jueves, 19 de noviembre de 2009

Gita Jayanti - The day Bhagavadgita was spoken

 

 
 
Denver Temple Weekly Bulletin

Vol 2: Issue 47  November 19, 2009 
 
Gita Jayanti - The Day Bhagavadgita was spoken 
 
  
 
 


 

 
Lord Chaitanya and his four associates 


 
 

 
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Lord Chaitanya participates in a boat festival for Radha and Krishna.



 
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tani sarvani sam´yamya
yukta asita mat-parah
vase hi yasyendriyani
tasya prajña pratisthita

SYNONYMS

tani - those senses; sarvani - all; sam´yamya - keeping under control; yuktah - engaged; asita - should be situated; mat-parah - in relationship with Me; vase - in full subjugation; hi - certainly; yasya - one whose; indriyani - senses; tasya - his; prajña - consciousness; pratisthita - fixed.

TRANSLATION

One who restrains his senses, keeping them under full control, and fixes his consciousness upon Me, is known as a man of steady intelligence.

PURPORT

That the highest conception of yoga perfection is Krsna consciousness is clearly explained in this verse. And unless one is Krsna conscious it is not at all possible to control the senses. As cited above, the great sage Durvasa Muni picked a quarrel with Maharaja Ambarisa, and Durvasa Muni unnecessarily became angry out of pride and therefore could not check his senses. On the other hand, the king, although not as powerful a yogi as the sage, but a devotee of the Lord, silently tolerated all the sage's injustices and thereby emerged victorious. The king was able to control his senses because of the following qualifications, as mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (9.4.18-20):

sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayor
vacam´si vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane
karau harer mandira-marjanadisu
srutim´ cakaracyuta-sat-kathodaye
mukunda-lingalaya-darsane drsau
tad-bhrtya-gatra-sparse 'nga-sangamam
ghranam´ ca tat-pada-saroja-saurabhe
srimat-tulasya rasanam´ tad-arpite
padau hareh ksetra-padanusarpane
siro hrsikesa-padabhivandane
kamam´ ca dasye na tu kama-kamyaya
yathottama-sloka-janasraya ratih

"King Ambarisa fixed his mind on the lotus feet of Lord Krsna, engaged his words in describing the abode of the Lord, his hands in cleansing the temple of the Lord, his ears in hearing the pastimes of the Lord, his eyes in seeing the form of the Lord, his body in touching the body of the devotee, his nostrils in smelling the flavor of the flowers offered to the lotus feet of the Lord, his tongue in tasting the tulasi leaves offered to Him, his legs in traveling to the holy place where His temple is situated, his head in offering obeisances unto the Lord, and his desires in fulfilling the desires of the Lord... and all these qualifications made him fit to become a mat-para devotee of the Lord."

The word mat-para is most significant in this connection. How one can become mat-para is described in the life of Maharaja Ambarisa. Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana, a great scholar and acarya in the line of the mat-para, remarks, mad-bhakti-prabhavena sarvendriya-vijaya-purvika svatma-drstih sulabheti bhavah. "The senses can be completely controlled only by the strength of devotional service to Krsna." Also, the example of fire is sometimes given: "As a blazing fire burns everything within a room, Lord Visnu, situated in the heart of the yogi, burns up all kinds of impurities." The Yoga-sutra also prescribes meditation on Visnu, and not meditation on the void. The so-called yogis who meditate on something which is not on the Visnu platform simply waste their time in a vain search after some phantasmagoria. We have to be Krsna conscious - devoted to the Personality of Godhead. This is the aim of the real yoga.


 
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 Srila Prabhupada appreciates a flower given to him by a visitor.
 
 
OM AJNANA-TIMIRANDHASYA JNANANAJANA-SALAKAYA
CAKSUR UNMILITAM YENA TASMAI SRI-GURAVE NAMAH 
 
"I was born in the darkest of ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances to him. "
 
 
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