Vishnudut1926

вторник, 25 апреля 2017 г.

From pink to incarnadine...

NICE SYMBOLISM IN THE BELOW EXCERPT. THE LAST SENTENCE STRESSES OUT THAT BHAGAVAN SHREE KRISHNA ETERNALLY PLAYS WITH HIS SHAKTIS (GOPIKAS).

AND BY THE WAY "INCARNADINE" MEANS "FLESHY COLOUR" IN ENGLISH, RATHER RARE WORD:

"Again, the roseate tenderness of the palms of Shri Krishna Child hands, tender as the fresh blown lotus, evokes a superb poetic conceit in Madhusudana, of yore, when Prahlada was tormented by his unnatural parent, moved by solicitude for His long suffering bhakta, He assumed the terrific Form of Nrsimha and lacerated with His fingers the stubborn bosom of the benighted Hiranyakasipu.

And the gore that spouted forth from his bosom did His hands incarnadine.

And this red of His palm was doubly rendered so, when with His tender palms He (Krishna) caressed, in love, the bosoms of the Gopis dyed with saffron!

And, wonder! The dye has come to stay forever in Krishna's Hands!"

Cited from "Kalyana-Kalpataru", November 1951 issue,

"Adwaita and Bhakti" XXI article by S. LakshmiNarasimha Shastri

Prarabdha...

Interesting translation of "Shree Mundaka-Upanishad" (Mantra 2.2.8) with the accent on prarabdha-karma:

Cited from "Kalyana-Kalpataru", November 1951 issue

About MadhuSudana Saraswati...

Cited from "Kalyana-Kalpataru", November 1951 issue,

"Adwaita and Bhakti" XXI article by S. LakshmiNarasimha Shastri

Forgetfulness of Lord Vishnu alone is adversity...

Cited from "Kalyana-Kalpataru", November 1951 issue

воскресенье, 23 апреля 2017 г.

Simplicity of Bhakti...

"Too much of rational explanation is the bane of modern civilization. We must begin with a child like simplicity and have implicit faith in God.

If I exist God exists.

Once we have faith in the existence of God, then arises the necessity of prayer.

There are only two aids to those who are faultering in their steps in the path of God-realization - one is constant endeavour and the other is prayer.

To one with a prayerful attitude there is no idleness.

When we are not actively engaged in a work you can seek union with The Divine in prayer. It purifies and strengthens us.

Heart-felt prayer steadies one’s nerves, humbles one and clearly shows one the next step".

Cited from "Kalyana-Kalpataru", December 1951 issue,

from the article "Efficacy of Prayer" by S.B.Keshaviah

The main problem of Rajasika-Bhakti...

VERY REALISTIC EXCERPT ABOUT RAJASIKA BHAKTI, COMMON PROBLEM FOR KALI-YUGA (ALONG WITH MORE HORRIFIC TAMASIKA BHAKTI):

"There is a great difference between Rajasa Bhakti and Sattvika Bhakti even at the time of performing the act of worship.

In Rajasa Bhakti, there will be restlessness and haste and no peace of mind. The Shastras may say that going round the sacred Aswattha tree in the prescribed manner will help barren women bear children, but will it be proper for a woman to feel her abdomen after going round the tree once, to see if she has become pregnant ?

The result will appear only in course of time. There is no use in our trying to hasten it.

Those who are engaged in Rajasa Bhakti will want their expected fruits immediately and will forget that their worship has to be done carefully and without mental unrest.

By not getting the fruits immediately, they will often lapse into lack of faith. They will not have the patience to perform the activities with the care and exactness required of them by the Sastras.

If any Mantras are taught to them, they will not repeat them with any one-pointedness of mind.

They will however begin to say “I have been repeating the Mantra for the last eight days and yet I have not got the promised result.”

Their mind will be straying away while they are mechanically repeating the Mantra. How can any result ensue?

They will, however, throw the blame on the Mantra and say that it is a useless one. The Shastras say that that Japa which is done by one whose mind is not focussed is useless: vyagrachittena yajjaptam tajjapam nishkalam bhavet

If those who resort to Rajasa Bhakti consider well this fact, they can easily realize that the fault is really theirs and not of the Sastras".

Cited from "Kalyana-Kalpataru", December 1951 issue,

from the article "Devotion" by R. KrishnaSwami Aiyar

Shri Eknatha about mind purity...

"The sine qua non of spiritual life is purity, internal as well as external. The mind becomes impure by contact with evil desires.

So long as it is not purified, all talk of spiritual life is useless.

As gold purified in a crucible shines bright, so the constant meditation on the teachings of the Guru makes the mind pure, and bright with spiritual lustre.

Thus if inside the mind is purified by the words of the Guru, that purity is sure to reveal itself through external activities.

Mere bodily purity, without the purity of the heart, is absolutely useless. It would be a mere farce, like bathing a donkey. It is an empty show.

It would be as ludicrous as a beautiful lady wearing on her head a garland of pearls, but all the while standing naked. What is absolutely necessary, therefore, is an internal purity of the heart coupled with the external purity of good actions".

(Shri Ekanatha)

cited from "Kalyana-Kalpataru", January 1952 issue

Shree Gayatri-Mantra and Nine Concepts of God...

BRILLIANT AND AMAZING ARTICLE BY N.K. SRIVASTAVA ABOUT SHREE GAYATRI-MANTRA FROM 1936 JULY ISSUE OF "KALYANA-KALPATARU". I HAVE MADE THE FOLLOWING OCR FOR MY BLOG.

"GAYATRI-MANTRA" BY N.K. SRIVASTAVA

"The Gayatri Hymn is an attempt,—and a very successful one, too,—to catch within the web of language the direct experience of Ineffable Reality. It is regarded as the fountain-head of all the other hymns.

It is an embryonic mantra, for in it the first and freshest inspirations have been caught. It is the nucleus of the Vedas; it is the keystone of the magnificent Vedic arch.

There are nine concepts for God in it and they are supposed to be as covering as the nine figures in the theory of numeration.

Originally they seem to have been percepts, each one denoting a whole situation beyond the power and compass of language to describe; for on psychological examination some of them appear to be rhapsodical and frantic cries of the soul, pure exclamations of wonder and amazement at the direct experience of the Sublime,— highly dynamic Reality. So ecstatic monosyllables are they.

The nine divine concepts are:

1. OM (with the vowel sound sufficiently lengthened) meaning: at once All-pervading, Immanent and Omnipresent Protector of all.

2. BHUH: Being-in-itself; Sole

The mode of Prakriti...

Interesting translation of the Verse 4.13 from "Shree Bhagavad-Gita", with the accent on "mode of Prakriti". Had been found in "Kalyana-Kalpataru", December 1951 issue:

OM VishuPad MadhvAcharya - 9 Prameyas...

The following is the article with the synopsis of 9 Prameyas by OM VishnuPad MadhvAcharya (had been published in "Kalyana-Kalpataru", January 1952 issue).

These Prameays are very beneficial to know, because they form a crucial part of Vaishnava-Siddhanta. For example, Prameya #7, which tells that only Pure Bhakti leads to Mukti.

Due to 2-column format and small Sanskrit font the article is very tricky to OCR, so below the article in png-format:

Hidden Krishna...

Cite from "Kalyana-Kalpataru", 7th, July 1936

пятница, 21 апреля 2017 г.

"Shree Radha-Rasa-Sudha-Nidhi", Verses 8-11

Verse 8: "When will I become a sweeper in the forest courtyard where, surrounded by many maidservants, the peacock-feather-crowned Supreme Personality of Godhead speaks His appeal to The Nectar Ocean that is Shri Radha?

Verse 9: "O my heart, please turn from great things of this world and run to Vrindavana, where The Great Treasure, The Nectar Flood that delivers the devotees from this world, is Shri Radha's Name".

Verse 10: "O Shri Radha, O Great Treasure Of Bliss, when, as The Best Of Lovers (Shri Krishna) falls at Your Feet and begs for the nectar festival of a single embrace, will I see You knit Your eyebrows and hear You say "No. No."

Verse 11: "May Shri Radha, Who is The Personified Nectar Ocean Of Perfect Spiritual Love, and The Splendor Of Whose Candrakanta-Jewel Toenails glistens amongst the Gopis, be Merciful to me".

Sanskrit Verses cited from

"RADHA-RASA-SUDHA-NIDHIH" [Hindi-SaNskRit],

edition by Shri Haridas Shastri, Kalidah-Vrindavan-Mathura, 2007

English Verses cited from

https://nitaaiveda.com/Other_Scriptures_by_Acharyas/Radha_Rasa_Sudha_Nidhi.htm

Мы все Микки-Маусы...

Я только что поняла настроение Кришнёныша в общении с Гопиками, девчонки. Знаете, когда это произошло?

Когда я обсуждала с Крихой игру с Микки-Маусом, которую я прошла день назад на эмуляторе GBA.

В общем, мы сейчас с Кри планируем день и я Кри говорю: "Давай еще какого-нибудь Микки-Мауса пройдем, потому что одного было мало. Мне нужно много Микки-Маусов. Это не так, что у тебя есть один картридж с игрой и тебе его достаточно. Микки-Маусов всегда нужно очень много".

И тут меня просто озарило. Каждая Гопика словно картридж с игрой, девчонки, но одного картриджа Кришне всегда мало, поэтому Кришнёныш никогда не может насытиться какой-нибудь одной Гопикой и скачет от одной Девчонки к другой!

Хотя, учитывая то, что мы все - просто амши (куклы-копии) Шримати Радхушёныша-Деви, на самом деле, Кри любит только Одну Гопику, т.е. Радхушёныша!

четверг, 20 апреля 2017 г.

"Shree Radha-Rasa-Sudha-Nidhi", Verses 5-7

Verse 5: "I meditate on The Dust of Shri Radha's Feet, dust that becomes a kamadhenu cow to give the nectar of rasa as the devotees celebrate a festival of spiritual love.

Placing this Dust on their heads, the beautiful Gopis attain something even peacock-feather-crowned Krishna yearns to attain".

Verse 6: "Glory to The Forest-Goddess. When, wounded by millions of Kamadeva's arrows, Nanda's Son fell, She brought Him to life by splashing Him with many waves of the blissful nectar of Her Touch".

Text 7: "When will the sweet and graceful nectar ocean that is Radha's Face, an ocean filled at every moment with waves sweetness, charm, beauty, and wonderfully beautiful pastimes, appear before us?"

Sanskrit Verses cited from

"RADHA-RASA-SUDHA-NIDHIH" [Hindi-SaNskRit],

edition by Shri Haridas Shastri, Kalidah-Vrindavan-Mathura, 2007

English Verses cited from

https://nitaaiveda.com/Other_Scriptures_by_Acharyas/Radha_Rasa_Sudha_Nidhi.htm

среда, 19 апреля 2017 г.

KavitarkikaSimha...

About how OM VishnuPad Vedanta Deshika MahAcharya received title "Lion among poets and logicians" (KaviTarkikaSimha):

STORIES WITH KRISHNA MISHRA AND DINDIMA:

STORY WITH SAUMYA JAMATR NAINAR:

Cited from

"ACHARYA-PANCHASAT OF VENKATADHVARIN",

English-Sanskrit translated by by A.K. Kalia, edition Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad, 1982

"ACHARYA-PANCHASAT OF VENKATADHVARIN", English-Sanskrit translated by by A.K. Kalia, edition Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad, 1982

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English annotation by Vishnudut1926: Great Kavya-Grantha dedicated to OM VishnuPad Vedanta Desika MahAcharya.

The first part is Sanskrit, the 2nd one is English translation and the part no. 03 includes notes with some references to the Biography of OM VishnuPad Vedanta Desika MahAcharya.

I have cited this Grantha in my blog, please see, for example this post - http://vishnudut1926.blogspot.com/2017/04/kavitarkikasimha.html

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