Rupa-siksa

❧ Cc Madhya 19.152 ❧ By the mercy of Guru and Kṛṣṇa, this very fortunate jīva has received the seed of the vine of devotion, this tendency to serve Kṛṣṇa and faith and surrender. Now, under the loving care and direction of guru, he becomes a gardener and sows the seed

After a long time, I’m finally getting around to making articles for all these parts of Rūpa-śikṣā. In this article, we’ll look at a few definitions of śraddhā, faith. You may have already seen on the Vine of Devotion YouTube channel that soon after I made the last

❧ Cc Madhya 19.151 ❧ A week ago we went over the verse brahmāṇḍa bhramite, which I divided into three parts. Below is the script (slightly edited) I used to make the second part, which is on the topic of what it means that we receive the seed of the vine

❧ Cc Madhya 19.151 ❧ So now we come to the one of the most famous verses of Rūpa-śikṣā: brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva While wandering throughout this universe, some fortunate jīva, guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja by the mercy of guru and Kṛṣṇa, attains the seed of the vine of devotion. (Śrī

❧ Cc Madhya 19.144–150 ❧ Last week, in the first video, we went over the verse kṛṣṇa-bhakta—niskāma ataeva santa (Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā 19.149), but I mostly discussed just the Bengali grammar and didn’t explain the verse so deeply. This is such an important verse so I decided

Cc Madhya 19.144–149 This week, we are going through the next eight verses of Rūpa-śikṣā where Mahāprabhu explains the increasing rarity of one who has taken birth the human species, then of one who follows the scriptures, then of one who engages in fruitive activity, and then of