Sleepy moon face

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>

> > > Yes, I awaken the Lord in the morning, but I admit it's a little

> > > formal. I like these and will start using them as well. Thanks,

> > > prabhu.

> >

> > Seconded!

>

> Thank you Mukunda Prabhu, I think by the end of the discussion, I will

> improve by atleast 1% in my mangalarati duties.-----YHS, Bhadra Govinda

> Dasa.

 

Oh, Bhadra Govinda! Don't be so humble! I feel like I've improved more than

that, and I haven't even done anything yet besides meditate on these

beautiful prayers!

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Bhagavata, 3.9.25:

 

"He is that unlimitedly merciful Bhagavan; opening His lotus eyes

and smiling out of excessive love, He also makes His creation glorious. May

the sweet words of the primeval Personality of Godhead remove our dejection!"

 

Purport

 

"The Lord is ever increasingly merciful upon the fallen souls of

this material world. The whole cosmic manifestation is a chance for all to

improve themselves in devotional service to the Lord, and everyone is

meant for that purpose. The Lord expands Himself into many personalities

who are either self-expansions or separated expansions. The personalities

of the individual souls are His separated expansions, whereas the

self-expansions are the Lord Himself. The self-expansions are predominators,

and the separated expansions are predominated for reciprocation of

transcendental bliss with the supreme form of bliss and knowledge. The

liberated souls can join in this blissful reciprocation of predominator and

predominated without materially concocted ideas. The typical example of such

a transcendental exchange between the predominator and the predominated is

the Lords rasa-lila with the gopis. The gopis are predominated expansions

of the internal potency, and therefore the Lord's participation in the

rasa-lila dance is never to be considered like the mundane relationship of

man and woman. It is, rather, the highest perfectional stage of the exchange

of feelings between the Lord and the living entities. The Lord gives the

fallen souls the chance for this highest perfection of life. Lord Brahma

is entrusted with the management of the complete cosmic show, and therefore

he prays that the Lord bestow His blessings upon him so that he may execute

its purpose."

 

This verse resonates with two others--Brahma-samhita and

Bhagavata.

 

The Bhagavatam is unusually poetic. The Lord opens His eyes with

the rising of the sun, just as the lotuses begin to bloom at dawn.