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Blessings from Srila Gurudeva while showering flowers: "May you be happy in this life and in the next. May you have Krsna bhakti, may you have Vraja bhakti, may you have Radha dasyam."

O Varoru (girl with beautiful thighs)! It is decidedly only with the hope of obtaining the nectarine ocean of service unto You and the vision of Your transcendental pastimes that I have been able to maintain my life thus far with severe difficulty. But if You are not merciful unto me even now, then of what use to me is this life, residence in Vraja-dhama, or even Sri Krsna Himself? (Vilap Kusumanjali 102)

"O Kanaka-gauri (golden complexioned girl)! When You are laying with Your head in Krsna´s lap and Your feet in the lap of Rupa Manjari, and when she is massaging Your feet, will Rupa Manjari with the corners of her eyes, give me her mahaprasadam seva of gently massaging Your feet, while she is fanning You?" (Vilap Kusumanjali 72)

Srimati Radhika is fatigued from the labor of amorous pastimes and is resting with Her head in the lap of Sri Krsna. He is gently stroking Her hair, and Rupa Manjari is gently massaging Her legs. Rati Manjari is watching this with greedy eyes and praying to obtain the remnats of Rupa Manjari's service. (Srila BVNM)

TAVAIVASMI TAVAIVASMI NA JIVAMI TVAYA VINA
ITI VIJNAYA DEVI TVAM NAYA MAMA CARANANTIKAM

"I am yours, I am Yours I cannot live without You! O Devi, please understand this and bring me to Your feet!" (VK 96)

BHAJAMI RADHAM ARAVINDA NETRAM
SMARAMI RADHAM MADHURA SMITASYAM
VADAMI RADHAM KARUNA-BHARARDRAM
TATO MAMANYASTI GATIR NA KAPI
(Sri Stavavali, Raghunatha dasa Goswami )

"I worship Srimati Radhika who has lotus eyes, I remember Srimati Radhika whose face is sweetly smiling, and I speak of Her whose heart is melting with compassion There is nothing else for me. She is my life and soul. Thus my life has no other goal than serving Her."

RADHA-CINTA-NIVESENA YASYA KANTIR VILOPITA
SRI-KRSNA-CARANAM VANDE RADHALINGITA-VIGRAHAM (1

"I worship the lotus feet of that form of Sri Krsna when, due to being thoroughly immersed in separation from Srimati Radhika (who is displaying man, Her mood of jealous anger), His own dark complexion vanishes and He assumes Her bright, golden luster;

ALWAYS AND IN ALL SITUATIONS MEDITATE ON YOURSELF AS ONE SO SRIMATI RADHARANI’S MANY MAIDSERVANTS, who are expert in the arts of transcentdental mellows, expert in making a great variety of colorful garlands, garments, and ornaments, wonderfully youthful, beautiful, graceful and decorated with beautiful faces always blossoming with happiness as they serve Sri Sri Radha Krsna. Meditate on youself as Srimati Radharani’s maidservant, as a beautiful, charming young gopi delicate as a newly-blossoming golden vine, as a girl whose moving, neatly braided black hair is decorated with jewels and clusters of flowers, whose beautiful nose is decorated with a single splendid pearl set in gold and jewels, whose face has the splendor of a golden full moon who emits a great flood of the sweet fragrance of a host of lotus flowers, whose breasts are like two wonderful golden lotus buds discreetly covered by a bodice, who has a very slender waist, who has very beautiful broad hips, who is beautifully decorated with a belt, anklets, necklaces, bracelets, and golden armlets, who wears on her head a splendid, very fine veil, whose hips are girded with a wonderfully colorful cloth, whose limbs emit a splendid luster that fills all directions, who wears glistering earrings and a splendid golden lotus flower over one ear, who displays the very wonderful gracefulness, joyfulness, sweetness, and beauty of rising youth, who is so overwhelmed with love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna that her bodily hairs stand erect and tears fill her eyes, who is situated in the highest position of skill in all the transcendental arts, who is wonderfully expert at speaking joking words, who is plunged in a nectar ocean of transcendental bliss, and who considers the beautiful divine couple the sole great treasure of her life. I pray that I should always meditate ON MY ACTUAL SPIRITUAL IDENTITY in this way, and that even in the greatest calamity I shall not be illusioned into thinking that this material body is myself, or that this home and it’s various paraphernalia is my property. (Sri Vrindavana Mahimamrta 7.26-30 , Srila Prabhodhananda Sarasvati Thakura)

SMARA GARALA KHANDANAM MAMA SIRASI
MANDANAM DEHI PADA PALLAVAN UDARAM

O Srimati Radhika, I am burning in the fire of separation. Please be merciful to Me and decorate My head with the foot dust of Your lotus feet to relieve Me from this burning poison of Cupid. (Sri Gita Govinda 10.8)

VENUN KARAN NIPATITAM SKHALITAM SIKHANDAM BHRASTAM CA PITA-VASANAM VRAJA-RAJA-SUNOH
YASYAH KATAKSA-SARA-GHATA-VIMURCCHITASYA
TAM RADHIKAM PARICARAMI KADA RASENA

"WHEN WILL THE TIME COME THAT I CAN CONTINUOSLY RENDER SERVICE WITH RASA, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NATURAL DISPOSITION OF MY SVARUPA, TO SRIMATI kISORIJI BY WHOSE SHOWER OF ARROW-LIKE SIDELONG GLANCES SRI NANDA-NANDANA FAINTS, HIS FLUTE TUMBLES FROM HIS HANDS, HIS CROWN OF PEACOCK FEATHERS FALLS FROM HIS HEAD, AND HIS YELLOW CLOTH SLIPS FROM HIS HIPS."

"Please place flower garlands on Their necks. Anoint all their limbs with pleasant sandal paste. Give them betel nuts to chew. Please them by nicely fanning them. When they lie down together, enjoying the happiness of Their tight embrace, massage Their feet. In this way please serve Sri Sri Radha-Krsna as They are resting enjoying transcendental pastimes on a bed in a solitary kunja in the forest. Filled with amorous rati desires, Sri Sri Radha and Krsna enter gracefully the secluded mandira of vines. Their glistering eyes, words, limbs, and motions are all filled with nectarean rasa, and Their eyes move with amorous playfulness. Seeing all this, Radha's maidservants begin to discreetly go outside, but the smiling Divine Couple brings them back in. They are plunged in shyness and bliss at the same moment."

"As Srimati Radha, fatiged from the battle of conyugal pastimes, rests on the chest of Her lover, a certain gopi plunged in pure love serves Her. Even though he is destroyed by his senses, and even though he cannot directly see any of these pastimes, a person who in his heart meditates on this gopi becomes supremely fortunate."
(Sri Vrindavana Mahimamrita, Srila Prabhodhananda Sarasvati Thakura 14.4)

"I pray that in the charming land of Vrindavan the very charming beauty, splendor, and pastimes of charming Sri Radha and charming Prince of Vraja may eternally appear in my heart." (SVM 10.21)

GOPI ANUGATYA VINA AISVARYA JNANE
BHAJILEHA NAHI PAYA VRAJENDRA NANDANE (CC Madhya 8.230)

Unless one follows in the footsteps of the gopis, he cannot attain the service of the lotus feet of Sri Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja. If one is overcome by knowledge of the Lord's opulence, he cannot attain the Lord's lotus feet, even though he is engaged in devotional service.

TVAM GOPIKA VRSA-RAVES TANYANTIKE 'SI
SEVADHIKARINI GURO NIJA-PADA-PADME
DASYAM PRADAYA KURU MAM VRAJA-KANANE SRI
RADHANGHRI-SEVANA-RASE SUKHINIM SUKHABDHAU
(Stava Kalpadruma, Srila Raghunatha dasa Goswami)

"O GURUDEVA! YOU ARE THE BELOVED GOPIKA OF SRIMATI RADHIKA AND CAN BESTOW HER SERVICE. BESTOWING UPON ME THE SHELTER OF YOUR LOTUS FEET, KINDLY MAKE ME BLISSFULLY ENGAGED WITHIN THE OCEAN OF THE BLISSFULL MELLOWS OF SERVICE TO HER LOTUS FEET IN THE KUNJAS OF VRAJA."

NIKUNJA-YUNO RATI-KELI-SIDDHYAI
YA YALIBHIR YUKTIR APEKSANIYA
(Sri Gurvastakam 6, Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

"Sri Gurudeva is always present with the sakhis and the manjaris, arranging for the perfection of yugala-kisora's amorous pastimes (rati-keli) within the kunjas of Vraja."

SARVA-SADHANA-MUKHYA HI GURU-SEVA SADADRTA
YAYA BHAKTIR BHAGAVATI HY ANJASA SYAT SUKHAVAHA
(Pancaratra, Sri Satvata Tantra 4.57)

"Of all the activities of sadhana the most important is service to Sri Guru. By that service devotion to Bhagavan is quickly, easily, and happily attained."

Nama srestham manum api saci-putram atra svarupam
rupam tasyagrajam uru purim mathurim gosthavatim
radha-kundam giri-vara aho! radhika-madhavasam
prapto yasya prathita-kripaya sir gurm tam nato'smi
(Sri Mukta-carita, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami SGG p.6)

"I am fully indebted to Sri Gurudeva. Why? He has given me so many things: the highest conception of the holy name of Krsna, the highest form of sound which contains the highest form of thought, aspiration, ideal, everything. And he has given me the service of our great savior, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and His dearmost assistant, Svarupa Damodara. He has brought me in connection with Sri Rupa, who has ordered to distribute the heart's innermost dealings, the highest devotional love, RAGANUGA BHAKTI. Gurudeva has given me Srila Sanatana Goswami, who gives us sambandha-jnana, a proper understanding of our relashionship with Sri Krsna, and he has given me Mathura Mandala, which will help me in my remembrance of Radha and Govinda wherever I shall cast my glance. By his grace Gurudeva has revealed the superexcelent position of Radha-kunda, the favorite place of Radha and Govinda for Their pastimes, and this Giriraja Govardhana. Lastly, he has given me the hope that one day I can get the service of Sri Sri Radhika and Madhava. I have been given all these assurances by my Gurudeva, so I bow my head with all my respects to his lotus feet. "

PREME MATTA NITYANANDA KRIPA AVATAR
UTTAMA, ADHAMA, KICHU NA KARE VICAR
YE AGE PADAYE, TARE KARAYE NISTARA
ATAEVA NISTARILA MO-HENA DURACARA

"Nityananda is intoxicated by ecxtatic love and is an encarnation of mercy, He makes no distinction between the exalted and the fallen. He delivers all those who fall down before Him. Therefore He has delivered such a sinful and fallen person as me." (C.C. Adi 5.208-209)

"O Vrinde, the daughter of Vrishabhanu Maharaja, Srimati Radhika, has given you dominion over Sri Krsna's most glorious Sri Vrindavana dhama, which is the crown jeweled of all the Vaikuntha planets. I offer pranama unto your lotus feet."

"Oh Vrinde, on your order the leaves, flowers, bees, deer, peacocks, parrots, and all the other living entities in Vrindavan beautifully decorate the wondrous kunjas where Sri Madhava enjoys His playful loving pastimes (keli-vilasa) in the perpetual spring season- I offer pramama unto your lotus feet."

MUKAM KAROTI VACALAM PANGUM LANGHAYATE GIRIM
YAT-KRIPA TAM AHAM VANDE SRI GURUM DINA TARANAM

"I offer my respectul obeisances unto Sri Guru, the deliverer of all fallen souls, whose mercy turns the dumb into eloquent speakers, and enables the lame to cross mountains."