Jagat

"I am not able to abandon even Sairindhri (Kubja), O Uddhava! So how can I abandon the residents of Vraja?" In order to reveal this truth, Krishna went to Kubja's home to enjoy with her.

Once again, after a series of meditations on the sādhaka devotee living in the worldly Vrindavan to a sphūrti of the Divnie Couple and then of the kinkaris serving them, Prabodhananda Saraswati returns to a glorification of the Dham itself. It is the beauty and sweetness of the Dham itself and its residents that reveal Radha and Krishna to the devotee who has taken up a vow of residence there.

I am feeling a bit blissful today. I am going to escape to a holiday in Barsana, and if Radharani is merciful, I will spend it in the proximity of Binode Bihari Baba and his merry band of bairagi bhajananandis. Oh how I have looked forward to this day! There is a lot of preeti for me in Barsana. In my crazy life... what kind of crazy... I guess I have been talking a lot about my crazy in the past few weeks. But, today, I am diving deeply into a project that I have been meaning to do for a long time: I am finally getting into revising the current available English translation of Bhaktivinoda Thakur's Jivani. I cannot tell you all how much I feel guru-kripa raining down on me as I read this book with care. So let me take care to thank two Ukrainian devotees, Hanna Chaikovska (Anu Krishna Dasi) and Muraliswara Das, who have been continuously pressuring me into doing this task after exacting my promises, and without whose insistence and strong desire, I would probably s...