Risking risking risking

In matters of love sometimes, even in this world, people risk everything . Although in this world, love is somewhat tainted with self-interest. Lust to be an enjoyer , or profit or benefit from activities to one degree or another , is always present in the heart of a non spiritual person. Who acts without any self-interest in this world?  Different degrees of love mixed with  lust and self interests are exhibited in this world. The love between the mother and the child is very pure, relatively, for instance.
Nevertheless, Srila BR Sridhar Swami gives the example of the purest of pure love , and he cleverly termed it ” All risk no gain.” In the material world, we hear of no risk, no gain .But all risk no gain ?
The residents of Vraja in Krishna lila those  in the topmost realms of spiritual love , which is ever expanding and feels ever new , and particularly the love of Srimati Radharani and all of her close associates demonstrated the highest of the highest principles of spiritual ecstatic love . They risked everything for love .  When Krishna “left them” and Vrndavana , their hometown ,  they thought everything of their love was lost. still, they never gave up on their unalloyed love and feelings for Krishna , even though He had appeared to reject or disappoint them .Their motivations were only ever to satisfy the emaculate senses of Krishna . In doing so, they had risked everything and were still hankering for Krishna, thinking of Him 24 hours and prepared in that love to gain nothing . In their extreme separation from the object of their love , their hearts were the abode of love ,  it seemed they had risked and risked but that everything in the relationship was finished . In their supreme separation,  their was still hope against hope .
Thus in our spiritual life Srila BR Sridhar Swami says , we are risking risking risking but we do not feel we have gained our goal , and can never feel we have done enough in our services to Divinity or that we have truely gotten Krishna.
Such is the path of pure spiritual love .
On the rooftops of Mathura having left Vrndavana,  Krishna Himself wept tears of love, and indeed, His separation was even more difficult to bear . Remembering the pure love of Srimati Radharani and Her friends  Krishna  thought He could never pay back such a sacrifice of  hearts . The spiritual truth of pure unmotivated love between God and His devotees is delineated in the 10th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam and greatly elaborated upon by Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s. Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has come to reveal this mystery of all risk, no gain , and union in separation and separation in union 

Smriti and Sruti.

In the teachings of Gaudia Vaisnavas, the Smriti must follow the Sruti , otherwise, it is not Smriti.
The supposed Smriti of the smarta Brahminical classes or the Smriti of the impersonal philosophers is not to be classed as Smriti .The Smriti per se are paths that lead genuinely to the spiritual world. They are directly windows to the spiritual worlds .The Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas follow Srila Rupa and Ragganatha das Goswami’s Smriti as well as Srila Jiva Goswami and Srila Sanantana Goswami plus all the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas in param para from them .

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