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Hare Krsna, It is good to review the basics sometimes – Avaroha-pantha and Aroha-pantha. Modern science has very limited understanding of the first two of the five subjects of Bhagavad-Gita (Isvara and Jiva) and even more limited and imperfect understanding of the last three subjects (Prakrti, Kala and Karma). This is because the very processContinue reading “SB 10.13.56-58: The Difference Between Avaroha-panthā and Āroha-panthā”

Hare Krsna, SB 10.13.54: The viṣṇu-mūrtis all had eternal, unlimited forms, full of knowledge and bliss and existing beyond the influence of time. Their great glory was not even to be touched by the jñānīs engaged in studying the Upaniṣads. I was wondering why the cowherd boys appeared as Visnu-murti forms to Lord Brahma. WeContinue reading “SB 10.13.50-55: Lord Visnu Is the Reservoir of all Truth, Knowledge and Bliss”

Hare Krsna, SB 10.13.40-43: When Lord Brahmā returned after a moment of time had passed (according to his own measurement), he saw that although by human measurement a complete year had passed, Lord Kṛṣṇa, after all that time, was engaged just as before in playing with the boys and calves, who were His expansions. LordContinue reading “SB 10.13.40-49: Brahmā Confused to Find Another Set of Boys and Calves”

Hare Krsna, It took me a significant amount of research to determine the type of expansion of Krsna when he expanded as the cowherd boys and calves. I still do not have a conclusive answer. It is generally understood that Krsna has three main forms – svayam-rupa, tad-ekatma -rupa and avesa-rupa. It is in theseContinue reading “SB 10.13.21-39: Kṛṣṇa’s Various Types of Expansions”

Hare Krsna, Meditation on this pastime brought me to think about the past and present condition of the jivas (conditioned living entities) who are struggling in this material world. At several places of this lesson where the calves wandered too far and the cowherd boys stolen, I was drawing parallel to the fate of theContinue reading “SB 10.13.1-20: Brahmā Tests Kṛṣṇa by Exhibiting Powers of His Own”

Hare Krsna, SB 10.12.40-42: Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī said: O learned saints, the childhood pastimes of Śrī Kṛṣṇa are very wonderful. Mahārāja Parīkṣit, after hearing about those pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, who had saved him in the womb of his mother, became steady in his mind and again inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī to hear about those pious activities. Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired: O greatContinue reading “SB 10.12.36-44: How the Narration Blends Between Sūta Gosvāmī, Śukadeva Gosvāmī and Mahārāja Parīkṣit”

Hare Krsna, “Apparently the serpent named Aghāsura, because of having received association with Kṛṣṇa, attained mukti by entering Kṛṣṇa’s body. Entering the body of Kṛṣṇa is called sāyujya-mukti, but later verses prove that Aghāsura, like Dantavakra and others, received sārūpya-mukti. This has been broadly described by Śrīla Viśvanātha CakravartīṬhākura with references from the Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī.Continue reading “SB 10.12.25-35: How and Why Aghāsura Attained Liberation”

Hare Krsna, Reading the daily play pastimes of Krsna, Balarama and the cowherd boys gave me goosebumps. “Then all the boys began to sport in the forest in a greatly playful spirit” particularly caught my attention. The description of their childhood play in verse 7-11 is extremely pleasing to read and hear repeatedly. Their pastimesContinue reading “SB 10.12.1-24: Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma and the Cowherd Boys Daily Play”

Hare Krsna, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his Sri Caitanya Siksamrita describes the demons Krsna killed in His Vrindavana pastimes and the anarthas (unwanted things) that they represent. Bakasura represents cunning duplicity, deceptiveness, and false types of behavior. I have been spending some time collecting scriptural references about this anartha (represented by Bakasura) and how itContinue reading “SB 10.11.46-59: Killing Bakasura (Cheating & Deceit)”

Hare Krsna, Srila Prabhupada’s purport to verse 27 struck me. He writes that “a devotee desires only that he may execute devotional service undisturbed. Actually we see, however, that even during the presence of Kṛṣṇa, when Nanda Mahārāja and the other cowherd men had the Supreme Personality of Godhead in their presence, there were disturbances.”Continue reading “SB 10.11.21-45: Moving from Gokula & Vatsasura Killed”