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Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja, Mamagachi Navadvipa Parikrama, 2008<\/p>\nSrila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja, Mamagachi Navadvipa Parikrama, 2008<\/p>\n
In Treta Yuga, Lord Ramacandra, Sita devi, and Laksmana went to Mamagachi.\u00a0 Under the shade of a large banyan tree, Sita Devi observed that Lord Rama was smiling mildly.<\/p>\n
She inquired, \u201cO Lord, what is the cause of your amusement?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lord Rama replied, \u201cO Devi, this Navadvipa is very dear to Me.\u00a0 In the beginning of the upcoming Kali Yuga, I will come here in the form of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and You, Sita, will come here as Srimati Visnupriya.\u00a0 I will take sannyasa and go to Jagannath Puri.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then Sita asked, \u201cO Lord, what is the reason for Your taking sannyasa?\u201d<\/p>\n
In prema, pure divine love, there is meeting and separation.\u00a0 During meeting there is external meeting, and in that happiness, the devotee forgets everything internal.<\/strong>\u00a0 But during viraha, separation, he or she remembers the pastimes of meeting.\u00a0 Meeting with the Lord is certainly one type of happiness, but separation is another type of happiness. Therefore, sadhakas (practitioners of devotion to Sri Krsna) in this world perform bhajana in the mood of separation by remembering the pastimes of Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.<\/p>\n What is the condition of Srimati Radhika when Krsna went to Mathura and Dvaraka?\u00a0 The prema of Radhika is not expressed directly; it is not straightforward. It is very crooked, and therefore it binds Sri Krsna.\u00a0 Especially regarding the condition of maan, transcendental jealous anger, Candravali will not directly express displeasure or say anything contrary at that time.\u00a0 But Radhika may say many things, and Krsna becomes controlled by Her type of maan. A river is not very beautiful when it has only a few waves, but the ocean is very attractive because it contains so many astonishing varieties of waves.<\/p>\n Similarly, in separation there are many wonderful and astonishing moods felt by both the Lord and His beloved.\u00a0 Moreover, the meeting that occurs after separation is especially relishable.<\/p>\n Now Lord Rama told Sita, \u201cO Devi Sita, your father took a vow to marry You to that person who could lift the bow of Lord Siva.\u00a0 Many powerful kings like Ravana came, but they could not lift it.\u00a0 I also came with Laksmana at that time, and that was Our first meeting \u2013 in the garden of Janaka Maharaja.\u201d<\/p>\n At that time, Lord Rama and Sita exchanged glances and both captured each other\u2019s hearts.\u00a0 Soon after that, when Ramacandra lifted the bow, Sita was beside Herself with happiness.\u00a0 She wanted to put the vijaya mala, the \u2018victory garland,\u2019 around the neck of Lord Rama, but she was feeling such ecstasy that She could not move.\u00a0 Her friends had to lift Her arms and place the garland around His neck.<\/p>\n Later, unknown to Lord Rama, after He abandoned Sita devi, She gave birth to two sons, Lava and Kush, in the asrama of Sri Valmiki Muni.\u00a0 There in his asrama they learned the sixty-four arts.<\/p>\n They once went to the palace of Ramacandra and began to sing the Ramayana that they had learned from Valmiki.\u00a0 There they saw the most astonishing sight:\u00a0 a golden form of their mother.\u00a0 They did not know that their mother was Sita.\u00a0 As they sang the Ramayana in a very sweet voice, everyone began weeping \u2013 Rama, Laksmana, and all others.<\/p>\n Rama was especially attracted.\u00a0 He called Laksmana and said, \u201cPlease go to these boys and ask them, \u2018Who is your mother and father?\u2019\u201d Laksmana took a big container of jewels and gold as a donation for them.\u00a0 Laksmana said, \u201cLord Rama is very pleased with you two boys.\u00a0 Please, we want to know who your mother and father is.\u201d<\/p>\n Lava and Kush replied, \u201cOh, considering that You are a brother of Lord Ramacandra, You are not very intelligent.\u00a0 We are brahmacaris, so why are You asking who is our mother and father?\u00a0 All we know is that our Gurudeva is Sri Valmiki; that is all we know.\u00a0 We also have no need of these jewels and gold and silks.\u00a0 We live in the forest and eat roots, shoots, and fruits; we have no need of these at all.\u00a0 If we need some cloth, we take some bark from the trees.\u201d<\/p>\n That day, Lava and Kush returned very late to the asrama of Valmiki. Because they did not know that Lord Rama was their father and that their mother was Sita devi, they said to their mother, \u201cO Mother, today we saw a most astonishing thing.\u00a0 As we sang the Ramayana, and all were vastly attracted, we saw that King Rama had a golden form of a woman who is the exact replica of You.\u201d<\/p>\n Hearing this, Sita began to weep.\u00a0 She could understand that although the King has left the Queen, Rama has not left Sita.\u00a0 She wept bitterly.<\/p>\n During Her separation from Lord Rama when He was in Ayodhya and She was in the asrama of Valmiki Muni, Sita was absorbed in remembering the happiness of Her first meeting with Him, the happiness She felt upon placing the victory garland around His neck, and so many other pastimes with Him.\u00a0 All these pastimes that took place in meeting, She remembered in separation.<\/p>\n When Sri Krsna went to Mathura and then to Dvaraka, Radharani experienced mohan, or mohanakhya-mahabhava, and in divine madness, She chastised a bumblebee.\u00a0 In separation from Krsna, Srimati Radhika sometimes embraces a tamala tree or the darkness.\u00a0 Therefore, in vipralambha, separation from Krsna, there is great remembrance of the happiness of meeting with Him.<\/p>\n Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Sanatana Goswami have said that the happiness of separation dances on the head of any happiness that is experienced in meeting.<\/p>\n Lord Rama now told Srimati Sita-devi, \u201cO Devi, I will come to this Navadvipa.\u00a0 I will take birth from the womb of Mother Saci, and I will take sannyasa and go to Jagannath Puri \u2013 and You will stay here in Navadvipa and worship My murti (divine, worshipful statue).\u201d\u00a0 That murti is here in Navadvipa; it is known as Sona Gauranga.<\/p>\n Separation is such a wonderful thing.\u00a0 Both the devotee and the Supreme Lord taste the astonishing waves of meeting and separation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"