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Singing the gopis verses from the first chapter of Rasa Lila, 10.29:



An introduction to Prema: The underlying ground of being from which all things arise, in which they subsist and in which they find their ultimate fulfilment:


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Anonymous said…
Jagadananda Das said at: https://youtu.be/p1ClG8mwBZk?t=15m55s

"it inundates this Radha and Krsna pair, with its ecstasy, with its ananda. It seems like its going against actually the entire Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy, its so wonderful.

So prema inundates Radha and Krsna with its ecstasy!"

M. N. replied: This universal truth is the same for the Kaula whom realise this truth in practice, the flow is reversed, and in this ecstasy the inundation occurs.

Beloved brother whom I love as my own self, in this truth we are one; one with the all and all with the one in the love of truth.

ॐ
भूर्भुवः॒ स्वः
तत्स॑वितुर्वरे॑ण्यं
भ॒र्गो॑ दे॒वस्य॑ धीमहि
धियो॒ यो नः॑ प्रचो॒दया॑त्
Tuesday, 07 July, 2015
Anonymous said…
As in the microcosm of practice, the entire macrocosmic corpus of Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy becomes a metaphorical phallus, in which the reversed flow of the entire corpus reaches a climax of ecstatic inundation.
Tuesday, 07 July, 2015
Anonymous said…
Relative to this universal truth, readers may wish to study pages 95-97 of "The Awakening of Supreme Consciousness: Lectures of Swami Lakshman Joo" (ISBN: 81-85217-10-6).


Page 95:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2dpSk929Q8nZTRUck5walRfNHc/view?usp=sharing


Page96:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2dpSk929Q8nQ1Fic1FBeTFlMWM/view?usp=sharing


Page 97:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2dpSk929Q8ncnRLeElFS3J1ZkE/view?usp=sharing
Wednesday, 08 July, 2015
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