Lord's Ordinary Children by Gitasri Pani

In Sri Chaitanya-charitamrta, Srila Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami describes that while dancing at the Ratha Yatra, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would sometimes fall in an ecstatic swoon and appear like “a golden mountain rolling on the ground”. The Krishna conception of Divinity is so irresistible that even Krishna Himself becomes overwhelmed by His own potency and is madly engaged in tasting His own sweetness, ecstatically dancing, and thereby distributing that sweetness to others. His Divine Grace has informed us that the heart’s inner hankering for ecstasy, charm, and sweetness leads it in the search for Sri Krishna-Reality the Beautiful. And there we will find the “hidden treasure of the Sweet Absolute” in the service of Srimati Radharani. As much as we sacrifice ourselves in this plane, we shall become released from its influence and be drawn through dedication into the higher plane of reality where the divine Pastimes “move in a crooked way”.

He has reminded us that we are all “sons of nectar”, and that we shall have to “die to live”, “dive deep into reality”, and enter the “land of dedication”. His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami is an agent of Divinity and a messenger of that supreme reality. The Infinite can make Himself known to the finite, and the divine agent through whom this function manifests is Sri Guru or the divine guide. The Krishna conception of Divinity is one of being irresistibly drawn in attraction toward the infinite centre of all love, beauty, and harmony. As the planets are situated according to their gravitational attraction for the sun, the varieties of theistic conception are situated higher or lower according to their attraction toward the Absolute Centre.

But as Western man has begun to gaze Eastward, he has discovered a plurality of theistic conceptions orbiting the Supreme Truth.Īccepting that plurality, we must also accept the accompanying gradations of theism, superior and inferior. Until recently, in the Western world it has been thought that Christianity was the central conception of Divinity in the theistic universe. Prior to Copernicus, it was believed that the earth was at the centre of the universe and that the sun and other planets orbited the earth. ⬆︎ PrefaceĪ Christian theologian predicted that Christianity is on the verge of a Copernican revolution. The date of its manifesation is 14 March 1987, the divine appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The Loving Search for the Lost Servant has been compiled from talks given by His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj at the beautiful Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math on the banks of the sacred River Ganges in Sri Nabadwip Dham, India.

Lord's Ordinary Children by Gitasri Pani