tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post541362300587107642..comments2024-03-26T13:06:41.178-04:00Comments on Jagat: The Holy Dham is Nirguna and independent in its powerJagadananda Dashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-47660202920460908922018-12-31T16:32:16.241-05:002018-12-31T16:32:16.241-05:00Jai Sri Radhe Prabhuji
I came across your article ...Jai Sri Radhe Prabhuji<br />I came across your article "The Holy Dham is Nirguna" May 22 2017, as I stay near Sri Radha Kunda in a small nearby village, the extreme volume of the modern music that is played and amplified on the back of trucks to entertain the pilgrims is extremely difficult to tolerate.<br />As Vraja is a place for bhajana, I would appreciate if you would be able share your views and experience regarding how to cope with this, while endeavouring to take the medicine of Sri Nama in humble and peaceful frame of mind amidst an almost intolerable assault on the ears and mind.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459100267357493407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-31119368522181675152017-05-25T09:46:29.408-04:002017-05-25T09:46:29.408-04:00
The Goddess in the Kṛṣṇa Legend, Reconsidered:
h...<br />The Goddess in the Kṛṣṇa Legend, Reconsidered:<br /><br />https://www.academia.edu/9165347/The_Goddess_in_the_Krsna_Legend_Reconsidered<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-70919442026414093352017-05-24T18:32:49.356-04:002017-05-24T18:32:49.356-04:00I very much appreciate this piece, Jagadananda das...I very much appreciate this piece, Jagadananda dass. This is a subject I've contemplated for a long time. Unlike many of your writings, I've reached a different conclusion (at least a tentative conclusion). Similar to the cosmology presented in the Bhagavatam, I think the descriptions of Vraj as being forever spiritually unsoiled must be taken with a grain of understanding. <br />Best as I can see, the playground of Krishna -- with it's virgin forests, quiet groves, and crystalline Yumuna -- has been replaced by, well, you know what. The Vraj that exists today, the actual physical land in India, is not suitable for a cowherd boy and his friends to frolic, let alone innocent village girls to wander in the bloom of their youth. <br />I could go on, but you likely get the point. Perhaps in the future, a more devout Prem Prakash will look back on this post, filled with the first-person pronoun, and declare the author was blind to the truth. That would be very cool. Perhaps, though, Krishna manifests Vraja and its kunjas wherever there is suitable soil, and there may not be a physical plane location anywhere on that route between Delhi and Agra.Prem Prakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-24184990364196086122017-05-24T16:40:24.071-04:002017-05-24T16:40:24.071-04:00
https://gabfiles.blob.core.windows.net/image/5925...<br />https://gabfiles.blob.core.windows.net/image/5925eeb9791dc.png<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-35121244710726233382017-05-23T11:41:02.512-04:002017-05-23T11:41:02.512-04:00For those of you looking for more information abou...<br />For those of you looking for more information about Khecarī Mudrā.<br /><br />Click on the following link to navigate to the Muktabodha Indological Text Collection and Search Engine:<br /><br />http://muktalib5.org/DL_CATALOG/DL_CATALOG_USER_INTERFACE/dl_user_interface_frameset.htm<br /><br />Using the following;<br /><br />Username: muktabodha<br />Password: Indology<br /><br />Scroll down the catalogue list (left-hand side) and select:<br /><br />“tantrāloka chapters 15 thru 38 - M00093”<br /><br />Then in the central viewing window select ‘View in Unicode transliteration’.<br /><br />On the document that pops up, scroll down to Section 32 entitled “dvātriṃśamāhnikam” <br /><br />Notes<br /><br />http://muktalib5.org/DL_CATALOG/DL_CATALOG_USER_INTERFACE/dl_user_interface_create_utf8_text.php?hk_file_url=..%2FTEXTS%2FETEXTS%2FTantraloka-15-37-HK.txt&miri_catalog_number=M00093<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-60649971618882708432017-05-23T09:22:46.420-04:002017-05-23T09:22:46.420-04:00
Dattātreyayogaśāstra
https://terebess.hu/keletku...<br />Dattātreyayogaśāstra<br /><br />https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/lexikon/Datta-Mallinson.pdf<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-6678242404929207242017-05-23T08:11:36.281-04:002017-05-23T08:11:36.281-04:00Aspirated consonants (kh, gh, ch, jh, th, dh, ph, ...<br />Aspirated consonants (kh, gh, ch, jh, th, dh, ph, bh): the h's are pronounced so that th as in hothouse, not as in theatre.<br /><br />The dental consonants (t th d dh) are pronounced with the tongue on the teeth. In English our tongue is often on the gum behind the teeth, making our dental stops sound like something between a true dental and a retroflex<br /><br />"Retroflex consonants" (ṭa "ṭha" ḍa ḍha ṇa) the tongue is curled back to touch the aveolar ridge. <br /><br />Source: http://visiblemantra.org/pronunciation.html<br /><br />See the "Alveolar ridge" between numbers 4 and 5:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_ridge<br /><br /><br />and 'Places of articulation' 8 and 9: <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_consonant#/media/File:Places_of_articulation.svg<br /><br />and 'Voiceless velar fricative':<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative<br /><br />Notes<br /><br />ḥ: the visarga ‘discharge’ or ‘emission’ (or<br />the older term visarjanīya ‘that which is<br />to be emitted’) is a substitute sound for<br />‘s’ or ‘r’. It appears at the end of a<br />word or syllable and has a voiceless<br />breathing sound (with the following<br />vowel taking on the same quality as the<br />preceding vowel.<br /><br />In theory, some may pronounce the<br />visarga as a voiceless velar fricative<br />/x/ (the ‘ch’ in Bach or loch) before<br />the velar sounds / k, kh, g, gh, ṅ/ or<br />the / ɸ/ , which is a bilabial sound<br />naturally preceding bilabials / p, ph,<br />b, bh, m/ . The first is called<br />jihvāmūlīya; the second is known as the<br />upadhmānīya.<br /><br />See page 7 (Other Sounds):<br /><br />URL: http://studyreligions.org/sanskrit/Sanskrit/PDF%20Sanskrit/Sanskrit%20Alphabet/sanskrit_alphabet.pdf<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31351038.post-78425195829433128952017-05-23T07:27:48.658-04:002017-05-23T07:27:48.658-04:00
Khacakrapañcakastotra
78. Hail to you energy of ...<br />Khacakrapañcakastotra<br /><br />78. Hail to you energy of volition, free of all (instigating) causes, you who are solitary, supreme, subtle, pure - extremely pure!<br /><br />79 Hail to you who transcend the qualities (of the material) nature, unutterable, inconceivable, well established in emptiness (kha), you who are the circle of emptiness whose nature is emptiness residing in the centre of emptiness.<br /><br />80. Hail to you who are free of worldly bondage (avadhūtā), secret, extremely profound, to you O goddess who are mystic recitation of the letter PH (ठ) which is the consuming (consciousness - grasana) close to Bhairava.<br /><br />81. Hail to you who are eternal bliss, the joy of the Great Cessation (mahanirvāṇa), the substratum consciousness of the rays of consciousness and the bliss of the aesthetic delight (rasa) of the state (the emanation) of the rays (of consciousness).<br /><br />82. Hail to you Sṛṣṭikālī, you who gather together the solar nectre, and are pure being enveloped in consciousness, the light of the star of the saving light (jyotistāraka).<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com