The Ecstasy of Feeling Separation from Krishna

Feeling separation from Krishna Lord Caitanya prays as follows: "O Govinda! Feeling Your separation, I am considering a moment to be like twelve years or more. Tears are flowing from my eyes like torrents of rain, and I am feeling all vacant in the world in Your absence."

After hearing that Krishna consciousness is the supreme ecstasy and reading the above prayer we may find this to be contradictory, but actually it is not. When one is separated from one's beloved, the intensity of his love is greatly magnified. Thus when a devotee feels separation from Krishna or God his loving feelings are greatly enhanced. And since true spiritual bliss is experienced proportionately according to the intensity of love manifested in the one's heart, when one's heart is pierced by the pangs of separation from Krishna he enters into the highest state of spiritual bliss.

Lord Caitanya Feels Intense Separation from Krishna

Lord Caitanya Feels Intense Separation from Krishna

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Answers According to Vedic Wisdom

Question: Where Did We Originate?

Please accept my humble obeisances.
I have read your book uttama bhakti, but I have a doubt:

Did the the living beings in this world previously have a loving relationship with Krishna in the spiritual world and somehow fell down into material existence in which they have forgotten their loving relationship with Krishna? Or were they always in the material world and they have to now develop love of Krishna so that they are qualified to enter His transcendental abode for the first time.

Rasikananda Das

Answer: We Were Originally With Krishna

From: ISKCON Los Angeles, USA

My Dear Rasikananda,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Each of us we were originally with Krishna as one of His eternal associates. But due to misuse of our free will we ended here in this nasty place futilely trying to enjoy separately from Krishna. Now have to revive our original relationship with Him by following the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master.

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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