Reader Sridhar requested a translation of Śrī Jīva Goswami’s Sarva-samvādinī commentary on svābhāvika bheda-abheda-vāda, along with a translation of the late Śrī Ānanda Gopāla Vedānta-tirtha’s commentary on the Sarva-samvādinī. I present the translations below. Before this section, Śrī Jīva Goswami has refuted aupcārika bheda-abheda-vāda. Now he refutes svābhāvika […]
We have seen that disrespecting Śrī Śiva is an offense in a previous article on Śrī Sanātana Goswami’s commentary on Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Goswami’s Hari Bhakti Vilāsa. Here, I examine Śrī Jīva Goswami’s writings on disrespect of the devas. In Anuccheda 106 of the Bhakti Sandarbha, he first explains that […]
I continue the discussion from the previous article on Śrī Sanātana Goswami’s commentary on Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Goswami’s Hari Bhakti Vilāsa. Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa further explains why not observing Śivarātri is displeasing to Śrī Bhagavān by citing another verse from the Kūrma purāṇa: yo māṁ samarcayennityam ekāntaṁ bhāvamāśritaḥ […]