Swami B. V. Tripurari Live Q&A; November 27, 2022: Sastra Speaks Through the Guru

Questions of today’s Swami call:

The wives of the brahmanas in Krishna-lila are said to have been sadhakas. Are there other instances of Vraja Krishna interacting with sadhakas?

Some people say that guru and Sri Krishna speak to us through sastra. As the mind is fickle, how can we know whether we are hearing guru or Krishna speaking through sastra and not just finding what we want to be true?

Is it possible to just let go of our karmic baggage without engaging in spiritual bypassing?

Was it that Srila Rupa Goswami defined sraddha as faith in the meaning of sastra and then Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura unpacked the definition?