Passage 14

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In plain words

She kept thinking of those very qualities. … Dharā got the name Rādhā. That Rādhā is ceaseless worship of Kṛṣṇa. Many people know RADA. Beginning from R it became Rādhā. Beginning from A it became ādhār. Beginning from D it became dhār. Beginning from A it became ārādh. That is, the support of Rādhā is the stream. They said that worship itself is Rādhā. Ceaseless worship itself is Rādhā. Whoever does it, they are all Rādhā. Such a divine principle He taught in the Bhāgavatam in many ways to the Gopīs and the cowherd boys, and within His principle of Prema He made them live a divinity. All His līlās are endless. They are beyond reach. They are beyond description. But out of base feelings they have made the principle of the Gopīs and the doings of Kṛṣṇa, all of these, be lived in certain contrary feelings, and have gone on spreading a false report of them to the world. What is the inner meaning that comes out at the very end? The heart itself is Bṛndāvana. Our feelings themselves are the Gopīs. The Ātma itself is Kṛṣṇa. Ānanda itself is the līlās. This itself is the true Bṛndāvana of the heart. Every man must change his heart into Bṛndāvana and take the very embodiment of the Ātma as Kṛṣṇa. Every act you do you must regard as the very līlās of the Gopīs.

If man today thinks of Gokulāṣṭamī as nothing but the birthday, takes that alone as the chief thing, eats pāyasam and paramānnam for it and says, "We have kept Gokulāṣṭamī," that is not it. They said its very name is paramānnam. What does paramānnam mean? It is not making paramānnam by putting in sugar, rice and sago. They said that paramānnam is the food that belongs to the Supreme. Paramānnam tastes sweet. If you ask how the Supreme is, it must be sweet. It must be Prema, sweet Prema. That very paramānnam is the Name of Kṛṣṇa. The Name of God itself is the true sweetness.

His speech is sweet, His eyes are sweet, His body is sweet, all is sweet; all of the Lord of sweetness is sweet, sweet.

So it is most necessary that, without forgetting divinity, we gain sacrifice in some measure, foster the feeling of Prema and recognise the truth that all are parts of God. We must believe the truth that the Paramātma has come to teach Prema. Our Prema is very narrow. It is selfish. This is not true Prema. We must foster the Prema that understands the principle of Prema in all. Whatever the religion, people believe, "Religion, religion," but is anyone truly living the ideal of that religion?