When you are conscious, you want to eat something, you want to feel something, you want to do something, you want to enjoy something. You want a life in which everything is palatable and beautiful. In your room you choose your lights, your windows, different kinds of decorations, and so on. You make everything the way you like it. Your very nature shows that you want a beautiful life.
Where does beauty exist? How can we find beauty? There is a nice story in the Puranas about Mother Laksmi Devi’s owl-carrier which explains this. Once, Mother Laksmi Devi tested her owl by giving her a garland of pearls and saying, «Give this garland to whomever you think is most beautiful. Go out and search. When you find someone who appears most beautiful to you, give them this garland.»
The owl went out and searched all over the whole world for anyone, any animal, human or thing, who had completely attractive beauty. Everywhere she went, she could always find some deficiency. She saw so many persons who were beautiful but she could always find some deficiency in them. Finally she became thirsty and returned to her home. When she saw her child, she immediately felt, «Oh! So beautiful!» and gave the pearl garland to her child. Later Mother Laksmi Devi asked, «What happened in your search?» The owl replied, «I went around the whole world but I did not see anyone who was perfectly beautiful. Finally I became thirsty and went to my house. There I saw that my own child was so beautiful! I gave the garland to her.»
So, where is beauty? Beauty is in the heart. We see beauty through the love and affection in our heart. If someone wants to dissect everything then everything will appear ugly to them. Sometimes people say, «That person has a beautiful face.» Where is the beauty of that person’s face? If you perform a dissection in a laboratory will you find the beauty of that person’s face? No. You will find blood, tissue, DNA, and so on.
You will never find beauty if you search for it externally. Beauty exists within our consciousness. When we understand this then everything around us will become auspicious and beautiful to us through the love and affection we hold in our hearts.
premanjana-chchhurita-bhakti-vilochanena
santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti92
Nothing will feel beautiful to you if you do not have love and affection (prema) within your heart. When your heart’s eyes are decorated with love and affection then everything in front of you appears very beautiful. The vision necessary to see universal beauty comes to us through devotion (bhakti).
Many times Srila Guru Maharaj explained, «Beauty is controlling everything.» His expression, «Search for Sri Krishna — Reality the Beautiful» means that beauty is controlling everything. How does beauty come to us? Through love and affection for our Lord. We actually want to play and stay with our Lord in a beautiful place filled with beautiful paraphernalia and surrounded by a beautiful atmosphere. The first condition for this is devotion, and devotion will come through dedication. So everything — love, affection, beauty, devotion, dedication — is related and exists within the one chamber of our hearts.
Sadhyam tat-pritim evety upadisati janan gaura-chandrah svayam sah
Sadhya means what you want, your destination, your ultimate hankering. Mahaprabhu taught us, sadhyam tat-pritim: our sadhya is love for the Lord, as well as love for ourselves. When you have love for the Lord, love automatically returns to you.
tach chatmane prati-mukhasya yatha mukha-srih
If you put on tilak, in the mirror you will see that your face is beautifully decorated with tilak. Everything you give to your Lord returns to you a thousand times more beautiful. That is priti, Krishna-prema, our supreme aspiration, and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has given that consciousness to us.
The practice of Krishna consciousness is our life, and it is necessary to practise that in a fair and perfect way. In our practising life, faith is the basis and love is our food. If our love for Krishna increases then everything increases. If we realise what we have received from our Gurudev — pure consciousness of Sri Krishna — then in everything — every song, every verse, every advice, every thought — we will feel, «My existence is present there.»
All Krishna conscious expressions have a very sweet nature.
tad eva ramyam ruchiram navam navam
tad eva sasvan manaso mahotsavam
tad eva sokarnava-sosanam nrnam
yad uttamahsloka-yaso ’nugiyate
Tad eva ramyam: Krishna consciousness is very tasteful, beautiful, and ecstatic. Ruchiram navam navam: it can reveal new light and inspiration at every moment. As someone hears about Krishna consciousness he will not be satisfied by hearing only a little bit of discussion; he will want to hear more and more. Tad eva sasvan manaso mahotsavam: Krishna consciousness always gives everyone’s heart the transcendental feeling of a great festival, just as we always happily expect there will be many varieties of very palatable mahaprasadam on a festival day. Krishna consciousness is like a generator: it may be a little difficult to start, but once it is going and giving power it will run happily and give more and more light to everyone’s heart. When Krishna consciousness once enters the heart and receives good nourishment there, it will sprout, grow happily, and become strong enough to bind an elephant. Pariksit Maharaj said,
yach-chhrnvatam rasa-jnanam svadu svadu pade pade
«If you discuss Krishna consciousness as much as possible at every moment, very tasteful nectar will come to you again and again and take on newer and newer forms.»
Vedavyas also said,
nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam
suka-mukhad amrta-drava-samyutam
pibata bhagavatam rasam alayam
muhur aho rasika bhuvi bhavukah
Krishna consciousness is like a very sweet ripened fruit that has neither skin nor a seed. As you taste it, at every moment it gives you more and more ecstatic feelings and strength.
bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir
anyatra chaisa trika eka-kalah
prapadyamanasya yathasnatah syus
tustih pustih ksud-apayo ’nu-ghasam
How will you know whether you have Krishna consciousness or not? You will feel it just as a hungry person feels the effects of taking prasadam: with every mouthful that prasadam gives good taste, good nourishment, and removes hunger. When Krishna consciousness is revealed in our hearts, our devotional feelings and activity will increase, we will feel the joy and happiness of a connection with Krishna in our hearts, and we will experience detachment from mundane attractions, the end of our hunger for material things.
Krishna consciousness has no end. The Upanisads say,
om purnam adah purnam idam purnat purnam udachyate
purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate
«Krishna consciousness is infinite, and a sincere seeker will really get that type of ecstasy — infinite ecstasy — through Krishna consciousness.»
As Krishna consciousness reveals itself more and more in our hearts we may even become mad. What did Mahaprabhu Himself say?
na prema-gandho ’sti darapi me harau
krandami saubhagya-bharam prakasitum
vamsi-vilasy-anana-lokanam vina
bibharmi yat prana-patangakan vrtha
«Really, I have no love for Krishna. If I did then how could I be alive? I am living without Krishna, so how can I say I have love for Krishna?»
Mahaprabhu is full of Krishna-prema, but His heart’s expression is, «Na prema-gandho ’sti darapi Me Harau: I do not have even a little bit of hankering for Krishna.»
Actually, Mahaprabhu was hankering for Krishna-prema so much, and He showed us the degree of hankering that is necessary for Krishna consciousness. He showed us that if we clearly and perfectly, without any haziness, realise that we need Krishna-prema, then even Krishna will not be able to check us. We will get it. If I am very disturbed by the mundane environment and I sincerely pray to Krishna, «Please give me Krishna-prema», then Krishna must give that to me.
Krishna knows everything, and Krishna understands everything. Krishna is everywhere, and His divine play as the Sweet Absolute never stops. Even if Krishna does not want to give Krishna-prema to us, His devotees will (patitanam pavanebhyo). Sometimes Krishna likes to hide, but His devotees are always merciful. If they see anyone drowning they will rescue him. The devotees will always give full support to a hankering soul.
Even if Krishna ousts me from His jurisdiction, I still have hope if I have hankering for the service of Krishna under the affectionate guidance of His devotees. That is my life experience; it is not only a theory. I have seen many things in my life, and through that I am sure that even if Krishna wants to oust me, He will not be able to if I have the affection of His devotees. So only self-realisation is necessary: «Do I want Krishna-prema or not?»
krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita matih
kriyatam yadi kuto ’pi labhyate
tatra laulyam api mulyam ekalam
janma-koti-sukrtair na labhyate93
We need transcendental ecstasy. We do not want sadness, sorrow, or inauspiciousness. We always need the opposite. We need something eternal, glorious, and beautiful. There is only one way to get that: hankering. Hankering gives us real property in our spiritual life.
If I have hankering for Krishna-prema then I must search, «Where is Krishna-prema?» It is very rare, but if I find anyone who has Krishna-prema in their heart, then I must try to get his association. Through that person I can understand what Krishna-prema is, how much I need it, how much I will be satisfied by it, and so on. I will be able to understand everything through the sadhu who has Krishna-prema in his heart.
All the scriptures always praise the sadhus. A sadhu is chaste, honest, and dedicated to the Lord with extreme love and affection. If we have a connection with a sadhu, with our Guru, and we are conscious about that, then we can receive prema, love and affection, from him on the conscious level. Love and affection are transmitted from consciousness to consciousness, from heart to heart.
The presence of love within the sadhu’s consciousness can be transmitted to you and transform your consciousness. Hankering is our first necessity. Without hankering we will not find that sadhu or Krishna-prema. Many frustrated persons are searching in the wrong way. Our search should be filled with happiness, peace, and beauty. In that way we will seek, «Is it here or there?» If we are frustrated in one place then we must look in another place, and wherever we can find the devotional mood of Krishna-prema we must immediately buy it with our hankering. Hankering can give us everything. But kriyatam does not mean, «Try to buy it.» Kriyatam means, «Buy it!» The price of Krishna-prema is hankering. Without hankering, without intense desire, we will never get Krishna-prema, even if we have an ocean of sukrti. The only qualification and means is hankering, and without that we will not get anything.
During the Ratha Yatra Mahaprabhu prayed to Lord Jagannath:
naham vipro na cha nara-patir napi vaisyo na sudro
naham varni na cha grha-patir no vanastho yatir va
kintu prodyan-nikhila-paramananda-purnamrtabdher
gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasanudasah
«We are not brahmans, ksatriyas, vaisyas, or sudras. We are not sannyasis, vanaprasthas, grhasthas, or brahmacharis. Our identity is not mundane. We are eternal servants of the servants of the servants of Reality the Beautiful Sri Krishna. Gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasanudasah: we are the servants of the servants of the servant of the cowherd boy of Vrndavan who is the protector, prestige, and everything of the gopis. That Krishna is our enjoyer, and all our service is meant to supply enjoyment to Him.»
This is the conception of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and through His conception we are approaching Guru–Vaisnava with strong faith and hankering to be engaged in service. How we can properly serve the servants of Radha-Krishna according to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s conception in our lives has been revealed by Prabhupad Srila Saraswati Thakur.
Our Param Gurudev, Srila Saraswati Thakur, composed a Bengali song during the inauguration festival of the Bag Bazaar Gaudiya Math in Kolkata. Before that ashram opened Srila Saraswati Thakur and his disciples stayed in a rented house in Ultadanga. One gentleman, Jagabandhu Prabhu, donated three lakhs of rupees to Prabhupad so that he could establish the Kolkata headquarters of his Mission. Today that would equal a donation of at least one crore of rupees. All of Prabhupad’s disciples were very happy and enjoyed their new ashram very much. All the activities of an ashram externally look like material activities (visay). Internally they are the service of Guru and Gauranga, but externally they look like material activities: eating, sleeping, singing, dancing, and so on (visaya-ranga).
When the festival was held for the inauguration of the new ashram a Ratha Yatra style procession brought the Deities Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Giridhari from Ultadanga to Bag Bazaar. At that time Srila Saraswati Thakur composed this line explaining the activities of his Mission:
pujala raga-patha gaurava-bhange
matala sadhu-jana visaya-range94
Here Srila Saraswati Thakur explains that the sadhu-jana, the devotees, all appear very intoxicated with mundane activity, visaya-range, but their activities are actually not mundane at all: they are regulated worship of the higher path of raga-marg, the path of loving service to the Divine Couple Sri Sri Radha-Krishna.
Srila Saraswati Thakur gave everyone the divine knowledge that we should not emotionally jump into the external activities of the residents of Vrndavan. Rather, we should respect and honour their service as above us and pray for their mercy. If we try to jump from our egoistic mountain to the highest plane of divine lila we will fall down very close to where we started. It is not the proper procedure to try to enter the higher plane from our existing position. We need to transform ourselves and be empowered by the residents of that higher plane before we can enter there.
Hanumanji can jump from mountain to mountain because He acts solely for service of His Lord, Ramachandra. We need to have power like him, that is, a pure serving mood, before we can jump from our position into the divine Pastimes of Radha-Krishna. Pujala raga-patha gaurava-bhange: until we are qualified with a pure serving mood we will honour the Divine Couple’s Sweet Absolute Pastimes from a respectful distance.
When I wanted to make a diorama expressing Srila Saraswati Thakur’s siddhanta on the front of our Math in Nabadwip, I used this verse. However I changed one of the lines in the verse with the permission of Srila Guru Maharaj. Through Srila Guru Maharaj we can understand the desire of Srila Saraswati Thakur and for preaching purposes I changed this verse to make it more understandable to general people. I engraved these two lines on our nat mandir:
matala hari-jana kirtana-range
pujala raga-patha gaurava-bhange
Later, I also posted this expression on the wall of my veranda so I could see it every day. Srila Saraswati Thakur’s phrase visaya-range is very deep. To say that work and activity which may appear completely material are actually completely transcendental is not easy for the public to understand. I wanted to show in the diorama that it is through Mahaprabhu’s sankirtan that we must worship Radha-Krishna in Kali-yuga. For that reason I used the phrase matala Hari-jana kirtana-range instead. It means that devotees are intoxicated with the practice of Mahaprabhu’s sankirtan. They are hearing and chanting the Holy Name and the glories of Mahaprabhu, and through that they are serving and satisfying the Divine Couple Radha-Krishna, whose nondifferent form is Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. In the formal posture (gaurava-bhange) of Mahaprabhu’s sankirtan the devotees are offering their worship to Radha-Govinda and Their intimate servitors.
At present we do not live in the domain of Radha-Krishna, and we are not trying to forcefully enter that abode. Rather we are trying to honour that abode through our life in Kali-yuga under the proper shelter of the practice of sankirtan at the lotus feet of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. So we are proceeding systematically towards the goal of our lives, the service of Radha-Govinda, under the guidance of Their intimate associates headed by Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhu.
Once when we were painting Srila Guru Maharaj’s building in Nabadwip I decided to put a verse on the front of the building above his veranda.
Sri-radhara bhave yini suvarna varana
sangopange navadvipe yara sankirtana
kalite upasya sei krsna gaurahari
navadha bhaktite tara upasana kari
«Through the nine-fold practice of devotion I worship Krishna’s golden form in Kali-yuga, Gaurahari, who performs sankirtan in the mood of Sri Radha with His associates in Sri Nabadwip Dham.»
When I had this verse written on the front of his building Srila Guru Maharaj did not say anything. Years later when we were maintaining the building we white-washed all the walls and that verse was painted over. When Srila Guru Maharaj came out onto the roof of the nat mandir and saw the wall where the verse had been written he asked me, «Where is that verse? I do not see it.» Then I understood that Srila Guru Maharaj noticed everything and that he was very happy when I put this verse on the front of his building. I felt that Srila Guru Maharaj knew everything I was doing and was always watching over me. Then I had that verse written there again, and still it is there today.
Our Math is located in Gupta Govardhan, Hidden Govardhan, in Sri Nabadwip Dham. Govardhan is the primary place of raga-marg worship of Radha-Krishna.
pramada-madana-lilah kandare kandare te
rachayati nava-yunor dvandvam asminn amandam
iti kila kalanartham lagnakas tad-dvayor me
nija-nikata-nivasam dehi govardhana tvam95
Giriraj Govardhan is the highest place in Radha-Krishna’s Pastimes. Radha-Krishna’s highest lilas happen in the groves around Govardhan Hill. Radha Kunda, Syama Kunda, Govinda Kunda, Kusum Sarovar, and many, many kunjas surround Govardhan, and Radha-Krishna’s confidential lilas happen at different times and in these places around Govardhan.
Radha-Krishna enjoy Their intimate Pastimes around Govardhan as all the sakhis and manjaris busily serve Them day and night. Chiefly Lalita Devi organises the service of Radha-Krishna, and she gives the highest service to the group of Rupa Manjari. Gokula-pateh premamrtaplavanat: in this way the nectar of Krishna-prema overfloods all around Govardhan Hill.
We presented our diorama on the front of our Math to show everyone that through the sankirtan of Mahaprabhu we can properly honour the most worshippable plane of raga-marg service of Radha-Krishna — Govardhan — and that we will automatically enter there when we become qualified through our sincere practice of sankirtan. Srila Guru Maharaj accepted all of my ideas. In that way we decorated the front of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math and adjusted Srila Saraswati Thakur’s expression.
If you want entrance into Krishna-lila’s special chamber of paramour love then you must go to the sakhis, Radharani’s associates. All rights are reserved by the sakhis in those Pastimes. You must go to the sakhis, surrender to them, and get a visa from them to enter those Pastimes. If the sakhis do not give you a visa then no one — neither Krishna, nor Lord Siva, nor anyone — can give you entrance into the Pastimes of paramour love. Laksmi Devi Herself was denied a visa. All rights are reserved by the sakhis. In Sri Chaitanya-charitamrta it is written,
Sakhi vina ei lila pusta nahi haya
sakhi lila vistariya, sakhi asvadaya
«The sakhis provide all the nourishment necessary for Sri Sri Radha-Krishna’s Pastimes of paramour love. The sakhis personally taste these Pastimes, and only they have the power to distribute them. No one else has the right to taste them, and without the sakhis’ consent no one gets entrance into them.»
Radharani is the leader of all the groups of sakhis. She has eight principle sakhis: Lalita, Visakha, Chitra, Champakalatika, Tunga Vidya, Indulekha, Sudevi, and Ranga Devika. They are the group leaders of all the servitors of Radha-Krishna. The manjaris, the younger sakhis, serve under the eight primary sakhis. The manjaris are led by Rupa Manjari and her associates: Lavanga Manjari, Ananga Manjari, Rati Manjari, Guna Manjari, and so on. Radharani serves Krishna directly while all of Her associates assist Her under the guidance of Lalita Devi and Rupa Manjari. Radharani also sometimes sends Krishna to satisfy the sakhis. The sakhis do not expect they will associate with Krishna alone, but Radharani makes many tactful arrangements for them. Radharani wants to satisfy Krishna and side by side all of Krishna’s servitors.
In this way the Pastimes of Radha-Krishna go on, and service-entrance into those Pastimes is only available by surrendering to the sakhis. Without their mercy no one can expect to serve Radharani or Krishna. The service of Radharani is very rare to get, and without the mercy of the sakhis no one will get it. The sakhis give power to the manjaris, so if anyone can receive the mercy of Rupa Manjari, the leader of the manjaris, then they will get full entrance into the service world of Goloka Vrndavan.
If we proceed properly we must get the association and mercy of the Divine Couple’s associates, the sakhis, one day. That is our life’s goal. But before that it is necessary for us to understand the identities of Krishna, Radharani, and Their associates, as well as our own identity and necessity. We need realisation of these things, and we need to approach that highest plane through the proper channel. If we can approach properly then we reach our life’s goal.
matala hari-jana kirtana-range
pujala raga-patha gaurava-bhange
Our target is the service of Radha-Krishna under the guidance of Radharani’s associates, but if we think we will get that very easily then we will be cheated. It is first necessary to practise Hari-nam-sankirtan properly and try to attract Radha-Krishna to appear in our heart by the grace of Their associates.
At present Radha-Govinda-lila is so far from us because we are bound by our material senses and have no control over them. We have a materialistic conception, and through that we fall into the garbage of illusion again and again. A proper practitioner who is qualified to remember Radha-Krishna-lila under the guidance of his Guru has no attachment to this mundane world. He has no lust, anger, greed, or illusion — nothing. But we are conditioned souls who are polluted by maya, and we will be cheated even more by maya if we are not careful and prematurely try to enter into the higher plane of Krishna’s Vrndavan Pastimes.
So many so-called big personalities and sadhus may preach about Vraja-bhajan, but before the stage of ruchi we are not qualified for that. Ruchi means extreme attachment, affection, and love that is free from anything mundane. Those who have ruchi can think about the Pastimes of Radha-Govinda, their position in those Pastimes, the asta-kaliya-lila, and many other things. But if we still have any anarthas [mundane desires], then any practice of that will be imitation. And imitationism, sahajiyaism, takes us to hell.
We have seen many babajis singing Radha-Krishna-lila and crying so much: singing and crying, singing and crying, and finally foaming at the mouth. But simply showing many symptoms of ecstasy is not real Krishna-prema. Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur clearly expressed in his song,
ki ara bolibo tore mana
mukhe bolo prema prema vastutah tyajiya hema
sunya-grantha anchale bandhana
«My dirty and naughty mind, what can I say to you? You are always saying, ‘Krishna-prema, Krishna-prema’, and making an exhibition of the symptoms of Krishna-prema, but you actually do not have anything. Your activity is comparable to making a knot in the corner of your cloth to show others that you have a piece of gold there. Inside you have nothing. You think you are carrying a precious golden jewel within you, but actually you have nothing of value. You think your activities are giving you the wealth of Krishna-prema but actually they are only deceiving you.»
The ecstasy and nectar of the Pastimes of Krishna in Vrndavan can only be tasted by liberated souls. We must wait for the stage of ruchi to come to us before trying to enter there. We should first make our heart and mind clean and engage in the service of Radha-Govinda under the guidance of a real sadhu, who is properly practising Krishna consciousness in the line of exclusive service. Such a sadhu will guide us properly according to our stage of development. If we try to proceed in that way and engage in Hari-nam-sankirtan as it was given by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu for the Kali-yuga, it will be possible for us to receive the purifying mercy of Radha-Govinda. We will be fully satisfied with that.
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared to show us the path of our life and the glories of Radha-Govinda. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s greatest gift to the world and the way that He distributes it have been explained by Srila Guru Maharaj.
Sarvachintyamaye paratpara-pure goloka-vrndavane
chil-lila-rasa-rangini parivrta sa radhika sri-hareh
vatsalyadi-rasais cha sevita-tanor-madhurya-seva-sukham
nityam yatra muda tanoti hi bhavan tad dhama-seva-pradah
sri-gauranumatam svarupa-viditam rupagrajenadrtam
rupadyaih parivesitam raghu-ganair asvaditam sevitam
jivadyair abhiraksitam suka-siva-brahmadi-sammanitam
sri-radha-pada-sevanamrtam aho tad datum iso bhavan
In the highest plane of the inconceivable realm — Goloka Vrndavan Dham — Radharani and Her associates serve Krishna in the supreme rasa of paramour love. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared to distribute the service of Radharani under the guidance of Her associates. Svarup Damodar understood this perfectly. Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Sanatan Goswami, Srila Raghunath Das Goswami, and Srila Jiva Goswami wholeheartedly practiced this throughout their lives and showed everyone the proper way to approach it. Srila Sanatan Goswami worshipped it, Srila Rupa Goswami distributed it, Srila Raghunath Goswami tasted and served it, and Srila Jiva Goswami protected it. Sukadev Goswami, Lord Siva, Lord Brahma, Devarsi Narad, Uddhava and others fold their hands and gave their full respect to it. Sri-Radha-pada-sevanamrtam: the nectar of the service of Radharani’s lotus feet, the highest conception of Krishna consciousness, aho tad datum iso bhavan: the treasurer of that wealth is Gurudev. Only Gurudev has the capacity to distribute that final destination and highest property to the conditioned souls.
The gist of Srila Guru Maharaj’s expression in these two verses is, «The strength, quality, qualification — everything — necessary to worship Radharani’s lotus feet comes through Gurudev.»
Everything we want to know we can understand through our Gurudev. Gurudev’s position is always supreme. Gurudev is the Lord’s best servitor. In the scriptures it is said:
harau ruste gurus-trata gurau ruste na kaschana
«If Krishna is angry with you, Gurudev can save you, Radharani can save you, but if Radharani is angry with you, Krishna cannot save you.»
Our protection, our environment, our everything, comes to us through Gurudev’s mercy, and through that we will be gracious, fortunate, and exalted practitioners. In that way we will practise to serve Radha-Krishna in the line of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. That is called Krsnanusilanam: serving Sri Krishna under the guidance of Srimati Radharani.
We know that Gurudev is nondifferent from Radharani. It is written everywhere in the scriptures, but Srila Saraswati Thakur specially and sweetly mentioned, «If I want to see my Gurudev, I shall see that he is the nondifferent form of Radharani. I do not know and I do not want to know the position of another person’s Guru. I only know that my Guru is my rescuer, my master, my everything, and if I want to see him more deeply then I see that he is a nondifferent form of Radharani.» Srila Saraswati Thakur expressed his vision in this way, and we honour that fully.
Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur, and Srila Guru Maharaj are all deeply attached to the service of Radharani. We shall try heart and soul as possible by us to serve them, our Guru-parampara, and through that telescopic system our service will go directly and perfectly to Radha-Krishna. This is the finest and highest conception of Krishna consciousness. We are so fortunate to be in the line of Krishna consciousness under the guidance of Srila Guru Maharaj and Srila Saraswati Thakur, who are the dearmost associates of Srila Rupa Goswami and Radharani.
92 «I serve the inconceivable, original Lord, Syamasundar Govinda, whom the sadhus always see within their hearts through eyes of devotion tinged with the salve of love.»
93 «Purchase ecstatic devotion to Krishna wherever it is available! The only price is hankering.It is not attainable by acting piously (practising vidhi-bhakti) for ten million lifetimes.»
94 «Intoxicated with the joy of sankirtan, the surrendered souls worship raga-marg from within the posture of vidhi-marg.»
95 «O Govardhan, the Divine Couple liberally enact Their Pastimes of maddened love in your caves. Please grant me a dwelling beside you so I can see Their Pastimes.»