AGTSP !!!
Please acept my humble obeisances
Dear Maharaja
In this your Vyasa-puja many memories come to mind, like those days back in Lima when I used to tranlate conferences for you, then the Hanuman Express Dispactch into spanish, all the association you were kindly giving 16 years ago. Now this blog, all your guidance, inspiration, all going back to your Spiritual Master Srila Prabhupada to whom you've dedicated your every moment, eight fold? Activities of Uttama Adikaries like you are glimpses from the spiritual wolrd and the Nitya-lilas of Krishna and Gaurachandra. Thank you for bringing the Paranpara and its river of ectasy closer ! dandavats ! juste a verse from today's Srila Prabhupada's mp3 purport on.. Manasa deha geha arpilum tua pade nanda Kishor !!! when will that day be mine ????? jiv jago !! jiv jago !! Tomorrow I'll meet the bramacharies and distribute 10 books in your name hari !
You were right on the essay synopsis, I already see it with different eyes, may be Jung's individuation process translates as discovering your real spiritual identity as an eternal servant and associate of Krishna (for some),
HpS - Seems the same to us, but have to know him more to see how he corresponds, no?
how can we measure the transcendental pleasure of reading about Gauranga's Nitya Lila in Navadvipa ?? off the charts ! Got Henry Bergson's L'evolution Creatrice, wow, changes the whole game, theory of knowledge - theory of life-consciousness-evolution. I have a question Maharaja, it is mention in NOD and other sources that pranayama in meditacion on Vishnu is an accepted process, I personally used it months ago during morning japa in meditation of Hladini Shakti and ...that's when I called you urgent etc, a glimpse of Cintamani-dhama. etc I feel attracted to Gauranga and Krishna Nitya Lila meditation, seems spontaneous to me, would like to further on, also memories of Vasudeva stage sometimes come to mind and I hanker for it...does it sound too greedy? individualist?
HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!!!! Thank you your letter. We are just trying to represent the Madhyama-adhikari stage. That is sufficient to represent Parampara. Engage people in worshipping the Deity. This comes to your question. Are we experiencing Vasudeva sattva, Goloka vrndavana? It is hard for us to give even an opinion from 1,000 miles away and not having a lot of personal association with your good self. Prabhupada warns that sometimes our affective hallucinations are taken as spiritual experiences. Jung thought Nietszche was on the right path, looking for God within, not just in rituals, but that he didn't have proper guidance, didn't take proper caution and went mad. Jung would do his introspective yoga daily and have his regular psychiatric practice and family relations in the afternoon and he felt that was essential to groud him.
In the age of Kali the process is Sankirtan, no? So if we are having intense esoteric spiritual realizations, experiences, then we should really see how it is coming from Sankirtan and is for Sankirtan. The Pranayama is natural by chanting on beads, dancing, but surely we can add some conscious spiritual though mechanical tricks to control the mind eg. sit-properly.
So, we would say, don't eliminate trying for the highest state of consciousness, but keep it confidential, well certified by nice association and manifestation of high moral standard, detachment from sense gratification and Srila Prabhupada's books.
When Srila Prabhupada begins the second chapter of NOD saying that Rupa Goswami classifies devotees according to their taste what exactly is He refering to? Like my taste is in meditation on Vishnu, means that's my way in bhakti? if I chant 16 rounds, meditate on Vishnu, perfect that, I'm ok? You can see I'm studying NOD, began as part of the research for the essay and now it's a whole full thing on it's own, I wonder where Rupa Goswami got the soources for defining and explaining rasa, other than his full qualification and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, I'll re read your essay on the matter, related to theatrical studies in India. May need the entire Bhakti rasamrita Sindhu to fully comprehend fully, after full comprehension of NOD, I'm hooked. may be that's why Krishna allowed halidini shakti to visit, so my intellect would be baffled for ages ! Hari ! Hari ! Govinda !
your servant
Raul
ASA - We looked at Chapter two on the vedabase and also Dh'dara Swami's Waves of Devotion. He is translating "taste" as atttraction. Which is how we understood it. If we have got the mercy/done the work then we have a strang attaction to service or a weak attraction and then we are qualified for the Sadhana, Bhava, or Prema Bhakti stages diferentially as he is describing!
Hari Bolo! More news. Good luck with your Sankirtan. Thank you for you intense association.