Rasa-tattva #4: Rasa topics are very confidential,therefore they should be hidden in front of common
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Date: 2023-10-18

Rasa topics are very confidential,therefore they should be hidden in front of common people.

Excerpts from the Lectures of His Divine Grace Śrī Śyām Dās Babajī Mahārāja

Surely rasa-tattva is not open to all

The following is an excerpt from an article called “Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread” by Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣaka Śrīdhara Dev-Gosvāmī Mahārāja: 

“There are three chapters of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta that Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Ṭhākura did not allow his disciples to enter into, including the discussions with Rāmānanda Rāya, to a certain extent. Where the līlā portion of RādhāGovinda is mentioned, the disciples had no entrance into that līlā. Of course, when consecutive chanting of the whole book is recited, they read that portion, but without giving any particular attention to the līlā of the highest order of rāga. That was barred—don’t try to come into details there. That will come automatically when the time will be right. Do not make it a discussion of the public; do not take it in the public eye.” 

(Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread, transcribed from an informal talk at Śrī Caitanya Sārasvata Maṭha on March 13th, 1981; Navadvīpa) 

Highlights from the harikathā of Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda on February 3rd, 1936 at Śrī Yogapīṭha Mandir, Śrī Māyāpura: 

All those secret līlā-vilāsa topics of Śrī Kṛṣṇa should not be discussed here and there, be very careful about this—very careful! A disciple of Śrīmad Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura can never listen to hari-kathā from those sahajiyās. What can prākṛta-sahajiyās speak about haribhakti? Any well-intentioned person must not go to that side of the river where only topics of characterlessness are being discussed; there is no scent of hari-kathā there. As Kṛṣṇa wanted to destroy His own dynasty by the help of creating Kali (quarrel) among them, similarly, Śrī Gaurasundara wanted to point out an indirect procedure through which sahajiyās of demonic character can become automatically destroyed by the illegal practice of discussing secret topmost rasa-tattva, because directly or indirectly everything is done by the Supreme Lord. The Supreme Lord’s secret arrangement is that thirteen different kinds of apasampradāyas mix together with the possibility of creating countless apasampradāyas. This is to hide the real prema-dharma of Bhaktivinoda-dhārā with the flood of karma-vāda, māyā-vāda, sahajiyā-vāda, etc. This kind of possibility is already reserved by Śrīman Mahāprabhu. At the same time, He also very secretly arranged the distinct procedure of pure bhajana to follow, protect, and preserve the most sublime Bhaktivinoda-dhārā by avoiding all this nonsense. The Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān wanted to display āsura distraction līlās and in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanyadeva, He wanted to destroy all those impediments in the way of genuine vraja-bhajana or Srī Rūpānuga-bhajana. Additionally, Śrī Caitanyadeva has already discovered many other līlās for our absolute benefit such as in the following pastimes: The agitation against the Kazi who had broken the mṛdaṅga to stop saṅkīrtana-yajña. Avoiding Choṭa Haridāsa forever for yoṣit-sanga. Showing the major difference of intelligence between Rāmacandra Purī and Īśvara Purīpāda regarding their respective guru-sevā mood. Revealing the siddhānta-virodha (wrong siddhānta) and rasābhāsa of the material Bangladeshi kavi. Strongly rectifying the materialistic conception of the enjoying mood of those bāulas (sahajiyās) or by chastising Vallabhācārya for his false ego.

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