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Bhakti in Sri Ramchandra’s Raja Yoga
the past one hour. But this is not emotional, this is not physical. I t is something is related to our spirit ananda, atmananada is what we get, where as in the life of Krishna he was distributing for all those gopikas and gopis the happiness that will come from play which perhaps includes also His rasalila. When we critically examine, this is one aspect of abheda between these two great personalities and Ramchandraji is continuing the same job as that of Lord Krishna by not only distributing happiness at the higher levels of consciousness, perhaps having failed in the lower levels.
We are all enjoying the hospitality of Gauranga because this Hall belongs to him. He is a great Krishna lover, and the path of Love is what he has distributed but we all know that he and his disciples spread the message at the materialistic, at the emotional levels. The samadhi that they gain is of the lower order. Truly samadhi they were, even now, many of them get into it but that is of different order but the ananda that we get is beyond the senses. The ananda that Krishna gave was one of senses. This is the essential difference. That is the reason why many people move towards the culture of the ananda of the Krishna type. There is nothing wrong about it, there are several stages of progress. Each person finds his way of happiness. Happiness is what God wants, to live happily is what Babuji wants.
In today’s message you will find Babuji saying “Lord Krishna had originally introduced bhakti in Raja Yoga in a way the yogis know, because he knew the time was at hand when life
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