0:15 foreign. [singing] forishnaish [chanting] Namaste.
1:21 Hurryishna. Hishna. Krishna. Krishna. [chanting and singing] H. Harrishna. Before I attempt to speak something this morning, I seek the the blessings, the prayers, the best wishes of each one of you present here. To all the prabhus, to all the majis, to all the youth, to all the children, all the senior vishnavas, senior citizens, everyone who's present here, I offer my obeisances to you. By your blessings may the right words come at the right time in the right mood of glorifying Sri Krishna purifying our
2:09 consciousness and pulling our hearts closer and closer to Shishi Radha Shamasund's loving divine eternal transcendental lotus with one charla goami. Prahuad in his wonderful book Sri Bhaktar Samarit Synindhindu he has described Sri Krishna in Bundavan
2:56 to having or to have four qualities which are not found even in the other avatars of Krishna like the Vishnu incarnations. There are unlimited qualities to Sri Krishna in that 64 are counted as the top by Shri Gowami. He has collected it over so many different scriptures and in that he counts the top four [clears throat] which are found only in Krishna in Bundavan not even in Krishna in maturara Krishna Radharam Rasik Sri Krishna Mukurhari Sri Krishna who plays on his flute having a crown of peacock feathers with a three-fold bending shamasunder
3:41 only that form of Sri Sham in Bundavan has these four qualities which he himself outside Bundavin doesn't possess and what are those four qualities leela madhuri exciting pastimes Krishna performs pastimes in bundavan that he doesn't perform even outside bundavan in matura and let alone other avatars like matsyakur mahandra simha for example in bundavan Krishna performs the pastime time of breaking butter pots and stealing butter. Krishna performs the pastime of eating dirt and lying to his mother looking eye to eye.
4:33 Oh, everybody's a liar here. Why survey? Because in that assembly there were many friends who said, "Oh mayy Lala has eaten dirt." Lala means Shamzunda, Sri Krishna, Bal Gopa. And in that assembly was also Sri Balaram GI who also supported and said yes the friends are speaking the truth. Lala has eaten dirt. So Krishna feels very upset. Krishna feels betrayed. He feels backstabbed by his own brother. Friends are complaining. That's also backstabbing. But that's secondary level. First level, how can my own
5:19 brother Balaram speak against me? So when Yeshua says that Krishna why did you eat dirt was the question asked Krishna said I didn't eat dirt why you have eaten no Maya I have not eaten How do you know I have eaten? Whatever I eat, I share with my friends and eat. So if I have eaten, they have eaten. And if they haven't eaten, I have not eaten. So Yeshua says
6:07 Bhagwatam is so beautiful means in the most confidential place. You hid and you ate. So friends did not eat, you ate. Then Krishna said, "If I have hidden and eaten, how do you know? [laughter] How do you know?" Yeshodi said, "They told me in third person plural, they told me." So till now who was saying against Krishna, who was speaking against Krishna? The gopies. Till now the gopies the motherly gopies were complaining your son is coming and breaking into our homes breaking the
6:54 butter pot stealing the butter. So when Yeshodi said vanti they said Krishna said after all they are your team Maya all the motherly gopies in the neighborhood are your team. Yeshoda said no no tawaka this time it is your team who complained your friends complained. Krishna said really are you sure? Yeshodi said yes your team complained this time that you ate dirt. Krishna said they're all less than five years old. He himself is three [laughter] because this leela took place before damhan damod leela. At damodela Krishna was three and a half. So in this leela
7:41 he was about 2 and a half 3 years old between two and three. So Krishna is speaking philosophy here. Kumar how can you believe the boys? They are all chumar. They're all little ones. Don't trust them. Yesani saidum. Yes, they may be kumar but your brother has also said the same thing. Now Krishna really feels backstabbed and it's a catch 22 because if you say I'm still speaking the truth that means my brother is speaking false and that to not anujah older brother so that's break of that's [snorts] maratada that's break of spiritual principle you
8:27 can't prove and say that your spiritual superior is a liar and especially he who is the aggregate of a guru tatwa baladev prahu if you say he's a liar then the whole bacti tatwa falls on its face. Guru means he who speaks the truth. So now if Krishna says yes my brother is speaking the truth that goes against his own principle that he's speaking the truth. So either he has to speak the truth or his brother has to speak the truth. So now Krishna doesn't know what to do. So when he answers Yeshodani he says hey oh maya I have not eaten. Now Krishna is very emphatic when he speaks like this. He could have said
9:13 he could have said because in Sanskrit the words can be flipped in any order and the meaning doesn't change. In English if you say I ate, you can say ate I mean if you're William Shakespeare or something you can still you can still get away with old English and we supposed to say ah that yeah that's beyond your reach. That's like super good English. But when we do that, then the grammar teacher like go study. You know in India, I don't think they do that in America. In India, if you write something that is not legible, the teacher can't read, you get immediate feedback. She tears the page in front of you. Said do this work again. Where is this? You've scribbled something. And
9:59 then you have to say, well, I scribbled because I copied it from my friend and I didn't know what he wrote. He scribbled. It's parumpra. He scribbled because he didn't know what his friend wrote. So we were all scribbling from each other's book. And when you ask the friend what is this? He said I don't know. I made a design. You do make a design too. So we all make designs and everyone gets the same. So in English the order matters. But in Sanskrit it doesn't. You can write the word in any order and the grammar still holds true. But Krishna says, "No, no, I did not. I did not eat dirt." By putting the N ahead, he's emphatically saying, "No, no no no no no.
10:48 It's not me." So then they're all speaking false. when Yeshodi said she spoke of two camps friends and Balaram but Krishna is so angry with Balaram that you backstabbed against me so he's putting Balaram in the same camp as his friends and he says survey all of these liars if you really want to know who has a truthful tongue Why don't you look straight into my mouth? Leela's like this where he eats dirt, where he breaks into the neighbor's home
11:34 and eats butter, where he can climb on top of a tree and play flute for hours together and then jump into the Yamuna and swim like a fish. Where he can steal clothes, where he can dance, he can be carefree running with the cows and calves. This is the first out of the four called as leela maduri. The sweetness of Krishna's leelas. The leelas of Krishna are so wonderful. So wonderful. When these leelas are heard leela goami says Krishna is an ocean where just like in the ocean there are unlimited waves. Krishna in bundavin as an ocean performs unlimited wave like leelas. There's a difference between
12:21 leela and karma. What we perform is karma. Let's put it like this. What Krishna performs [snorts] is leela. Also in English called as pastime. What we do is karma. Flip it backward. Time pass. This is what we do. We waste time. We do time pass. And it's called karma. We do pushed by satwagon rajogun and tamogun. moved and pushed by our past samscars. But Krishna doesn't perform leelas because of satwarajas and tamas. He performs leela out of his own sweet will. Therefore,
13:09 This is Govinda Sri Krishna Kavir Gow Swamiad says that if the leelas of Krishna in Bundavan are chewed on then what are the benefits you get by hearing and tasting the past times of Krishna in braj. First benefit material greed goes away. We get greedy in this world because that's our target. That's our target. This is our sphere of activity. But when we hear the past times of Krishna, now the target changes. You want to attain something much higher. So you're not interested in attaining bigger things in
13:56 this world and competing with people here. Why to compete in a rat race when even when you win you remain a rat, right? So those who hear the pastimes of Krishna instead of having a rat race they get into the race of the swan race they try to be params. It reduces therishna the greed of this world and increases therishna or spiritual greed. This is the first benefit. Second benefits one becomes a devotey by hearing about him. Why? Because the heart gets attracted. You see, we were talking about baby Gopal eating dirt and giving formidable arguments that he didn't. It
14:41 stole everyone's hearts in the assembly. We may have been agitated since morning or upset about something. But as soon as you sit in an assembly and hear the attractive leelas of the attractive lord, then what happens? Pranaya moan bacti rises in the heart and one becomes attracted to Krishna. First benefit, material desires reduce. Second benefit, greed to attain him increases and devotion rises in the heart because of being attracted to him. Third benefit, the more you chew on these leelas, one gets taste on the path of bacti. Why we lose taste on the path of bacti? Because of not hearing Krishna leela enough. We talking all other things. We
15:28 talk about bridge preaching. Nothing wrong against it. But it doesn't match up with the spirit of directly hearing about Krishna. Why is it called bridge preaching? Because you cross the bridge, you hold them by the hand and bring them on this side. Right? Not that we cross the bridge and settle down with them. [laughter] Or not that we cross the bridge, bring them halfway and compromise. The purpose of our life is to go from bridge preaching to branch preaching. This is the purpose of our life. Bridge is not to bridge us to where they are. Yes, it is to bridge us to where they are. To bridge them to where we are. That's the purpose. So we are talking everything else. We talking bridge
16:14 preaching. We talking motivation. We talking gossip. We're talking politics. We talking sociology. We talking everything. We talking everything and as a result what happens over time the heart becomes more and more depleted because it's not getting what it wants. It's like crawling through a summer afternoon desert looking for water but just settling down with mirage. Krishna leela is the actual water pond. It is the anandakunda that we all have to drown into. Reading books like the Krishna book, reading books like Sri Gopal Champur, Sri Jowami, it nourishes the heart with Krishna Leela. This is why the acharas came in this world and
16:59 gave Krishna directly. When we speak about Krishna, we should speak directly about this beauty of Krishna, the sweetness of Krishna, the mercy of Krishna, the opulence of Krishna, the glory of this path. And by diving deeper ourself by studying by hearing by contemplating by singing these leelas narration of these leelas automatically anal we attain lot of taste on the path of bacti we have we get so much taste on the path of bacti that we overflow. What do you mean by overflow? When you pour water and fills up the cup up to the brim you fill further and now it distributes the overflow. When can we sufficiently
17:45 of course to impress the audience you can speak any topic but to inspire the audience on Krishna leela we ourselves have to be steeped into that all day and night all day and night so the more we consume Krishna leela we think about Krishna's pastimes we get taste on the path of bhi imagine a rasgula Everyone imagined a rasgula. No, no, not on your tongue. On your palm. Think of a rasgula on your palm. What happens when you remove that ras? You place the rasgula and then you remove the rasgula. What's there on your palm? Rust. Right. Now what happens when you squeeze the rasgula further?
18:32 Now what happens when you put it in your mouth? Even more rust because it's completely soaked. Now what happens if you shake your hand with that? The person who shakes hand with you, there's russ on his hand. This is preaching. Preaching means we're tasting Krishna, Nam Raala so much that there's so much taste on the tongue. There's so much juice on the tongue that when one comes in contact with someone else, that person gets inspired on the path of bacti on the basis of how absorbed one we ourselves are on the path of hearing the past tense of Krishna. So Krishna has so much power. Another benefit of hearing Krishna is our spiritual identity, our spiritual
19:18 swarup gets nourished. Yes, we we always hear we are not this body, we not this body. But when are we going to hear who we are? We are in a very specific eternal relationship to Krishna. We have a spiritual bond with Krishna. Some as friends to Krishna, some as assistants to Nanda in Yeshoda, some as servants to Nandanda Baba in Nandanda Bhavan and some as maid servants of Shrimati Radharani in the kungas in the groves of bundavan. This is called visha sambagyan and this eternal identity of the ja gets nourished more and more we hear about Krishna leela it's very very important very very important and therefore Haram goam
20:05 Krishamad says when we hear the leelas of Sri Krishna hararam even if the position of Indra is given to us we will say no thank you. Even if the position of Brahma is given we will say no thank you. Even if the position of is given we will say no thank you. Why? Oh shakraati has written Krishna even if you give me no thank you why because in I don't hear your flute sound you are busy creating universes and taking rest as yoga nidra rangata swami
20:50 that's wonderful too but the form that I am attracted to vishna chakraarti takur says is the one who has a three-fold bending form who plays flute wonderfully placed on his lips and who has beautiful leelas where there is no [snorts] scent of awe and reverence in Bundavan there's girj govan in bundavan there are beautiful waves of the jamuna in bundavan there are groves where beautiful leelas take place in bundavan krishna walks carefree not having the stress of creation maintenance and destruction of this world what is Krishna worried about Yeshodani stick. [laughter] This is what he's worried about. What is he relishing in the spiritual world?
21:36 Krishna is not even thinking of the material world because Vishnu is taking care. The the professional form of the Lord as Mahav Vishnu. He's taking care of this world. He's creating, maintaining and destroying. S Krishna in Bundavan. He's only taking care of counting the cows that he has. He's embracing the cows. This verse has been quoted by Sri Gopalami in his commentary to Sri Lashuk Bilbangal Krishna.
22:22 He says Krishna you in bundavan you display a form that's never seen before. What is that form? You are busy rolling in the cowang and cowur of bundavan. Have you ever seen god do that? When God appears, the in vayonta indragi vayu vuna soma chandra surya
23:11 they're all standing in line to take d of bhagavan in fact even in daraga they're all standing in lines udha says in the third kto bhagatam He says in duara the demigods are standing in line. They stand with line in in a line to take d of daradish krishna in awe and reverence in daraka. And what do they do? They offer obeisances. Indra Chandra Agni Vayu Vuna they all offering obeisances. And Bhagavatam
23:57 says they are not glorifying Krishna. Their crowns are glorifying the foottool where Krishna's padukas or slippers are kept. Kirita. Kirita means crown. Ky millions of them. in Sanskrit means to glorify means the place where duarati Krishna keeps his spadukas or slippers that foottool is called padhapha. So instead of saying that the dvatas have so much reverence for Krishna that they are glorifying Krishna, Bhagatam says the crowns of the dwatas are busy glorifying the foottool
24:44 where the slippers of Bhagavan are placed. So imagine what does this mean? This means that they're all standing in line and one after another they're offering pram and when they offer pranam in different directions they're coming in and they're all offering prrenam and when they offer prrenam or obeisances their crown hits the foottool and there's a clanging sound of the crown hitting the floor or hitting the foottool. So it's almost like saying the crown is glorifying the foottool with a clanging sound. Imagine now this is kaimikni. This is called kimutaha. Which means if someone who's 5 years old is picking up something that's 5 kilos,
25:30 then how much more can he pick up when he's 25? You see this is called kimutic. If someone made $100,000 in the first week, how much more will they make at the end of 25 years of business? This is called kimutiknai. when a lower principle is mentioned and then oh then what more to be said. So now use in this verse if the crown is glorifying the foottool how much more will the crown glorify the padukas. If the crown is glorifying the padukas the slippers how much more will the crown glorify the dust of the lotus feet. If the crown is glorifying the dust of the lotus feet of Bhagavan, how much
26:15 more will the dwatas who know Sanskrit and who know Vakran and who are all disciples of Bhaspati, how much more will they glorify the lotus feet of Bhagavan? And if they lotus, they worship the lotus feet of Bhagavan, how much reverence do they have for Krishna in Duaraka. So in Vayikunta, in Aayodha, in Matura, in Duaraka, Krishna is worshiped with all and reverence. But injalami says nobody invites you Krishna still you're busy rolling in the cowang and cow urine in the backyard of the gopasan what is he busy doing making cowdong
27:02 patties decorating himself with the raj the dust of bundavan But Gopal Swami says you are very picky you're very picky in maturas are saying Krishna please come please sit Krishna is not going there why he feel shy the brahmanas are putting a fire sacrifice and inviting night he I I'm very embarrassed. But in BRJ, nobody's inviting him. And in the backyard of the gopas, he's busy rolling. This is point number one. Point number
27:48 two, Yogis outside bundavan when they are meditating on Bhagavan the yogis are sitting and meditating and they have d of bhagavan in the heart sashanka chakramalam he appears but does he speak to them he's keeping silence as paramatma he gives dan to the yogis but he's not speaking but in bach in bundavan he's busy talking to the calves The calf has to simply say
28:37 and Krishna sits with the cows and the calves and he says, "What happened? You want to talk to me? [laughter] Is the rope on your neck too tight? Is that what you're trying to communicate? Or do you want to come and play with us? Or are you hungry?" tasty grass or do you want to drink water from the jamuna? Oh, maybe the flies are troubling your body and your tail is not reaching there. I will help you or you just want to sit embracing me. We'll sit in the cow shed in the gojala because Krishna when he stands like this Sri Jwami explains Krishna when he stands like this the cows and the calves come and put their head okay >> because they want to be embraced by
29:23 Gopa. So point number one when he's invited in matur through the sacrifice he doesn't go but when he's not invited also in bundavan he's busy rolling. Point number two, outside Bundavin yogis are meditating. He gives dan but he doesn't speak to them. But in bundavan cows and calves have to just say one that's all it's there in the verse. Cows just have to do a and Krishna sitting he speaks 100 words. Point number two. Third point. Outside Bundavan devotees are saying Krishna you are our master we are your
30:10 servant he still still takes time to accept them but in Bundavan he is busy carrying the footwear of Nanda and Yashoda on his head outside Bundavan devotees are carrying his footwear but he still takes some time to give them dan but in bundavan he is busy carrying the padukas of Nandanda Maharaj Shami Gopal Bhut Swami says nyam oh Krishna I have understood you are bound by the love of the brabbazis and therefore you belong to bundavan and nowhere else you are bound only by the ropes of love why are we mentioning this we are mentioning this because
30:56 Sri Krishna Kavirj Gowamad says a person who taste thing the leelas of Krishna he doesn't even accept right we mentioned this that when someone is attracted to the leelas of Krishna we are describing leela maduri when someone is attracted to the leelas of Krishna they don't even settle for heavenly abode they don't even settle for Brahma's position ka jma mukha brahani they don't even settle for wikunta because in wikunta krishna is there with awe and reverence as mahavishno there's
31:43 no godan that he lifts there's no jamuna that he swims there are no butter pots that he breaks there's no rasala that he dances therefore vishna says my dear lord Even if you give me the opportunity to be a resident of no thank you. He says please give me residence only in bundavan where Krishna forgets his godhood. He's God but he forgets his godhood and the friends also forget his godhood.
32:30 Outside Bundavan like in Wikunta and other places devotees remember Krishna's godhood and Krishna also remembers his godhood. So when devotees worship sahastra [clears throat] devotees are invoking Bhagavan and Bhagavan also comes as Bhagavan but in Bundavin Bhagavan forgets his Bhagavan and devotees forget Krishna's Bhagavan. So both frolic carefully. This is amazing. Krishna has two features in Bundavan. Please repeat after me. Mugdha and Sarvatanya. Sarvatanya means where he knows everything. And muggha where he forgets that he's God. Give me an example where Krishna isa in Bundavin
33:18 where he knows that he's God. Yes. Brahma moanela where he expanded. >> Ahasur where he went inside the mouth of a snake because if he was just Yeshoda nandan mukta where he has forgotten he's god he will be scared of the snake. Initially he was Krishna was scared. Oh what is this? All my friends are entering the mouth of a serpent. But at that time Krishna was 5 years old. And as he was thinking, "Oh god, what is this? Oh god, my friends have all gone into the mouth of a serpent. What is going to happen?" At that time, Krishna's leela shaki yoga
34:03 maya potency which covers him with the curtain which makes him forget that he's God. That curtain was slowly lifted. So now imagine a 5-year-old child slowly realizing that he's God. the curtain of yoga maya which was covering his godhood and he was playing around like who cares if you ask him who are you he would say oh I am the sanai but now the curtain the veil of yoga maya was lifted and he started realizing I am god and when he realized that he thought oh I don't have to worry wherever my devotees go I go there
34:51 all those verses came to his rescue at that time. So he walked into the mouth of aur as god. So that is the survya but when is he muktda in the first half when he didn't realize what was happening but outside bundavan especially in vikunta and other aborts he's always in the mood of svatyaha he fulfills he will never come to a devotey and say please help me because why will he ask help from a devotey that is how Ram avatar is more accessible you see it's the same potency Vishnu, Ramachandra, Dwaraka Krishna, Matura Krishna, Bundavan Krishna, same person but the intimacy level has changed in Vikunta he's always Bhagavan
35:38 there's no case where devotees go to him and say don't worry I will help you he will never come to Jay and Vijay and say please can you help me no Jay and Vijay are the servants and the lord is the protector of the whole world heirati mala This is all fully potent, fully aware of his potency. But in Rama avatar, he becomes he's fully aware but he becomes little more accessible where he asks his devotees for help. He's asking the monkeys, he's asking suga, can you help me? So why more are attracted to Rama avatar than Narayana avatar? Because the
36:25 intimacy level of the same lord is much closer. Here is Ram who's going through life and asking help from his own devotees. Acha. Then the intimacy changes even further. Why? Because in Ram avatar Ram seeks help but there are no friends. He doesn't befriend anyone. Even if he wants friendship the devotees will say how can we befriend you? You are dasharat mandan, you are suryawanchi, you are maradapurushama. We don't match you. When Ramachandra goes to embrace Hanuman, Hanuman says
37:17 Hanuman tells Sri Ramachandra, how can you befriend me? You are aa and I am a monkey. I'm a vanagam. Your past life and my past life are different. You are bhagavan and I didn't have a good life in my past life. This is why I was born as a monkey. Now please don't believe Hanuman. This is Hanuman's vinam humility. Nvak he says Ramachandra when you speak you speak so sweetly but look at me nvak I don't know how to speak do you believe that Hanuman doesn't know how to speak will use Hanuman as a messenger
38:02 heal Nami Hanuman Gi is the best among servants of Sri Ramachandra. He is most intelligent. He can eloquently speak. He is very intelligent and very wise and know of time play circumstance. He's the guru of all Ramabaktas. But Hanuman in his humility tells the Lord, "Look at you. You are Look at me. Look at you. You're so intelligent and I
38:48 am foolish. Look at where you live and look at where I live. Look at what you wear. Look at what I wear. Look at what you eat. Look at what I eat." My dear Lord, there is no match. Therefore, although Ramachandra wants friendship, he doesn't get friends because the devotees are aware of the Lord's majesty. But the intimacy gets even more intimate in Krishna leela where the pandas are convinced Krishna is their friend where Sudhama is convinced
39:37 goamiad says in the start of the story of Sudhama I will tell you the story of that personality. whom Krishna considered his dear friend. So Sudhama went to Krishna as a friend. Krishna approached Sudhama as a friend. Arjuna in the battlefield of Kuruketra approached Krishna as a friend. Krishna approached Arjuna as a friend. Narayana in Vayikunta Ramachandra Krishna same personality but do you see the gradation? Yes. In Vayuna the Lord is majestic. He is the master the devotees are the servant. But in Aayodha the Lord steps down and he says I want a friend. But the devotees still are. How can we befriend you? You are Ram.
40:24 You are Rahul Shiroani. How can we befriend you? But now another descent in Krishna. Krishna says I want friendship. And the Pandava said we are there with you. Arjuna says no devotey has the audacity to tell Bhagwan this. Garuda becomes the chariot driver for Krishna which means he's carrying Krishna or Vishnu. But Garuda cannot tell Mahavishno take me in the middle of the battlefield. Garuda cannot. But Arjuna because of his intimacy he sometimes calls Krishna. Hey Krishna. Hey yava. Hey saged. Oh Krishna. Sometimes out of friendship I
41:10 have made fun with you about something else and I have sometimes made fun at you. But please forgive me. It's just because of friendship. So it's more intimate. But when the virat rupt the vishwar the universal form was shown what happened to the same Arjuna? He fell flat on his knees and HE SAID, "OH, I made a mistake. Please forgive me. You are God and I thought of you as my friend. Please forgive me. It's a mistake on my part. I am sorry." Same in Matura. Dvaki and Vasuv have conviction that Krishna is their child. But what happened when Krishna killed
41:56 Kamza? Dwaki and Wasuv who initially stood up trying to embrace their son. Now when they saw Krishna killing Kamsa, Dwaki and Wasuv stood up with folded palms and they said, "Oh, this is God who has appeared as our son." Do we all see the gradation now? Yes. >> Yes. >> Aayodha kuruketra daraka matura. Now let's enter Bundavan to see the leela vishta the specialtity of the leelas in brj what to speak of the universal form on the battlefield of kuruketra Krishna showed that universe in his
42:41 mouth to yeshoda and not once multiple times in fact in the seventh chapter of the 10th kanto one time Krishna was like Krishna was yawning in the middle of his sleep he was yawning And casually he showed the universe in his mouth. And Yeshodani looked and she thought to herself, what did I just see? Is Indra pronouncing a spell on me? Why will he? I'm not a yogi who's going to become Indra. So no, maybe I'm sleepy. Maybe I'm like sleepd deprived. That's why I'm seeing universes in my universe. Krishna is my universe. And in his mouth I'm seeing universes. Maybe I'm too
43:27 tired. No, that's not the case. Or maybe the universes are actually fit in the little small mouth of my baby. Yes. Say, "Ah, that's not possible." Then what was it to remove the confusion and the doubt from the heart of Yeshodani? Krishna ate dirt to show Yeshodani. You remember Maya in the previous chapter of the 10th Kanto? [laughter] Once I casually yawned and you were thinking what just happened. I actually want to tell you a secret. Our acharies have written a brilliant commentary. Krishna told mother Yoshoda heart-to-heart communication. There is no guru like one's mother and
44:14 in front of the guru one shouldn't keep secrets who oh maya you are my guru and I am like your disciple and disciple should never keep secrets and at the same time in a loving relationship both have to put their heart out. Yeshoda. Oh Maya, you have put your heart out in the form of your breast milk. You are pouring all your love that you have for me from your heart in the form of your milk. You are giving your heart. But I have concealed my heart. I haven't shown you that side of my heart which reveals the secret that actually I am God. I am God. So Krishna revealed that to mother Yeshoda. So he's mugda but in
45:00 this case he's becoming yes understand. So [snorts] he's mugda when he's eating mud but he's when he opens his mouth. So these two things please don't call them mood swings. They're not mood swings. [laughter] Even God goes through mukta and servagya. So it's okay for me to no these are not mood swings. These are love swings. These are different aspects of the Lord's revelation of his personality. So when mother Yeshoda looks into the mouth. Now let's contrast compare and contrast with Arjun on the battlefield. Arjuna fell flat on his ground offering obeisances to Krishna. Oh God please forgive me for considering you to be my friend. But here when Yeshodani looked into Krishna's mouth, she was praying to
45:46 Narayana. She was praying to Narayana. What has happened to my baby? Are you punishing him for some past life sin? Has a ghost haunted my child? Till now I thought he has only eaten dirt but seems like my naughty child has swallowed up the whole universe. Oh narayana please save my child. And here is Krishna thinking how much more higher is the love of my devotey in braj. This is the mixing of two sweetnesses. Out of the four sweetnesses that Krishna has in Bundavin, the first is Leela Maduri, sweet leelas. The second is
46:32 prema maduri. Loving associates. Those two sweetnesses are mixing here. The love of Yeshoda is more than the love of Arjun on the battlefield of Kurukhetra. So that's premaaduri. Krishna gets those associates in Bundavin that even his other incarnations outside Bundavin don't get. And therefore Krishna can display that sweetness of Leela Madhuri that he doesn't display anywhere else. So when Yeshoda was speculating what's wrong with my child? Krishna closed his mouth and smiled. He broke into a smile saying oh Maya I have too many yogis speculating whether I have a form, whether I don't have a form and all of these things. I don't want you to speculate whether universe is there or not there for you. It's not there. He
47:19 smiled to tell mother Yeshoda, I have not come to Braj to have a mother who speculates about me. I have come to Braj to taste your love. So the leelas of Bundavan that are displayed as Leela Maduri. Sweetness of the leelas in barrage are not displayed by Narayana, not displayed by Ramachandra, not displayed by Matsiah or even by Krishna in Matura and Daraga. So this leela is amazing. In fact in the Bhagavatam it is described in the 12th Kento it is described
48:20 What does that mean? It means that this material world is like an ocean of problems. We all have problems and the only boat which can successfully take us from this end to that end from this end of samsara to that end of bundavan the only boat which takes us from here to there across the ocean of problems is the leela kata the discussion of the leelas of Krishna in brj when you hear the past tense of Krishna of course in bundavan matura daraka it's always wonderful but Because we're discussing leela madhuri. I'm spotlighting that p that aspect that part. When you hear the leelas of Krishna, greed rises in the heart that I
49:08 wish I can enter goloko bundavan and witness these pastimes firsthand. Imagine having a knock on the door and you open the door and it is Krishna and Balaram who say Maya we tried to break into your home but the door the windows are quite tight shut so therefore we are knocking through the main door please let us come our plan is to eat the butter that you've made today what will you feel how will you feel how happy will you feel to embrace Krishna with one hand and Balam with the other this is what we jas deserve. We cheat ourselves with Netflix. Leela kata is what the soul yearns for.
49:54 But when we don't get it, when there's not enough discussion of Krishna's leelas, then what happens? That that proclivity to see pastimes, movies, dramas suspense action comedy relation, surprise, that tendency is there. And when we don't get the higher leela maduri, we settle for the lower leela maduri. Not the pastime but the time pass of this world. So when we sufficiently juice ourself up when we read books like chaitaritam chaitananya bhagat krishna leela the Krishna book Sri Gopal chu and so many other books about the leelas of Krishna then our heart becomes juiced up and that's what creates the greed to
50:41 attain that realm therefore the bhagatam says the boat which takes us from this world to that world are the leelas of the lord the pastimes of the lord very very important Krishna performs these leelas not just with mother Yoda. Of course, he performs so many leelas with mother Yashoda unlike any other leela in Matura and in Daraka and in Aayodhya and in Wikunta he has no ballela. No Ballela. Even if you read Walmiki Ramayan Walmikim gives very little description of the Ballela of Ramachandra. It directly starts with
51:31 it starts with Ram going to the forest. That's where the suspense drama begins with and mantra and all of that. That's where it's more exciting. But in BRJ, it starts right from Krishna yawning on the lap of Yeshoda. It's brilliant. It's really brilliant. In Vikunta, the Lord is sleeping as yoga nidra shantaam. He's peacefully sleeping on his tempropedic mattress. No sorry on the coil of anantesh. He's sleeping on his anantesh coil. But in baraj he doesn't get sleep. Baby goal doesn't get sleep. So he tells Maya Yeshoda, can you tell me some bedtime
52:18 stories? Please tell me some stories that will put me to sleep. So Yeshodani starts telling Krishna the story of Ramachandra. You know long time ago in Yoga was a king who had three wives. Then she said she they had four sons and very quickly 24,000 verses of Walmiki Ramine in less than 20 minutes. That's the heart of Yeshoda Rani. Very quickly, she's not speaking Walmiki Ramayan to worship Ramachandra. She is speaking Walmiki Ramayan to put Gopal to sleep. So as she's speaking, she's praying. Okay, you should go to sleep quickly. And Krishna's eyes are blinking with excitement. He wants to know what happened next. And then when Yeshodi
53:04 said and the 10headed Rahana he kidnapped Sitha Dvi Krishna who was on his bed he got up and he said Lakshman bring my bow tanu tanu tanuri please bring my bow please bring my bow please bring my bow and Yeshodani is looking at Gopal and she says [laughter] am I putting I am am I saying these stories to put you to sleep or am I saying these stories to wake you up from sleep? Krishna says Maya Sitha has been kidnapped. Yeshodani looked at Krishna and said what are you going to do?
53:50 Krishna said Maya I am the protector. I am Ram. Balam came running and he said and I am Lakshman. Yeshodani is looking at her Ram Lakshman and she picks up the stick. She says, "Is there a reason why the Dashawatar find only my home to appear in? They have no other home." Balam says, "Really Maya, every incarnation we appear as brothers. When he is Vishnu, I am Anantas. When he's Ram, I am Laxman." And you are very fortunate. Now he's Krishna and I'm Balam. Theoda said the damod leela I am doing with Krishna I can do with balam also. Balam goes away running.
54:37 Such brilliant leela madhuri. Sometimes when Krishna doesn't get sleep he doesn't fall asleep. Why he should fall asleep? He gets enough sleep in vikunta. He's come to bundavan not to sleep. He's come to bundavan to taste the leela maduri the sweetness with Yeshoda. So when Yeshodani starts to speak stories, he's wide awake. She's shaking the credle. She's rocking the credle and singing songs. And Sri Suraj G the disciple of Sri Balahhajari and the pushimar sraay he says
55:40 Haran means the rocking cradle bed of Krishna. The credle bed of Krishna is called Haralan. Yeshodani is rocking the cradle and she's singing. She's singing to put Krishna to sleep. But more she's singing Krishna's wide awake. He doesn't get this in matura. He doesn't get this in aodha. He doesn't get this in bunda. So he's wrapped attention. Yes. After some time she starts chastising, sleep personified because this is one of the potency of Bhagavan
56:25 to sleep. Soi starts chastising in brahasha. Oh, sleep personified. Why are you not coming? So Krishna is looking at Yeshodani and he's putting his hands out and he's doing this like children do, babies do to their mother. Yeshodi is saying lookal is calling out to sleep or sonified. Please come to me. I want to fall asleep. So Yeshoda starts chastising sleep. Why are you not coming? Krishna
57:11 is not calling sleep but Yeshua is saying look sleep Nidravi Lala is calling you please come so now when you're ordered by the mother of the supreme father you're invited if you're invited and ordered by Yeshoda who is the mother of Krishna why won't you come so sleep comes immediately and when she comes Nidravi comes to Krishna she's Atiti so Atiti must be welcome welcomed with an asan. So Krishna offered his eyelids as the asen for Nidravi to come. So Nidravi came and settled in the eyelids of Gopal. So Gopal is fighting sleep because he
57:57 wants to listen to Yeshoda's songs but at the same time it is Yeshodi who's arranging the sleep. So he has to facilitate that also. Sri Suraj GI writes as Krishna closes his eyes. They are half closed half open. The eyelids look like lotus petals. The eyelids look like lotus petal. The sleep is like the nectar in the world of that lotus. And the eyeballs, the black eyeballs are like black bumblebees intoxicated by the nectar of that sleep stuck between the petals of the lotus flower. Amazing description. Amazing description. So Krishna is half
58:45 asleep and slowly the eyelids close. So now Yeshodi stops to sing. She stops singing because Krishna has gone to sleep. Now that Krishna is sleeping Yeshodi when she has to communicate to others she's doing it through sign language. She's telling other saki goal has gone to sleep. So later later not now Krishna's after sleep and he knows all this. He finds it so boring. >> [laughter] >> Now he's missing all the nectar. He has to be in barrage on that beautiful bed credle that Yeshoda herself has made.
59:32 Sri Goswami Prahupad writes when Krishna is fast asleep in that cred. He looks like Narayana with his blue complexion, dark complexion sleeping on because the credle bed is white in color. So he looks like sleeping on the white milk ocean. He's sleeping. He's sleeping on the milk ocean bed of Yeshoda's credle and he finds it so boring. So in about 2 minutes he wakes up. He wakes up and then
1:00:41 Krishna loves it. Yeshoda is singing songs. Yeshodi tells jokes to Krishna which he doesn't understand till he giggles. Yeshodarani tickles Krishna's belly, tickles the soul of Shamsundar Bal Gopal's feet. She takes his palms and she touches her own cheeks. She embraces Gopal, sings songs, tells stories, riddles. Gopal is loving it. And Shri Suraj Gi says, Love her.
1:01:37 What does this mean? That joy. The word sur means but the word sur is also alankar pun usage because sur means demigods but sur also means suras. So he says that joy of witnessing the leilauri the sweetness of Yeshua's love and Krishna's love and that mutual interaction which I sas have become bereft of that love that experience of the leela which doesn't even happen in wikunta that leela
1:02:29 That leela maduri is being tasted by Yeshoda who has made the credle for Krishna in the form of the white bed. But Krishna's favorite credle is Yeshoda's arms where she swings him. She sings songs for him. So this arm is the best credle. This is the Where can you find such leila maduri? Where God learns to sleep. Where God is fed loving breast milk by Yeshoda. Where God learns to crawl. Where God learns to
1:03:16 walk. The dear associate of Sri Chaitananya Maha Prau, he said, "May the whole world worship Krishna." But I worship Nanda and Yhoda in whose courtyard in Bundavan Bhagavan learned to walk. So this is the great nectar of the leila madhuri of bundavan which is not found anywhere in matura duaraka aayodhya or even vikunta. This is why out of the four maduris the madhuri that we covered
1:04:02 now is leela madhuri. When we hear these leelas it increases the greed and increases the desire that my dear lord when or when will that day be mine? When I can hear these leelas, read these leelas, speak and sing these leelas, remember and be absorbed in these leelas, someday see these leelas and finally enter these leelas in the beautiful groves of Sri Bundavan. Leela Krishna.
1:04:47 Thank you very much.
