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NEW DEVOTION
// devotional music for yoga-relaxation-chill-lounge-bhakti-meditation //
// prahladi Patrick Bernard & mahavirya robert lafond // NEW DEVOTION //
1) // streaming //……………7’48’’
2) // inner wealth //……………7’53’’
3) // hall of prem //……………6’30’’
4) // moonlight night //……………7’25’’
5) // take me home //……………6’48’’
6) // sky lounge //……………7’45’’
7) // all in //……………7’30’’
8) // favorable winds //……………8’45’’
// “Sri Krsna’s sweetness is always newer and newer. Devotees taste it according to their own respective loving devotion” // (Caitanya Caritamrta, Adi-Lîlâ, chap. 4 Text 143) //
// “In the mirror of Râdhârânî’s heart, the transcendental features of Krsna appear increasingly new and fresh” // (His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada // purport, C.C. text 144) //
// all mantra chanting by prahladji PB and all music performed & arranged by mahavirya RL //
// executive producer prahladji PB for devi communications LLC //
// C & P 2024 published by devi communications publishing //
Journey to new devotion
What is seen by one section of people is seen differently by another, according to their own nature. However, by the willpower alone of the Infinite, He can reveal Himself to any person. This is why He is called infinite. Such great potency of such high quality is in the Prime Cause, the Organic Whole. He is here, He is also everywhere. With His full representation He is everywhere; yet He is nowhere. He is the Mystery of all mysteries. Everything is one with Him in quality and different from Him in quantity simultaneously. The Center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. There is a Center, and all function in connection with Him, and are all harmonized together.
Every living soul is the knower, the feeler, the subjective existence, and the energetic aspect is that of the force, this material world. So, there is force and consciousness. We are so much engrossed with force; we only require the force, the energy of the matrix, and we have forgotten that we are the living feeler of that force. That feeler is astonishing; if we try to understand our own self, we will be dumfounded: “Oh, what is this? I am of such divine living nature! I have nothing to do with this world of mortality; I can live independently of the mortal world? Is it so? Yes. Om. Om means yes.
Then we will be able to understand further, that there is Supersoul. In the objective world there are so many different material planes. Everything is evolving from a more subtle plane down to gross things. So, in the subjective world there is also development, but upwards, from the soul to Supersoul, to Super-Supersoul; in this way there is development and it is infinite. And if we want to have association with that infinite world, we are told that in the highest position there is infinite beauty, infinite love and infinite ecstasy. That world can come down to us, and we can be taken in as one of the Infinite Being’s own family members. We can live as a family member with the Highest Entity of that infinite world. It is possible but only through affection, devotion, and not by analytic knowledge or any mystic gymnastics. By affection and love we can attract Him, the Personality of Supreme Attraction, the Supreme Enchanter, in such a way that we can be given recognition as a family member of the Sweet Absolute, a position very near to Him, the Infinite.
Tato mâm tattvato jnâtva visate tad anantaram (Bhagavad-Gitâ, 18,55)
“After realizing My transcendental position, the souls enter there; that is, into My own special jurisdiction, into My transcendental family”
Mamâtma-bhûyâya ca kalpate vai (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 11.29.34)
“They get such high recognition which qualifies them to live with Me eternally, as My own. If they selflessly come forward to satisfy Me, leaving aside everything, if they want Me alone and nothing else, then such is their future prospect”
My own, any living souls can become My own. What is the meaning of “own”? The Sweet Absolute, Reality the Beautiful, He says it means to enter into His family; and “family” means there is gradation: the servant, the friends and their associates, the filial affection group; the guardian group; and then the highest group, that of consorthood, Radha-Krishna, the Divine Feminine Nature dancing with Her Original Lover, the Divine Couple.
Bhakti-Yoga, the yoga of eternal love is a transaction of the heart, not of any religious formality. Love is wonderfully above everything, surpassing all. The ancient masters of ultimate consciousness asked us to accept the path of love, which means giving one’s heart, one’s self. Die to live. It is so powerful, nothing else can attract the Original Lover. He is greedy to feel our inner love, this prema. He lives on prema, unconditioned spontaneous ecstatic love. Krishna is the Lover of love and Radha is the absolute master of that love. They are One. That love has its inner existence; it is the inner existence of all of us. The Divine Couple is Love personified, and there is a tinge within us also. Love likes love. Love attracts love. (inspired from the words of Swâmi B R Srîdhara, the Guardian of Devotion).
Credits:
// all mantras & vocals by prahladji patrick bernard //
// all keyboards by mahavirya robert lafond //
// all keyboards recorded, mixed and mastered at aum studio by mahavirya robert lafond //
// all music C&P 2024 USA / Socan Canada / Sacem / patrick bernard catalog//
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// artwork by D Zen@ digitalys-studios / linktree / digitalys / www.altar-records.com //
// graphic design by Catherine Maroussis //
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