tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post6851773137580442322..comments2024-03-26T13:06:41.178-04:00Comments on Jagat: Samadhi and Bhakti-yogaJagadananda Dashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-27851808010233081772015-04-07T12:52:45.313-04:002015-04-07T12:52:45.313-04:00Heard Sri Kripaluji Maharaj saying in his discours...Heard Sri Kripaluji Maharaj saying in his discourses that the blessed Gopis acted out these sublme pastimes in the transcendental state of "Prema Samadhi," on the top most level of Maha Bhava. No ordinary soul can understand the actions done in this Divine Trance nor it can be explained in words nor can be written off as a case of 'mistaken identity'! Actually I too believe Maha-Rasa has taken place only after Gopis have 'Identified themselves as Lord Krishna in Prema Samadhi' - Only after they have reached their 'Paraa Bhakti' state - perceiving Their Divinity as none other than Lord Himself, thus fully qualified and deserved to enjoy the Supreme Bliss of the Lord. ( So later on Sri Suka too have declared that the Lord played with 'His Own Form' just like the Mirror Images by a child ...) .. reme rameso vraja-sundaribhir .. yatharbhakah? sva-pratibimba-vibhramah? .. Read more SB 10.30.2 to 24 dr. jayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-22169525358743019612015-03-07T14:10:48.407-05:002015-03-07T14:10:48.407-05:00On just hearing my glories even in passing, the de...On just hearing my glories even in passing, the devotee's mind flows towards me, who am seated in everyone's heart, in an unbroken stream just as the Ganges flows to the sea. (3.29.10)<br />.. There was another (river-ocean) verse By Lord Krishna to devotee Uddhava about Gopis' prema Samadhi according to Upanishads. .. SB 11.12.12 ..My dear Uddhava, just as great sages in yoga trance merge into self-realization, like rivers merging into the ocean, and are thus not aware of material names and forms, similarly, the gopīs of Vṛndāvana were so completely attached to Me within their minds that they could not think of their own bodies, or of this world, or of their future lives. Their entire consciousness was simply bound up in Me...dr. jayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-9804780152497342572015-02-22T22:49:34.415-05:002015-02-22T22:49:34.415-05:00This is Prabhavananda's translation. I just pi...This is Prabhavananda's translation. I just picked one that was simple. The point is that the mind of the meditator does not interfere with the absorption in the object of meditation, "the object alone remains." <br />Jagadananda Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-82142843443016807592015-02-22T12:38:41.869-05:002015-02-22T12:38:41.869-05:00I have to disagree with the translation of 3:3 tad...I have to disagree with the translation of 3:3 tad evArthamatranirbhasam svarupashunyam iva samadhihi="thus that, shining as the object only, as if empty of its own form, is equipoised attention." <br />The mind flow that has taken the state of meditation (tad) has become completely integrated (samApatti falling together)with the object of concentration, it is shining forth as the object only, and in doing so it is as if it has become empty of its own form as the mind. The mind and the object have become one. They are put together (samadhi). Compare this sutra with 1:43 "meditation (smriti see sutra 1:20 which is the panchaindryas of buddhism) well purified as if empty of its own form shining as the object only, is without deliberation." And this is samadhi, not vitarka. SamApatti is a process falling (Patti) together vitarka is the first part of the process, nirvitarka is the completion of the process and is samadhi, as defined by Patanjali in 3:3!truth speakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788006913827731306noreply@blogger.com