The desire to serve in one's siddha deha in the wake of the gopīs' feelings will remove the hardness from the heart and cause it to melt. Just as hunger helps one enjoying one's dishes, similarly the desire to serve in the wake of the feelings of the kiṅkarīs helps one to relish the sweetness … Continue reading Snippets Of Nectar

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī anxiously prays to the beloved friends of Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava and tells them of his painful love-in-separation. The aspirant devotee can only understand this by awakening his svarūpa. How sweet is that feeling: "I am a maidservant, dedicated to the devotional service of Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava!" Bhāva (feeling) makes the stream of thoughts in … Continue reading Being absorbed and the mercy of the great saints

Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī is painfully eager and thus he laments out of strong desire for the service of Śrī-Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava. The aspirants will also get some of this eagerness while hearing and chanting the great words of the Gosvāmīs. He submits his heart's anxious prayers to the feet of his beloved deity. I have no … Continue reading How eagerness enters our heart

Śrīman Mahāprabhu's gift is revealed through the ācāryas. This Rādhā-dāsya is an unprecedented gift of mercy. The conditioned souls are floating in the ocean of material existence, but by some stroke of good luck some of them receive the mercy of guru and Kṛṣṇa in the form of the seed of the vine of devotion. … Continue reading Spiritual Self-identification