Lets Chant Together

Speaker H.H Lokanath Goswami Maharaj
Date: 10-04-2025
Main Theme: “Service of the Manjaris and Contemplation on Divine Mellow (Rasa).”
Sub-Theme: Process of Chanting with intensity

When we hear and then we follow whatever we have heard it gives knowledge and then when we apply it it is scientifically called “Vigyan”.
Or one can say While chanting you go deep in meditation as it is said “sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam” while chanting we meditate on lord Vishnu that is krsna for us Gaudiya Vaishnavas. Srila Vishvanatha Charavarthi thakur in his commentary on the Vishnu Saharatranam, has written and proved that how each name of Vishnu is krsna’s name, we have to meditate and from that we develop love.
When we meditate or Chant, we remember, incase there is any person on place, you say now I remember, “re” – it means we knew him once or return where we have been before so remembering what we have forgotten by remembering we develop love he is wonderful. In case we remember Krsna we start thinking about Him.

shri-radhika-madhavayor apara- madhurya-lila-guna-rupa-namnam
prati-kshanasvadana-lolupasya vande guroh shri-charanaravindam

Translation

The spiritual master is always eager to hear and chant about the unlimited conjugal pastimes of Radhika and Madhava, and Their qualities, names, and forms. The spiritual master aspires to relish these at every moment. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.[Guru Ashtakam Text 5 by Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura

krsna is famous or distinguished for his conjugal pastimes prem Madhuri, lila Madhuri, venu Madhuri and rupa madhuri
This makes him stand apart from all other incarnations for example Lord Sri Ram and due to this he becomes more loveable. Then we feel we should love him this person is more lovely or sweet etc. Vallabhacharya mentions everything that is loveable about the lord eyes, heart, smile, form, walk etc

Sub-Theme: Remembering Sweetness of the Lord Sri Krsna

adharaṃ madhuraṃ vadanaṃ madhuraṃ nayanaṃ madhuraṃ hasitaṃ madhuram |
hṛdayaṃ madhuraṃ gamanaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram

Translation

His lips are sweet, His face is sweet, His eyes are sweet, His smile is sweet, His loving heart is sweet, His gait (walk) is sweet, Everything is completely sweet about the Lord of Sweetness.[ Madhurashtakam Text 1 by Vallabhacharya]

vacanaṃ madhuraṃ caritaṃ madhuraṃ vasanaṃ madhuraṃ valitaṃ madhuram
calitaṃ madhuraṃ bhramitaṃ madhuraṃ madhurādhipaterakhilaṃ madhuram

Translation

His words are sweet, His character is sweet, His dress (garment) is sweet, His posture is sweet, His movements are sweet, His wandering (roaming) is sweet, Everything is completely sweet about the Lord of Sweetness. [ Madhurashtakam Text 2 by Vallabhacharya]
When we remember this all the soul wants to love Krsna is the object of love, he does not care for the beauty love of the world renunciation appears and he develops krsna focused love love for everything related to krsna, like his abode, devotees, associated etc. One becomes Krsna focused with His name, form, pastimes, abode and not only krshna but also His related associates or devotees. He starts loving each one of them When Lord Chaitanya mahaprabhu appeared.

rupa goswami said
namo mahā-vadānyāya
kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te
kṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya-
nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ

Translation

“O most munificent incarnation! You are Kṛṣṇa Himself appearing as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and You are widely distributing pure love of Kṛṣṇa. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.
This love was not given by Chaitanya mahaprabhu alone the entire goloka Vrindavan appeared. Nawadwipa is hidden Vrindavan all the associates also appeared and together they made a joint effort to give this love of godhead to everyone. You can call it a team to deliver love of Godhead.

Srimati Radharani came also Nandababa who is jaganath Mishra, Yashoda as Sachi mata and 12 cowherd boys (Dwadhash Gopal) came too.

kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ
sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam
yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair
yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ

Translation

In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of Kṛṣṇa. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Kṛṣṇa Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions. [SB ŚB 11.5.32]

All the associates who were practioners parental love, friendly mellow, Lalita appeared along with vishaka and the 8 sakhis (Ashta Sakhi’s), many gopis appeared to like group leaders.

Sub-Theme: Service and Mellows of Manjaris

Left winged right winged like this there are 5 types of gopis, manjaris have also appeared.

rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād
ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau
caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ
rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

Translation

“The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.” [CC Adi 4.55]

The dealings of love between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are displayed as the pleasure potency of the Lord.
The six goswamis- plus two i.e The eight Goswamis The eight famous goswamis of Vrindavan are: Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami, Raghunatha Das Goswami, Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami, Gopala Bhatta Goswami, Jiva Goswami, Lokanatha Goswami, Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami They are none other than the Asta Manjaris in Krishna lila

kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī
dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau priya-karau nirmatsarau pūjitau
śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bhārāvahantārakau
vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau

Translation

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the six Gosvamis, namely Sri Rupa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, and Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, who are always engaged in chanting the holy name of Krishna and dancing. They are just like the ocean of love of God, and they are popular both with the gentle and with the ruffians, because they are not envious of anyone. Whatever they do, they are all-pleasing to everyone, and they are fully blessed by Lord Caitanya. Thus they are engaged in missionary activities meant to deliver all the conditioned souls in the material universe.[ “Prayers to the Six Gosvamis” by Srinivasa Acarya]

8 gopis and 8 manjaris appeared they are male in their external form, cowherd boys also appeared they disclose the lord Krsna, who is personification of love

akhila-rasa-amṛta-mūrtiḥ — the reservoir of all pleasure, in which exist all the mellows of devotional service, namely śānta, dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya and mādhurya;

Kavi karnapura wrote Gaura Gannodadesha dipika where he explains a list of who played what character from the krsna lila to gaura lila
they all have distributed the love of godhead, by displaying it, relishing it, writing about it these were all confidential words and knowledge unknown to even brahma and shiva, what to speak of quran readers what to speak about them others out side gaudiyas also do not know this treasure.

śrī-caitanya-mano-‘bhīṣṭaṁsthāpitaṁ yena bhū-talesvayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁdadāti sva-padāntikam

Translation

When will Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī Prabhupāda, who has established within this material world the mission to fulfill the desire of Lord Caitanya, give me shelter under his lotus feet.

The leader of millions of manjaris is rupa manjari who appeared as rupa goswami and he was advised by lord Chaitanya to write about the mellows there are mostly books in 2 categories based on tattva or Philosophy or rasa – mellows
Most sampradayas writings are on philosophy but gaudiayas books are on different mellows. You see 5 rasa there and various more rasas as we go deeper where even the gopis are not allowed in the deepest of mellows the manjaris enter those groves and know those pastimes, so mahaprabhu brought it

dharma-sthāpana-hetu sādhura vyavahāra
purī-gosāñira ye ācaraṇa, sei dharma sāra

Translation

“A devotee’s behavior establishes the true purpose of religious principles. The behavior of Mādhavendra Purī Gosvāmī is the essence of such religious principles.” [CC Madhya 17.185]

Learn this verse you are all trying to be preacher, so you must make it a goal that your behavior should establish the true purpose of religious principles.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa

Translation

“Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa as they are given in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land.” [CC Madhya 7.128 ]

Initially not much was happening then Srila prabhupada the Senapati bhakta prepared us as the army who follow mahaprabhu by
1 relishing this
2 distributing this

We as members of ISKCON we must continue what lord Chaitanya started as the Sankirtan movement. He said this sankirtan movement will be victorious, so we must do something and if we do we have the advance blessing of gaurang to be victorious.

cheto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam
shreyah-kairava-chandrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambhdhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamritasvadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate shri-krishna-sankirtanam

Translation

Glory to the Shri Krishna sankirtana (congregational chanting of the Lord’s holy names), which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. That sankirtana movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious. [Sri Sri Shikshashtaka by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu Text 1]

anarpita-carīṁ cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau
samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasāṁ sva-bhakti-śriyam
hariḥ puraṭa-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandīpitaḥ
sadā hṛdaya-kandare sphuratu vaḥ śacī-nandanaḥ

Translation

May the Supreme Lord who is known as the son of Śrīmatī Śacī-devī be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold, He has appeared in the Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant mellow of devotional service, the mellow of conjugal love. [CC Ādi 1.4]
hari hari! bifale janama gonainu

manushya-janama paiya, radha-krishna na bhajiya,
janiya suniya visha khainu

Translation

O Lord Hari I have spent my life uselessly. Having obtained a human birth and having net worshiped Radha and Krsna, I have knowingly drunk poison. [Hari Hari Bifale 1]

He came to this dead material desert, he saw not a drop of rasa, but people here are drinking poison everyday. Knowingly another point is there is no rules

nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis
tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ
etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi
durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ

Translation

“ ‘My Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, in Your holy name there is all good fortune for the living entity, and therefore You have many names, such as “Kṛṣṇa” and “Govinda,” by which You expand Yourself. You have invested all Your potencies in those names, and there are no hard and fast rules for remembering them. My dear Lord, although You bestow such mercy upon the fallen, conditioned souls by liberally teaching Your holy names, I am so unfortunate that I commit offenses while chanting the holy name, and therefore I do not achieve attachment for chanting.’ [CC Antya 20.16]

For yagyas or dhan, and other rituals in karma Kand followers there is specified time and place, if you do not do it accordingly then it might have an opposite effect as well. They are bound by rules and regulations, but we are lovers, there is no specified time to love, no one looks at the watch and loves or when should we love?

smartavyaḥ satataṁ viṣṇur
vismartavyo na jātucit
sarve vidhi-niṣedhāḥ syur
etayor eva kiṅkarāḥ

Translation

“ ‘Kṛṣṇa is the origin of Lord Viṣṇu. He should always be remembered and never forgotten at any time. All the rules and prohibitions mentioned in the śāstras should be the servants of these two principles.’ [CC Madhya 22.113]

Always love and never forget love there is only 2 conditions always love all the time. Never stop loving at anytime, this means, always be remembered and never forgotten at any time

teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ
bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam
dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ
yena mām upayānti te

Translation

To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.. [Bg. 10.10

Devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self.

sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
ahaituky apratihatā
yayātmā suprasīdati

Translation

The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self. [SB 1.2.6]

The ritualistic practices (karma-kanda) and intellectual pursuits (jnana-kanda), without devotion or spiritual realization, can bind one to the material world rather than liberating them.

Karma Kand Jnana-Kanda Keval Vishera Bhand

Translation

“”All rituals and knowledge are like poisonous bonds or pots.”

Hence it is recommended
satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ
yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ
namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā
nitya-yuktā upāsate

Translation

Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.[BG 9.14]

nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis
tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ
etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi
durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ

Translation

“ ‘My Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, in Your holy name there is all good fortune for the living entity, and therefore You have many names, such as “Kṛṣṇa” and “Govinda,” by which You expand Yourself. You have invested all Your potencies in those names, and there are no hard and fast rules for remembering them. My dear Lord, although You bestow such mercy upon the fallen, conditioned souls by liberally teaching Your holy names, I am so unfortunate that I commit offenses while chanting the holy name, and therefore I do not achieve attachment for chanting.’ [CC Antya 20.16]

The book by rupa goswami called BHakti Rasamrita sindhu, Srila prabhupada said it is science of Bhakti Yoga, or it is syllabus for Bhakti Shastri in VIHE or other institutes, it also includes Nectart of Instruction, Bhagavad Gita, Isoupanisad etc courses. BHakti Rasamrita sindhu gives details on dasiya rasa, Shakya rasa, vatsalya rasa and conjugal love. All these mellows are discussed here, then Rupa goswami. said I just hinted loving mellows, so he wrote one specific on conjugal mellows. The name of that book is Ujvala Nila mani. It gives details about loving mellows.

Rupa manjari has daily dealings with krsna so she is the most qualified to write this and you all have to become qualified to become student of this.

Srila prabhupada said bhagavad Gita is Graduation, Srimad Bhagavatam is Post Graduation then there are other books also.by Jiva Goswami and some other Gaudiya books by Narotam das thakura Like Prem Bhakti Chandrika , etc are all an ocean of love

avatirne gaurachandre
vistirne prema-sagare su-prakasita-ratnaughe
yo dino dina eva sah

Translation

“The advent of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is like an expanding ocean of nectar. One who does not collect the valuable jewels within that ocean is certainly the poorest of the poor.” [Sri Caitanya-candramrta]

It refers to divine pastimes of Chaitnaya Mahaprabhu and His ocean of love (prem sagar).

Mahaprabhu wrote on Sikastakam this is to His credit; he has also written Shivashtakam, when he was going to Jaganath puri on the way is a Nataraj Temple. It is all taugh in VIHE which is Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education. So reading all these gaudiya books higher studies post graduate is attained. Is it higher than your Biology, Chemistry etc. You go abroad for higher studies. But this is higher studies. Read Srila Prabhupada’s books and other Gaudiya Vaishnav Literature.

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