Jagat

This continues the Priti Sandarbha readings. This is the second of five segments in which Jada Bharata proposes one paramartha and then negates it. Jiva Goswami reinterprets each of these in a way that shows how the negations do not apply to bhakti. स चाविर्भावोऽनन्त एव तदीयफलानन्त्यश्रवणात्। तस्मात् परमेश्वरानाश्रयत्वं तत्रोपाधिर्भविष्यति। हिंसायां पापोत्पत्त्यनुमितावविहिततत्ववत्। This appearance [of bhakti] is verily infinite because its result has been described as everlasting. Therefore, not taking shelter of the Supreme Controller will be the limitation ( upādhi ) placed on [the yajña, or indeed any act, whereby it is perishable and not the ultimate goal]. It is comparable to the lack of an injunction being the condition that makes a violent act sinful. ज्ञानप्रकरणे चास्मिन् भक्तिर्न प्रस्तूयत इति साधारणयज्ञादिकमुपादायैव प्रवृत्तिश्चेयम्। In this discussion [in Viṣṇu Purāṇa ] the context is jñāna , so bhakti is not under consideration. This argument was given only with...