Jagat

P.C. Vrindavan Experience vṛndāvane sakala-pāvana-pāvane’smin sarvojjvalojjvalad-udāra-matiḥ sadāste | sarvottamottama-mahā-mahimany anante sarvādbhutādbhuta-mahā-rasa-rāja-dhāmni || My mind always remains lofty, illuminated by the  ujjvala-rasa here in this Vrindavan, which purifies even the purifiers, which has infinite glories, greater than the greatest of all glories, the abode of the most wondrous manifestation of the supreme king of rasa! Commentary Prabodhananda continues to glorify the Dham with arms upraised and spirits lifting. This is the ecstatic abode of the  ujjvala rasa , which as we will gradually see throughout this book, is meant the very same spirit that is at the heart of the  Rādhā-rasa-sudhā-nidhi . kiṁ brūmo’nyatra kuṇṭhīkṛtaka-janapade dhāmny api śrī-vikuṇṭhe rādhā-mādhurya-vettā madhupatir atha tan-mādhurīṁ vetti rādhā | vṛndāraṇya-sthalīyaṁ parama-rasa-sudhā-mādhurīṇāṁ dhurīṇā tad-dvandva-svādanīyaṁ sakalam api dadau rādhikā-k...

There is no other bhakta like Vamsi; Gaurasundar is his siksha guru, and Vishnupriya Devi is his diksha guru. Just before Gauranga took sannyasa, He taught him Krishna's  rasa-rāja upāsanā  doctrine. These teachings are recorded in  Vaṁśī-śikṣā  by Premadas Mishra, the great grand-disciple of Ramai Thakura. In this chapter Mahaprabhu will tell what Krishna’s rasa-rāja upāsanā is and also explain how we can perform it. Then we will examine some of Vamsivadan's poetry and his rare book entitled Sri Gaurāṅga-līlāmṛta . Vaṁśī-śikṣā invocatory verses abhinna-rasa-rājāya śrī-śacīnandanāya ca gurave bhakta-rūpāya caitanyāya namo namaḥ śṛṅgāra-rasa-saṁmagnaṁ śṛṅgāra-rūpakaṁ param sukhadaṁ śubhadaṁ devaṁ rasarājaṁ namāmy aham I offer my pranam so the son of Sachi, Who is non-different from Rasa-rāja Krishna, and Who takes the form of a bhakta-guru to teach His Rasa-rāja worship. Rasa-rāja Krishna is deeply fascinated by  śṛṅgāra  (conjuga...