Questions on today’s Swami call:

1min

What makes one eligible to sing about Sri Krishna’s pastimes?

17min

Can you say something about Subala’s magical powers?

23min

Does nistha mean constant chanting?

32min

Is Mahaprabhu worshipping Krishna-Balarama at home in his Navadvipa-lila?

37min

What would the name Dauji Nitai mean?

41min

Why is Lord Narasimhadeva so important in our sampradaya?

53min

In Srila Rupa Goswami’s Laghu Bhagavatamrta, Lord Ramacandra, Lord Narasimhadeva, and Lord Krishna are singled out as sad-aisvarya-purna forms of Bhagavan, meaning that they are complete in the six opulences. Could it also be that they are singled out because they all have parsadas in a different way than other forms of Bhagavan?

Atulananda Swami is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and initiating guru based in Chile.

Archana-siddhi dasi is interviewing devotees about their sadhaka journeys with a backdrop of Joseph Campbell's stages of a hero's journey. Looking at our spiritual quest through the eyes of a hero's journey helps us embrace both the beauty and messiness we encounter on the way. Cultivating this vision helps the spiritual practitioners to accept everything that happens in their lives as favorable to obtaining their ultimate goals in bhakti. The interviews are also a way to help connect our international sanga.

The Fourfold Army of the Bhāgavata’s Paribhāṣā

Anucchedas 30–74.4

First Division: Supportive Statements - Anucchedas 30–43

Second Division: Kṛṣṇa Is the Subject

of the Bhāgavata’s Major Dialogue - Anucchedas 44–73

Third and Fourth Divisions: Hermeneutics —

Ṣaṭ-pramāṇa and Ṣaḍ-liṅga - Anucchedas74.1–74.4

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of scriptural texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretative principles or methods used when immediate comprehension fails and includes the art of understanding and communication.��Now, he begins a new investigation to validate the same conclusion, analysing the subject of the book from the six hermeneutical indicators described in the Jaimini-sūtra:

When direct statement (śruti),3 inferential mark or word meaning (liṅga), sentence or syntactical connection (vākya), context or interdependence (prakaraṇa), position or order of words (sthāna), and name (samākhyā) are present simultaneously, each member is progressively weaker in interpretive force, because of increasing remoteness from the meaning. (Jaimini-sūtra 3.3.14)

“What’s the point of studying the scriptures? Aren’t they merely some cultural artifacts from times gone by that contain outdated information? Hasn’t science replaced the need for traditional authority?”

Along with these questions, we will also consider the common answers to “What is the meaning of life?” in this first class on Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s spiritual novel Jaiva Dharma, as we explore the answers scriptures can provide us for the ultimate questions of life.

Mohini dasi, bhakti yoga scholar, will speak on the Mercy of Sri Nityananda Through Song and Sastra.

Questions:

0min

You’ve said that the mood in Gaura-lila is mainly dasya bordering on sakhya. How should we see the position of Visnupriya Devi since I understand that she is Laxmi devi, the eternal consort of Lord Narayan and Mahaprabhu is Krsna with the mood of Sri Radha?

4min

What is the proper revelation of the siddha-deha? Is the siddha-deha fixed before it is revealed?

19min

What is the contribution of those in the sampradaya who did or does not write books, such as the forest babajis?

24min

How to reconcile verses 14.22-25 of the Gita, the qualities of a person who has transcended the gunas with those who are inimical to devotees?

27min

Can you recommend some prayers for expressing gratitude to our deity?

33min

What does Sri Krishna receive from the neophyte devotee? How does the worship of the neophyte affect him?

40min

Does Krishna first have compassion for his neophyte devotee which later turns into longing as the devotee advances?

46min

Are Paramatma and caitya-guru conceptionally the same?

Swami B. A. Ashram, author of 'O My Friend, O My Friend' about Srila Prabhupada's inner life, will speak on the beauty and mystery of Krishna's Rasa-lila.

Archana-siddhi dasi is interviewing devotees about their sadhaka journeys with a backdrop of Joseph Campbell's stages of a hero's journey. Looking at our spiritual quest through the eyes of a hero's journey helps us embrace both the beauty and messiness we encounter on the way. Cultivating this vision helps the spiritual practitioners to accept everything that happens in their lives as favorable to obtaining their ultimate goals in bhakti. The interviews are also a way to help connect our international sanga.

The Fourfold Army of the Bhāgavata’s Paribhāṣā

Anucchedas 30–74.4

First Division: Supportive Statements - Anucchedas 30–43

Second Division: Kṛṣṇa Is the Subject

of the Bhāgavata’s Major Dialogue - Anucchedas 44–73

Third and Fourth Divisions: Hermeneutics —

Ṣaṭ-pramāṇa and Ṣaḍ-liṅga - Anucchedas74.1–74.4

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of scriptural texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretative principles or methods used when immediate comprehension fails and includes the art of understanding and communication.