

Supreme Lord, His sports, and His Associates, has been revealed in this

mundane world from the top step, through two divine channels: Sri Guru

and the Scriptures.

 

Sri Guru is sent into this Guru and the Scriptures. Sri Guru is sent

into this mundane world by the Will of the Lord Himself. He comes from

the Spiritual Realm and is not at all a person like us the body, which

He appears to be, is only the instrument through which He communicates

to us. As our spiritual senses (eyes, ears, etc.) of soul are now

lodged within the material coil, the Lord has sent His Own Eternal

Associate into this world from the Spiritual Realm as Sri Guru Dev, and

He has accepted a material body and senses as a tool in order to

communicate to us spiritual truths while in our deplorable state of

bondage So, let us cling to the Lotus Feet of Sri Guru Dev forever!

 

The second channel is the sacred self-revealed Scriptures, the timeless

Vedas of India along with their parts and branches, the Gita,

Upanishads, Puranas, etc., among which the most supreme is the Srimad

Bhagavatam, which deals exclusively with the Personality of Godhead

Himself.

 

The Vedanta was not revealed by man in time, but is older than man and

God-revealed, and should be accepted as such by all who truly desire

their eternal welfare. So in order to learn the secrets of the Realm of

God, we must submit in all humility to hear with firm faith the holy

Srimad Bhagavatam from the lips of Sri Guru, Who has Himself come from

that divine Realm!

 

" Satyam Param Dhimahi " (we meditate on the supreme Truth for

realization).

 

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Krishna ! He has many Names and

Forms, all being separated from and identical with Him at the same

time. But the supreme Original Person is the Lord KRISHNA, also known

as GOVINDA. He is the Prime Cause of all causes. He alone was in the

beginning, He is the beginning, and I worship Him forever. (Sri Brahma

Samhita).

 

The spiritual Realm of Lord Hari is called Vaikuntha (Vai means

without, kuntha means limit). Vaikuntha is described by Sri Guru as a

Lotus, which covers all infinite space having an infinite number of

petals, all of which are individual Vaikunthas.

 

These Vaikunthas are the sporting grounds of the Lord in His

all-majestic aspect as Lord Narayana with his eternal Consort Sri

Lakshmi. But, the Pod of this divine Lotus is the most secret sporting

ground of Lord Krishna Himself, in His most supreme Form as the Divine

Lover.

 

This Pod, which also covers all-infinite transcendental space, is known

as Sri Golok-Vrindaban or Vraja, and this Vraja is located within the

heart of every pure soul. Vraja again has four simultaneous levels to

suit the different eternal sports of Lord Krishna. These different

spiritual levels of Vrajadham are the majestic Sri Mathuradham, higher

than Mathura is the divine Forest of Vrindavan, next and more superior

is Sri Govardhan Hill, and the highest and most supreme level of the

supra-mundane Love sports of the Supreme Lord Govinda, is Sri Radha

Kunda, which is identical with the self of Sri Radha, the supreme

Goddess, and Its glory cannot be described in words or even imagined.

Golok-Vrindaban or Vraja has no touch of Maya (material nature), and

although it contains all the things found in this changeable universe

they are all eternal and made of pure spiritual conscious sentiments

(Bhava). There, KRISHNA is the Supreme Lover and only Enjoyer and as

the transcendental Autocrat everything else is devoted exclusively to

the loving service of His Nama (Name), Dhama (Realm), and Kama

(Desire). There all the Denizens of Vraja serve the Lord of their life,

Krishna, in five ways according to there own eternal spiritual nature

(Sthayi bhava). These five eternal relationships are:

 

Santa rati---indifference as transcendental clouds, grass, flowers,

etc., of Vraja, which exist only to be used by the Lord for His

pleasure.

Dasya Rati - servanthood as servant.

Shakya Rati-friendship as friend of Krishna.

Vatsalya Rati-parenthood or serving the Lord as the Divine Child.

Madhura Rati-conjugal relationship, climaxing in unrestricted

mistresshood or maidenhood for Lord Krishna, Who is the supreme and

only Object of all divine love (Prema).

All souls in their pure all-spiritual state, distinct from their

temporary material body and subtle mind, possess an all-conscious

spiritual body corresponding to any one of these five eternal

relationships with Krishna, their own eternal spiritual nature (sthayi

bhava). Every eternal Denizen of Vraja, from the flower or bird, to the

friend or Mistress of Krishna, is a spiritual part of Vraja itself, and

all beings, both in the state of spiritual practices in bondage as well

as those who have achieved the state of freedom from bondage and

entered into the transcendental Realm of Krishna, must serve the Lord

of their life in subservience and under the direct guidance of the

Eternal Associates, among whom Sri Guru Dev is the first Link now

manifest in this mundane world. (Sri Bhakti-Rasamrita-Sindhu by Sri

Rupa Goswami)

 

Among all the five rasas (sweet spiritual sentiments) the most supreme

is Madhura, as it possesses all the five rasas in itself; and of all

the lovers of Krishna in Madhura rasa, the greatest is Sri Radha, Who

is the Supreme Goddess! In spiritually technical terms Sri Radha would

be classified as the Counter Whole (Krishna) projection Himself out

into a reciprocal Counter Whole and yet retaining the Original Whole

(Upanishad). So, Sri Radha is the other half of Divinity or the

Counter-Whole Predominated Aspect of the Supreme Lord, and She is the

fountain source of all wealth, fame, beauty, love knowledge, and

renunciation, spiritual and material.

 

No soul can ever occupy Her position, and all the divine spiritual

Maidens of Vraja find their sole joy in the transcendental love-union

of Sri Radha with Her Beloved Govinda, and never ever think of

themselves being with Krishna.

 

So the highest spiritual body of the pure freed soul is that of a

serving maid of the Divine Couple known as MANJARI! The highest Lila

(divine sport) is Sri Radha Krishna Vraja Lila, and the highest

spiritual seva (service) is the selfless and eternal loving seva of Sri

Radha Govinda, in union and separation.

 

I should not speak these most secret and highly spiritual truths out,

because most people will misunderstand. They will only confound them

with mundane sex thinking, and the perverted love of man and woman in

this sinful world. Only the pure soul in the state of divine Grace can

realize that this is nothing less than the eternal play of the Supreme

Divinity in love-sport with His Own Self ! So, I humbly ask all who are

blessed enough to come in contact with such highly spiritual secrets to

have faith and belief in these divine truths, because those who do not

believe in these secrets are fit to be punished by the god of death

(Yama), for they do not believe in the very existence of the Lord God

Himself. If I be guilty of expounding secrets I do so only for my own

purification and proper understanding of this most highly spiritual

subject, which is not fully understood even by the gods in haven

(mundane heaven). Also because my Lord of life, Sri Shyam Sundara, Who

is the internal Guide of all, is within my heart directing me to do so,

ad on these grounds I beg the forgiveness of all genuine devotees every

where.

 

TBC... PART II

 

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