Quarterly Magazine (March 2011) - Shrinathji Temple, Nathdwara

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THE LIFE OF SHRI MAHAPRABHU VALLABHACHARYA (c. 1479-1531) -SHYAM DAS BRAJA LILAS Braja is the area with the highest concentration of Baithaks or Seats, temples dedicated to where the Master taught Shri Krishna’s divine essences as revealed in the Bhagavat. Shri Vallabhacharya is brilliant at giving the unattainable gift; direct insights into the nature of Shri Krishna. Anywhere his lotus feet touched the ground became a non-dual divine realm. The bhakti master wandered the twelve forests of Braja with a handful of dedicated followers. In Braja, as elsewhere, his mission was to awaken Shri Krishna’s presence in the people that he met. To his scribe, Kashmiri Bhatt and other intimate followers, he conveyed the inner mood of Vrindavan now in the voice of the Beloved Gopis, “We experience Krishna with our eyes, we feel Him through all of our senses. Hari is the desire, the festival of our hearts. To imbibe Krishna’s form is the ultimate reward. To have conversations with God, to behold Him, to embrace Him Is what we live for. “We have heard the nectar of His flute and now savor His fragrance everywhere. We approach Krishna directly and stand in His joyful proximity. We integrate all of these bhavas continually into our devotion. Understand us. We know that the fruit of attaining human form is to use God-given senses to experience God. To join them in Hari’s pleasure. To behold Him with eyes or better yet, with all senses. To imbibe His form, His divine essence, for us, that alone is the reward. We have no use for that liberation of merging into Brahman where the ability to taste and discern Him is annihilated… If we merged with Hari, we would not be allowed the opportunity to experience Him.” This intense devotion was not understood by all. Once in Mathura, Sanatan Goswami approached Shri Vallabhacharya and said, “Yours is the Path of Grace, the path of nourishment, yet all of your followers are thin.” Shri Vallabhacharya turned to him and explained, “I told them not to come, but they came and that is why they are thin.” Sanatan Goswami did not understand the reply, but when he mentioned Shri Vallabhacharya’s words to his guru, Shri Krishna Chaitanya, the guru fell to the ground in a divine swoon. When he arose several hours later, he asked Sanatan again what Shri Vallabhacharya had said and when he heard the master’s words for a second time, he fell unconscious again. The teaching that Shri Vallabhacharya gave here is from the Shrimad Bhagavatam. When Shri Vallabhacharya said. “I told them not to come,” he was iqf"VekxZ =Sekfld if=dk@o"kZ 12] vad&1@ekpZ 11 ¼ 45 ½
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