Vaikuntha

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Madana Mohan-ji!

 

> Just as the knowledge of Krsna's madhurya is considered an aberration by

> Vaikunthavasis -- as shown in Brhad-bhagavatamrta when Gopa Kumara started

> glorifying Krsna in Vaikuntha. The Vaikunthavasis though it highly

> inappropriate, however even that impropriety intensified their bhava

> towards Narayana.

 

When I said the mood of aisvarya is antagonistic to the raganuga

partitioners I reffered to bhava-pratikula-raganuga-sadhana i.e. some

specific practices from vaidhi-sadhana that are inappropriate/inauspicious

to one's mood . Our acaryas (see Vishvanatha's Ragavartma-candrika) state

that certain angas such as showing mudras during the Deity worship,

meditating on the mood of queens in Dvaraka and ahangrahopasana aren't

conforming with raganuga practices and therefore should be given up for

raganuga-sadhakas.

 

Of course the "impurity" I spoke of is in implied sense only! Also I didn't

mean that the residents of Goloka are in any way inimical towards the

residents of Vaikuntha or Narayana forms. They might be fully aware of other

forms of the Lord but aren't much inclined to them for the reason you stated

above.

 

> As one senior Vaisnava very well put it:

> "In Goloka the Gaudiyas will think of Krsna as their friend or lover and

> that Narayana is God. Thus, in the end the Gaudiyas and Madhvas agree in

> the sense that from the vantage point of their bhava in Goloka the

> Gaudiyas accept Narayana as the Supreme God and Krsna, who is their lover

> or friend, as subordinate to Narayana. Still, they love Krsna more, and

> who can deny that Krsna is more charming?"

 

Fully agree.

 

 

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Visista dasa