Guest guest Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Dear Devotees, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeciences.All glories to Srila Prabhupada. If Krsna says in the BG, that the parampara system was broken due passage of time, and that he was renewing the parampara system thru Arjuna, why doesn't Arjuna's name appear in the list of parampara given at the beginning of the BG As It Is. Your Servent, Praneshwar Das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 Regarding your question about the disciplic succession coming down from Arjuna, it is just like I have got my disciples, so in the future these many disciples may have many branches of disciplic succession. So in one line of disciples we may not see another name coming from a different line. But this does not mean that person whose name does not appear was not in the disciplic succession. Narada was the Spiritual Master of Vyasadeva, and Arjuna was Vyasadeva's disciple, not as initiated disciple but there was some blood relation between them. So there is connection in this way, and it is not possible to list all such relationships in the short description given in Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Another point is that disciplic succession does not mean one has to be directly a disciple of a particular person. The conclusions which we have tried to explain in our Bhagavad-gita As It Is is the same as those conclusions of Arjuna. Arjuna accepted Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and we also accept the same truth under the disciplic succession of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Things equal to the same thing are equal to one another. This is an axiomatic truth. So there is no difference of opinion of understanding Krishna between ourselves and Arjuna. Another example is that a tree has many branches, and you will find one leaf here and another leaf there. But if you take this leaf and the other leaf and you press them both, you will see that the taste is the same. The taste is the conclusion, and from the taste you can understand that both leaves are from the same tree. (Letter to: Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 25 January, 1969) - "iyfbombay (India)" <iyfbombay (AT) pamho (DOT) net> "Free Forum (Announcements)" <Free.Forum (AT) pamho (DOT) net> Cc: "(Krsna) Katha" <Katha (AT) pamho (DOT) net> Monday, March 15, 2004 9:34 AM Query > Dear Devotees, > Hare Krishna! > Please accept my humble obeciences.All glories to Srila Prabhupada. > > If Krsna says in the BG, that the parampara system was broken due > passage of time, and that he was renewing the parampara system thru Arjuna, > why doesn't Arjuna's name appear in the list of parampara given at the > beginning of the BG As It Is. > > Your Servent, > Praneshwar Das > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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