The Unmatched Love of the Vrajavasis transcription

Title – The Unmatched Love of the Vrajavasis transcription
Date of uploading on YouTube – 11 June 2026
Speaker – HH Lokanatha Swami Gurumaharaj

Thank you for joining us again today.

We’ll continue where we left off yesterday. So yesterday Narada muni traveling all over. He has reached where is Narada muni now? Where? was in Dwaraka and uh what time of the day did he arrive there? Morning hours and uh there was no need to guide him to get to the palace of Sri Krishna because he had been there many times.

And how did he look like? Looked like a ghostly haunted mad man. And where is Krishna? He’s in the palace in his chambers still in the bed. He has not done early to bed and early to rise makes person healthy, wealthy, wise.

He’s just lying on and uh Udhava has he normally would sit next to him next to  his bed but that day he wanted to leave Krishna alone. Krishna was not in not in good mood. He was in some kind of distress.

So Uadhva was sitting at the entrance of the palace and he wasn’t alone. There were several other members including Balaram and Rohini and Rukmani and Satyabhama and Kamsa’s mother. Remember her. And there he comes. They all noticed. And then they got up, received him. wiped his face, calmed him down, made him to take seat and as they inquired  something.

So as so then he started speaking and as he begins giving explanation of the state of his mind’s affairs and why he had been acting like a mad man. So as he started to speak again the emotions ecstasies are roused and uh his eyes are again full of tears and he begins glorifying Udhav and he said I would like to could you please bring me to Udhav help where is Udhav is he here could I see him.

He wasn’t very far he was right in front but he could not recognize because his eyes were also full of tears and not able to see and things are not normal then he also was thinking oh maybe uh I don’t deserve meeting with such a exalted most favored devotee of Krishna so could I at least have a little dust   if not meeting face to face at least at least get me dust of his feet and that it will atleast pacify me and  I will attain Shanti

And then he talks on of his realizations of Uddhav. He says this world has never ever seen devotee like  Uddhav. Nobody in the distant past and at the present moment means those who are in Dwarka . No one has received  the benediction as much as or favors as much as Udhav has received.  amongst the bhagawatas. Mahabhagatas is mahatam is the topmost. He is mahavibhuti. Bibbuti the full of opulences great soul and he says uh this is not just what I say or I have heard but the Lord himself has talked in these terms about.

Lord had or has Tanaya sons like Brahma and others and he has brothers like Shankarashan  Balram and others.  he has friends like Shiva and others and he has bharya wife like Rama Lakshmi but Lord has said that he thishav is priyatamaha Ah because other devotees are pri dear to me but  Uddhav is priyatam and that’s the title of this chapter also this is the sixth chapter of the first part of bhagat amrit called priyatam.

Lord even once said and not even more he is more dear to me than myself and he has said that. So in the commentary on this verse who is commenting who wrote the commentary on Brahad Bhagwat Amrid Sanatan Gowami himself auto commentary. So he is commenting and he quotes from 11 canto wherein Lord said my dear Udhaav  neither Lord Brahma Lord Shiva Lord Shankarshan the  goddess of fortune nor indeed my own self is as dear to me as you.

So that’s supporting statement of what Naradamuni said. This is what supports Lord’s own statement. So Lord’s this vachan this statement and vachanani many other statements from the past from the scriptures reveals the great good fortune of Udhav how is a most favored most dear devotee.

And these days The descendants of Yadu dynasty they also sing glories of exalted position of Uadhav they know they know Uadhav how much dear he is to the lord. This is Naradamuni talking to all those who are assembled there. And in that assembly, of course, Udhav is sitting right there in the midst of those dwarkavasis.So when I heard about Udhav, his glories there in Hastinaur, Pandavas said so much about Udhav.  I was open-minded and my so all that they said entered my the karnadvar the entrances of the ears and that reached my heart and all that reached my heart kind of attacked my heart invaded my heart pervaded my heart, took over my heart.

And that plundered my being sober, being steady, being fixed and all that. There was no more. After I heard, I became agitated. I became ecstatic and excited. And as a result, I have ended up here in Dwaraka.

Again, in the commentary, Sanatan Gowami is quoting another verse. This is again in 11 canto 11.11.49.

before Lord you know they say you heard what is the name which is that is in the 11th canto is a Bhagat Gita that song of God has name of Krishna Bhagat Gita that’s Krishna’s name the other Gita the speaker is is Krishna same speaker but that Gita gets the title the name what that becomes Buddha Gita this is Bhagat Gita as Uadhav gita.

So there Lord like in Bhagat Gita in the middle I think it’s third or fourth chapter Krishna said you are very dear you remember I’m going to speak very confidential things to you Arjun and why to you because you are my saka bhaktah and sakah you are my devotee and friend very dear that’s why I’m going to reveal the confidential truth unto you.

So Krishna said that Arjun in Bhagvat Gita but Uddhav Gita he said that similar thing to Udhav and oh beloved Yadhu beloved of Yadu dynasty because you are my servant one  you are my well-wisher two and my friend I shall now speak to you the most confidential knowledge. Please hear as I explain these great mysteries to you.

So this is yet another statement in the words of Lord Sri Krishna himself where he glorifies Uadhav and expresses his affection, love, confidence, friendship he has with Uadhav

So when uh would have heard all this from Narada muni, he couldn’t understand it. Like the previous persons yesterday we we mentioned how he went to he went all over starting with Priyag then South India then to Amaravati. Where is Amaravati? Capital of Indra is called Amaravati.

Then he goes to Satya. That’s brahaloko goes to kalash goes to vaikunth from there he goes to sultal planet from there he goes to where hanuman resides like that so as he was meeting those devotees and glorifying them each one of them said no no no no not me nar [music] is someone you have more dear than myself so please go to them [clears throat] meet them.

The same thing happened here. Uadhav also doesn’t admit no no there is someone more dear in my opinion my understanding there is yet another one not just one but many many of those very favorite most favorite devotees and thinking like this was thinking like this he gets up he goes forward he grabs the feet lotus feet of naradmuni.

He takes all the dust kind of embraces feet of of Naradamuni while he is remembering those prashad bhagan those who received prashad the benediction more special benediction and as he’s thinking of those devotees of course he’s thinking We have devotees in Vrindavan brajabasis he’s thinking of there are different kinds from brajabasis devotees in sakhaya rasa some vatsalya in some full maduraya.

He has all the he’s feeling fallen or I am fallen compared to them I’m I’m at lower low class heina Dina and thinking like this he’s remembering those devotees he begins now shedding tears and…emotion mentioned here.

Out of transcendental or sattvic jealousy is jealous but this is not mundane or envy, jealousy governed or caused by passion or ignorance or in goodness could also  be there but this is satvik sattvik bhav has aroused and is feeling jealous.

Go there is so much here I’m just throwing few drops just sprinkling after arti they throw a few few drops there’s a ocean here there’s a sindu here I’m just sharing some bindus bindus from their shindu there ocean but this is just few drops I’m missing so much I’m skipping so much and not that I’m grasping or understanding so much also. So just touching just floating at the surface trying to dive but we could only dive deeper as per our capability as different birds could fly at different levels only sparrow has its level and the guru has its another and like that.

So Sanatan Gowami says the bhav of jealousy. He explains that intolerance of others good fortune. I read somewhere else others progress elevation you cannot tolerate I can’t stand it you can’t stand it that’s called jealousy rather in this jealousy. Listen to this.

He entered is the difference between the worldly jealousy being jealous and the jealous nature of the transcendentalists. In the jealousy he entered even deeper into the trance of his attraction to Krishna. Just as devotees in the conjugal mood become even more blissfully attached to Krishna when jealous of his other lovers.

Okay, even if you don’t get all that in first reading, you’ll have to go back. Homework for you to understand, realize or accept this as a truth. And then realization is yet another. Accept this as a truth. This is this is a gyan. And then from gyan we have to transform that into the vigyan realization, practical application or assimilation. So we do not only want to store this as information or just a knowledge gathering.

The goal is to assimilate transformation. Not just information, lot of information, information technology these days. But where is a transformation? We would like to see transformation of our hearts, our consciousness which Prabhupada used to  call as a revolution in consciousness.

And now he Udhav is speaking, addressing Narada Maharaj.

He addressed Naradamuni in four addresses, four ways. There must be reason why he is saying each one of this.

Sarvagya means you know everything. You know everything. But what you just said is not right. But you know what is right. But why are you talking like this? That I am most favored? No, this is not right. You are Sarvagya. I know you know. I know you know. You must know who is most favored.

Your statements are stressed at the topmost. You are Mahamuni, again stressed. Mahamuni, amongst you are not only, but you are Mahamuni. Maharati Prabhu, you are my master and you have said, you have written, written so much and you have spoken so much about this path of Bhagwat Bhakti.

Bhakti Sutras, huh, Narada Bhakti Sutra. Sutra is famous. You were there  Narada kund not far from Govardhan Hill. You know you are also aspiring to join the rasa dance considering that to be the topmost. Was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and He appeared to deliver that.

All you just said about me and more is just evident, is self-evident to me. I knew it was true before you said it and so did others.

The commentary Sanatan Gowami writes, “O knower of everything,” because Narada Muni was addressed as Sarvagya, meaning “O knower of everything.” This quote unquote hints that Narada is aware of who indeed are Krishna’s most favored devotees led by the divine Shrimati  Radharani.

And then he’s going to share his firsthand experience.

He said, “Very recently I went to Vrindavan. I was in Vraja.” Well, while on the way to Vrindavan, I was also thinking, I was kind of proud of my very special position. How Lord loves me the most, and most every devotee, and I was thinking like this and my pride had reached the sky, sky was the limit, like a mountain Meru. That was the height of my thinking, “Oh, me, must be special one, chosen one.”

But then he says, “As I reached Vrindavan and what I experienced there, immediately my mountain Meru-like pride crumbled and crushed, became a pile of dust.”

If you take Ayurveda medicine this is churna, right? Powder, churna. Oh, my pride became churna like that, crushed before he visited Vraja. Same thing.

So then he said, “Oh, that was amazing sweetness that I experienced or I understood.”

What was maya gata madhuri?

Maya by me gata. I realized. What did I realize? Madhuri, the sweetness.

I experienced sweetness of what?

And he mentions three items here:

The amazing sweetness of Krishna’s mercy—that’s one thing.

Amazing sweetness of love for Him, love for Krishna—that is also this amazing sweetness.

Amazing sweetness of love for Krishna, mercy of Krishna, receiving and then reciprocating, loving Krishna.

There’s this amazing sweetness.

And third thing—amazing sweetness of those who possess that love, meaning devotees, devotees of Vrindavan.

Amazing sweetness of those who possess that love.

So as Uddhava was talking like this, he doesn’t want to talk more about these matters of what he experienced. He just said quickly in a condensed form,

And then says, “You know, I offer my obeisances unto you again and again, O Narada. Let us not pursue this path. Let us not talk more about these matters. Let us give viram. Let us stop talking about this, about topics, about the rasa, this topic about Vraja, and Venu, and Dhenu, and Renu.”

Renu—the dust of Vrindavan.

Venu—the flute of Sri Krishna.

And all these talks full of rasa. O rasika, let’s put a full stop to these talks.

The reason being, he is thinking that if we continue talking, certainly talks about the gopis and Radharani and their loving dealings with Krishna and Krishna’s special favors for the gopis and especially Radharani.

If these subject matters are spoken in the assembly here, who is sitting? The queens of Krishna from Dwaraka are here. How would they feel if they hear that their husband has yet another lovers and He loves them more than us?

Now, this won’t be appropriate.

That’s one concern.

The other concern is one of the persons in the audience. He’s not sitting right there, but not far on the bed. He’s lying, but he’s not sleeping. He’s up. He’s hearing.

And if he hears about the residents of Vrindavan and hearing about the gopis and Radha, oh, he’s going to go deeper into that distressed state of his mind. It’s going to be further agitation. So better not talk more of these matters.

Therefore, anyone familiar with Bhagavat Amrit knows, this is again Sanatan Goswami’s commentary, knows very well that Uddhava said what he said and did in Vraja and what confidential ambition he revealed there.

It is no secret that Uddhava discovered in Sri Vraja Dham that the gopis, headed by Sri Radhika, are the most intimately favored by Sri Krishna, more than himself.

But in the present company, Uddhava wanted to avoid pursuing this topic.

Parikshit said to… because everything is Parikshit. [music]
Even what Narada Muni said and then Uddhava said and this person said and all this is spoken by Parikshit Maharaj unto Uttara.
And where is this happening, this dialogue?
On the bank of which river?Ganga.
Where? Which Ganga? Which part of Ganga’s bank?
Shuktal.
Hastinapur, just outside Hastinapur.