Mahaprabhu ShrimadVallabhacharyaji ** updt **PG16 - Page 9

Hi Gunia!
Well, thanks a ton for posting this! I love your description of how EVERYTHING should be offered to Shri Krishna as it is already his.
I read in that Friends of Krishna page that we are all thiefs. We have at some point or another taken something and said that it was ours, when in fact it was Krishna's. So whenever we partake of anything, like say food, we have to first tell Krishna "here, you taste it first, it's yours."
Thanks for translating all that too yaar. I couldn't have understood it otherwise.
You're really an angel! Thanks!
Edited by AishuJSKfan - 12 years ago

Gunu!!! I'm sooo late but finally I'm here... thank you so much for these beautiful and enlightening explanations of such a divine saint's words and deeds, it is really refreshing after a long day to read these and makes me feel like I'm at a satsang only 😍 The steps you outlined for Aishu's question on pg9 are so insightful... the way you have described the sweetness of Mahaprabhu's interaction with Shrinathji which led to his composing the Madhurashtakam... sooo touching, read it several times over and over because it was so lovely 😍 And the Siddhant Rahasya... can't thank you enough for this behna, you know I have been looking forward to this kind of detailed explanation of his writings ever since we discussed the idea of this thread... I am really relishing it 😍 Especially the metaphor on Ganga Maa at the end, it is such a beautiful way to visualize Brahmasambandh! Millions of thanks and can't wait for more 🤗

gr8 post and gr8 info Gunnu !
Thanks

Contd..Imp of Brahmasambandh and Guru-shishya relation! Edited by arun-deeps - 12 years ago

Thank you so much for updating behena!!

Well, this was definitely interesting. I totally agree with the point that without a guru, if the bhakt achieves self-realization, then there is some arrogance born from that as he thinks that he did it by himself.
There is a story about a Marathi saint, much like this. His name was Sant Naamdev. (hope you don't mind me posting this here. but my mom told me this and i thought that it related.)

At one time, all the saints came to visit Gora Kumbhar. He too was a saint and a great soul, but his profession was to make clay pots. And to see if a clay pot is well made, one has to hit it with a dhoka lightly to see if it holds, it's the same thing that dhobis use to beat clothes. So they were just joking around and Gora Kumbhar then took the dhoka and playfully started lightly tapping the heads of the great saints with it. He would say, "oh, yeah wala pakka hai." "yeh wala bhi pakka hai." And when he got to Naamdev, he said "yeh wala thoda kacha hai."
Naamdev was outraged and asked him how dare he say such to such a great soul as himself. Gora Kumbhar explained to Naamdev that he knew only little because he had no guru and that he was full of arrogance, but he shouldn't worry as he would meet his guru very very soon.
Naamdev rushed out in a fit and went to the nearby Shivji temple to pray. There, an old man was lying down, apparently too weak to get up, and his feet were at the shiv linga. Naamdev said "how dare you do that to God?" The old man replied, "son, I am too weak to move my legs. Why don't you move them for me." So Naamdev picked up his leg and put it somewhere else, but when his feet touched the ground, there sprung another linga. And he kept trying to do that again and again, but another linga would appear wherever the old man's feet touched the ground.
Finally, Naamdev surrendered and asked the old man who he was. The old man was Visaji(Visoba) Panth and he became Naamdev's guru.
And then Naamdev became one of the greatest devotees of Vithala, who is believed to be an incarnation of Krishna himself.
Edited by AishuJSKfan - 12 years ago

OMG! I didn't realize that you were editing the post.
sorry...here's my full reply now

The fact that you presented was very deep and profound. Bhakts are greater than God because God is the goal, while fellow bhakts and gurus are the ones who take us to that goal. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna was the guru and the goal for Arjun, but in the modern world, we have to find other such genuine gurus.
Swami Prabhupadaji of the ISKCON movement said that the Guru is as good as God and you should worship him the same way that you worship God.
And you are also right that when we love someone, we usually think that only we love that person, and our love for him/her is greater than anybody else's. We even come to think that the object of our love belongs to us and no one else. But to love selflessly like the gopis did, and to offer Krishna to others is much higher.

Guru-Shishya has a feeling of Lord and his servant. If Shishya understands the words and dept of Lord woithout Guru or his grace, then this feeling comes to an end


thanks  a lot sispie😃  love reading it !
Edited by ...PARiNA... - 12 years ago

Mahaprabhuji asks for 'Adharamrit'!

Well, first of all, I was so delightfully surprised to read that the devotee of Shri Vallabacharyaji was Krishnadas Meghan. What a coincidence! lol.
And the whole story about Naro is so sweet! Indeed she was blessed. Some people think that God is up in the sky, and since he has his hands full with running the world, he doesn't pay attention to us, but here Shri Krishna was calling out to Naro to bring him milk. The actual relationship between devotee and God is s opersonal. I just think that that is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this katha with us Gunu!!
And please, do post how Krishna got to them.
Can't wait to read the next part.
Edited by AishuJSKfan - 12 years ago