Who is Radha? – Ananta Das Babaji Radha is like…Krishna is direct god that means Svayam Bhagvan. Radharani is his fullest power. Like milk and the white colour of milk – same. No difference. Radha and Krishna are the same. Krishna is the fullest god and Radharani is fullest spiritual power of god. Radharani is full prema, from Radharani’s lotus feet to hair is all maha bhav. One drop of prema can sink whole world. Millions of worlds. An ocean of prema. One drop can sink the whole universe. Rasa and Prema. Radharani is the fullest prema ocean. Nobody can explain. Radharani is Radharani. Nobody can explain or teach what is Radharani? Take Radharani’s name and take shelter of Radharani’s lotus feet, automatically mercy will come from Radharani, and your nice heart will find how is Radharani? Beauty, Prema, Nectar, Happiness, Ocean – that is Radharani. Without Radharani mercy nobody can taste Krishna. Krishna’s mercy comes only by prema, that prema similarly Radharani. When Radharani bhajan and devotion, mercy will come then you can taste what is god and what is spiritual. Sri Ananta Das Babaji
Mahaprabhu – Ananta Das Babaji
If Mahaprabhu is not there then Gaudiya Vaishnavas they are nothing. If Mahaprabhu is there madhurya is there. Radha-Krishna everywhere. Wherever Mahaprabhu is there it is the Vrindavan mood. There is only one Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The Gaudiya Vaisnav mood is manjari-bhav. Sri Ananta Das Babaji
What is Vaisnavism? – Ananta Das Babaji
Vaisnavism is devotion. Vaisnavism is bhakti. The soul is a servant of Krishna. Krishna seva is your own soul’s welfare. The whole of samsara (reincarnation) is maya (illusory). So much suffering. From that time, away from Krishna, came this maya, all jivas (soul) are suffering. Our sastra (scriptures) and rishis (saints) whose heart is clean reveal the path. Sampraday, this is Krishna’s power and that power of devotion comes via Parampara, that is sampraday. Mahaprabhu is direct Krishna. Radha-Krishna. During Vraja-lila Krishna wanted to taste Radharani’s prema or love. How is her prema? I will taste that. For that desire, the result is Mahaprabhu. Mahaprabhu came for tasting Radharani’s prema. Mahaprabhu came with all his Vraja parshadas (associates), they came here and they all gave publicity to the whole world of Vraja-prem, Radha-prem and Radha-dasyam. That is our Gaudiya-Vaisnavism. Vaisnavism and Gaudiya-Vaisnavism is different. Narayan seva only gives dasya-rasa. In our Gaudiya it is madhurya-rasa and Vraja bhav. Mahaprabhu. That is Gaudiya Vaisnavism. Sri Ananta Das Babaji
Spiritual and Material – Ananta Das Babaji
Spiritual and Material. Atma and this Body. When anyone dies the atma (soul) leaves this body. God has three powers. God is transcendental. One is internal. The svarupa-sakti is made of sandhini, samvit and hladini. Radharani shakti power. That is transcendental. Then jiva-sakti and maya-sakti – another two. Jiva-sakti is in the middle side. One side is antaranga power. One side is maya-sakti. Jiva sakti is the middle. Antaranga-sakti power comes to him, he will go to god’s place. That is spiritual. If maya-sakti attachment comes – you will go to the material world. That direction is only God’s power. That power will only come by devotion and Krishna-bhajan. So do Sri Krishna-bhajan so you can feel what is spiritual and material. Like light and dark. Spiritual is light and Material is dark. When you begin sadhana (spiritual practice) gradually your heart will become clean, name chanting and other devotion. Then you will know what is spiritual and material. Sri Ananta Das Babaji
Raganuga Bhakti – Ananta Das Babaji
On the path of raganuga-bhakti, meditating on the divine pastimes is the main sadhana, however in the primary stage we are not qualified for lila-smaran (meditation on the pastimes). Therefore, we should concentrate more on hearing, chanting and following the other rules of bhakti. Then as our consciousness gets more and more purified, we are drawn towards lila-smaran. Slowly our smaran becomes more intense. Ultimately when we reach the zenith of bhajan, lila-smaran naturally becomes the major part of bhajan. Srila Ananta das Babaji