sei bhakta-gana haya dvi-vidha prakara
parisad-gana eka, sadhaka-gana ara

Such pure devotees are of two types: personal associates [parisats]
and neophyte devotees [sadhakas].
Perfect servitors of the Lord are considered His personal associates, whereas devotees endeavoring to attain perfection are called neophytes. Among the associates, some are attracted by the opulences ofthe Personality of Godhead, and others are attracted by nuptial love of Godhead. The former devotees are placed in the realm of Vaikuntha to render reverential devotional service, whereas the latter devotees are placed in Vrndavana for the direct service of Sri Krsna.
 
 
Here the categories of great devotees are given…it is explained that the sadhaka is the neophyte devotee who is advancing on the basis of following regulative pricniples for the purpose of allowing the natural attraction for Krishna to take place. And Lord’s personal associates are those pure devotees who have attained the perfection of life in the sense that they are attracted by the natural instincts to the loving service of the Lord. And here it is descried that such pure devotees are categorized as those who are attracted by the opulence of the Personality of Godhead and all who are attracted by the natural love of the Godhead. (some question)..it means very intimate. So the former is placed the the dham of Vaikuntha. Vaikuntha is that place where those pure souls who have completely immersed in the loving surrender to the Lord dwell having the same bodily features as the Lord as His eternal servitor. In the Vaikuntha planets everyone recognizes that the Narayan is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the absolute truth and how infinitely blissful it is that they never have to suffer bitrth and death they never have to suffer old age or disease but in pure spiritual bodies they reciprocate loving service to the Lord. The Lord is the supreme master and they are the eternal loving servants. This is vaikuntha dham, the spiritual world. But it is descried in Brahma samhita and also explained here by Srila Prabhupada that of all the vaikuntha planets- Goloka is considerd as the highest of all spiritual realms. Because there the sense of awe and reverence is forgotten due to an intensification of ones intimate affection for Lord Shri Krishna. And in goloka vrindavan essentially there are three rasas sakhya rasa, vatsalya rasa and madhurya rasa. Loving friendship, love as a parent as well as love as conjugal lover. And it is described that even the servants of the Lord are mixed with these higher, more intimate affections. In vaikuntha no one considers himself to be Narayan friend, what to speak of his parent or his lover.
 
They are all his eternal obedient servants and worship Him with love. There are many vaikuntha planets. Each of the ten avatars, in fact all of the great avatars, have their own vaikuntha plantes. There is the vaikuntha planet where Lord Narsighdev is the supreme. there is a vakuntha planet for vamandeva,for parashuram, lord ramchandra. and those devotees who become purified in worshiping them in this world they returned to that vaikuntha planet of the lord whom they consider worshipable ishtadev for all of eternity.so the eternal lord of ayodhya where lord shri ram is residing. it is a very hiigh vaikuntha planet. there we find hanumnanji who is the eternal servant of ram. he simply wants to obediently engage in ram's service day and night, carry out whatever order he hans. he does not considered himself as the friend of the lord. he considers himself simply the the mose fortunate of all living beings because he is ever allowed by the grace of ram to engage in his obeidient service such an exaulted position. this is awe and revenrance. but you see in vrindavan suvh a servant as hanuman would not fit becauese in vrindavan nobody is the obedient servant of krishna. everyone is in the house of nand maharaj or nand gram, it is explained by the goswamis. although he has servants inthe dasya rasa, how do they serve him. Nand maharaj, yashoda they have their young cowherd boy swho are like servants, you get this for krishna you do this for krishna who do ...there are house servants they are in dasya rasa. but what do they do always serving krishna, they joke with Him, they put their arms on Him,they embrace him. this is the natural love of vrindavan. there is no formalities amoongst anybody. even the peacocks and the birds, trees nobody in the vrindavan has a formal relationship with krishna even those apperantly in shant rasa, dasya rasa they are actually all mixed very very intimately with sakhya rasa, vatsalya rasa and conjugal rasa. therefor the sense of awe and reverance does not exist in vraja dham. this is the realm of vaikuntha.
 
What to speak if hanumanji go to vrindavan and he would see the gopies chastising krishna, he can never chastise ram, and he would see krishna pouring his tears upon the feet of Radharani begging forgiveness, because she is angry with Him.How would hanumanji tolerate his Ram in such a position what to speak of friends jumping on His back, playing with Him, defeatin Him in restling. this is the difference between vaikuntha and goloka. and Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has come along with his eternal associates to bring this spirit of spontaneous loving devotion in the mood of the vrajvasis to this world. Actually in goloka Vrindavan ther are five rasas in which principle rasas in which Lord Krishna is served- neutrality (shant rasa),servitorship (dasya rasa), friendship (sakhya rasa), parental affection (vatsalya rasa), conjugal love (madurya rasa). and in that conjugal love there are different neighborhoods in goloka. there is Mathura, Dwaraka, Navadwip, and Goloka Vrindavan. and in the plave of Dwaraka on this supreme planet Krishna is worshipped in conjugal love, what is called swakiya rasa,where he is married to His consorts. But in His original, most highest form of love Govinda, the conjugal rasa is in the parakiya mood, which means paramor and is considered to be the sweetest and highest expression that a jivatmaor the eternal associates are reciprocating with Sri Krishna. but factually in vrindavan everyone in all the rasas is tainted to some extent with this conjugal rasa because it is so so prominant thougout the entire atomosphere that every living being is influened very much in love of Krishna by this. so therefore Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami is explaining the suprememost exalted position of worshiping Govinda in goloka vrindavan. and throughout in this material world, this is a place of birth and death, it is a place of suffering. ... karmakandis, they perform great tapasya and perform wonderful wonderful sacrifice and great pious activities and charities and take so many vowes in order to attain higher levels of sense enjoyments in the heavenly planets. the vedas are divided essentially in these different categories and most of the vedas teach us karmakanda, the path of pious sense enjoyment through worshipping demigods, through performing charity, piety, sacrifice and pooja.
 
We can attain chandraloka, indraloka, brahmaloka, where we could live millions sometimes billions of years. and never have to suffer untill our karma is exausted and then we have to come back to this world abrahma buvanal loka punar avartino arjuna...therefore Krishna says forget this karmakanda, its so temporary, its for the less intelligent. although Krishna says tri-vidham narakasyedam dvaram nasanam. He says vedas mostly deal with karmakanda, they mostly deal with three modes of material nature, transcend these things, give them up arjuna, one who is frustrated, after going up and down from the heavanly planet enjoying and suffering, one fiinally comes to the platform where this whole material world is a place of misery. then they take to the process of gnyanakanda, through discriminationa and through studying vedanta renouncing the pleasures of this world we can ultimately attain mukti. Mukti means that level of consciousness which is millions of times more blissful in any pleasurable condition even in heavenly plantes because it is a place where you are situated atlast in your eternal constitutional position in the sense that you never have to see birth and death again. sat-chit-ananda, you have attained sat- eternal life, but as it is explained in the Bagavatam arujya tisthen param padam tataha that eventually becuse this soul is pleasure seeking it has not find the love that it is looking for in mukti. so it comes down again in this material world. so from from karmakanda to gnyanakanda some people in the middle they follow the principles of the vedas, astangakanda, where they want to attain great great mystic powers. there are eight mystic siddhis that ine can attain, prapti siddhi where you can take anything from anywhere, if you want you can get the soma nector from the moon.
 
Srila Prabhupada knew one man who had prapti siddhi. if somebody wanted a pomagranade from Kabul, Afaganisthan then within seconds he produced it. this is prapti siddhi. anima siddhi, laghima siddhi, you can become smaller than the smallest, bigger than the biggest. you can another persons mind, you can get control of other peoples lives, you can create planets. these are some of the eight mystik perfections. but ultimately they are all temporary. so after that frustration one seeks out mukti. after seeking that even mukti is not our constitutional postion one takes to the path of Upasanakanda. so these are the four principles kandas or paths within the vedas- karmakanda (fruitive activity), astangakanda (mystic power), gnyankanda or mukti and upasanakanda which is the path of Bhakti. when one perfects the path of bhakti, there are two levels, one will be elevated to the vaikunta where we worship the Lord in awe and reverence and the other is to attain the highest of realm of the vaikunta which is goloka vrindavan where one is simply worshipping krishna in the most intimately pure love and the followers of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu headed by Krishnada Kaviraj Goswami who has given us his life in teaching in its most authoritative form, are teaching the most exaulted characteristics of what Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has given to the world. namo...Swarup damodar goswami prayed that this this beautiful Supreme Personality of Godhead has appeared like the moon in the coming from ocean of the womb of mother Sachi, it has come to bestow upon the world what no one else has ever done. Access into the conjugal loving relationships to Lord Sri Krishna in goloka vrindavan. so ofcourse we know that there are many pious people and ther are many religious people who are teaching verious forms of spirituality to the various religions around the world and ofcourse Krishna says sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah, abondone all varieties of religion and just surrendered unto me. in kaliyuga most all of the so called religious teachers are not teaching surrender to God.
 
They are teaching karmakanda, you will get nice material benefits if you worship god and you will also be saved in the end. people follow such persons because they want better material life and they want some sense of security of the here of the hereafter. and here in India we find many gurus teaching the astangakanda how to attain mystic powers, how to perform miracle through breath control, through manipulations of ones life airs, through tapasya, fasting and so forth. and we also find many spiritual teachers who are teaching ultimatly the goal of life is salvation or mukti. and people strive through births after births after births to attain such a level. it very very rare to find one who teaching pure devotion and those who are teaching pure devotion must everyone is teaching pure devotion in the mood of awe and reverance in vaikuntha. so therefore in relationship to interfaith we understand that the god is one and anyone who is teaching without adulteration what is in various scriptures of teh world they are teaching real religion and therefore we offer all respects to such a person. whereas the same time we should be very joyful in knowing comparatively what Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and his divine associates are giving. they are giving the most pure essence of the highest realizations of that one Supreme Godhead. how to love Krishna as a friend, as a parent as conjugal over. ofcourse in neophyte position most of us are somehow or other struggling withiin, we may not be able to artificially imitate this high levels of realizations but we can understand the exalted nature of teh acharyas who on this postion. and we could pray that forthe rest of eternity we can take the dust of the lotus feet of such exalted persons upon our head and follow in their footsteps and ultimately by their mercy it is guarrented that we will also be given entrance into the lila of Sri Sri RadhaGopinath in the spiritual realm of goloka. after describing this KKG is about to explain in next several verses the different categories of incarnations of Godhead. Krishna is known as Avatari that means he is the source of all incarnations.
 
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is also considered as Avatari he is source of all incarnations. so we are about.. he has just explained the avatari, his nature, and types of devotees that realized the avatari in his various forms, and now he is about to explain the various incarnations tha tthe Lod reveals within this material world as well as in the upper worlds, in the spiritul worlds.and this is very very interesting subject matter. actually Srila Bhakti siddhanta Sarasvati Thaur explain that if one very very carefully studies categorically the various incarnation of godhead, his partial incarnations, qualitative incarnations, his empowerd incarnation such a person becomes purified of all material desires and attains love of godhead. so this is when we first make a study it apperas very very complex how, where , why the Lord is manifesting himself in many wondeerful ways, but actually if it is presented systimatically according to the shastra with a carefull explaination and study it will not be the only mind but will give great great satisfaction to the heart. we can see how Krishna is so infinitely great and is all simply for the purpose of the to resist one is because of his infinite love for the conditioned souls he reaches out to our hearts by exapnding himself in so many wonderful ways and to for the sake of lila, for the sake simply expanding the pleasurs of teh spiritual world. so begining monday we will begin to describe various categories of the incarnations of godhead and I would like it if someone could give me some sort of either board or black board something, we have to make some sort of charts. without charts it is very difficult to visulaize and understand how these various incarnations relate to one another and... do we have...i may need four four boards.... just card board and some dark .. (some disscusion ..you know white white sheets...) no thats all right, something thats big, (it can rolled when you are not using it) so monday we will enter into the realm of the Lord's various incarnations. Thank you very much.
 
 
 
Adhau shraddha... what does adhau means... in the begining... adhau shradhha tatha sadhu sanga ,bhajan kriya this means that begninning this way when Krish...one sees by the mercy of Krishna one is let into the association of devotees. ishwaraha sarva bhutanam hrddeshe arjuna tishthati Krishna is in everyones heart. when when by the mercy of Krishna, when he sees that there is little spark of faith, He directs us to the assocition of devotees. He is the one that brings us into the association of devotees. Beside what Radhakrishna prabhu was saying so many people met Prabhupada, nobody meets Prabhupada by accident. It is only by the mercy of Krishna one gets guru whether you accept or not that is your choice but it is only by the mercy of Krishna that one gets guru. so only by the mercy of Krishna that one can have te assocition of sadhus. so when Krishna sees that there is some desire perhaps created by previous associations of last lifes, by some development of religiousity in our last life, by often times its by agynat sukruti when we even unknowingly appreciate a devotee or unknowingly give some donation or appreciate someone that creates a spark of faith in sublime process of bhakti in our heart. and when that spark is there Krishna from within the hearts directs us to sadhu satsanga. so at begining there is that little faith, then in the association of devotees it is explained in the beginining one must have a preliminary desire for self realization. this would bring one to the stage of trying to associate with persons who are spiritualy elevated. in the next stage one becomes initiated by an elevated spiritual master and under his instruction the neophyte devotee begins the process of devotional service. that is bhajan-kriya. by execution of devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual maser one becomes free from all material attachment that is anartha-nivrutti that means all unwanted things are cleansed from our heart. then one attains steadiness, steadiness means nishtha means our faith becomes unshakable. and then acquire one acquires higher taste param drstva nivartate which is ruchi. that higher taste is the begining of raganuga bhakti, spontaneous devotional service. but please understand that raganuga bhakti is still under the category of sadhana. sadhana bhakti has two categories vaidhi bhakti and raganuga bhakti. vaidhi bhakti means you really have no taste or very little if we are out of discipline and austerity we do we accept those favourable and reject those unfavourable. the second part of sadhana bhakti is when we have no more anartha nivrutti, all of the unwanted desires are cleansed form our heart and we have a spontaneous taste for Krishna. we simply want to engage in his service. that is called ruchi. and then according to Rupa Goswami how does he word it ....yatha ruchis tatha, atha shaktis ...that is explained in the teachings of Lord Chaitanya as rati or attachement is in the actual verse atha shaktis which mean attachment tapobhavas, that develops into bhava.
 
It is described in this literal translation after one acquires a taste in hearing about the Supreme Personality of Godhead that taste leads one forward to attachment for Krishna consciousness which is matured into bhava or the preliminary stage of love of god.and then prema real love of god which is the highest perfectional stage of love. atha shaktis tatho bhavas tatha premabudanshati satak ayam premnat .......any questions...(question being asked)

you can not attain this love. but by the mercy of Krishna and by the mercy of Guru this level is revealed to you. simply by faithfully chanting the holy names and faithfully pleasing our spiritual master and Krishna. Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gives this realization. you cannot attain it. he gave it to Jagai and Madhai instantly. you don't think He can give it to you.Do you think your fallen condition is so great the it is more poerful than god himself? that is another type of false pride. that I am so fallen that Krishna cannot give me the highest, beyond His power. my my power of sin is greater than His power of deliverance. yes we are most fallen and we have no power to even control our senses but if we surrender to Krishna and fall at the feet of Krishna and call out the His holy name offenselessly and we call out the holy name of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and then He delivers us. he is all powerful, he is patit-pavana. He can give the most degraded the highest gift of the prema bhakti. so we must understand these things because if we don't understand these things we will understand the power or the mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. and thats why we are here, thats ultimately the whole purpose of this class- to understand the power of the mercy of Lord Chaitnya Mahaprabhu.if we try to understand the power of His mercy on the basis of all relative conception of he is an ordinary person like us and since I am so fallen He can't do it. when we understand what heights of teh gifts He has given to the lost fallen degraded creatures of earth then we understand that there in no one so beautiful so great and so meciful as god in this form of Sri Gauranga. Yes this life you can attain this stage if you simple accept His mercy. Lord Nityananda he was the most important _______ of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mission. and what did he say? just accept the mercy of Lord Gauranga. Bhaja Gaurango, kaho gaurango, laho gaurangera naam re, je jana gaurango sehai mora prana re. what does that mean? (someone answering). thats how there is. that is all Nityananda taught. he sent he sent millions of people, billions of people back to goloka vrindavan on the basis of this one little mantra Bhaja Gaurango, kaho gaurango. just accept the name of Gauranga.
 
Just take the mercy of Gauranga. that is the only qualification just take it, just accept it. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has come as a patit...Narottam das thakur has prayed patit pavan hetu tab avatar, mosam patit prabhu na paibe aar. This means Chaitanya Mahaprabhu you have come to give the most fallen and degreded people the highest realization of prema bhakti. but my claim is first I am the most fallen. so rather than being disturbed thinking that am so fallen, how will I ever understand these highest highest understandings love of god. rather being disturbed you should be encouraged, you should be thinking that how infinitely merciful Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is, if I simple accept His mercy He will give me this........... what do you think? we are reading Chaitanya charitamrita all this philosophy ultimately is meant to bring us to this one point of understanding the glory of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy and accepting it. by reading CC and by going through all this very deep philosophy we can we can have some glimpse of how great the mercy of Sri Gauranga is. In all the great acharyas this is the prayer to Sri Gauranga. Rupa Goswami prayed namo mahavadanyaya Krishnaprema pradayate, krishnay krishnachaitanya namine gaurtvishe namah. no other incarnation in the histiry of all the creations of all the universes is ever been so munificient manifest befactor as you. you are giving the conjugal love of Krishna freely to anyone who accept your mercy. even the most fallen. what is your mercy? to be the servant of your devotees and to sincerely chant your holy names. you are giving us a simple process,and through this process you are giving the highest realizations which are unattainable even Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva can not attain. it is explained in beautiul prayers that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has come to give it freely to everyone.
 
Therefore Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami in one beautiful shloka of Chaitanya Charitamrita he explains that just try to understand the mercy of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and you will be astonished. what is that verse? (some devotee answering) what is the translation? (if you constantly think about the causeless mercy of Lord Chaitanya you will be astonished) (Maharaj laughing) Those who have some intellectual capacity, Krishnadas Kaviraj invites please try to apply your good intelligence to understand the mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. because when you understand the nature of this mercy you will be astonished. there are many vaishnav schools and it is not a question of being arrogent or being thinking we are better than you. but the gaudiya vaishnavas, because of this .. the nature of this mercy which is revealed in the Chaitanya Charitamrita, in Chaitanya Bhagavata by Rupa and Sanatana, Raghunath das, Jiva Goswami, we understand that of all vaishnava schools to receive the mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the most special, precious gift coming from above. because by that causeless mercy the highest reaches down to the lowest. where there is no qualification necessary except one- to simply accept his mercy. there is no other qualifiaction. if there is any other qualifications what we are saying is true, what you are saying is absolutely true if we have to qualify ourselves to become prema bhaktis.But there is only one qualification, Lord Nityananda said just take the name of Gauranga, just receive his mercy and you will be my life and soul. you see we are talking about the conjugal love affiars of Radh and Krishna, and when Nityananda prabhu was preaching he understood that the conjugal love of Radha and Krishna is so high that we can not grasp it. people can not understand it. Chaitnya Mahaprabhu was teaching how to attain the highest love of god in conjugal affection with Radha and Krishna. He was teaching that directly. but Lord Nityananda was thinking that people will not.. they are too fallen, too degraded, they can not enter into this conjugal love of Radha and Krishna, but if they just accept Lord Gauranga, they automatically attain that. Because He is the embodiment of that conjugal love of Radha and Krishna within Himself. If you get the mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, you have their mercy, you have you already entered into the conjugal love of Radh and Krishna. Nitaichandra padakamlayor koti chandra sushitalapi.
 
Therefore it is explained by Narottam das Thakur that if you attain that the shade of the lotus feet of Lord Nitaynanda only will you enter into the realm of the conjugal love affairs of Radha and Krishna. Because Lord Nityananda is bringing you to the feet of Lord Gauranga, who is the embodment of Radha and Krishna's conjugal love affairs. the spirituaal master is the representative of Lord Nityananda, so in this line coming down through Gaur-Nitai. if we simply receive the mercy and how to receive the mercy? By just being a humble servant and following the instructions. You could do that. Can you not do that? that something you might be hard,you might be difficult for, you can do it. if you simply do that from your heart, and by the mercy of Lord Gaursundar all of the sins you are reading about will become an irrevokable realization within your own life. (some question) one should aspire to receive the cause less mercy of Sri Gauranga. (Maharaj laughs .....question) we can not but by the grace of Gauranga we can. So we should simply try to attain the mercy of our spiritual master and try to attain the mercy of Lord Gauranga and understand that it is by their gift that this realization is coming. not our aspiration for that. our aspiration ..chaitanya Mahaprabhu simply aspired to be the servant of the servant of the servant. If you do that this will all be give to you. (Maharaj laughs....question) we should be pessimestic towards ourselves but optimistic toward mercy of guru and Gauranga. Isn't that the way all the acharyas pray, (Maharaj laughs) Supreme hope. Rupa goswami said one must have hope against hope then you will achieve the mercy of Sri Gauranga. therefore this is the supreme optimism. The ultimate mercy of God has descended like rain (.........) willing to expose our entire life to that downpour of love of god Krishna, Nitai-Gauranga have brought to this world. param karuna pahu duijana nitai gaurchandra, sab avatara sar shiromani keval anandkand.
 
Lochana das thakur who is also the Chaitanya Managala, one of the original biographis of Sri chaitanya Mahaprabhu, he wrote this bhajana. param karuna pahu duijana nitai gaurchandra, that that the supreme param karuna, the supreme notion of mercy, supreme mercy is being distributed.................see by following Lord... Chanting, dancing and feasting. By chanting, dancing and feasting you can not attain love of god, but by chanting, dancing and feasting you can receive the mercy of Lord Nityandanda and Lord Gaurchandra. then they may give you that love of god. that is their mercy. that is what they have come for. we must understand the power of their mercy. by the Supreme personality of Godhead. We must dedicate our life to that. (some question)Because if you don't consider yourself most fallen, you can not reach out for mercy. Mercy is not come to qualified people, if you are qualified for something, would it be mercy? What is the definition of mercy? You don't deserve it, but you are getting it anyway. right? If you go a store besides say we want to by a Maruti van. We go to the store, we give Five lakhs and say "give me Maruti van". They give you the van. Do you say" Oh, you are very merciful"? Do you say that? but what if you go the store and say "I have no money, but for my guru maharaj I want this van". Then he says "oh, you don't have to pay, just use it properly". Then would you say that, that person is merciful. So what is the definition of mercy? you don't deserve it, but you get it anyway. not by your qualification but by the benevelonce of the giver. that is what mercy means. if you think you are qualified there is no question of mercy. but if you consider yourself the most fallen, the most undeserving and you are on a proper state of consciousness by which the Lord will be mercyful upon you. (some question) This all should be less. (Question) spontaneous devotion.(question and discussion among devotees) Bhava is not part of sadhana bhakti. (discussion follows) yes...yes... not bhava, raga (discussion )sadhana means vaidhi bhakti and raga bhakti. (discussion follows) that is at higher level. raganuga bhakti meansthe original .... raga also extends itself beyond sadhana bhakti. after all, after all is there not attachement in the spiritual world? but it is beyond, that attachemtn is mixed with bhava to that point. its its its crystalize into pure state of bhava and then prema. that attachment. (Devotee explains what maharaj is saying) yes it is ...() everything is contained everywhere,when raganuga exists everything is being added to it. do you think when you have primary (discussion) everything is included. but this is described in the raga .