1. While reading The Srimad Bhagavatam or any other great books authored by Vyasa. If we find deep resonance with different persons and their scenarios is this an indicator of our unique individual self in relation to The All Attractive?

It is resonating deeply with a samskara in our citta. Our unique individual self in relation to the All Attractive has not yet been actuated / activated – so there is no way for anything to resonate with that yet. However, maybe this resonance can influence how we practice sādhana, which in turn can influence how our individual self eventually actuates.

2. So for example if a person really resonates with Narada. They maybe really resonate with serving Vishnu, singing, traveling,  etc. Could that person say their particular love for Krishna is similar to Narada and so even in true spiritual form or appearance they may look and carry out similar actions and deeds similar to that of Narada?

You are thinking from the assumption that your true self already exists somehow and you are trying to “find it”. It is not like this. It doesn’t really exist yet, your true self. (Think about it. It’s you, so if you are not already it, it doesn’t exist yet) Technically, it does exist, but in a potential state. It needs to be “actuated” (made kinetic), and the actuation process affects it tremendously.

If a person resonates with Nārada that resonance will affect the way they do their spiritual practices (sādhana), and the way they do those practice in turn influences the way they attain their perfection (siddha). So the resonance with Nārada does affect how the perfect self finally manifests.

3. Should a person then proceed their meditations from that point of view?

Yes. We are advised to practice by following those who inspire our practice.

4. Another question is are people basically not considered full persons until they’ve began to turn inward towards The All Attractive? I don’t mean that negatively either or like people are low without knowledge of of The All Attractive, just in observation it would seem we’re like computers or even just the hard drives, without Krishna core memory so to speak. Booting up, working and retaining memory, and then being wiped at the end of life and being booted up again. With a little sprinkle of whatever was happening before. So in a nut shell, without permanence of The All Attractive, who is anyone really? but like the 1 and 0 of the Maya Matrix?

Yes. The core of what animates the perfect self is still there right now in everyone’s “matrix avatar temporary selves.” The rest is trash data that keeps getting reformatted.

5. Bhakti yoga and Jnana yoga, do these two intersect? But Jnana yoga is said to be very difficult so whether I do or don’t practice Jnana yoga, the very attempt seems intimidating, heavy, and long.

Let’s clarify terminology.

jñāna = knowledge.

jñāna-yoga = a practice whose final goal is knowledge.

bhakti = love-devotion

bhakti-yoga = a practice whose final goal is love-devotion

With these clarified, I can explain that bhakti and jñāna DO intersect/overlap, but bhakti-yoga and jñāna-yoga do NOT. Rather they are linear; one ends (jñāna) as the other begins (bhakti), because the later includes and therefore makes redundant any further need for the former.

This means that bhakti (love) includes all sorts of jñāna (knowledge). For example in relationships we learn constantly about the person we love, and the means of sharing love with that person. Study of Bhagavatam is not jñāna-yoga, any more than it is an act of scholarship to ask a lover what they enjoy.

There is no need for a person with inspiration for bhakti to practice jñāna yoga. The understanding is that such an inspiration indicates that jñāna-yoga was significantly practiced in former lifetimes. However, very often we see cases where we think we had inspiration for bhakti, but soon we honestly realize it was not really for bhakti but for something we mistook for bhakti. To guard against this it is not wise to completely ignore the basic concepts of jñāna-yoga. The success of jñāna-yoga results in qualification to get śraddha (inspiration) for bhakti. So if we are not finding that we have much śraddha for bhakti, one place to check for weak spots is in our basic jñāna (about who we really are, what the world really is, etc.)

6. And my final question is, can I gather that the intellectual approach to loving Krishna is my Swabhava? (I hope I’m using that term correctly). I say this because of my own birth chart (significant Jupiter) and I have a very inquisitive nature in general.

It is your svabhāva now. Your svabhāva will change. It always does until it finds perfection. Some elements may be consistent through the changes. Really, that is not important. What is important is now, because we can only act in the now. Act upon the inspirations you have right now.