Mad After God, the Highest Spiritual Ecstasy

Srila Prabhupada very wonderfully explains as follows the highest ecstasy, to be mad after God:

"So the Bhagavad-gita is the science of how to know God. The preliminary science. If you want to know more, then read Srimad-Bhagavatam. And if you are in intense love with God, read Caitanya-caritamrita—how your love for God can be still more intensified. That is Caitanya-caritamrita. So Bhagavad-gita is the preliminary book: to understand God and surrender. And from the surrendering point, further progress—that is Srimad-Bhagavatam. And when the love is intense, to make it more intensified—that is Caitanya-caritamrita. Caitanya Mahaprabhu was mad after God. He cried, śūnyāyitam jagat sarvaṁ govinda viraheṇa me: 'I find everything vacant without Krishna.' That is the supreme ecstasy. So these things cannot happen without love. If you love somebody and he's not there, you find everything vacant. So Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu felt this way about Krishna—lover and beloved. Śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ govinda viraheṇa me: 'I see everything vacant without Govinda.' That is the supreme stage of love."

If we sincerely always stick to this pathway, accepting the orders of our spiritual master as our very life and soul, we are guaranteed to be elevated very soon to this highest perfectional stage of being mad after God.

Lord Caitanya's Super Ecstatic Kirtan

Lord Caitanya's Super Ecstatic Kirtan

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Prayer: To Assist You Life After Life

Dear Srila Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances.All glories unto your divine grace.

I pray to assist you life after life. You are my inspiration. You have mercifully saved me, and I want to bring the whole world at your lotus feet so that they may be saved.

your servant,
Mahabhagavat Das

Reply: The Perfectional Mood for the Disciple

Thank you very much. You have expressed the perfectional mood for a disciple. Without caring for his own liberation from the cycle of birth he is willing to perpetually assist his spiritual master in delivering the fallen souls of this world back to home, back to Godhead. In this connection Srila Prabhupada explains as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 3.29.13 this mood of pure devotion as taught by Lord Caitanya:

"Lord Caitanya teaches us how to execute pure devotional service out of spontaneous love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the Siksastaka, He prays to the Lord: 'O Lord, I do not wish to gain from You any wealth, nor do I wish to have a beautiful wife, nor do I wish to have many followers. All I want from You is that in life after life I may remain a pure devotee at Your lotus feet.' There is a similarity between the prayers of Lord Caitanya and the statements of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Lord Caitanya prays, 'in life after life,' indicating that a devotee does not even desire the cessation of birth and death. The yogis and empiric philosophers desire cessation of the process of birth and death, but a devotee is satisfied to remain even in this material world and execute devotional service."

So kindly continue serving your spiritual master and Lord Sri Krishna in this mood of total surrender. This will be the perfection of your existence. This mood is as good as being back to home, back to Godhead even while being here in this miserable material world.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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