Shri Krishna's Teachings

                                            Figure 1 - Krishna (by Pete Linforth)

       Summary From the Book Madhurya, the Rasa of Sweetness

The Lord gave me the position of founder and spiritual leader of an additional religious expression to the world and entitled it as New Age Bhagavata (Neo Bhagavata) Religion . We write together what is revealed in this side of the world in the form of books and other resources.

Shri Krishna addresses this religion as a new path that can be offered whenever new is deserved. He proposes new formulas and implements new arguments, but they all exist forever. He wishes to reveal what has not yet been revealed and therefore there must be no contradictions in the minds of those for whom He gives knowledge.

This new religious expression was introduced at first as the Temple of Neo Bhagavata Faith, in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). As part of daily activities of the same Temple, there are my daily interactions with the Lord, from which the need to teach Rasa-tattva was born.

I proposed a joint reading of Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura's work Jaiva-dharma with Krishna. This work is full of important transcendental realizations, being one of my best literary guides. Joint reading with Krishna occurs through interaction of my reasoning mind in the linear world with my transcendental consciousness which reciprocates experiences with Him.

Twelve texts were generated because of this effort.

In the introduction, He stood thus: "There is a science that can be developed on this question (rasa-tattva). Here I want to deepen it, in order to provide the human being the opportunity to find Me through its own understandings. It will facilitate the soul's apprehension of what will make it be with Me."

The main intention behind the exhibition of madhura-rasa-lila to Earth is to make available for humans the opportunity to realize the Supreme Person.

In "Rasa-tattva, Principles of Divine Love", one of this texts that I wrote with Him, Shri Hari teaches that Radharani is the embodiment of female counterpart of the Conjugal Love in its fullest perfection and, from Her, flows all other conformations of the feminine aspect with which He co-creates and articulate the multiple manifestations of madhura-rasa. All these conformations are in Her and belong to Her. This way, Shri Radhe is complete and fully pleases Krishna. He has Her as one that makes Him satisfied by articulating love with complete perfection.

One who cultivates deep love for the Lord while living in the material reality moves from the materiality of the universe to His eternal abode and such transfer can occur even while living consciously, having a physical body on the planet, to the eternal pastimes. Rare events of this type are made only to manifest something from this relationship and are recorded forever in the spiritual history of society.

There are religions and other ways through which the Lord manifests Himself. To be noticed, the Lord exposes Himself in different bhavas, among which madhurya is expressed through many resources: Shrimad Bhagavatam, the devotional literature of Brahma-Madhava-Gaudiya-Sampradaya acharyas, the hymns of Andal and poetic writings of Mirabai.

I am now building a part of what my beloved Consort wants me to accomplish while I remain associated with the field of material existence. At the same time, I am with Him in transcendental experience.

By means of this New Age Bhagavata (Neo Bhagavata) Religion, Krishna teaches us to review our values and change our opinions whenever this becomes necessary to make ourselves open for profound insights. Even Arjuna had the necessity to understand that he needed to open up to what Krishna was offering him.

Keshava instructed him deeply, what is exposed in the eternal and forever contemporary Bhagavad-Gita. In one of His teachings, Madhava tells us that the “failure to comply with the prescribed duty leads the soul to the failure of its interactions with what it has to perform as part of what it represents in the totality that contains everything, including itself and its tasks".

Failure to do what the person needs to do is unsatisfactory and makes life sterile and misguided. Therefore, I am just fulfilling my duty, completely supported by my vishaya in madhurya bhava. My duty involves the activities I must realize as a heading master for this New Age’s Madhurya religious manifestation. I am letting Him guide me. I have to be able to assist the footsteps of those who wish to give themselves the chance of getting intimate knowledge around the procedures of this new religion. This is what is externalizing while I serve the Lord in prema-bhakti, completely absorbed in transcendental consciousness.

Shri Krishna teaches that the love feeling that He reciprocates with the soul is as intense as the soul allows itself to cultivate and there are no limits in which He relates with His devotees. The Lord allows access to His Eternal Abode whenever, through self-realization, the soul overcomes the imperfect understandings about its nature.

In His Eternal Abode, I assume the condition of consort. But it is important to mention that to get the current condition within the relationship with Shri Hari, I had to go through many different phases. In them, I lived the characteristic symptoms of each stage, which He gave to me gradually. Such symptoms are called anubhavas. Krishna explains in Rasa-tattva that Bhava is what appears when there is some kind of interaction. It can be more or less depth, varying according to the manner that He expresses Himself through the same relation. It manifests in the form of symptoms and changes in the character and body of the person that is pleased to relate with Him.

The changes in character and feelings of each new moment that I lived until writing of this book were being translated into my poetic expressions.

 

Questions/Answers

Dialogue Between V d and Guru Ma Shri

1. It is often said that a pure devotee never even desires 5 kinds of liberation - Salokya, Sampiya, Sarupya, Sarshti, Sayujya instead he desires that life after life he gets devotion to the Lord.

What does this mean? I believe Sampiya Moksha is extremely desirable.

To start answering this question, let's remember the five types of liberation mentioned in the Srimad Bhagavatam (3.29.13): salokya - going to live in the Lord's abode; sampiya - getting close to Him, no matter where He is; sarupya - acquiring a form similar to the Lord's; sarshti - getting the same opulence as Him; and sayujya - entering His body (merging with Him). From this we understand that the pure devotee already has everything he / she needs to have, and there is no need to desire anything else. After all, pure devotion is immersion in transcendental love and divine life, when you experience what you are together with the Person of God. By being in this kind of consciousness, pure devotee has transcended any kind of desire that doesn't belong to him or her. This can correspond to a salokya, sampiya, sarupya, sarshti or sayujya type of liberation and/or a mixture of one or more of these types of liberations. We have what we need when we serve the Lord with purity, according to our eternal destiny. As for believing that sampiya moksha is desirable, V d, it is natural for those who love Krishna to cultivate in their hearts the desire to always be close to Him. Vipralambha is even a deep feeling of amorous separation that the impression of distance gives us. However, let's understand that when we are liberated, we no longer distance ourselves from Him, even though at times Madhava inspires such a feeling of separation in us, from which He enjoys when experiencing our deep love for His Person.

Figure 2 - Krishna (by Satheesh Sankaran)