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liReading Uddhava-sandeśa 82: “A gopī said, ‘Friend, I have not even the slightest particle of the fragrance of love for Kṛṣṇa. Please know that when I weep, I am merely teaching the other gopīs how fortunate they were to associate with Kṛṣṇa. This must be true because now that I am without any shelter, and I am unable to see Kṛṣṇa’s handsome face as He plays the flute, I still maintain the worm that is my life.”/li

liReading Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya 19.50-91/li

liLord Caitanya’s ecstasy in the Gambhīrā/li

liSvarūpa Dāmodara and Rāmānanda Rāya pacify the Lord by singing songs of meeting/li

liDevotees held an iṣṭha-goṣṭhī to consult about Lord Caitanya’s condition and what to do/li

liŚaṅkara Paṇḍita, who stayed in Lord Caitanya’s room in the Gambhīrā is Śrībhadra-gopī in kṛṣṇa-līlā/li

liGaura’s associates' awareness of their kṛṣṇa-līlā svarūpanbsp;/li

liKṛṣṇa placed His lotus feet in Vidura’s laps/li

liLord Caitanya wrapped Śaṅkara Paṇḍita with His own quilt/li

liCaitanya Mahāprabhu‘s fear in Śaṅkara Paṇḍita’s presence/li

liIn the Jagannātha-vallabha garden Lord Caitanya sees Kṛṣṇa – what manifestation of Kṛṣṇa is He seeing?/li

liThe antardhdāna-śakti that gives invisibility/li

liReading from Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura’s commentary to Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.4.1: “Bhāva becomes prema without giving up its previous state, because of the acintya-śakti present in rati, prema, sneha, rāga, māna, praṇaya, anurāga and mahā-bhāva, which are the supreme transformations of the hlādinī śakti. Thus, bhāva exists separately from prema and sneha and other advanced stages exist separately from prema. An example is given. The bālya body of Kṛṣṇa attains a little more sweetness and attains the paugaṇḍa state, but without giving up the bālya state. The paugaṇḍa body then attains more excellence and becomes the kaiśora body, without giving up the previous condition. It is unlike the material body, which, on attaining boyhood gives up its baby body. This is because all the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa during all His ages with all His bodies are eternal. When Kṛṣṇa enters His paugaṇḍa body, the bālya body disappears, and then appears in the universe in which His bālya pastimes are about to begin. The bālya body appears wherever the bālya pastimes begin, in the Vṛndāvana within a particular universe. The bālya body of Kṛṣṇa will also appear in a future kalpa of Brahmā during the Vaivasvata manvantara when Vṛndāvana appears on earth again.”/li

liOne can understand Kṛṣṇa to the degree of one’s attachment to Him/li

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liThe symptom of ecstatic madness known as udghūrṇā based on Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi, Gīta-mālā, Jaiva-dharma, Lalita-Mādhava, Stavāvalī/li

liCaitanya-caritāmṛta Antya 19.36-51/li

liCaitanya Mahāprabhu recites verses about Kṛṣṇa/li

liThe different rasas are associated with different colours/li

liEven when Kṛṣṇa is a child He is said to have a deep voice/li

liKṛṣṇa is kalā-nidhi, the reservoir of art and culture: Tagging on Kṛṣṇa consciousness to any culture is alright initially as a preaching strategy but ultimately we are going towards Kṛṣṇa’s culture/li

liCulture of other religions is not definite, not defined according to the Absolute realm so it shifts – unchanging culture is not subject to the modes/li

liVerses addressing Providence/li

liReading Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura’s commentary to Bhāg.10.39.19/li

liLord Caitanya’s detachment: He can walk away from His devotees without looking back/li

liServices are not actions under one’s own control but expressions of the Lord’s supreme mercy – Reading Bṛhad-Bhāgavatāmṛta 2.3.138-142./li

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