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Vaisnavi

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"That personality is Govinda, the Supreme Person. I am offering my respectful obeisances." So Maya is acting under the direction of Krsna just like the shadow is moving under the movement of the original. So Maya's position is not degraded. Don't think like that. Therefore Vaisnava offers all respect to Maya because she is working under Krsna. She is Vaisnavi. She is also energy of Krsna. Therefore she is also Vaisnavi. In the Candi... (end)

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 2.8-12 -- Los Angeles, November 27, 1968

Devotee: What does the name Vaisnavi mean?

Prabhupada: Vaisnavi?

Devotee: Yes. You gave my daughter the name Vaisnavi.

Prabhupada: Oh.

Pradyumna: It is...

Prabhupada: "Associated with Vaisnava."

Devotee: I saw in Krsna book two you explained that Vaisnavi is another name of Yogamaya.

Prabhupada: Yes. You do not like? (laughter) Yes. So let your daughter become a Durga. Why you are afraid of? So now no more talking. (end)

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.2 -- London, August 18, 1971

That is stated in the Caitanya-caritamrta. But Haridasa Thakura was not entrapped, because he was strong, strong enough. Mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti. Maya could not do anything. Although Maya came there at dead of night, very beautiful, attractive dress, attractive feature, attractive words -- this is maya -- so he was not allured. The... Rather, the vesya, or the prostitute, became converted into a Vaisnavi.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.32 -- Vrndavana, August 13, 1974

So, in these two verses the important point is that Draupadi is sympathetic. That is Vaisnava. She is Vaisnavi. This is the attitude of the Vaisnava. Para-duhkha-duhkhi. Vaisnava is para-duhkha-duhkhi. That is Vaisnava's qualification. He doesn't care for his own personal distresses. But he, a Vaisnava becomes aggrieved, distressed, when other is suffering.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.47-48 -- Vrndavana, October 6, 1976

So the feeling of Vaisnava is like that. Similarly, Draupadi is Vaisnavi. She is feeling more than herself, the wife of Dronacarya, mother of Asvatthama, how she will feel. Therefore Vaisnava's qualification is, para-duhkha-duhkhi. Personally a Vaisnava is not unhappy, but a Vaisnava becomes unhappy for others" distress.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.47-48 -- Vrndavana, October 6, 1976

But you know the story of Haridasa. He was young man at that time, and one man instigated a prostitute, young prostitute, to deviate him, but she was unable. On the other hand, the prostitute became a Vaisnavi. This is the difference between a devotee and a nondevotee.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975

Jaya-gopala: What type of living entity is Mayadevi?

Prabhupada: She is Vaisnavi. She is great devotee of Krsna. But she has accepted a thankless task, to punish. The policeman is a sincere government servant, but he has accepted a task, nobody likes him. (laughs)

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.8 -- Seattle, October 21, 1968

Just like this child. She has taken birth having Vaisnava father and mother. So she must have been a Vaisnavi or a Vaisnava in her previous life.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 7.91-2 -- Vrndavana, March 13, 1974

Tamala Krsna: No, no. Is Maya, Mayadevi, a pure devotee?

Prabhupada: Yes, certainly. The police force, are they not honest servant of the government? Does it mean the police force tortures you; therefore they're rejected from the government servant? Their task is thankless task, that's all. Similarly, Maya is also serving Krsna, but there is no thanks. That is the difference. She has taken a thankless task to punish persons who are godless, that's all. So Maya as it is, it is not that she is out of touch of Krsna. Vaisnavi. In the Candi, in the book of Maya, it is state that "Vaisnavi." The Maya is described as Vaisnavi. Just like pure devotee is called Vaisnava, she is also described there as Vaisnavi.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Lecture -- Seattle, September 27, 1968

This child must be executing devotional service in her past life. Therefore, she has got the opportunity, a Vaisnava father and Vaisnavi mother.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Pandal Lecture -- November 14, 1971, Delhi

Prabhupada: My first step will be to capture all the hoarders and distribute the grains free. Immediately public will be obliged to... There are immense food grains; they are simply hoarded. They are not selling without good price. This is going on. Immediately she can capture the public. And some of the hoarders should be hanged, yes, so that in future nobody will hoard. People are hungry. And she says she has got some program, garivi hatta(?), "Drive away the poverty." This is the point. If she can supply all consumer goods for the time being free to the poor, then immediately the whole population will be after her. And the hoarders should be exemplary punished. Shoot them, that's all. Then nobody will hoard. But to remain the dictator she requires spiritual knowledge. Otherwise it will be another disaster. If she wants to remain the dictator, then she must be a spiritual man. She must become a Vaisnavi. (end)

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- July 10, 1975, Chicago

Tamala Krsna: Yeah, it's even mentioned in the Krsna book. Prostitutes came out of Dvaraka.

Prabhupada: Yes. In Calcutta in our childhood I have seen many big, big prostitutes, Vaisnavi.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Conversation -- June 23, 1977, Vrndavana

Prabhupada: Just see. She is natural Vaisnavi. Natural Vaisnavi. So give them proper education. This is real education.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Meeting With Governor of Tamil Nadu -- July 31, 1977, Vrndavana

Another news is that Mother Syama dasi came to L.A. with some of her Gujarati devotees. She appeared to be nice Vaisnavi.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Yamuna -- Hawaii 13 March, 1969

So far your daughter, there is already one devotee named Visakha, so instead your daughter may be named Vaisnavi Dasi.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Sucandra -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972

HpS - ASA -- Thank you. Indira Gandhi was to become a Vaisnavi!
What about "Mataji".  How does that appear?

PAMHO! Crystal radio is actually the most famous free-energy machine which was widely presented to public. I hope we'll soon get away from this Shiva's technology of heat..  and start to use the cold electricity or still better mantras...  hoping that the AI doesn't get the hold on humanity with the cold electricity. Like it sometimes seems when there is even indications of very time and history changing... and the holy books by the influence of the modes of nature.

The Mandela-effect is the most interesting psychological/quantum physical investigation that I would say the western world can give. In this video about Mandela-effect the bible change in text from lion with lamb to wolf with lamb (Isaiah 11:6)and was changed to a photo with wolf and lambs with all black eyes. It came in effect, according to my investigation about two years ago. There is many things in technology and science that will prove more subtle worlds coming. Still I'm very much attached to Gandharva Veda. All the glories to A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swamin Srila Prabhupada!!

HpS - Thank you. We built a Crystal radio in 7th grade in our school. Takes energy from the AM transmitted radio waves in the air!
By pranayama, chanting and dancing, we can influence so many sublte energies in the body. Are the pieziolectric crystals in the body?

Respected Gurumahārājā,

Hare Kṛṣṇa. Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srīla Prabhupāda.

I was reading how mother Yaśodā becomes struck with wonder when she sees the entire universe in baby Kṛṣṇa's mouth.  http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/10/8/43. Then I saw the word Vaiṣṇavīm in a later verse that was used to refer to yoga-māyā. That reminded me of Monkey/Bhakta Tom’s post here: http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6920 and thought I would share some of my findings on the topic.

Vaīṣṇava (masculine) and Vaiṣnavī(feminine)

The word Vaiṣṇava literally means one whose worshipable lord is Viṣṇu. Based on the sūtra sāsya devatā, the suffix a[ṇ] is applied after Viṣṇu which eventually gives the word Vaiṣṇava through various grammatical rules. This is a masculine word. By adding a suffix ī[p] we get Vaiṣṇavī the equivalent feminine word for Vaiṣṇava. Srīla Jīva Gosvāmī, in his grammar book, Harināmāmṛta Vyākaraṇa, uses the word Vaiṣṇavī a few times and he means a female Vaiṣṇava.

Some of the examples are:

1. Male and female who thinks he/she is a Vaiṣṇava
   1. Vaiṣṇavam <2.1, object form of Vaiṣṇava> + man eventually becomes Vaiṣṇava-mānī (“one who thinks himself a Vaiṣṇava”)
   2. Vaiṣṇavīm <2.1, object form of Vaiṣṇavī> + man enventually becomes Vaiṣṇava-māninī(“one who thinks herself a Vaiṣṇavī”)
2. In one of the compound word examples we find Vaiṣṇava-bhāryaḥ.  The commentator elaborates that the vigraha(separation of the constituent words) of Vaiṣṇava-bhāryaḥ is Vaiṣṇavī bhāryā yasya (“one whose wife is a Vaiṣṇavī”).
3. In another example we see atithir Vaiṣṇavī (“the female Vaiṣṇava guest”).
4. From a philosophical point of view, Jiva Gosvāmī doesn’t assume that everyone in their present condition is already a Vaiṣṇava. This I say because he gives examples such as vaiṣṇavī-kṛtya (“having made into a Vaiṣṇava). Other examples that show gradation among Vaiṣṇavas using the word vaiṣṇava in a compound are eka- vaiṣṇavaḥ (“the best Vaiṣṇava”), purāṇa- vaiṣṇavaḥ (“an old vaiṣṇava”), kevala- vaiṣṇavaḥ (“A pure vaiṣṇava”)

Ātman, a masculine word

However I didn’t find any examples for the masculine word ātman in feminine gender. Monier William’s dictionary says that the masculine word is used as a reflexive pronoun in all three genders and gives the example ātmānam(masculine object form) sā (feminine subject she) hanti (verb strikes).

One of the main things is that in Sanskrit, the gender doesn’t really mean the literal gender. For example tree (vṛkṣaḥ) is masculine and creeper(latā) is feminine. However when it comes to the names of humans and the pronouns used for them there are masculine and feminine words matching the genders. I find ātman an exception but there are feminine words like yoginī, brāhmanī, gopī whose masculine forms are yogī, brāhmaṇa and gopa. Vaiṣṇava and Vaiṣṇavī are in the similar category.

Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa

ASA - Tom Brown, PhD  ---  Thank you very much Srinivasa-acharya Das. We saw many cases of Vaisnavi in the Vedabase.com, and except for like three these refered to Durga, Yoga-maya, like the citation above. The others seem that may be coming from a little tinge of the bodily concept of life.
What is the Sanskrit for Canakhya Pandita's statement that one should see every woman except for his wife as Mataji?

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, in my previous letter, URL : http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6975
    you have asked, Do you have any photos from the book-release in Delhi?

    Yes, we have. we also shared all the photos with Sri Hari Prabhuji, who is a profession, stay in Mathura, we think.

    Please let me know if we need to upload those in any location so that you can access.

    Please advise.

    We are also waiting for your clear program dates in India. Then would beg for dates for Pune for Programs and then  
    will discuss with HG Radheshyam Prabhuji for same.
    
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Yes, Dr. Samaresh needs them desperately. Do you have his phone number? We will send it to your email address. We see another letter from you so we will read that and put all of our answers there.

Thank you.

Please accept my humble obeisances. Shyamantaka jewel (free-energy)! Yes, but still dangerous in not BRICS-countries (namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South-Africa, as wikipedia says these five developing countries) https://everydayconcerned.net/2015/10/28/tewaris-free-energy-generator-india-permits-free-energy-technology-despite-threats-from-uk-us-saudi-arabia/ there is very much links in net to Tewari, this is page ten of the links https://www.google.fi/search?q=tewari+free+energy&client=ubuntu&hs=AIu&channel=fs&prmd=ivns&ei=5TXpV9z0OYb-sQGY3LEg&start=90&sa=N yes, outside BRICS-countries it's dangerous, but they seem to defend this technology against threats from oil countries, like those listed in the first link.

Politically and even philosophically something like shyamantaka jewel too :). In my thought this would mean one part of the end of quite long colonialistic era and suppression of, I think, what is more vedic technology. Like in India Tewari shows, (and is still an old colleague of our Keshava Madhava's wife's father from Helsinki temple, when they made free-energy machines already in 60's or 70's as nuclear physicists).

Personally I don't have time nor money to Sao Paulo(Brazil), but it is where Keppe-motors have their headquarters. I was emailing with them about one free-energy circuitry for their motors, because I had some experience and knowledge about how the high voltage pulses work with sifferent circuit components (which I had learned from Bedini-free-energy motors formidable team). Yes, and I posted then same kind as attached picture (of motor with Krishna) and the canadian guy (kit-manual maker) asked if he can send the picture to whole team, which I said ofcourse. (now I couldn't find that motor, but I put one photo of some magnetic things and Rodin coil)

Maharaja, I think you maybe know Norberto R. Keppe, because he is the South-American psychoanalycist who invented the analytical trilogy... They're a little bit demigodly people if I have understood it right. Or at least quite intelligent. I never have been in contact with all ready-made products (Keppe-motor would be best to get them), but have assembled them myself from kits or from schematics and been researching different concepts... and creative things like music, actually I have already several musicians engaged around the theater, and I heard it's actually easier to make an audio book on the visual play (first was Gajendra in crisis). I evn have one “friend” to help with the light programming, because I borrowed him my 3d-printer, and I guess otherwise too :), just have to make good prasadam for a vegetarian) … and I love the theater, for real. I hope in good way, Maharaja. At least it makes me just cry, in feeling of not cumulating more stress. I would really like to do something for the culture of sisters Adama and Havyavati, very straightforward, but not offending.

I remember Lokanath Swami saying: Only real self-discipline in this age is the Co-operation. :) And yes cosmological things we have to always look from the basis of relativity. But on technological level there is too much hate, I would say. My grandfather was in the board of biggest oil refineries in the Finland and a freemason. What I can say, it's not so nice never to think what the government might do to you. And actually Nikola Tesla became so frustrated between wars (or concious of nazi's highly advanced same technology, which I would say,, if war would have started just few years later they would have risen to world dominion), that he induced a death ray weapon, against air attacks. HAARP-like or Tesla Howitzer, which is actually very much just now realized in west when it was highly advanced in USSR.

Www.cheniere.org . And they used or tested in Iraq against their own old equipment which they had sold or given to Saddam's regime, at least portable Tesla Howitzer, destroying one mosque and in one part of Iraq, there was, was it two days, an earthquake induced exactly every 15 minutes, there was a small tornado above the sea, some light, the sea became red, and on the shore came some 40 dolphins which were burned alive underwater. It is even said that in Kuwait they did put with HAARP or similar type of machine some propaganda straight to the opponents heads,, and near HAARP in Alaska actually lives one man who has done such a thing himself also, it was in television, and this ex-marine-soldier who tested it, said it really works. They also tested other energy weapons like lasers says doctors and maybe some who survived. US antigravity is though actually named after sanskrit: Astra. But it's not full antigravity. Some 80% made with 3 mercury based machines as the vyaamaanika shastra says, in which the mercury whirls some 200 000 times was it in minute or second I'm not so sure anymore in this age when there is not only Schauberger's implosion motors, as in vyaamaanika shastra is said iron machine under to whirl mercury... And yes it definitely is like a shyamantaka jewel. And when in Krishna's hands: http://www.tewari.org/ and India's mass media has also woke up 1,4 years ago: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/bengaluru-innovator-creates-super-high-efficiency-machine-that-produces-power-from-vacuum/articleshow/46832793.cms a little little bit in Finland too, but this definitely is not a BRICS-country. But yes there certainly is ether or space and it is linked to our hearing sense. I just want to say that on this field of recearch there is powerfull dangers. Theater gallery https://www.facebook.com/nanuk.henrichs/media_set?set=a.10154474049414577.1073741828.597459576&type=3 and other http://hc-teatteri.weebly.com/gallery.html All the glories to A.C.B.S Sriila Prabhupada! Jaya Srii Krishna

HpS - Thank you.  I don't think we will be able to follow the links right away. Some of our readers maybe this is their service, but we are very pleased to read your posts. Some of the information seems familiar to us. We and our friends were building Van de Graf generators when we were like 14-years old.
Maya tatam idam sarvam.  BG chapter 7(?) everything comes from Krsna, everything can be used for Krsna.

Guru-Lila (Part 6)

20th March 2016
On the way to Pune, three persons in the car, Guruji and Harsh Prabhu (behind the wheel) and myself-the famous (or infamous) Buffalo Headed Punjabi, Jai.
Harsh Prabhu is fired-up and is driving with high speed, Guruji is sitting next to him, and I am on the back seat. We passed through Khandala, a famous hill station near Mumbai, very beautiful views.  Going, going and at some point, we made a few phone calls to some devotees to know the exact location of Pune temple, but still some confusion was there, but by Krishna's mercy, as we were entering Pune city, we saw a Bramhachari waiting on the roadside to get a lift to the temple, he was happy that he got a free lift with us to the Temple and we were happy that he saved us from the harassment of making more phone calls to find out the proper address for the temple.

In the backside of the temple, there is a multi-storied building, and many many devotees are living in that building. now, I can't remember that we were on which floor.  So we entered the temple from the backside and the devotees took Guruji directly to his room, leaving me behind and it was very humbling experience, no one came there to pick me up for more that 15-20 mins and finally, somehow, I found the way.

It was Ajita Nitai Prabhu's house- a disciple of His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaj, house is very well built, beautiful and fancy.

There I also met with another god-brother for the first time  --  Shriman Girivardhari-Gopal Prabhu, a nice and sober devotee and so many other devotees-mostly disciples of Radhanath Maharaj, they are all well-educated and well-behaved towards our guruji, and very humble as well, I have to learn from them.

Guruji took bath, shaving etc. He does not shave every day or every 2^nd day or 3^rd day, he says that let people know that I am getting old, he may shave once in a month or earlier if there is some important preaching program, but here in this video, you will see that he looks bright, he shaved yes, but lustre from the purity also, whatever is there inside, it appears outside.

I was very happy with the prasadam the host devotee family offered to guruji, it was opulent, but moreover, it was made with love and affection and served to guruji with the same mood, and needless to say that the dog of guruji got a plenty of remnants. Now here is my bold declaration: - I am ready to remain a dog life after life if guruji keeps giving me his remnants.

After sometime, we moved toward big pandal program, more than 15 thousands youths, program is by ISKCON Pune and Bhartiya Sanskriti Vidyapeeth, many big and prominent people are there.  From ISKCON side, there were His Holiness Gopal Krishna Maharaj, His Holiness Loknath Maharaj, His Holiness Bhakti-Marg Swami and our dear guruji His Holiness Hanumat Preshak Swami Maharaj, you would see all of them in the video, also was there Vraj-Vadhus band (Param Das and Gaura mataji) and you would also see three maharathi disciples of Radhanath Maharaj----Radhe Shyam Prabhu-who is Pune TP and Gauranga Prabhu-he appears on Indian TV many times and Gaur-Gopal Prabhu-the famous You Tuber. They also asked guruji to lighten-up the lamp.  You would also see that guruji is putting ear-plugs because of heavy blasting sound from the speakers, but I doubt if the ear-plugs offered him any help, but the funny thing is that Indian people had no problem from the sound, including our Swamis, it appears that we Indian bodied people don’t mind the sound, since we grow-up with it, but Westerns have really hard time with it.

I also remember many years ago during Ludhiana Rathyatra, guruji was trying to go away from that part of the procession where there was 50 Shahnayi Wala(the guys playing trombones) and big Indian drums. Anyway, altogether, the program was nice, we came back, host asked for more prasadam, but guruji politely refused and retired to his room, we were asked for Prasad, superficially, I said no but the host-Ajita Nitai Prabhu insisted and we happily surrendered, so four of us---Ajita, Girivardhari Gopal, Harsh and the Pretender took prasadam.

More in next episode, thanks.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-BQRpiz54

HpS - Hare Krsna!   Jaya!   So, sorry that you got left at the door when we arrived in Pune!   Please forgive us!!!  Next time bark loudly!
We shave every two weeks, the day after Ekadasi. Once Prbhupada mentioned it as an acceptable standard. Especially we do it because ourselves and our good father were surgically certified as mildly hemophelic. Our blood does not clot as fast as normal people. When you shave, even with best razors, there is always a little cutting and scratching of the skin. For normal people this heals quickly, but for us it is a little slower, so if we shave daily we start to get a rash then infections and we become prime candidates for skin cancer, so, all things considered, once every two weeks.
Thank you for these Diarys. They are very interesting to us!