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In matters of love sometimes, even in this world, people risk everything . Although in this world, love is somewhat tainted with self-interest. Generally, we see the illusion of love , as lust to be an enjoyer , or profit maker or a sole beneficiary activities self-centred calculations to one degree or another . Such is the state that’s always present in the heart of a person conditioned by the material energies. Who is acting 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 speaking, for instance , an unmotivated sacrifice for the happiness of the child is the mother’s position .
Nevertheless, in the purest of a spiritual sense, 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 Vrndavana who are described by the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas and who are eternally participating in Krishna lila , those who are in the topmost realms of spiritual love , that is ever expanding and feels ever new , that are centred around the love of Srimati Radharani exibits toward Krishna, assisted by all of her close associates , demonstrate the highest of the highest principles of spiritual ecstatic love . They risked everything for love . When Krishna “left them” and supposedly Vrndavana , their hometown , they thought everything of their invested love was lost. still, they never gave up on their unalloyed love, and their feelings for Krishna were increasing more and more . Even though He had appeared externally to reject or disappoint them .Their motivations were only ever to satisfy and to remain satisfying the emaculate senses of Krishna . In doing so, they had risked everything and remained hankering and risking everything of their reputations for Krishna, thinking of Him twenty four hours daily , in their unwavering sacrifice they were prepared in love to gain nothing . In their extreme separation from the object of their love , their hearts were and remained the supreme abode of pure love . It seemed they had risked and risked but that everything in the relationship was finished and they had lost everything . In their supreme separation, however, there was still the hope against hope , this kept them alive and enthusiastic in love .
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 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 .The humble hearts of the residents of Vrndavana whose inner state of mind is revealed by the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas.
On the rooftops of Mathura having left Vrndavana, Krishna Himself wept tears of love, and indeed, His separation was even more difficult to bear for Him , He felt a pain that his lovers were in pain . Remembering the pure love of Srimati Radharani and Her friends Krishna thought He could never pay back such the sacrifice of their 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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