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Rupa Gosvami could understand that "Here is Krsna, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu." Krsnaya. Now He is acting as Krsna-Caitanya. Krsnaya krsna-caitanya-namne: "He has assumed the name of Krsna-Caitanya, but He is Krsna Himself." And what He is doing? Because previously, as Krsna, He simply ordered that "You surrender. Then you'll be purified and you'll be promoted." Now here, as Krsna-Caitanya, He is giving krsna-prema. Krsna-prema. Unless I understand you very thoroughly, how there can be love for you? Love is not so easy that simply by meeting, or one day's transaction, one becomes lover of other. No. It takes time. So in the Krsna form, Krsna, the Supreme Lord, He simply wanted that "You surrender; then you'll understand Me." But in the Caitanya Mahaprabhu, not only understanding Him, but one gets love of Krsna, the highest stage. Therefore He is addressed as namo maha-vadanyaya, the topmost charitable personality. He is giving krsna-prema.    (More...)

So the process is there. And actually it is so happening all over the world. How the Christian priests are surprised that "These boys, these Christian boys or these Jewish boys, they never came to the church. They did not inquire even what is God. Now they have left everything and they are mad after God. How it is po... How it is?" Because we have adopted the process enunciated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; therefore it has become easier. Otherwise, to understand Krsna only it will take millions of years, simply to understand Krsna. And what to speak of becoming lover of Krsna? If I do not understand you, I cannot become your lover. You... We cannot love an unknown person. Is it possible? You must know him. You must behave with him. You must study him. He will study you. Then there is question of love. But Krsna-Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given us such a nice process: ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc Antya 20.12]. This is the process of cleansing the mirror of the heart. Mirror, when it isBy chanting Hare Krsna mantra, immediately...    (More...)

Because we do not love Krsna. We have got intimate relationship with Krsna as part and parcel. It cannot be separated. It cannot be separated. But any way, some way or other, we have lost or forgotten that intimate relationship with Krsna. Nitya-siddha krsna-bhakti. That is nitya-siddha, eternally fact, that Krsna loves us and we love. Krsna loves; therefore He comes personally. He comes as devotee to deliver us back to home, back to Godhead. Unless He loves, how it is possible? Krsna is coming in so many ways. He is sending His devotee. He is leaving Bhagavad-gita for study to understand Krsna. That is... Krsna loves. Simply teaches that... Therefore Caitanya-caritamrta says that nitya-siddha krsna-bhakti. This krsna-bhakti, love of Krsna, it is not something that artificially trained up. Artificial things...    (More...)