With their songs and their favourite scriptural slokas our Raganuga Acaryas share their hearts and confidential moods of love with us, and as practitioners we can share these jewels of the heart with each other. We can reawaken our spiritual consciousness, and connect with the spiritual world in Vraja by memorizing these slokas and using them in mantra-mayi upasana ? chanting slokas from the scriptures and meditating on the particular pastime they evoke. Thus we follow the proper traditional sequence for remembering Sri Radha-Krishna's names, forms, qualities and pastimes, and make progress on the path of pure bhakti.As beginners we may start with slokas from Sri Upade?am?ta, hearing or reading the commentaries and taking Harinam (?chanting japa?) along with meditating on these slokas. Then our sadhana-bhajana will gradually evolve as our insights deepen and as we add more slokas to our repertoire. This practice will eventually lead us up to rasika scriptures such as Sri Gopi-gita, Sri Vilapa-kusuma?jali and Sri Radha-Rasa-sudhanidhi. Deeper levels of the meanings of these sacred verses will manifest spontaneously in our hearts when it is done according to the traditional method. Srila Bhaktivedanta Naraya?a Maharaja describes this as follows,?When sadhakas study and learn these verses, deeply meditating within themselves on their meanings while chanting the holy name, they will act as stimuli to fully experience the mood described in these slokas. Then one?s mind will not wander here and there. We should not just walk around talking to others while chanting, but taking our chanting beads we should sit in a solitary place and give it our mind and heart. Our previous acaryas chanted all night long, meditating on one verse after another. For half an hour the waves of the bhava of one particular verse would be coming to them: sometimes they would be fully submerged in those waves, sometimes they would rise to the surface and float on those waves, and then they would move on to the next sloka. As they did this more and more the whole night would pass, and where it went, they wouldn?t even know. This is the traditional method of performing bhajan.? (Bhakti Rasayana, p.1, GVP)By meditating on one?s svarupa (spiritual form) and rendering service (in that spiritual body) to the Divine Couple in the ku?jas of Vraja, in sakhi-bhava (the mood of a ma?jari sakhi), one gets the lotus feet of Sri Radha and Her beloved K???a.Slokas, the sacred verses of the Gau?iya Vai??ava transcendental scriptures, are prominent in our practice of bhakti and provide us with ?cliff hangers? to remember and meditate on the Divine Couple?s (Sri Radha-Krishna?s) pastimes. The slokas are like portals for entering into the confidential realm of pure bhakti and the mood we aspire for in the line of Mahaprabhu and the Six Goswamis (Sri Radha dasyam - ma?jari bhava).We need to know and be familiar with some slokas in order to perform our bhajan. At first we meditate on a particular pastime through its corresponding sloka and this is called mantra-mayi upasana, ?worshiping through mantra? or ?meditating with slokas?. For instance, the following sloka opens up ever-new possibilities for visualizing this particular pastime on the banks of Sri Radha Kund.yasya? kadapi vasana?cala-khelanotthadhanyati-dhanya-pavanena k?tartha-maniyogindra-durgama-gatir madhusudano ?pitasya namo ?stu v??abhanu-bhuvo dise ?pi(Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi 2, Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati)?Let us bow down even to the direction of the land of V??abhanu Maharaja (Vraja), for Madhusudana K???a, who is the rarely attained goal of great yogis, considers that His life is completely fulfilled by the mere touch of that glorious, playful breeze that has touched the tip of Srimati Radhika?s sari. He thinks, ?Oh, My life has now returned.??In addition to rasika slokas one may use to enhance one?s bhajan, it is highly inspiring to read the acaryas? commentaries on such slokas.