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2) Jñāna: Knowledge/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 2: The Glories of Goloka/Wednesday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 217 – November 26, 2025

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 217

sadaika-rūpaṁ bahu-rūpam adbhutaṁ
vimukti-saukhyāt pratiyogi tat sukham
harer mahā-bhakti-vilāsa-mādhurī-
bharātmakaṁ tarkyam atad-vidāṁ na hi

TRANSLATION
That extraordinary happiness is always one, yet it assumes many features. It stands in contrast to the happiness of impersonal liberation. Devotional happiness is made of the intense sweetness of sporting pastimes in the highest devotional service to the Lord. Persons unfamiliar with this pleasure cannot even imagine what it is like.

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2) Jñāna: Knowledge/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 2: The Glories of Goloka/Sunday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 215 – November 23, 2025

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 215

paraṁ samādhau sukham ekam asphuṭaṁ
vṛtter abhāvān manaso na cātatam
vṛttau sphurad vastu tad eva bhāsate
’dhikaṁ yathaiva sphaṭikācale mahaḥ

TRANSLATION
The happiness felt in impersonal samādhi is plain, isolated, vague, and limited because in that samādhi the functions of the mind have ceased. But when the object of meditation appears in the active mind, that object is more vividly manifest, like sunlight reflected on a crystal mountain.

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2) Jñāna: Knowledge/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 2: The Glories of Goloka/Wednesday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 209 – November 19, 2025

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 209

avāntara-phalaṁ bhakter
eva mokṣādi yady api
tathāpi nātmārāmatvaṁ
grāhyaṁ prema-virodhi yat

TRANSLATION
Even though liberation and its effects are natural by-products of devotional service, devotees do not regard satisfaction in the self as worth taking, for it obstructs pure love of God.

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2) Jñāna: Knowledge/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 2: The Glories of Goloka/Sunday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 207 – November 16, 2025

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 207

muktāś cāsya tayā śaktyā
sac-cid-ānanda-dehitām
prāpitās te bhajante taṁ
tādṛśaiḥ karaṇair harim

TRANSLATION
The Lord’s personal energy grants those liberated souls spiritual bodies of eternity, knowledge, and bliss. And with the spiritual senses thus acquired, those souls worship Lord Hari.

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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 2: The Glories of Goloka/Wednesday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 193 – November 12, 2025

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 193

tat sukhaṁ vardhate ’bhīkṣṇam
anantaṁ paramaṁ mahat
na tu brahma-sukhaṁ muktau
vardhate sīmavad yataḥ

TRANSLATION
That happiness increases endlessly. It is limitless and supremely great. In contrast, the happiness of Brahman found in liberation never increases, because it is limited.

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2) Jñāna: Knowledge/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 2: The Glories of Goloka/Sunday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 193 – November 9, 2025

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 193

tat sukhaṁ vardhate ’bhīkṣṇam
anantaṁ paramaṁ mahat
na tu brahma-sukhaṁ muktau
vardhate sīmavad yataḥ

TRANSLATION
That happiness increases endlessly. It is limitless and supremely great. In contrast, the happiness of Brahman found in liberation never increases, because it is limited.

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2) Jñāna: Knowledge/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 2: The Glories of Goloka/Wednesday Sangas

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 169 – November 5, 2025

Posted on November 5, 2025 by Rathi Krishna dasa

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 169

śrī-bhakti-śāstrāṇy ūcuḥ
labdha-brahmādhikāredaṁ
mahā-gopyaṁ nidher api
bhavat-sad-guṇa-sandohair
ākhyāmo mukharī-kṛtāḥ

TRANSLATION
The devotional scriptures said: O dear one who have achieved the post of Brahmā, this topic is more secret than a rare treasure. But we shall explain it to you because your abundant good qualities inspire us to speak freely.