Divine Words of His Divine Grace
Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar deva Goswami
We can’t try to apply our reason or our standard of measurement to the movements of the infinite.
Sometimes reason, logic, and analysis are necessary, but only to preach to the people in general who have a lower understanding.
Krishna’s divine movements are kept in reserve by His sweet will: “All rights reserved.” We want to search for some law above His sweet will, but this is inconsistent.
It is self-contradictory.
Leaving aside all doubts and suspicions, we shall be most generous in approaching the absolute, free from all inhibitions. We shall approach Him with that spirit, and try more and more to leave aside our past prejudices and precedents, the records of our past experience.
The boundary of the sweet will of the infinite is such that even Lord Brahma, the creator of the universe, can be perplexed by Krishna.
In connection with the infinite, you will find that everywhere there is a center, nowhere circumference. But to realize this you must try to live in eternity, in Vaikuntha.
Whatever we may conceive is within the infinite.
There are various types of infinite. The highest conception of the infinite is: He is so beautiful and attractive that He is attracting all to surrender to Him.
The more they achieve, the more they thirst, the more earnestness is found within them. This is the characteristic of realization of the infinite.
All the other aspects of the infinite; infinite time, infinite space, infinite power, are external. But infinite love which attracts love and self-surrender is the highest type of infinite. And that is Krishna.
Our inner aspiration for rasa, is buried within our hearts which are tied down and sealed. But hearing and chanting the glories of Krishna breaks the seal on the heart and allows it to awaken and open to Krishna, the reservoir of pleasure, ecstasy Himself.
