Debris - the remains of all things broken down or destroyed

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna X years earlier, you had given this book a try... but tossed it aside, annoyed, after the statement (as you recall it): "bhakti-yoga is for sentimental people". In 2020, you do no longer mind this derogatory assessment - actually, you take above statement as a compliment. As such, you do want to give the book another try... but plan to ignore his mayavadi angles (they are confusing and pretentious: "I am Brahman / Jezus / Mohammed / " blablabla), and  simply focus on his statements on bhakti-yoga, which are pleasantly accurate: "The devotee of God wants to eat sugar, not to become sugar." :) Volume1, Chapter 3 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR: "In the Kaliyuga, man, being totally dependent on food for life, cannot altogether shake off the idea that he is the body. In this state of mind it is not proper for him to say, 'I am He.' When a man does all sorts of worldly things, he should not say, 'I am Brah...

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. ...

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-d...

Some extracts from The Second Rainfall of Nectar 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  TWO ( The Second Rainfall of Nectar: Secondary Rules) The First Shower: Classification of Secondary Rules Hearing and chanting are primary means. Karma and JNana may be designated as secondary means, the means for those jivas deeply bound by maya. JNana and karma help in the process of bhakti. Bhakti is the principal means and pro...