Jayapataka Swami: Since Srila Prabhupada said we are hyper personalists, we see that the Lord is a person, cetanas cetananam, nityas nityanam; eko bahunam vidadati Kaman – the Lord is a person. Even if we are offering sadhana bhakti to the Lord, He accepts because we are surrendering to Him. And when we start to take up devotional service a bit spontaneously and that is considered as raganuga. So, that is still in the level of sadhana until we have ecstasies of devotional service. Just like some devotees, they think and breathe devotional service, they are thinking how to expand the preaching, how to improve my service, that is raganuga. And if we just do our service methodically, not very enthusiastically, just like someone cleans the temple. They clean, (Guru Maharaj gestured with his hands like mopping the floor and said in a sing song way) cleaning the temple, da, da, da da da! They take two hours!And if someone else is cleaning Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, (Guru Maharaj chanted very enthusiastically) they clean the temple very fast and they diligently try to do better, then that is the upper level of sadhana bhakti. From that you can develop bhava bhakti.
15-APRIL-2020 SRI MAYAPUR DHAM, INDIA
