Personal sadhana report
Hare Krishna,
Dandavat Pranam H H Hanumat Presaka Swami Guru Maharaj
Please accept my humble obeisances unto Your Padma Charan that I am so sorry, this time also I am not able to serve You. I am so unfortunate servant, please give me Your aasirvad and keep me Your Padma Charan always.
Kindly see Bhag 10.87.23 same in Cc 2.8.26 and explain the gist.
HpS - Thank you for your very important letter!
You can see that we have had a very intense schedule of travel and Ayurveda treatments, so a little slow in answering these letters.
We met Manjuali and Sarada bihari Devi Dasis and Krsna svarupa Das in Bengaluru and even talked to Sadhu bhusana on he phone with them.
We wish we could have much more physical association with Manipuri vaisanava but we were limited this time to this little bit.
We read:
https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/10/87/23/
and the purport seem rather clear. By following the path of the Srutis through Shanta rasa we can come to more intense Rasas like Gopi bhava, and of course it is not that devotees who come to Gopi bhava give up Santa Rasa like the Srutis, no? Rather relich the Prayers of the Srutis even more, but from their new perspective of Gopi bhava.
https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/8/26/
Is also very, nice.
We would understand that this verse, and even comments on Lord Caitanya by big Western professors, illustrates the point that even very pure, learned Jnanis cannot understand the ecstacies of the Rasa-bhakti of devotees.
They cannot distinguish between epilepsy or sahajiya selfish sentiments and pure conjugal rasa symptoms expressed between Lord Caitanya and Ramananda Ray.
We saw the following purports by Bhaktivinode Thakura et al today that seem very, very relevant to these topics of Raganuga bhakti:
https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/8/27/
In Bhagavatam 9.22.32 Prabhupada explain about Manipuri Baisnavism.
When Guruji is leaving India, I could not see Guruji's tour program.
Your fallen servant,
Yamunesvara Das Yamuna Manjari