Ramananda Ray

And when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is walking on the...

He has heard about Ramananda Raya.

And as he is walking on the banks of Godavari, he sees him coming with his entire procession.

Because he is the governor and he has a lot of paraphernalia and all that.

I bestow my hearty blessings to the players here of Prem Paryojan.

Mahibharata, Raya Ramananda,

all

others, Lalit Mohan, all.

But actually, their love is the purest expression of where, what that philosophy is pointing to, right? So you begin, i- if you begin, if you approach this as a philosopher, someone, "I really wanna know the truth," well, how high can you pursue it? How high does it go? How, you know, how...

And that, and that's, you know, what the conversation between Sri Caitanya and Ramananda Raya is in the, uh, in the Srimad Bhagavatam, is like, how, how high can you take it? How much can you extract the purest essence of this? And you find that in the lives of the gopis.

This is where all the philosophy goes.

But it's disconcerting.

Manifests in the lives and within the hearts of these gopis who appear to have nothing to do with philosophy.

But actually their love is the purest expression of where, what that philosophy is pointing to, right? So you begin, i- if you begin, if you approach this as a philosopher, someone, "I really wanna know the truth," well, how high can you pursue it? How high does it go? How, you know, how, uh, it, that...

And that's, you know, what the conversation between Sri Chaitanya and Ramananda Raya is in the, uh, in the Srimad Bhagavatam, is like how, how high can you take it? How much can you extract the purest essence of this? And you find that in the lives of the gopis.

This is where all the philosophy goes.

Those who say prema, prema, prema, this is prema, this is prema, they do not know.

It can only be understood when it's experienced, and it can only be talked about, you know, in, you know, in roundabout ways." One time, Lord Chaitanya was speaking with Ramananda Raya, a great saint who he met, and he was saying, "Speak higher, speak higher, speak higher, speak higher, speak higher, speak higher, speak higher." And Ramananda Raya was saying, "No one in this world has asked such questions.

There's th-that they can even consider there's something higher." And then he said, "Speak higher, speak higher." And then he started to sing a song he had written.

And Lord Chaitanya covered his mouth.

And he, what?

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu taught Rupa Goswami all the conclusions he had heard from Ramananda Raya and duly empowered him so that he could understand them.

By entering the heart of Rupa Goswami, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu empowered him to ascertain properly the conclusions of all truths.

He made him an experienced devotee whose decisions correctly agreed with the verdicts of the disciplic succession.