All Glories to Sri A.C. Prabhupada Maharaja, Sri Sripada Maharaja, Sri HpS Maharaja Ki Jay
Radha Krsna Ki Jay, Gouranga Mahaprabhu Ki Jay and Gourabhakta Vrnda Ki Jay!
Dandavat Pran, Guruji Maharaja!
Please accept my humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that I had gone through the letters and Guruji's reply to Mataji Sarda Devi Dasi. I realy feel very happy to know that at least one deciple from Manipur increased to write letters through this Blog. She has advance knowledge of scientific eqipments like mobile, photo uploading and sending day to day activities to Gurui through this Blog. I have communicated her also and get update informtion of the activities of Imphal Centre.
It is a good news for Manipur that the Bhumi Pujan at Kakching for consting a new Temple at Kakching. Ours, (Thoubal) is a centre run by different organisation in the name of Bhagavat Shiksha Ashram but the members of new generation wanted to convert the same Bhagavat Shiksha Ashram into a ISKCON Temple. So it takes time to clear the formality and run in the system of ISKCON. The main aims and objects of these two organisations are same but the system and the honourship are the differences. Very soon the result will be in positive way. All depends upon Krsna's and Guruji's marcy.
HpS - Very nice information!
In the last Sunday programme, the 9th Kanto of Srimad Bhagavatam stated and the narator Sri Brajamani Sharma - one of the reknown reciter of Bhagavatam and Gita in Manipur told that the 18,000 sloka of Bhagavatam is not correc , it is less then 2,000 slokas encluding Uvachaks, and Sree mentioned in the Bhatam is Lakshmi not Radharani. Please clarify these two explanations.
Yours fallen servant
Yamunesvara Das.
HpS - Very strange. If we just go to www.vedabase.com we see can start to count the number of verses.
In first five chapters of canto one there are 174 verses. Divide that by 5 and that means an average of 35 verses per chapter. As I remember there are about 30 chapters/canto (except 10th with is 90), so that is 35verses/chapter x 30chapters/canto x 14cantos(3 for tenth)/SB = 15,960. That is close to 18,000. ISKCON scholars cannot find 18,000 when they count them exactly, but it is close. So I don't know why he says that????
Name of Radha-rani is not directly mentioned in the SB. Reasons are given for that, but when Uddhava gives Krsna's message to the Gopis then it says that a certain Gopi was very afflicted. You can find explanation of how Jiva Goswami establishes this is Radharani in th Purport:
http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/10/47/11
Maybe the Pandita is talking about the Maha-devi Bhagavata? Sometimes people mistake that for the Bhagavatam. It is different book.
That is all I know.
We are trying to work on our travels in India. We have the ticket to arrive 27th September and then leave 8th November with two weeks, ten days in Australia. Any suggestions???