Advaita for women and... Puroshottama ........

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Wow ! Sreeni! Spoken like a True Vaishnava bhakta cum parama jnani!

BRAVO !

 

Folks! Today it is my pleasure to recall the following story which i

have stored in my archives .

 

There is a small incident in the life of Bhakthin Meera which i would

like to share with members here.

 

There was a famous Vaishnava Saint named Jiva Gosain who was the head

of all vaishnavites in Sri Brindavan Dhama.

 

Bhaktin Meera wanted to visit this well known saint Jiva Gosain and

approached him. But, Jiva Gosain , did not want to meet a woman and

not only that he thought how can a woman have anything 'valuable' to

say about Vaishnava philosophy? Therefore, he declined to meet Saint

Meera and said he would not 'discourse' with a woman. This enraged

Saint Meera who retorted 'Everybody in Brindavan is a woman. Only MY

Giridhar Gopal is Purusha. Today only I have come to know that there

is another Purusha besides Sri Krishna in Brindavan " .

 

On hearing this , Jiva Gosain was embarassed . How could a saint of

his calibre think of someone as a 'man' or a 'woman' ...He realized

his mistake and decided to meet Meera, the very emodiment of Krishna-

prema.

 

 

Swami Vivekananda says

 

In the golden words of Swami Vivekananda:

 

" What love shakes the whole nature of man, what love runs through

every atom of his being, makes him mad, makes him forget his own

nature, transforms him, makes him a god as the love between man and

woman? In this sweet representation of divine love God is our

husband. We are all women; there are no men in this world; there is

but One man - Hari and he is our beloved. All that love which man

gives to a woman, or woman to man, is here given up to the Lord. "

 

(http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/bhakti )

 

futhermore , Here is a verse se From Srimad Bhagvad Gita

 

 

svayam evatmanatmanam

vettha tvam purushottama

bhuta-bhavana bhutesa

deva-deva jagat-pate (10:15)

 

Verily, You Yourself know Yourself by Yourself, O PURUSHOTTAMA

(Supreme PURUSHA) , O Source of beings, O Lord of beings, O God of

gods, O Ruler of the world.

 

Swami Chinamayananda further explains

 

" In the Sankhyan philosophy, the Spark-of-Life in each individual is

called the Purusha, in Whose presence, the matter-envelopments

constituting Prakriti, become vitalised. Here Krishna is addressed

as 'Purushottama' meaning " the Self of all selves, the One-without-a-

second. " In the Geeta, the term Purushottama is sometimes used as

the 'most glorious of men' and sometimes in the purely technical usage

as the " Supreme Self. "

 

Lord Krishna is now being recognised and glorified by Arjuna as the

Pure Brahman, when he addresses Him as " THE SOURCE OF BEINGS, THE LORD

OF BEINGS, THE DEVA OF DEVAS, AND THE RULER OF THE WORLD. " The

essential stuff in any object is the ruler and maintainer of its

qualities. The quality of gold rules over all the qualities of various

gold ornaments whatever their shape, design, polish, etc. More than

this is the controlling and the ruling power of the Consciousness in

our lives, inasmuch as, without Consciousness, we know nothing, can do

nothing. An awareness or knowledge of a thing or an event is possible

only when the mental and intellectual disturbances caused by it are

illumined by the Pure Consciousness. "

 

 

Aadi Purusham Govindam Aham Bhajami!

 

 

 

 

 

advaitin , " narayana145 " <narayana145 wrote:

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>

> H.N.Sreenivasa Murthy

> Pranams to all.

>

> Dear readers,

>

> There is ONLY ONE PURUSHA and all the human beings are

> strI only. The one and only PURUSHA does not need Advaita because

> He is Advaitatattva itself . It is we who belong to strI category who

> need Advaita j~JAnaa.

>

> With warm and respectful regards,

> Sreenivasa Murthy.

>