Paurusha or Grace?
Since getting back to Vrindavan, I seem to have been going through some kind of adjustment experience . Rishikesh and Vrindavan really are two different worlds. Right now it is the Jhulan and Janmastami season warming up in Vrindavan. So there is a lot of action , a lot of satsanga, Bhagavata, kirtan, etc. going on everywhere. Hundreds of people on the Parikrama Marg every day, it seems. I am mostly sleeping in my room... Like Harivams says, that is the bhakti path, just stretch out your legs and go to sleep... in Vrindavan. I have arrived! I picked up a book yesterday about Udiya Baba by his disciple Akhandananda Saraswatiji Maharaj . These were two of the most significant Brahmavadis to move to Vrindavan in the last century. Akhandananda founded one of the largest ashrams in Vrindavan, in Moti Jheel, and Udiya Baba's ashram is right nearby. Akhandananda tells the story that when Udiya Baba (Purnananda Tirtha) was still engaged in...