Lila, Atma, Bhakti, and Bhagavan
Embodied Love: Practicing Bhakti & Devotion • 1h 20m
Arguably in Krsna lila—divine play—we fully encounter the “play that is played eternally before [the creation of] all creatures,” and also the notion that at play God is and we are (with him) “what we really are.” Therein Goddess Bhakti, who in her early stages manifests as a spiritual practice (sadhana) cleansing one’s consciousness (citta), in her mature expression of blissful spiritual emotion personified as Radha fuels this play between the individual self (atma) and God (Bhagavan).
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