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madangopal: March 2015
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Sunday, March 22, 2015. And next life’s Guru. Saying “Thank you” is not Vedic. There is no real word for it in Sanskrit. The word ‘ dhanyavāda. 8217; being used in modern India for ‘thank you’ is introduced to facilitate westerners only, but can’t be found used in śāstra. Naivopayanty apacitiṁ kavayas taveśa. Brahmāyuṣāpi kṛtam ṛddha-mudaḥ smarantaḥ. Yo ’ntar bahis tanu-bhṛtām aśubhaṁ vidhunvann. 8220;O my Lord! 8216; means that guru-tattva. Advaitadas – „The words ‚ ye‘. Not to loving śiṣyas. Śrī Gurude...
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madangopal: Sat-guru, humor in pāṭha and atonement for breaking Ekādaśī
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Sat-guru, humor in pāṭha and atonement for breaking Ekādaśī. 8211; “By definition a casual śiṣya. Who is not serious. But if he is not serious then can he be called a śiṣya. We often say “bona-fide Guru” but if he is not bona-fide then is he even a Guru at all? If we say “Supreme Personality of Godhead”, does it suggest that there is also a Lower Personality of Godhead? Somehow I think that Sanskrit verses speak only of Guru, śiṣya. And Godhead…”. Lecturer) must be very serious in h...
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madangopal: November 2014
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Sunday, November 16, 2014. Rati Manjari, Giridhāri, bhāgavat-paramparā and rāgānugā at ruci. Bhakta – “You say Advaita Prabhu is Rati Manjari but I thought Raghunātha dās Gosvāmī was Rati Manjari.”. Advaitadās – In Gaura Ganodddeśa Dīpikā different other identities are given to Rati Manjari too, is any of them wrong? Raghunātha dās Gosvāmī is said there to be Rasa Manjari. Can you limit identities in the spiritual world? Yā rūpa-mañjarī-preṣṭhā purāsīd rati-mañjarī. Gaura Ganodddeśa Dīpikā.181). Bhakta -...
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madangopal: July 2015
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Wednesday, July 08, 2015. The tenth offence for bhajanānandīs and goṣṭhyānandīs. Though the subdivision among Vaiṣṇavas in bhajanānandīs. Is a recent invention and is not mentioned in any of the Goswāmīs books, Sanātana Goswāmī's ṭīkā to the 10th offence to the holy name gives an interesting description of how false pride about the chanting of the holy name is manifest among different types of devotees. The offence is mentioned in Haribhakti Vilāsa 11.524 -. Approached Sādhu Bābā and asked him: ' āpni ko...
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madangopal: Thank you! And next life’s Guru
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Sunday, March 22, 2015. And next life’s Guru. Saying “Thank you” is not Vedic. There is no real word for it in Sanskrit. The word ‘ dhanyavāda. 8217; being used in modern India for ‘thank you’ is introduced to facilitate westerners only, but can’t be found used in śāstra. Naivopayanty apacitiṁ kavayas taveśa. Brahmāyuṣāpi kṛtam ṛddha-mudaḥ smarantaḥ. Yo ’ntar bahis tanu-bhṛtām aśubhaṁ vidhunvann. 8220;O my Lord! 8216; means that guru-tattva. Advaitadas – „The words ‚ ye‘. Not to loving śiṣyas. Śrī Gurude...
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madangopal: Omniscience of Bhagavān and questions on Mahābhārata
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Sunday, August 09, 2015. Omniscience of Bhagavān and questions on Mahābhārata. On the Lord’s omniscience Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartī comments on Bhagavad-Gita 7.26:. Kiṁ ca māyāyāḥ svāśraya-vyāmohakatvābhāvād bahiraṅgā māyā antaraṅgā yoga-māyā ca mama jñānaṁ nāvṛṇotīty āha vedāham iti. Kṛṣṇa says:) “But My own knowledge is not covered by external māyā. Or the internal yoga-māyā,. Since I cannot be bewildered by that to which I give shelter. I know everything.”. 8216;I am the shelter of māyā. This shows wha...
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madangopal: rasika sanga at Rādhākuṇḍa
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. Rasika sanga at Rādhākuṇḍa. This spring an aṣṭakāla-līlā. Seminar was held at Rādhākuṇḍa by Śrī Jayahari Dāsjī - some items may be the realizations of nityadhāma-gata. Madanmohan dās Bābā, his śikṣā-guru. The coral trees in Braj are red because they reflect Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa's passionate love, and the trees of Rādhākuṇḍa are watered by the waterfalls of Girirāj, though they are a bit distant in location. One can meditate on a daṇḍa’s līlā for hours! All husbands in nitya-līlā. Anyway &#...
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madangopal: June 2015
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Monday, June 15, 2015. Husbands, throwing prasāda and welcome to the machine. Returning to the issue of the mañjarīs. Having husbands – Govinda-līlāmṛta 2.57 says the sakhīs. From their homes at early morning 6 am, after Rādhikā returned home from Vṛndāvana, while the next verse, 2.58, speaks of the mañjarīs. Being immediately ready for Swāminī’s devotional service, without mentioning them coming from any home. This shows that they are not married. From the altar to temple crowds. Do any śāstras. Is to w...
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madangopal: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Dormant svarūpa and the Vedic Planetarium. Tarun Govinda gave this nice tip in his blog recently, about the dormant svarūpa of the jīva –. In Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu, verse 1.3.54, we can read how aparādhas. Offenses) can lead to the degradation of one´s own acquired bhāva. So, if aparādhas. An inner bhāva, it certainly proves that the bhāva. Is NOT eternally inherent in the jīva. Or lying there “dormant” waiting to be awakened. Ābhāsatāṁ ca śanakair nyūna-jātīyatām api 54.
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madangopal: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014. The tatastha-‘region’. The conception that the jīvas. Are from a taṭastha. Region and choose between the spiritual and material world is false? 8220;This is nowhere in śāstra. And makes no sense.”. Jīvera svarūpa hoy kṛṣṇera nitya dāsa;. Kṛṣṇera taṭastha śakti bhedābheda prakāśa. 8220;Where is a taṭastha REGION. It says taṭastha ŚAKTI,. Means an ontological value, not a location, like east of Amsterdam. What does the verse say? Jīvera svarūpa hoy kṛṣṇera nitya dāsa;. Tasya v...
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