Welcome to Sri Sri Sri Krishna Balaram Mandir, ISKCON, St.Louis!
Lord Caitanya shows love of God to its fullest extent. Lord Caitanya are
gradually bringing us deeper and deeper into full ecstatic surrender to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, where it shows that pure devotional service
is not just an activity where one is giving up all material
desires - anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam- where one gives
up all desires for material enjoyment, where one gives up all hankering for
liberation.
Lord Caitanya shows that pure devotional service is filled with
the greatest ecstasy. Not only a type of ecstasy which is anywhere in the
realm happiness that we know but where the happiness and the ecstasy of
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is bursting out of His heart like lava bursting out of a
volcano- completely uncontrolled!
When love of God first arises, then such love of God is
manifesting in the smoking stage (dhumayita), where it is
like a smoldering fire within the heart. But with due
course of time, that fire becomes more and more inflamed
more and more, until finally comes to the stage of
suddipta- an intensely blazing fire. And it was like
that, that the love of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu manifested.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said,
“My mind is like a horse and the five senses are seated
upon this horse and this horse is just running at full
speed towards Radha and Krsna.”
So in this way, the Supreme
Lord exhibited the Krsna consciousness which was way beyond
religious principle, it was way beyond ecstatic devotional
service, it was just overwhelming, uncontrolled love for
Krsna, which was so strong that it resembled tidal waves.