DORMANT SVARŪPA
Tarun Govinda gave this nice tip in his blog recently, about the dormant svarūpa of the jīva –
Jīva Gosvāmī’s Commentary –
Viśvanātha Cakravartī’s Commentary –
THE TEMPLE OF THE VEDIC PLANETARIUM
„Seeking sense objects, fame and fortune, the rājasik devotee worships Me with a separate agenda through arcā (deity worship, or posh temples) and other means.“ (Śrīmad Bhāgavata 3.29.9)
Tarun Govinda gave this nice tip in his blog recently, about the dormant svarūpa of the jīva –
"In Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu, verse 1.3.54, we can read how aparādhas (offenses) can lead to the degradation of one´s own acquired bhāva. So, if aparādhas can effectively CHANGE an inner bhāva, it certainly proves that the bhāva is NOT eternally inherent in the jīva or lying there “dormant” waiting to be awakened.
bhāvo ’py abhāvam āyāti kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāparādhataḥ
ābhāsatāṁ ca śanakair nyūna-jātīyatām api ||54||
"By an offense against the dearest devotee of the Lord, even real bhāva will be destroyed, if the offense is grave. If the offense is medium, the bhāva will turn to bhāvābhāsa. If the offense is slight, the bhāva will become an inferior type.“
Jīva Gosvāmī’s Commentary –
abhāvaṁ dvividhasyaivāparādhasyādhikyena. evam ābhāsatāṁ madhyamatvena nyūna-jātīyatām alpatvena tatra nyūna-jātīyatvaṁ vakṣyamāṇānāṁ śānty-ādi-pañca-vidhānāṁ raty-ādy-aṣṭa-vidhānāṁ ca tāratamyena jñeyam.
„By two types of grave offenses—offense to the dearest devotee, or to Kṛṣṇa Himself —even real bhāva is destroyed. By medium offense, bhāva becomes bhāvābhāsa. By slight offense, the bhāva degrades in category. Becoming an inferior type means that there will be degradation in term of the five rasas and the eight stages from mahā-bhāva to rati. Thus, change in bhāva will take place according to the seriousness of the offense.“
Viśvanātha Cakravartī’s Commentary –
kṛṣṇasya preṣṭhaḥ atiśaya-priyas tasminn aparādhataḥ. yathā raghunāthasya pārṣado’pi dvivida-nāmā vānaras tasya lakṣmaṇa-sthāne’parādhasyādhikyena bhāvo’bhāvaṁ prāptaḥ. aparādhasya madhyamatvenābhāsatvam. alpatve nyūna-jātīyatvam. tac cojjvala-ratimān dāsyaṁ, dāsyavān śānty-ādikaṁ prāpnoti.
„Bhāva will be destroyed by aparādha to the dearest devotees of Kṛṣṇa. An example is Dvivida the monkey, a follower of Rāma. By aparādha to Lakṣmaṇa, his bhāva disappeared. By medium aparādha, bhāva becomes bhāvābhāsa. If the aparādha is slight, the bhāva changes type. Madhura-rati becomes dāsya-rati. Dāsya-rati becomes śānta-rati.“
THE TEMPLE OF THE VEDIC PLANETARIUM
Is ISKCON’s ongoing project of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium in Mayapura going to benefit anyone else but a few Bengali building contracters? Bengal is one of the poorest states in India – do the local Muslims in Mayapur really care what the Vedic universe looks like? Do the local Hindus not already know this for thousands of years? ISKCON is preaching that the material world is a hell that we should get out of as soon as possible, yet they squander millions of dollars on displaying that same hellish material world through this planetarium, a posh palace in one of the poorest areas in the world. Kapila-deva says –
viṣayān abhisandhāya yaśa aiśvaryam eva vā
arcādāv arcayed yo māṁ pṛthag-bhāvaḥ sa rājasaḥ
The cosmos consists of a bunch of rocks floating in outer space and is duḥkhālayam aśaśvatam, the Bhagavad Gītā teaches us, a temporary and miserable place full of janma mṛtyu jarā vyādhi – birth, death, old age and disease. If you get released from prison would you like to carry a photo with you of the cell you spent the last ten years in? Why not spend just a few lakhs on a nice temple in Mayapur with a display of Kṛṣṇa’s and/or Gaur-Nitāi’s pastimes and spend the balance of millions of Dollars on helping poor Vaiṣṇava-widows, sādhus or cows instead? Next to our ashram in Navadvīpa is the Bhajanashram, where poor widows do kirtan all day for a few paisa and a cup of daal. Whenever anyone wanted to give Sādhu Bābā a big donation he asked them ‚have they taken care of the poor women next door yet?‘ All this money could be spent on other important devotional services too like cleaning the Yamunā and saving the holy Vraja-dhāma from further destruction by greedy property developers by buying up land in Vraja for making gardens instead of skyscrapers with luxury apartments. Electricity could be provided to the whole of Vraja 24/7 for all this money. None of this is mundane piety – it is all Vaiṣṇava sevā.
The point is, we only think we know what money is, but we dont. Who makes it, how does it works etc. is considered by spiritualists as immaterial to their quest, but to take maya for granted like this, everyone pays a heavy price. it is only now that the internet is making the hidden knowledge of the international money masters and how they have succeeded in putting the whole world under debt and interest, that people are beginning to question what money in its current form really is. do we understand what money is, and how money = debt? How promissory notes have no backing in gold or anything else? what is fractional reserve banking? people, dont think doing bhajana of Sri Lala means that you should be forbidden to understand the manipulating hydra that is the monetary system carefully planted as a virus by the demons in maya who wear 5000$ suits and talk very slick. You must watch videos like "money masters" and "secrets of the federal reserve" "the secret of oz" to understand what money is, and this is integral to Sri Krsna Bhakti. Dont ever think you can compartmentalize everything, and that money has nothing to do with spirituality. that is the cause of the sorry state of affairs. its precicely the spiritual people who are above the corrupting influence of money and the lust for power, but unfortunately this brainwashing has happened where we think to be poor is to be holy. this is the cause of more and more squeezing of the common man by the powers that be, because the spiritual people are not paying attention. Sri Prahlad maharaj was told by Sri Bhagavan to be king and rule for crores of years, did he get afftected by power and money? did it go to his head? or course not, because he already had Sri Bhagavan in His heart. If people stop making divisions and start seeing the big picture, we will be able to feed those widows and everyone else in the world too quite comfortably, you just have to understand that the current monetary system, is not Gods curse upon man, but controlled by a few people at the top whose only weapon is fear and ignorance and a sleeping public. well, the lion needs to awaken and bhakti gives us this power to defeat the dark forces who are ruling the world right now, and you can do Sri Krsna bhajan right in the middle of all this, just like Prahlad Maharaj and just like Arjuna on the battlefield, with the blessing of Sri Bhagavan everything is possible.
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