Mirabhai's bhajans

April 19, 2003

I recently met an old Vaishnava friend of mine online and I was very

glad to see him after such a long time. For those of you who may know

him, he is Krsna Dhenu prabhu, who passes online by the name

of "VedicGer108."

He happens to be collecting Vaishnava bhajans as a hobby an compiling

them online. I decided to visit it to see if any of Mirabai's bhajans

were available, I did find one.

The Bhajan in question is at:

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I'm sure that interested surfers can find many more to analyse the

devotional sentiments.

Also, it was stated by another poster:

>> Perhaps this is one of those situations where one can only admire

the intensity of the devotional sentiment, if not the sentiment

itself. <<

I am happy to see that Bhakti Vikasa Maharaja cleared-up the notion

behind this idea by comparing Mirabai's mood to that of the gopis. A

noted concept in rasa theology is that Srimati Radharani's mood is of

the leftist-bhava, vamya-bhava, whereas Candravali's bhava is

rightist. The different between the leftist (Radha) and the rightist

(Candravali) bhavas is that Srimati Radharani is the only person who

can rightly say "Krsna belongs to me." Candravali can only say 'ami

tomara,' "I belong to You [Krishna]."

So therefore we know that there is no need to admire the rightist

sentiment since we know full well which Krsna Himself prefers.

Speaking of Srimati Radharani, the authenticity of the Brahma-

vaivarta Purana has been disputed over the course of time and there

are several editions available, ranging from the highly spiritual to

the downright vulgar. As such, scholars cannot know completely which

is authentic and which is not. Note that we are only talking of the

scholars who are immersed in their own panditry, and not the

enlightened explanations of Srila Prabhupada who obviously has the

correct take on them.

In service of Nityananda-Gauranga,

Jay

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