tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post5291123402862907685..comments2024-03-26T13:06:41.178-04:00Comments on Jagat: Prema's testing ground and laboratory are in the humanJagadananda Dashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-76615057324727896382017-01-14T04:16:29.513-05:002017-01-14T04:16:29.513-05:00Thank you for your interesting article:
http://ja...Thank you for your interesting article:<br /><br />http://jagadanandadas.blogspot.com/2009/11/universalist-radha-krishnaism.html<br /><br />Sometimes one finds gems in the most unexpected of places. <br /><br />न वै जनो जातु कथञ्चनाव्रजेन्मुकुन्दसेव्यन्यवदंग संसृतिं।<br />स्मरन्मुकुन्दांघ्र्युपगूहनं पुनर्विहातुमिच्छेन्न रसग्रहो यतः ॥<br /><br />Navai jano jaatu kathanchana-avrajen-mukundasevy-anyavadanga samsritim<br />Smaranmukundaanghryupagoohanam punarvihaatumichhhenna rasagraho yatah [1.5.19]<br /><br />One who is a devotee of Mukunda (Nārāyaṇa in the form of Mukunda, giver of mukti) will never again return to the cycle of births and deaths like other persons. <br /><br />Remembering the embrace of the Lord’s lotus feet, he does not want to leave them where he experiences the highest form of bliss.<br /><br />Source: https://www.facebook.com/AATHMAARAAMAN/posts/487100118054409 <br /><br />Kind regards,<br /><br />M.N.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-27546391685073992962017-01-13T05:53:24.313-05:002017-01-13T05:53:24.313-05:00The unmanifest is of a two-fold nature - and also ...The unmanifest is of a two-fold nature - and also at the same instant (timeless infinity of the eternal now) undivided. The lucid consciousness of the yogin (in the vehicle of the conscious light-body) passes through the opened central cavity created by the torsion of the revolving wheel of liquid light which opens up (like a door) before the brow through which the yogin's consciousness enters a liquid womb of light to become as one with the primordial being. It is from this womb of liquid light that one’s undivided lucid consciousness is re-born, returning into the physical body to the sound of the inhalated breath (sa!) as the body begins to take breath again. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-20683490420974229982017-01-13T04:59:46.325-05:002017-01-13T04:59:46.325-05:00Dear Jagadananda, let me thank you again and again...Dear Jagadananda, let me thank you again and again for such elaborate and eloquent commentaries. Muraliswara dasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-72970584100164585662017-01-12T06:20:39.240-05:002017-01-12T06:20:39.240-05:00This English translation of verse 12.5 is not perf...This English translation of verse 12.5 is not perfect (and needs much more work), but does convey the true meaning in its yogic context. Any mistakes are my own, one hopes you will forgive them.<br /><br />kleśo'dhikataras teṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām <br />avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate<br /><br />The source of suffering are the five afflictions (avidyā, asmitā, rāga, dveṣa, abhiniveśa), additional strength ([of will] is required) by those to produce the desired amount ([of shakti] to rise up, [and] to mount above) of the desired effect ([to] accomplish – to come out [of the flesh]) to carry over and pass through to embrace (the heart of consciousness) and make (the unmanifested) visible; because, just, indeed, surely moving (to go), (to) passage (to the) goal (is) difficult (through) the cavity of the (revolving) wheel through which the axis runs by the (anointed) embodied ones who possesses a body, it (the goal, refuge) is obtained.<br /><br />This translation place the verse in its correct yogic context vetween verses 12.3-4 and 12.6-7.<br /><br />Kind regard,<br />M.N.<br /><br /><br />Notes<br /><br />BhG 12.3-4<br /><br />ye tv akṣaram anirdeśyam avyaktaṃ paryupāsate<br />sarvatra-gam acintyaṃ ca kūṭa-stham acalaṃ dhruvam<br />saṃniyamyendriya-grāmaṃ sarvatra sama-buddhayaḥ<br />te prāpnuvanti mām eva sarva-bhūta-hite ratāḥ<br /><br />Source: http://www.bhagavadgita.eu/en/?p=4704 <br /><br />BhG 12.6-7<br /> <br />ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi mayi saṃnyasya mat-parāḥ<br />ananyenaiva yogena māṃ dhyāyanta upāsate<br />teṣām ahaṃ samuddhartā mṛtyu-saṃsāra-sāgarāt<br />bhavāmi nacirāt pārtha mayy āveśita-cetasām<br /><br />Source: http://www.bhagavadgita.eu/en/?p=4708<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com