November 14, 2012 — Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja read from several sources to explore the significance of Govardhan Hill and it’s special relationship to the SCS Math in Navadvipa.

Here is the recording of the November 14, 2012 sadhu-sanga.

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• Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja explained Srila Sridhar Maharaja’s revelation about the very gist and substance of Govardhan lila as represented in the Srimad Bhagavatam verse 10.26.10
• Here the Highest Truth takes the humble position of a cowherd boy, a mild and soft conception of God — Reality the beautiful.
• In this Pastime, the retributive egoism of Indradeva, as a kingly personality, is not overcome by confronting and rebuking him, but by the endearing sweetness of Krishna’s playful pastimes as compassionate protector of his beloved devotees. And Indra, himself, is not excluded from that circle.
• This perfectly captures the sublime mood and nature that characterized Srila Sridhar Maharaja’s own realizations, realizations that attracted so many fortunate souls to him.
• Without a service connection to the authentic representative of that conception, only divisiveness can result within the reactionary plane of egoistic existence. The hypocrisy, quarrel and bitter strife of Kali increases, rather than being ameliorated by the harmonizing influence that descends from the Department of Divine mercy and compassion.
• Corrupted by the egoism of considering oneself a vaishnava, one falls victim to such lower existence.
• Govardhan Hill is non-different from Krishna, even though it appears in the pose of santa rasa as a mountain. Furthermore, it’s hidden caves and bowers are the locus of Sri Sri Radha-Krishna’s loving pastimes.
• Govardhan sila is also non-different from Krishna, because, even as an apparent finite part of the infinite, it is also infinite.
• Srila Govinda Maharaja has marked the essence of Srila Saraswati Thakura’s teachings of how to properly perform the raga marg worship of Govardhan by the sankirtan of the Holy Names, and represented that in a diorama and sloka placed front and center of the nath mandir in Sri Dham Koladvip, which is Gupta Govardhan — hidden Govardhan.
• The prayers of Srila Govinda Maharaja to Sri Govinda Kund at the foot of Gupta Govardhan, and of Srila Das Goswami to Giri Govardhan were then read in glorification of this hidden treasure of the exalted yet unassuming holy festival of Sri Govardhan Puja.