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Nityananda Trayodashi 2020

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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā, Chapter 5: The Glories Of Lord Nityānanda Balarāma (0) Cosmological model https://soolaba.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/existance.jpg Spiritual sky Kṛṣṇaloka  Within Kṛṣṇaloka, within spiritual sky (= paravyoma, Vaikuṇṭha, the abode of Kṛṣṇa (2)) Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa --> Śrī Balarāma --> FIRST four plenary portions (the original quadruple forms, "catur-vyUha"): Kṛṣṇa / VAsudeva,  Pradyumna (the "transcendental Cupid"),  the principle of the intelligence (6). Aniruddha, the principle of the mind (6) (the original) Saṅkarṣaṇa, the "attracting Deity" (but NOT Cupid !), the principle of ego & the reservoir of all living entities (6), Balarāma! ; this Lord Baladeva is Nityānanda Prabhu. Therefore Nityānanda Prabhu is the original Saṅkarṣaṇa In Kṛṣṇaloka is a transcendental place known as Śvetadvīpa or Vṛndāvana. Vaikunta Loka Below Kṛṣṇaloka in the spiritual sky are the Vaikuṇṭha planets.

Sri Caitanya-SikSamRta 3/8

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Some extracts from The Third Rainfall of Nectar: VaidhI-bhakti from SRI SRI CAITANYA SIKSAMRTA   THE NECTAREAN INSTRUCTIONS OF LORD  CAITANYA BY SRILA BHAKTIVINODA THAKURA     Translated by Sripad Pujya Bhanu Swami Maharaja Book: https://blservices.com/product/sri-caitanya-siksamrta/ published in 1886 ! --  https://krishnashopping.com/products/sri-caitanya-siksamrta Older draft versions of this book, available online: https://www.radha.name/sites/default/files/documents/1273/Caitanya%20Siksamrita%20(Bhanu%20Swami).doc https://www.radha.name/sites/default/files/documents/1273/Caitamya%20Siksamrta.doc CHAPTER THREE (The Third Rainfall of Nectar): Vaidhi Bhakti The First Shower: the general characteristics of Vaidhi-Bhakti p.101 Those principles of religion which arise from the rules of scripture are vaidha-dharma, and are divided into two types: mundane and spiritual. The rules for dharma, artha and kAma are mundane trivarga-dharma. Some "munda