Saturday, 29 March 2014

Retirement

In Srimad Bhagavatam verse 3.2.3 Sukadeva Goswami while glorifies the service attitude of Sri Uddhava as follows.

sa katham sevayaa tasya / kaalena jarasam gatah
prshto vaartaam pratibruyaad / bhartuh paadaav anusmaran

"Uddhava thus served the Lord continually from childhood, and in his old age that attitude of service never slackened. As soon as he was asked about the message of the Lord, he at once remembered all about Him."

Srila Prabhupada in his wonderful purport to above verse says,

"Transcendental service to the Lord is not mundane. The service attitude of the devotee gradually increases and never becomes slackened. Generally, in old age a person is allowed retirement from mundane service. But in the transcendental service of the Lord there is no retirement at all; on the contrary, the service attitude increases more and more with the progress of age. In the transcendental service there is no satiation, and therefore there is no retirement.
Materially, when a man becomes tired by rendering service in his physical body, he is allowed retirement, but in the transcendental service there is no feeling of fatigue because it is spiritual service and is not on the bodily plane. Service on the bodily plane dwindles as the body grows older, but the spirit is never old, and therefore on the spiritual plane the service is never tiresome."


Saturday, 2 November 2013

Eight Forms of the Lord

For Deity Worship

According to the Uddhava Gita, the Arcchaa forms of the Lord may be made out of any of the following eight materials:
1. Stone
2. Wood
3. Metal
4. As a painting
5. Precious stones
6. Sand, clay, etc.
7. Pastes like sandal, etc  and
8. Worshipped in the mind of Yogis as a glorious form 

Friday, 29 March 2013

Garga Samhita

Chap. 13 : The Arrival of Sri Uddhava 
Chap. 14 : The Meeting of King Nanda and Uddhava
Chap. 15 : Seeing Sri Radha
Chap. 16 : Comforting Sri  and the Gopis
Chap. 17 : The Gopis Describe their Remembrance of Sri Krsna
Chap. 18 : Uddhava hears the Gopis Words and Returns to Mathura

Also

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Tree of Material World


Lord Krishna, responding to Uddhava's question uses the tree as a metaphor with even more detailed correlations between its parts and the worldly existence.
  1. Here the objects indicated are:
    Two seeds - Paapam(Evil) and Punyam(Good)

    innumerable roots - Innumerable desires
  2. three lower trunks – the three modes (goodness,passion and ignorance) of material nature
  3. Five upper trunks - gross elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether)
  4. Five kind of saps - Objects of five senses(  sound, form, touch, taste and aroma )

    two birds - Paramatma and Jivatma
  5. Three layers of bark – vatam (wind), pittham (bile) and kapham (mucus)
  6. Two fruits - happiness and sorrow
  7. Eleven branches - Manas(Mind) and 

Pancha Jnanendriyas

Jnanendriya comes from the roots jnana (wisdom). These are the 5 lower sense organs — those which allows one to perceive the world around them. They are:
  1. Shotra    — ears
  2. Chakshu — eyes
  3. Grahna    — nose
  4. Jivha — tongue
  5. Tvak — skin
Pancha Karmendriyas
Literally translated, karmendriya means ‘organ of action’ – that which facilitates our sensory contact with the outer world — or that which enables us to interact with the material objects of the world. These 5 organs of action are:
  1. Pada (feet) — for locomotion
  2. Pani (hands) — for dexterity
  3. Payu (rectum) — for excretion
  4. Upastha (genitals) — for reproduction
  5. Vak (mouth) — for speech
Thus the metaphor ties together all the important concepts of Vedanta in a coherent manner.

Source
http://vedabase.net/sb/11/12/22-23/en1

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