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Lord Caitanya was very satisfied to hear these statements from Rāmānanda Rāya, and He embraced him. Thus the Lord and Rāmānanda Rāya discussed the transcendental pastimes of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa throughout the night, and in the morning they separated. Rāmānanda left to go to his place, and the Lord went to take His bath.

The tilaka of good fortune is on the forehead of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and She also has a locket of prema-vaicittya Prema-vaicittya is manifest when a lover and beloved meet and fear separation.

There are innumerable Vaikuṇṭha planets, innumerable incarnations and expansions of the Supreme Lord, and innumerable universes also, and of all these existences the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa is the only source His transcendental body is composed of eternity, bliss and knowledge, and He is known as the son of Mahārāja Nanda and the inhabitant of Goloka Vṛndāvana. He is the supreme cause of all causes and a resident of Vṛndāvana.

She always keeps Her hand on the shoulder of one of Her friends, and She always talks and thinks of pastimes She always offers Kṛṣṇa a kind of intoxicant by Her sweet talks, and She is always prepared to fulfill In other words, She supplies everything needed to meet all the demands of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and She possesses unique and uncommon qualities for Kṛṣṇa’s satisfaction.

The associates of Rādhārāṇī include Her personal associates, called sakhīs, and Her near assistants, Their affection for Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī is so pure that they are simply satisfied when Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa Indeed, their transcendental pleasure is in seeing Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa united. , the associates of Rādhārāṇī, are just like the leaves and flowers of that creeper. When a creeper embraces a tree, the leaves and flowers of the creeper automatically embrace it.

In His spiritual form, Kṛṣṇa enjoys His spiritual energy, and that is the sum and substance of the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa One should not try to understand the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa potencies and pastimes from the mundane platform.

After hearing Rāmānanda Rāya speak of the qualities of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa, Lord Caitanya desired Rāmānanda Rāya described Kṛṣṇa as dhīra-lalita, a word indicating a person who is very cunning and youthful , who is always expert in joking, who is without anxiety, and who is always subservient to his girlfriend Kṛṣṇa is always engaged in loving affairs with Rādhārāṇī, and He takes to the bushes of Vṛndāvana to Kṛṣṇa was always engaged in such lusty activities, and thus He made His youthful life successful.”

One should also always meditate upon the dealings between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa in the transcendental world One should think of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours a day and engage in Their service within one’s By adopting the mood of the associates and friends of Rādhārāṇī and following in their footsteps, one

Rāmānanda Rāya then explained that Kṛṣṇa is attractive for both men and women, for the moving and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.32.2) stating that when the Lord appeared before the damsels of Vraja smiling and

Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is decorated with sūddīpta-sāttvika emotions, which sometimes include jubilation and These emotions are manifested partly due to one’s body, partly due to one’s mind, and partly due to habit As far as the bodily emotions are concerned, they are manifested in posture and movement. mind are concerned, they are manifested as beauty, luster, complexion, sweetness, talking, magnanimity and habitual emotions are concerned, they are manifested as pastimes, enjoyment, preparing for separation, and

Those who have purified senses can understand these transcendental features and exchanges, but those who are impersonalists and who have no knowledge of spiritual senses can only discriminate within the Everything generated from the body or the mind is always imperfect and perishable, but transcendental spiritual activities are always bright and wonderful. on the transcendental platform is the paragon of purity because it is devoid of material affection and

The object is Kṛṣṇa, who is the ever-green Cupid, and by utterance of klīm Kṛṣṇa is worshiped. As already explained, Vṛndāvana is the spiritual abode of Kṛṣṇa, and thus the word Cupid is also spiritual and transcendental when applied to Kṛṣṇa. One should not take the material Cupid and Kṛṣṇa to be on the same level. Actually, lust and the sex urge are there in spiritual life, but when the spirit soul is embodied in

The different kinds of devotees of the Supreme Lord have different aptitudes and relationships with Him verse in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.1.1) that states: “Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of all pleasures, and He especially attracts Tārakā, Pāli, Śyāmā and Lalitā. There are different kinds of relationships with Kṛṣṇa, and anyone who is attracted to Kṛṣṇa in a particular

situated in that understanding, he becomes eligible to enter into the confidential pastimes of Rādhā and This is confirmed in the Govinda-līlāmṛta (10.17): “Although manifest, happy, expanded and unlimited, the emotional exchanges between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa can be understood only by the damsels of Vraja or their Supreme Lord without His causeless mercy, no one can understand the transcendental sex life between Rādhā and

replied, “I have come to you to purify Myself by hearing from you the transcendental pastimes of Rādhā and find no one else in the world who has realized the transcendental loving reciprocation between Rādhā and Please come to Jagannātha Purī, My headquarters, and we will remain together for the rest of our lives Thus I can pass My remaining days in understanding Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā by your association.”

The loving affairs between Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs in Vṛndāvana are also transcendental. lusty affairs of this material world, but there is a gulf of difference between the moods of Vṛndāvana and In the spiritual world the love between the gopīs and Kṛṣṇa is constantly increasing. That is the difference between the love in the transcendental world and the lust in the material world itself, but the love arising from the eternal soul in the spiritual world is on the spiritual platform, and

Now You are wandering in the forest and walking over rough stones, and we do not know how You are feeling Since You are our life and soul, the displeasure You are undergoing in traveling over the rough stones

These are all beloved of Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa is the only lover of all those gopīs. The land is made of touchstone and the water is nectar. Everything is self-illuminated, just like the sun and moon in this material world. is fortunate should cultivate knowledge of Vṛndāvana and its residents. to understand the transcendental pastimes of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa?”

In prema-vilāsa there are two kinds of emotional activities – meeting and separation. Rāmānanda Rāya was expert in understanding these highly elevated dealings between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, and The purport of the song is that the lover and the beloved, before meeting, generate a kind of emotion Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī noted that “this attraction and affection between Us has risen to the highest extent “Whatever the cause may be,” Rādhārāṇī said, “that affection between You and Me has mixed Us in oneness

Rādhārāṇī expands Herself in different forms, known as Lalitā, Viśākhā and Her other confidential associates That body is decorated with flowers and fragrant aromas and is complete with transcendental love for transcendental body three times: first in the water of mercy, second in the water of youthful beauty, and After She bathes three times in that way, Her body is covered with shining garments and decorated with functions due to transcendental pleasure, standing up of the bodily hairs, changing of bodily color, and