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6 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - Life experience: what to believe and how to believe?Krishna descends. He consents to reveal Himself to you. How? — Through humble acts of devotion… He’s irresistibly drawn to the devotees; cannot but reveal Himself to them. Cannot conceal Himself from their loving eye.
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6 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - Life experience: what to believe and how to believe?From the beginning He is showing something to the sincere heart, touching the sincere heart… Hearing something about Krishna and appreciating that. And then the heart is touched. And it’s repeatedly touched until it’s engulfed in Krishna’s loving embrace. And all these superficial things that appear to have a stranglehold upon the heart, vanish.
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6 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - Life experience: what to believe and how to believe?So if you come in connection with someone who actually has love and affection for Krishna, the best thing you can do is serve them. Offer yourself in service to them… If you meet a Mahabhagavata, means — a lover of Krishna, someone who loves Krishna, has that — what should you do? — Offer yourself in service to them.
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12 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - The Vaishnavas' GraceSrila Guru Maharaj would say to me, “We want the grace of these personalities [the Vaishnavas], so don’t’ analyze in such a way as you no longer are recipient of their grace.”
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12 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - The Vaishnavas' GraceSrila Gurudev “could charm the hood of a cobra”.
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18 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - To Serve Those Who Feel Separation from KrishnaThematically, consistently, the key to unlocking all of this divine sentiment, emotion is separation.
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18 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - To Serve Those Who Feel Separation from KrishnaThere is a method to the madness as Shakespeare says. [Krishna separates Himself from His devotees] because He’s addicted to a particular type of prem which only comes out under the intense pressure of separation upon affection. That’s when it’s squeezed out, so to speak.
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18 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - To Serve Those Who Feel Separation from KrishnaEverything makes us forget Krishna, just about. Every last thing makes us forget Krishna. Braja-gopis are in the situation where everything is a reminder of Krishna. That is their mahabhagavata-like vision.
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18 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - To Serve Those Who Feel Separation from KrishnaKrishna consciousness is very peculiar: you make progress in Krishna consciousness as you lament your lack of Krishna consciousness. It’s not a never-ending celebration of achievement in that sense. But the awakening up to the degree that you’re not Krishna conscious yields progress in Krishna consciousness. If we lament lost opportunities, it’s a progressive position in Krishna consciousness.
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18 March, 2019 From: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami - To Serve Those Who Feel Separation from KrishnaThe spiritual world is not like on the map. It’s all consciousness. It’s not like: it’s so many light years away… — Metaphorically, but not actually. That’s why when we hear about Krishna from His devotees, Vrindavan can awaken in our hearts.