Tattva-viveka
Tattva-viveka
Sri Caitanya Sangha
Swami B. V. Tripurari -- Swami Call 21-12-19: Vicarious Bhakti
1 hour 5 minutes Posted Dec 19, 2021 at 11:14 pm.
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Questions:

4min

If devotion is the supreme happiness, why do we hear so many examples of great devotees lamenting about their perceived misfortune?

19min

What does it mean that Sri Krishna did not feel separation from his friends during the Brahma-vimohan-lila because he was close to them in an expanded form that searched for their calves?

26min

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita teaches that Paramatma sanctions the fulfillment of the desires of materialists as well as spiritualists. On what criteria does he do so?

35min

Is the change from Paramatma to Sri Krishna as the deity of one’s heart an overnight thing, or is it something that happens gradually?

39min

Are the twelve forests of Vrindavan related with the twelve gopalas? Is there a special meaning to numbers in Gaudiya Vaishnavism?

45min

Some say that bhakti is vicarious for lay practitioners, meaning that they support the monastics, and the monastics do the bhakti for them. What are your thoughts on this?

54min

Do the priya-narma-sakhas experience vicariously what Sri Krishna experiences in union with Srimati Radharani in the same way that the manjaris experience what Srimati Radharani experiences In union with Sri Krishna?