Affectionate Lover of Lord Krishna

by His Divine Grace Shrila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Deva Goswami Maharaj

Jai Om Vishnu Pada Shrila Bhakti Rakshak Shridhar Deva Goswami Maharaja, ki jai. All the devotees, ki jai. Hare Krishna.

Dear devotees of Lord Krishna, by the Grace of the devotees, no one will get this type of opportunity what I have gotten. As you know English is not my native language. But actually English or Bengali or Sanskrit or any word, any language cannot express about Krishna Consciousness fully.

Where we are living this is the mundane world, our body, our mental situation, our languages all are mundane but Krishna is not like that. Some of the Supersoul and some of the pure devotees they can feel what is the form of Lord Krishna . We can hear from them, but actually Krishna is aprakrita, we are living in prakrita, prakrita means mundane. Aprakrita means transcendental. What is the form of Lord Krishna? If anyone will ask we can say like a mundane man, but actually what is the form of Lord Krishna where we will get that? We will get that from the lotus mouth of the sadhus expression, or from the scriptures. Lord Shri Chaitanya Dev mercifully has given us one very sweet and clean picture through the scriptures about Lord Shri Krishna. He told Shrimad Bhagavatam is the best expression which has come from the transcendental abode in the form of Shrimad Bhagavatam. It is the non-different form of Lord Krishna. But side-by-side we will see when Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu went to South India from there He brought another very sweet part of the scriptures, that's called Brahma-samhita. And what conception he wants to give all over the world fully he has seen within that Brahma-samhita. Very short but very steady and clean conception. The whole Shrimad Bhagavatam conception He has seen within that Brahma-samhita and He has given us that book. That Brahma-samhita first sloka (verse) if we will try to explain we will see what is the form of Lord Krishna, real form. That's called aprakrita form. He is playing with the gopis, He is playing with the cows and cowherd boys and there are five kinds of relationships with Him in that abode of Krishna called Vrindavan. Mahaprabhu Shri Chaitanya Dev said this is our worshipable, this is our desirable, and this is our goal of life, that Shri Krishna and His abode and service to Lord Shri Krishna.

Such sloka of Brahma-samhita very simply given the description of Lord Shri Krishna. "Ishvara parama krishna sat chit ananda vigraha..." He is the cause of all causes, what we are searching, always what is the cause, what is the cause of everything, but He is the cause of all causes. We can start from that point but it is our wrong decision, actual decision is: "Ishvara parama Krishna...". He's the Supreme Personality of Godhead, an emporium of all rasa. He is the ocean of nectar and we are part and parcel of that nectarean ocean. Actually the soul is so fortunate no doubt from their own side because they are tiny, otherwise we can say all the souls are like Lord Krishna and powerful like Lord Krishna. It is not wrong actually if we will think it, when he is enriched with the devotional mood and activities. He is more than like Krishna, he can do.

One story in the study book of Sanskrit I heard and I read also. If you do not know what is the power, which way will you come in the connection of the power of someone person. Someone person may be very tiny but if he is in relation with so great of a power he can do anything and everything. A small bird named Titiva he also gave trouble to the ocean because he had a connection as a bird with Guruda and Guruda can teach hard, is capable of strongly chastising the ocean. He has that power. Then we may be tiny souls but if we are blessed by our Guru and that Guru parampara going up to Radharani. And Krishna is always happy with that situation, in the abode of his Divine Grace. And Radharani She is serving so many ways Lord Krishna and Krishna is waiting for Her service. Our Prabodananda Saraswati Takur he told it. Krishna wants to get a little bit breeze of Radharani's cloth and He is feeling so happy and fortunate. This is the meaning of that sloka. Then if we will serve our Shri Gurudev and through Guru parampara it will go up to Radharani. Our param Gurudev Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Takur said, "I do not know who is who and what is whose position but I know my Gurudev is living in highest position." And if we will see a little higher level our vision will go a little higher level and position, we can see he is Radharani. Radharani is always satisfying Lord Krishna. Power and Powerful it is non-different. We cannot differentiate power and powerful. Actually powerful is Krishna but always depending upon His power. Without power, powerful being full, he has no existence. He may be a dry battery. But not charged. Then we must depend upon power and She is Radharani. All the souls if they can connect with that wave of service to Lord Krishna they must go to Radharani. Also it is true in the transcendental abode so many ways, so many servitors they are serving Lord Krishna. Krishna is happy with everyone no doubt, but supremely He is happy with the Superpower of Shri Radharani.

Anyhow, Prabhus, all is aprakrita, meaning transcendental. From here we can say with our mundane sound, mundane voice, mundane feelings but that will not be full of truth, but for that we will follow the richis, munis, mahajans who are called in the scriptures mahajans. They are all mahajans. What they have written and what is revealed in their heart; as Shrimad Bhagavatam, Vedavyas explained that for us in the written form. Mahaprabhu said Shrimad Bhagavatam is non-different form with Lord Krishna, because transcendental thing we cannot think within our puppy brain as mundane. As mundane brain Prabhupada Saraswati Takur said it is puppy brain, then which way we will feel it.

When Mahaprabhu explained atmarama sloka, there Mahaprabhu said to Sarvabhama Bhattacharya, "Sarvabhama you will not be surprised with this explanation, every word can give thousands of kinds of meanings, and he showed that with discussions, discussions with Sanatan Goswami in Benaras. He give nine kinds of explanations not touching anything from Sarvabhamas ideas. But next time with Sanatan Goswami he explained 61 kinds of meanings. And he told more than that is possible. But it is the play of intelligentsia of mundane persons like us but not Mahaprabhu. We can do wrong but research scholars and richis they cannot do wrong. And what is revealing in the heart of the super devotees, supreme devotee, that appeared in the form of Shrimad Bhagavat, Mahaprabhu said it and that appeared in the form of Brahma-samhita. Then we will get some idea about the transcendental world.

But which way will we think that time it is not passing there, here time always is passing, everything is passing so. But there without the will of Lord Krishna nothing is passing. Without the service of Lord Krishna, without the connection of Lord Krishna nothing there existing. And all satisfying Lord Krishna's mood. Then time also waiting there. This is the evidencial sloka. Time not passing there anyway without the service of Lord Krishna. Expanding and contracting everything by the grace of Lord Krishna, by the will of Lord Krishna. Yogamaya arranging everything. And Sankarshan he is the manager, as manager in that abode he is arranging everything, and Yogamaya is following the will of Sankarshan . And Radharani is supremely serving Krishna, that is the super service for Krishna. But from here how much can we gauge or how much can we feel and anything we will try to feel that will be mundane. Then it is not necessary to discuss so many ways this matter, only we will try to keep our faith, will try to believe it what given Shrimad Bhagavatam, that is supreme expression of the Lord's abode and pastimes expression of his divine pastimes with the devotees there.

We are telling this word devotee, but there is no one devotee actually. In our expression, within our expression if we want to say it we will not see; no one there is a devotee. All is affectionate and lover of Lord Krishna. Where is there devotee? Actually devotees who are devoted and always following the instruction this, this, that, that he is devotee. But they are not always following Krishna's instruction they are pushing to Krishna go and do this, eat and enjoy, that type their mood. Dasya rasa it is within the devotional plane but sakya rasa is not like that. Vatsalya rasa is not like that. Madhurya rasa that is sometimes opposite of the mood of Krishna. Then we cannot guess from this material world, from this mundane plane anything about that transcendental world and for that it is, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Kaviraja Goswami explained ... the most supreme form of godhead is Krishna who plays in His eternal Divine Pastimes just like a human being. An ever youthful cowherd boy of Vrindavan He enacts His pastimes always playing His flute. His beauty is so charming and sweet that the whole universe is flooded by an atom of it and all beings are drawn irresistibly to Him. What can I say more today? Dandavats.

Shri Chaitanya Saraswat Krishnanushilana Sangha

Calcutta, India

July 29, 1999