Familiar,?  have been ? never been ?

Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur instructs the devotees to increase their meditations.  Thus an element of astanga yoga is included in Bhakti yoga , as confirmed in Srila Visvanatha Cakravati Thakur’s Bhagavad Gita commentaries.

If you have forgotten your original purposes or your family connections from time immemorial, obviously, some rehabilitation and a revival of a normal state will be necessary.

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur in his Jiva Dharma,  speaks of the conditions of water .

In its original state, water is a liquidity state , but due to excessive heat or excessive cold , its origins state undergoes an imposed state , ice, or steam .

The original state is described in Bhagavad Gita,  one is an eternal blissful associate of God , and being so , one naturally has an attraction for the all attractive one .

Jiva Goswami speaks of the impossible becoming possible,  in the sense of Divinity expanding Himself and becoming many , one and difference simultaneously   is the particles condition.

Also, the free will of the individual is let loose , naturally, it’s exhibited in different ways . Love is spontaneous and never static , nothing is static in relationships,  and certainly not in a spiritual realm . That Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has come to distribute something that has never been distributed before,  the ecstatic and every increasing love of Srimati Radharani is mysterious.

And those receiving it , or attracted to it , are certainly extremely fortunate,  Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur gives the example of loggers in the forest , floating logs down a river to the saw mill , by chance a log is thrown up on the bank of the river .

So by association, one changes or increases an attraction towards Divinity , there are examples in the Bhagavatam,  of the wives of the Brahmanas association with Radharani and the Gopies , and Mahaprabhu through the teachings of the Goswamis,  in their writings have  delineated the whole mysterious process of Sadhana and Ragganuga practice,  note the word practice,  a practice,  a development of something,  in one sence a revival , in one sense,  something ever new , never before experienced.


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