Gurudeva Australia

Teaching Vaisnava Etiquette – Australia 1997 Feb 11

You are not the cook, but Srimati Radhika is the cook. So it is like a temple. You should try to make it so pure always. Also try to honor all the devotees who have taken name from anyone. They are chanting harinama and therefore should be honored. If they are svajatiya, means likeminded, they should be honored more and even more if someone has taken diksa in the real sense. Not like that Gurudeva has given one thread and told only one time the mantras and now we have forgotten everything, but we are thinking that we are initiated. That is not in the real sense...

Unnata-ujjvala-rasa – 11 Feb 1997 Australia

I want to make a vivid explanation so that you should know what is the difference between the two. Up to now I have explained that the mood of dāsya, the mood of sakhya, even the mood of vātsalya is not unnata-ujjvala-rasa. Even the svakīya-bhāva of Rukmiṇī and Satyabhāmā or of Sītā-devī to Rāmacandra is not unnata-ujjvala-rasa. I am trying to explain these things, so that you may have some idea of unnata-ujjvala-rasa. You cannot take that rasa, so I will give so many explanations. But those whose hearts are pure, who served the vaiṣṇavas and have come into the association of high class vaiṣṇavas, they may take it. Even Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Kṛṣṇa himself, could not give to all. So I cannot give, but I believe, that those who have come to hear surely have some past impressions of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s philosophy. And that is why they have come and joined from different parts of the world, from England, America and so forth. From Sydney and here and there. And they are roaming with me here and there, so they must have some impression of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s family. [laughter]

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