tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post4241590689803370874..comments2024-03-26T13:06:41.178-04:00Comments on Jagat: The natural loves and premaJagadananda Dashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-24562091844318633442016-12-29T10:10:45.279-05:002016-12-29T10:10:45.279-05:00Ādeśa – Dear Sri Jagadananda Das,
Our sādhanā is ...Ādeśa – Dear Sri Jagadananda Das,<br /><br />Our sādhanā is different, yet in truth the same goal (reading the genius of your work ‘Yoga-Taraṅgiṇī’ has taught my person this).<br /><br />Another beggar,<br /><br />M.N. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-86899446355762141832016-12-22T21:37:41.643-05:002016-12-22T21:37:41.643-05:00Of course, MN, I am flattered that you are such a ...Of course, MN, I am flattered that you are such a dedicated reader of my blog. I often ask myself the same questions. Whatever I say is the product of my sadhana and my reflections on it. My reading of the Shastra is colored by my own experience. <br /><br />I am a beggar for Divine Grace. I cannot control how my Lord and Lady make me dance or the consequences they ordain for my dancing. All I ask is to continue on this path and to be a vehicle for their Grace, however they should wish to bestow it.<br /><br />The path itself is the goal. Because it is here and now. And everything that was before led to here and now.<br /><br />Thank you once again for your kind comments. I appreciate your commitment to your sadhana and your friendship. Jai Radhe.<br />Jagadananda Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-90628357028242775512016-12-22T10:25:10.994-05:002016-12-22T10:25:10.994-05:00My person has been reading your ideas for quite so...My person has been reading your ideas for quite some time (since approximately January 2015), and from reading your posts and subsequent readers comments, one does not know if you have had any other followers willing to learn whom through practicing your teaching have reached a state of spiritual grace.<br /><br />Spiritual grace is the only legitimate proof of whether an idea works in practice or not (otherwise it becomes just another academic exercise).<br /><br />If you teach 'the way' as you have truly experienced it, and its results (the sate of grace) are replicable by the practice that you are teaching, then what else is there to know?<br /><br />The state of grace, is its own proof of legitimacy.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-3314252649743405912016-12-22T00:54:55.058-05:002016-12-22T00:54:55.058-05:00Thank you very much for your kind comments. I thin...Thank you very much for your kind comments. I think "entertainment value" might also be ironic... Of course your statement reminded me of what I had been thinking. I have been so focused on responding to people from the Vaishnava orthodoxy and using their pramanas to try to legitimize my ideas that I have probably lost an entirely different audience. And it seems that many who come through the various orthodox Vaishnava schools have been well-inoculated against my ideas. I do believe it has to be done, but there are other approaches, as you say. Jagadananda Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-68198456699063506012016-12-21T08:08:31.077-05:002016-12-21T08:08:31.077-05:00My apology, my person was just reminded that it is...<br />My apology, my person was just reminded that it is actually your YouTube video entitled "Radha Krishna bol bol o re sobai" which has the highest view count (283).<br /><br />The power of 'entertainment value' seems to have propelled that video into first place (so very sad, but true).<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-79164261433467247382016-12-21T07:23:29.771-05:002016-12-21T07:23:29.771-05:00Looking at your YouTube Channel, out of all your v...Looking at your YouTube Channel, out of all your videos, the video with the highest view count is the "History and the ideas of Rupa Goswami (I)", which at the time of this writing is showing 242 people have viewed it.<br /><br />In this video, your own coherent narrative, in which 'you' truly embody the teaching and give real insight into the divine nature of humanity shines through.<br /><br />You undo the tangled tread of religious language and explain the simple eternal pristine truth in equally plain simple language that hungry minds can understand.<br /><br />In the love of the one undivided truth, one will always rise above the corpse of the collective unconsciousness buried in the grave of the flesh. <br /><br />That is why we are here:<br /><br />vihāyāṣu kumbheṣu kim-artham-anudhāvanam <br /><br />§ 173.2 Kumbhaka Paddhati of Raghuvīra <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-35299057561021647192016-12-21T04:46:31.123-05:002016-12-21T04:46:31.123-05:00Jagadananda Das said: So true.
M.N. replied: My p...<br />Jagadananda Das said: So true.<br /><br />M.N. replied: My person could not decide if your brief reply was a genuine statement of experience or irony (irony is described as a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context to deride another or stage amusement for an audience). <br /><br />Perhaps this indecision is due to my person living a very simple life of yoga, away from the busy minds of society. <br /><br />If it is irony, my person forgives you; if it is a statement of experience, then, "what are you going to do about it?"<br /><br />https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Hands_of_God_and_Adam.jpg<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-50303284516015487922016-12-21T03:09:56.239-05:002016-12-21T03:09:56.239-05:00So true.So true.Jagadananda Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-91169080913275177012016-12-20T08:30:12.717-05:002016-12-20T08:30:12.717-05:00Dearest Sri Jagadananda Das,
The majority will ne...Dearest Sri Jagadananda Das,<br /><br />The majority will never understand what you are talking about, you must show "the way" by example.<br /><br />This knowledge is gained by direct experience; the only way to explain the truth is to show them "how" to do it for themselves.<br /><br />The "how" (method) is the only way, true understanding will come 'after' experiencing 'the truth'.<br /><br />Few have the attention-span to completely read or remember what you are saying, even fewer of those whom do read will have the intellect to decipher what you are trying to say, and even fewer still will get past the former two linguistic hurdles and apply in every-day practice 'exactly' what you are trying to tell them...<br /><br />Make YouTube videos to "show them how", paste these instructional videos into your blog and see what happens.<br /><br />M.N. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com