Vraja-bhakti is parakīyā-rasa; there is no chance of vraja-bhakti without parakīya-rasa. The Six Gosvāmīs, under the guidance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, established this conception. This parakīyā-rasa is present in every particle of Vraja and every pore of the Vrajavāsīs. By staying with a maha-bhāgavata Vrajavāsī one can achieve this anurāga, transcendental love and attraction for Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa…
Krsna always sees Himself indebted to Vrnda. She serves in such a way, with all paraphernalia, that Krsna always thinks that He cannot repay her. So if anyone gives Tulasi to Krsna, He becomes shy; and He thinks that, “This devotee has purchased Me.” You can also make an experiment and test whether this is true or false…
There are two sides from ancient times. When the world was created, demons were there and demigods were also there. And they were always fighting. Demons always create troubles and give suffering to all. Demigods, like devotees, always wanted to check them, and not create any trouble and live peacefully and have prema and affection for each other and for Krsna…
The brahmana feared, because of what was said in his dream, that his dynasty would be destroyed. He therefore left that deity there, in the forest of Tulasi plants that Saci-devi was maintaining. It was a very big area of Tulasi plants; it was like a jungle…
We living entities, if we simply try to serve Him and make Him happy, as the gopīs did, then it is very congenial atmosphere, as it was in Vṛndāvana. Everyone is serving Kṛṣṇa. Everyone is trying to please Kṛṣṇa. The birds, the beasts, the trees, the land, the water, the cowherd boys, the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa’s father, mother, elderly people—everyone—the central point is Kṛṣṇa. That is Vṛndāvana. So we can have Vṛndāvana anywhere and everywhere…
Originally, pure sex must be there in God. Otherwise how it comes? Everything is emanating from the Supreme. Janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. So how you can say there is no sex? Viśvanātha Cakravartī dāsa Ṭhākura explains that janmādy asya, ādi-rasa. Ādi. Ādi-rasa means sex enjoyment. So he has explained that sex has come from Kṛṣṇa. Because we have used perverted sex, we have got a very bad idea. But actually sex is there in the original…
There is another history, which is in the Brahma-vaivarta Purana. Ganga is a sakhi, a gopi like Lalita, Visakha, Srimati Radhika, Candravali and others like them. One day Sri Krsna was sitting with Ganga-sakhi, and He was engaged in some pleasant talks. In the meantime Srimati Radhika came and saw them, and She thought, “Oh, Krsna is meeting with Ganga-sakhi..?”
While chanting Hare Krsna and thinking about all of these things, gradually your mind will be controlled. In our sampradaya, especially in the line of Srila Rupa Gosvami, devotees do not have to do anything separate to remove anarthas (detrimental thoughts and habits). We simply engage our minds all the time, second by second, in chanting, remembering, reading, and worshipping Krsna twenty-four hours a day…
There is not only one world – there are millions upon millions of worlds. Within all these worlds, the eternal spirit soul wanders through the various species of life, sometimes taking the form of a man, sometimes a tree, and sometimes a creeper or an animal. In the course of his wandering, if one is fortunate, he receives the association of pure devotees, otherwise not. What is that luck, or fortune…?