Everyone wants to love. Everyone wants to be loved. Even here in this world, whenever there is talk about love, the word "relationship" comes into play. We are related to everything, starting from being in a neutral relationship up to a relationship of husband and wife. We are related to every living entity at least … Continue reading Relationship – The Foundation of Real Love
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Anuccheda 20 (Paramatma Sandarbha) – The Jīva Is Not Inert
Anuccheda 20 The Jīva Is Not Inert Rejecting that the self is essentially inert [na jaḍaḥ, quality no. 3], Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa says: Wakefulness, dreaming, and deep sleep are [the three] conditional states (vṛttis) of the mental faculty (buddhi), arising out of the guṇas of material nature. The jīva, however, has been ascertained to be … Continue reading Anuccheda 20 (Paramatma Sandarbha) – The Jīva Is Not Inert
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Anuccheda 19 (Paramatma Sandarbha) – Introduction to Jīva Tattva
Anuccheda 19 Introduction to Jīva-tattva The jīva, or the individual self, is counted among the attendants of Paramātmā. Its extrinsic characteristic (taṭastha-lakṣaṇa) was stated earlier [in Anuccheda 1] in sb 5.11.12, namely, that it is the conditional knower of the presentational field of its own body-mind complex. The intrinsic characteristics (svarūpa-lakṣaṇa) [of the jīva] were … Continue reading Anuccheda 19 (Paramatma Sandarbha) – Introduction to Jīva Tattva
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Jiva-Tattva 4.0 -The Ontology of the Jīva
Some weeks ago, I humbly asked Srila Satyanarayana dasa Babaji about the nature of the jiva. He told me to study Srila Jiva Goswamipada´s Paramatma Sandarbha and he adviced me strongly to focus on Anucchedas 19 - 47. He sent me a sneak preview of these Anucchedas and honestly, I was blown away by what I … Continue reading Jiva-Tattva 4.0 -The Ontology of the Jīva
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The glories of the mahamantra
Śrīman Mahāprabhu instructs us in chanting the dual Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa name, which consists of thirty-two syllables, sixteen words and eight joints. This mantra is called āhvanātmaka nāma, which means that one calls out to the Lord with it (it is not just for silent meditation, like most other mantras), or tāraka brahma nāma (the transcendental saviour-name). … Continue reading The glories of the mahamantra
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Love thy real self
Nowadays, the esoteric scene is full of recipes for "loving yourself". But isn't everything very much depending on how we define love? M. Scott Peck writes: "To love someone means to support the other soul in reaching the spiritual goal." I very much like that. And if I don't know who I truly am (beginning from the … Continue reading Love thy real self
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The glories of Parakīya-Rasa
নূপুর মরাল ধ্বনি, কুলবধূ মরালিনী, শুনিয়া রহিতে নারে ঘরে । হৃদয়ে বাড়ায় রতি, যেন মিলে পতি সতী, কুলের ধরম গেল দূরে ॥ ৬৫ ॥ nūpura marāla dhvani, kulabadhū marālinī, śuniyā rahite nāre ghare | hṛdaye bāḍāya rati, yena mile pati satī, kulera dharama gela dūre || Prema Bhakti Chandrika 65 || Like female swans responding … Continue reading The glories of Parakīya-Rasa
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Follow the acaryas
The ācāryas are our example. Our lives should be completely in allegiance to them. It is the nature of greed that it will not let a person in peace until he has gotten the object of his desire. This means that when we think of something for a moment and the mind is drawn to … Continue reading Follow the acaryas
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About greed (eagerness)
By hearing from raganuga-sadhus, greed develops. “Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has personally given the following definition of lobha (sacred greed) in Śrī Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu: ‘When the heart yearns for the sweetness of the mutual feelings of Kṛṣṇa and His eternal associates in Vraja, and one is not dependent on scriptural injunctions or logical arguments, then … Continue reading About greed (eagerness)
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Radhika´s birthplace
Vraja-Vilasa-Stava VERSE 90: gāndharvāyā jani-maṇir abhūd yatra saṅkīrtitāyām ānandotkaiḥ sura-muni-naraiḥ kīrtidā-garbha-khanyām gopī-gopaiḥ surabhī-nikaraiḥ samparīte’tra mukhe rāvalyākhye vṛṣaravi-pure prīti-pūro mamāstām May I drown in a flood of love for Rāvala, the capital of Mahārāja Vṛṣabhānu, where many cowherd men and -women live and where the jewel-like Śrī Rādhā appeared from the mine-like womb of Her mother … Continue reading Radhika´s birthplace
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