Arjuna

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> > > Hare Krishna

> > > PAMHO, AGTSP

> > > Who's Arjuna in the spiritual world? Is he a cowherd boy friend of

> > > Krishna in Goloka Vrndavana, or someone / somewhere else?

> > > yhs

> > > vpd

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> > Arjuna is Arjuna in the spiritual world. He is in Sakhya rasa but mix

> > with aisvarya. So he is not a cowherd boy like Subal, Sridama or

> > Madhumangala, who could climb on Krishna's back etc. Arjuna is also said

> > to be Krishna's eternal companion in His various incarnations. He is

> > also with Krishna as Nara-Narayana duo. In the Gita, Krishna said among

> > the Kurus, He is Arjuna.

>

> There is another Arjuna who is a cowherd boy if I am not mistaken. I think

> we will find him in the NOD.

>

Yes Maharaja, there is another Arjuna, the cowherd boy, but is different

from Kaunteya, the son of Kunti.

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>Why was Arjuna chosen to have the Gita revealed to him?

>What was special about Arjuna? As opposed to everyone else.

 

That very ancient science of the relationship with the Supreme is today

told by Me to you because you are My devotee as well as My friend;

therefore you can understand the transcendental mystery of this science.(BG

4.3)

 

He tells Arjuna that He is relating this supreme secret to him because he

is His devotee and His friend. The purport of this is that Bhagavad-gita is

a treatise which is especially meant for the devotee of the Lord. There are

three classes of transcendentalists, namely the jnani, the yogi and the

bhakta, or the impersonalist, the meditator and the devotee. Here the Lord

clearly tells Arjuna that He is making him the first receiver of a new

parampara (disciplic succession) because the old succession was broken. It

was the Lord's wish, therefore, to establish another parampara in the same

line of thought that was coming down from the sun-god to others, and it was

His wish that His teaching be distributed anew by Arjuna. He wanted Arjuna

to become the authority in understanding the Bhagavad-gita. So we see that

Bhagavad-gita is instructed to Arjuna especially because Arjuna was a

devotee of the Lord, a direct student of Krsna, and His intimate friend.

Therefore Bhagavad-gita is best understood by a person who has qualities

similar to Arjuna's. That is to say he must be a devotee in a direct

relationship with the Lord. (BG INTRODUCTION)

 

>Did Arjuna always carry out the teachings of Gita?

 

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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11/09/04 01:03 AM Arjuna

 

 

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FROM BH. NITAN

 

Dear Devotees,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

I have been give a title of an essay to write on: "In Arjun the Geeta

Trusts, to her each breathe he devotes"

 

Can you help with the topic?

Why was Arjuna chosen to have the Gita revealed to him?

What was special about Arjuna? As opposed to everyone else.

 

I need detail as I have to write a whole essay.

Did Arjuna always carry out the teachings of Gita?

 

Thank you.

 

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