Jagat

Krishna always tells Radha that he is merely a servant of the god of love, who is the real king of Vrindavan. And who are we? Servants of the goddess of love, the real queen of Vrindavan. How, indeed, will Love be served? Furthermore, the Guru of Vrindavan is a woman, Paurnamasi, who also serves Love and teaches God Himself service to Love. Strange, complex symbols. (12 years ago)

Kaladhari Ashram, Vrindavan anādau saṁsāre kati naraka-bhogā na vihitāḥ kiyanto brahmendrādy-atula-sukha-bhogāś ca nyakkṛtāḥ | tadāsminn ekasmin vapuṣi sukha-duḥkhe na gaṇayan sadaiva śrī-vṛndāvanam akhila-sāraṁ bhaja sakhe || In this beginningless world of repeated birth and death, how often have you not been condemned to suffer hell? And how many times have you not relished pleasures that eclipse even those of Brahma, Indra and the other gods? So, my friend, for just this one lifetime, give up all consideration of happiness or distress, and forever worship Sri Vrindavan, the essence of all things. This verse echoes an earlier one, " Give up chewing the already chewed (2.14) ." In  the previous verse , we traced the concept of Nature as manifest in Vrindavan, i.e., Vrindavan as archetypal Nature, seen as existing in the service of God, and thereby itself partaking of the sacred. The essence of the Vaishnava view is that of the non-differe...

My problems in Krishna consciousness arose out of the mostly literal interpretations given to the shastras by the devotees. There is a huge caveat in the Bhagavatam about everything that is said in that text: Krishna favors indirect speech.