Jagat

Whatever you do, whatever you do, whatever you do, don't drop the bindu. This, my friends, I share with you the secret to all sādhana . In Radha-Krishna bhakti-sādhana , the bindu is the moment of divine union between the Divine Couple. It is the compact, condensed moment before the big bang. It is the love that existed in the Divine Couple before the conception of the universe. It is the ānanda from which all things have sprung. That is the bindu . Bhaktas! Find it, and don't drop it!!! It is Radha and Krishna on the bed of lotus petals in the nikuñja . It is Radha and Krishna in oblivion. It is  Their asamprajñāta samādhi , their total forgetfulness of everything but pure being, consciousness and bliss. That is the bindu . Find it and don't drop it! प्रेमा योऽसौ राधिकाकृष्णयुग्मं स्वानन्देन प्लावयित्वा सखीश्च । शश्वद्विश्वं प्लावयन् सुप्रसिद्धः सोऽयं बुद्धिं नः समिद्धां करोतु ॥ premā yo'sau rādhikā-kṛṣṇa-yugmaṁ svānandena plāvayitvā sakhīś ca | ś...

yoga eva bhaved eṣa vicitraḥ ko'pi mādanaḥ | yad-vilāsā virājante nitya-līlāḥ sahasradhā || mādanasya gatiḥ suṣṭhu madanasyāpi durgamā | na nirvaktuṁ bhavec chakyā tenāsau munināpy ālam || In union, this  mādana - bh ā va might take extraordinary forms , whose manifold manifestations are particularly visible in the nitya- līlā . The workings of  mādana  are incomprehensible to Cupid himself, and it would be impossible for even the Muni to describe them. (UN 14.225-226) Madanasyeva . Vishwanath first glosses  mādana syeva , which seems unlikely to me. A possibility is madanasyaiva , which is what Jiva seems to be interpreting, even while reading iva . If we accept the madanasyeva reading, then what appears to be said is that Prema and Kama are different, but that both share a certain ineffable quailty. Muni is glossed as both Bharata and Shukadeva (Vishwanath says either, Jiva only Shuka, Vishnudas goes for Bharata). I would think Bharata was intended, as he is c...