Raya Ramananda Samvada (32): Rasa-tattva, How to Hear Harikatha, CC Madhya 8.291-313
01:06:46This audio is included in the following series of lectures:
Topics
- Only 'dhira-lalita-nayaka' can take Radha's mood; no other visnu-tattva or even Dvarkadisa.
- Sri Gauracandra is nagara; in krsna-svarupa as visaya and in radha-svarupa as asraya.
- Explanation of the commentary of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada.
- Don’t reveal your mood to others who are not qualified to hear it.
- How Sriman Mahaprabhu's mood matured.
- Explanation of why there is no santa-rasa in Vraja.
- In vipralambha, there is asraya and in sambhoga, there is visaya.
- To understand harikatha, our sadhana should be perfect.
- By the mercy of rasika-vaisnavas, we can understand rasika harikatha.
- To drink harikatha and to listen to harikatha are different things.
- After listening to harikatha, we have to follow it otherwise it's useless.
- Never mix our intelligence with harikatha because we can't get rasa by contemplating on it.
- Don't try to understand rasa-tattva on your own.
- Explanation of gaura-tattva.
- How Caitanya Caritamrta was written.
- How we can attain mercy.