Bhagavad-gita 2.29 according to Sridhara Svami

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Dear Nayana-ranjana Prabhu brahmacari,

Namas te.

Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!

 

I don't know what that Bombay temple is like, but I notice such passionate

texts coming from there.

 

> He talks about the self as ALL

> PERVADING and that is why one is bewildered by seeing it etc. etc.

 

Sarva-gatah means all-pervading, or present everywhere. Krishna describes

the soul as such in the Gita five verses earlier (nityah sarva-gatah sthanur

acalo 'yam sanatanah).

 

> This

> statement in parantheses seems to be Vireswarananda's comment not Sridhara

> Swami's.

 

The statements in parentheses are written in italics in the translation.

Since COM doesn't have italics I put them between parentheses. Everything I

wrote comes from Sridhara Svami, as Ekanath Prabhu has so expertly pointed

out.

 

> In case Viresvaranda is from a bona-fide Vaisnava sampradaya still he

> seems to be influenced by impersonalistic & speculative ideas.

 

Even in the devotional passages of Sridhara Svami's text he translates it in

a very devotional way. Your statement, however, refers to Sridhara Svami's

original statements.

 

> Svarupa Damodara Goswami pointed so many anamolies just in the nandisloka

> of that professional reciter brought by Bhagavan Acarya which the other

> devotees could not detect earlier.

 

Similarly there was a devotee, now known as Vallabhacarya, who thought he

knew things better than Sridhara Svami. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was not

pleased by this attitude, however, and said that whoever rejects the svami

is a prostitute.

 

Your servant,

bhakta Ivar.