Bheda and abheda between the Ātmā and Brahman
Śrī Jīva Goswami has established the philosophy of acintya-bheda-abheda in the Sandarbhas, which I have discussed here, here, here and here. Śrī Viśvanātha’s treatment of […]
Month: May 2024
Jaya and Vijaya did not identify with material bodies
Śrī Jīva Goswami emphatically establishes in the Prīti Sandarbha that the associates of Bhagavān can never ‘fall’ (discussed here and here). That is, they can […]
Q/A: probability, having kids, kid’s education, farming
Q: A sannyasi leader in a temple states that probability is a bogus concept. He says we cannot predict exactly so we have devised the […]
How does bhakti destroy prārabdha karma?
In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.1.21 and 1.1.22, Śrī Rūpa Goswami teaches systematically, how bhakti destroys prārabdha karma. Śrī Ananta Kṛṣṇa dāsa ji, Babaji’s disciple, requested a […]
The stages of bhakti
Śrī Rūpa Goswami presents the nine stages of bhakti in his famous book Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. He formulated these stages based on verses 1.2.16-21 from the Śrīmad […]