Bhagavat Purana Bhagavata Purana Bhagawat Purana Bhagavata : made up of 18,000 shlokas in 12 skandhas or books; its 10th book narrates in detail the events of Krishna’s life.
... Krishna. This book is a short anthology meant for readers who would like to have a glimpse of Sri Krishna and to learn of some of the accounts of Sri Krishna that are found in the Srimad Bhagavata Purana, Harivamsa Purana and Vishnu Mahapurana. At the same time, we feel that these accounts would be better understood if we presented a few extracts from the writings of Sri Aurobindo, the Supreme... magic of which will undoubtedly be felt by the hearts and souls of sensitive readers. The texts concerning Sri Krishna in Brindavan, have been adapted from Srimad Bhagavata translated by Swami Tapasyananda and Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana translated by C.L. Goswami. The texts adapted from Harivamsa Purana are from the translation by Bhumipati Dasa. A short text adapted from Vishnu Mahapuranam is ...
... was only on the cry of that little girl that the jailors were awakened, who without losing time could run to inform Kamsa. Many incidents of Krishna's infancy have been described in the Bhagavata Purana, Harivamsa and Vishnu Purana. Puranic stories are symbolic, and although they narrate truthfully the Page 24 inner reality of spiritual events and experiences, their external... mouth. Yashoda trembled with awe and wonder on seeing the whole universe in a trice and to shield herself, closed her eyes. Let us hear further stories from the texts selected from the Bhagavata Purana, Harivamsa Purana and the Vishnu Mahapu-rana. Some of these stories are related not only to Sri Krishna but also to his elder brother Balarama (often called Rama), since both grew up together ...
... is not clear. Both obviously owe much to Milton. Fragment of a Play. This piece was written in Pondicherry sometime around 1915. The plot appears to be based on an episode in the Bhagavata Purana. STORIES More than once Sri Aurobindo remarked in conversation that he had written some stories that subsequently were lost. "The white ants have Page 1005 ...
... factors in the progress and transformation of the earth. 8 June 1960 × The story of Krishna, as related in the Bhagavat Purana. ...
... threshold of Nirvana and took the vow never to cross it while a single being remained in the sorrow Page 269 and the Ignorance. It is that which underlies the sublime verse of the Bhagavata Purana, "I desire not the supreme state with all its eight siddhis nor the cessation of rebirth; may I assume the sorrow of all creatures who suffer and enter into them so that they may be made free... laid down for them by the social law. If so, it would be a poor and petty rule and every noble heart would reject it to follow rather the divine vow of Amitabha Buddha, the sublime prayer of the Bhagavata, the passionate aspiration of Vivekananda. But if we accept rather the view that the world is a divinely guided movement of Nature emerging in man towards God and that this is the work in which the ...
... on many expressions in the Veda especially in relation to Indra and the Rudras." Sri Aurobindo did not note in his Yoga diary all the various literary work he was simultaneously doing. Bhagavat Purana, for instance, which he was translating into English. But those were early days yet. With the passage of time, as his Yogic experiences evolved, so did his literary output. But to come ...
... but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer." 124 The Hindu tradition is to read great poetry—say the Ramayana, the Gita or the Bhagavata —in a mood of reverent attention over a period of years, coming to it again and again, for not in one reading alone can one hope to conquer its heights of significance. Savitri too calls for such ...
... Babu Bhagavan Das's "Krishna, a Study in the theory of Avataras", which contains much interesting matter and especially some very striking citations from that profound and beautiful work, the Bhagawat Purana: but the renderings given are rather modernising paraphrases than translations. There is a brief essay or rather the record of a reflection by Mr. Cousins on "Symbol and Metaphor in Art", quite ...
... of the creation. Some of the Puranas are, indeed, excellent both in substance and style. The Bhagavata, for instance, which is strongly affected by the learned and more ornate literary form of speech, is an ' extraordinary production, full of subtleties, rich and deep thought and beauty. It is in the Bhagavata that we get the culmination of the emotional and aesthetic religions of Bhakti. The aim of... Page 95 and to utilise these elements for the attainment of the joy of God's love, delight and beauty. In later Puranas, we see development of the aesthetic and erotic symbol, and as in the Bhagavata, it is given its full power to manifest its entire spiritual and philosophic as well as its psychic sense and to remould into its own line of a shifting of the centre of the synthesis from knowledge ...
... peacocks, India's National Bird, because they eat up snakes and scorpions. I added that the plants of Basil kept snakes away. She smiled and nodded. Here I remember the legend of the book, Bhagavati Bhagavata . There is a marvellous description of the Supreme Mother and Her abode. It is on a coral island surrounded by tall trees, waterfalls, varieties of fragrant flowers, plants and hillocks. Animals wander ...
... illustrious ones who have lived close to the Divine is something about the Divine's dealings with our humanity. It is a Bhagavata in its own right, the Lila of The Lord with His playmates whom He called along with Him from those concealed spheres of Light. And just like the Bhagavata it has also a liberating effect upon us since it brings the Divine so very close to us. It is thanks to the many reminiscences ...
... [ST] Avi (Square, manifestation of balanced) Born on 6.6.66 The Mother [ST] A visesha . (Beyond the definite) Ajay The Mother [ST] Ayati (l'avenir) The Mother [ST] Bhagavata Jiveshwara 22.11.59 The Mother [ST] Bhupriya A name for Murakoshi (Paul) 9.7.56 The Mother [ST] Chand (Moon) Chhotanarayan's son The Mother [ST] Cheta (awake) Madan's ...
... My Pilgrimage to the Spirit Grace that Fulfils Our life is a paradox with God for key. || 15.11 || Indian philosophy and scriptures like the Bhagavata speak very highly about the Divine Grace; and saints like Narasimha, Mira and others are inspiring and striking examples in the spiritual history of India, whose lives were looked after, inspired ...
... of Brindavan and Mathura. Through his spiritual experiences, Sri Caitanya discovered some of the lost sites associated with Sri Krishna, and authenticated some of the episodes recorded in the Bhagavata Purana. Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) corroborated Sri Caitanya's discovery of Brindavan and the restoration made by the Goswa-mis. In this way, Sri Ramakrishna's pilgrimage turned into an exploration... Radha and her ineffable relationships with Sri Krishana. The life of Sri Chaitanya illustrates in a singular manner, various states of Sri Krishna's consciousness, and as one reads Chaitanya Bhagavata, Chaitanya-caritamrta, Sri Krsna Chaitānya Carita Mahā-Kavya, Chaitanya Mangala and Page 206 Chaitanya-Candrodaya-nātaka, one finds that Sri Chaitanya lived and breathed innumerable... simhasana in a majestic mood, while his devotees stood around him in great reverence, and then Sri Chaitanya revealed His identity as the Supreme Lord. We give below an extract from the Chaitanya Bhagavata: Sri Chaitanya said: " I am Krsna, I am Rama, and I am Nārāyana. I am Matsya, I am Kurma, I am Varāha and Vāmana. I am Buddha, Kalki, Hamsa, and Haladhara. I am Prśnigarbha, I am Hayagrīva ...
... Vraja. 28. It is said that the Gopīs one day gathered together and began to speak of Śrī Krsna's delightful pranks in the hearing of his mother Yaśodàā as follows: * Adapted from Srimad Bhagavata. Page 28 Gopīs' Complaint to the Mother (29-31) 29. "O mother! He comes and releases the calves before milking time. If anyone scolds him for this, he laughs at him ...
... ata to ensure a happy married life for themselves. Rama is the hero of the Ramayana, but he is also the prince who became God to millions of devoted Hindus; Krishna is the protagonist of the Bhagavata and Arjuna's friend and charioteer in the Mahabharata, but he is the Lord of Brindavan too, the bhagavan who indites the Gita, to his numberless devotees. Likewise, Savitri is the goddess of ...
... aloka—Pitriloka; Kailas above, between 7 tiers of 14 worlds, according to types—Pashu, Pisacha, Pramatha, Rakshasa, Asura, Deva, Siddha— Swarga—7—Kama, Yuddha, Prema, Manas, Jnana, Nishkama & Bhagavata Naraka—offences of or against Kama, Prema, Satya, Ishwara, [?Devata], Jnana, Atma— 12 hells in each Notes - VIII Idomeneus. Coriolanus. Antony. Richelieu. C. [Caius] Gracchus St Louis ...
... the fire in its form and shape looked like Garuda, the divine Eagle himself, with his wings and tail distended; the majestic Bird was with the wings of gold. 28 According to the Bhagavata Purana it is Lord Vishnu himself who in his person represents all the sacrifices; he is the Lord of Sacrifice, Yajneshwara. The seven sacrifices—Agnistoma, Atyagnistoma, Uktha, Sodashi, Vajapeya, Atiratra ...
... yet most of the Agamas are in consonance with the Vedas. Of these latter, there are three categories, those in which the object of worship and realisation is Vishnu (known also as Pancharatra or Bhagavata), those in which the object of worship and realisation is Shiva, and those in which the object of worship and realisation is Shakti. In the Shaiva Agamas we find monism, qualified monism and dualism ...
... one domain in the hierarchy of man's consciousness. The stages and epochs are well known: they are – (l) Vedic, (2) Upanishadic, (3) Darshanas – roughly from Buddha to Shankara, (4) Puranic, (5) Bhagavata or the Age of Bhakti, and finally (6) the Tantric. The last does not mean that it is the latest revelation, the nearest to us in time, but that it represents a kind of complementary movement, it... concrete and more vibrant and intense in the next stage of the movement. The whole emotional being was taken up into the travailing crucible of consciousness. We may name it also as the age of the Bhagavatas, god-lovers, Bhaktas. It reached its climax in Chaitanya whose physical passion for God denoted that the lower ranges of the vital being (its physical foundations) were now stirred in man to awake ...
... with one domain in the hierarchy of man's consciousness. The stages and epochs are well known: they are—(1) Vedic, (2) Upanishadic, (3) Darshanas—roughly from Buddha to Shankara, (4) Puranic, (5) Bhagavata or the Age of Bhakti, and finally (6) the Tantric. The last does not mean that it is the latest revelation, the nearest to us in time, but that it represents a kind of complementary movement, it... concrete and more vibrant and intense in the next stage of the movement. The whole emotional being was taken up into the travailing crucible of consciousness. We may name it also as the age of the Bhagavatas, god-lovers, Bhaktas. It reached its climax in Chaitanya whose physical passion for God denoted that the lower ranges of the vital being (its physical foundations) were now stirred in man to awake ...
... his spirit was on the threshold of Nirvana and took the vow never to cross it while a single being remained in the sorrow and the Ignorance. It is that which underlies the sublime verse of the Bhagavata Purana, "I desire not the supreme state with all its eight siddhis nor the cessation of rebirth; may I assume the sorrow of all creatures who suffer and enter into them so that they may be made free ...
... after his death as a deity; this is apart from the story in the Mahabharata and the Puranas. There is no reason to suppose that the connection of his name with the development of the Bhagavata religion, an important current in the stream of Indian spirituality, was founded on a mere legend or poetic invention. The Mahabharata is a poem and not history, but it is clearly a poem founded ...
... one worshipped after his death as a deity; this is apart from the story in the Mahabharata and the Puranas. There is no reason to suppose that the connection of his name with the development of the Bhagavata religion, an important current in the stream of Indian spirituality, was founded on a mere legend or poetic invention. The Mahabharata is a poem and not history, but it is clearly a poem founded on ...
... himself. On the Āndhras whom the Purānas put on the throne of Magadha a little before the first Imperial Gupta, with no other Magadhan line between them, Pargiter 1 writes: "the Vāyu, Brahmānda, Bhagavata and Visnu all say there were 30 kings...and 30 is no doubt the correct number." The Kanvas before them count 4. 2 The Surigas, to whom they were the successors, run to 10. 3 Of the Mauryas "the... cry of heaven, forward move the fostering Cows that diffuse their waters..." (VIII.42.1). 3 Apropos of the Purānas we have to answer by studying a verse which is found in both the Vishnu and the Bhagavata Purānas and which is the sole one naming another asterism in relation to Maghā. It runs in Pargiter's translation: 4 "When the Great Bear will pass from Maghās to Pūrva Āsādhā, then, starting... from Parīkshit's birth to the coronation of this Nanda, which is given in some Purānas as either 1500 or 1115 or 1050 years, is 1015 in the version examined by Pargiter 3 of the Vishnu and the Bhagavata. So Nanda's reign would begin in (3138-1015=) 2123 B.C. This date must be included in the Pūrva Āshādhā century meant by Pargiter's version. But that is exactly what would happen if that century ...
... Indus seals, the assembly hall of Mohenjodaro and the high polish of Harappan jewellery. From the other end of the spectrum, Megasthenes is analysed to reveal that references point to the Bhagavata Vaishnavite cult practised by the Gupta Dynasty, certainly not to what is known of the Mauryas. As in his work on the Aryan Origins, Sethna corrects major historical errors here too. ...
... Page 91 illuminated, exits from the body through that way, supports himself upon the solar rays, and moves away along the "Archimarga". The second chapter of the Second Book of the Bhagavata states: "While leaving his body, the Yogi withdraws his life-breath (Prana-Vayu) from different limbs of the body, concentrates it first in the six 'Centres' (Chakras) and finally raises it to the ...
... engaged themselves in mock fight, bellowing like bulls; sometimes they mimicked the sounds of different types of animals. Thus they played about like ordinary boys. *Adapted from Srimad Bhagavata. Page 42 Krishna and his brother Balarama are shown in two different poses, resting by a river as their companions run and play (Basohli miniature) The destruction of... the alluvium all over extensively, so much so the poison-like burning rays of the summer sun were not able to make the land dry or prevent the vigorous growth of grass *Adapted from Srimad Bhagavata. Page 64 there. 7. The trees of the forest were full of flowers and looked bright and lustrous. A variety of animals and birds inhabited the place. The peacock and the honeybees were... stopped their engagements on hand and hurried to Krsna's presence. 8. Though obstructed by husbands, parents, brothers and other relatives, they could not be stopped * Adapted from Srimad Bhagavata. Page 93 as their minds had been snatched away by Govinda and were completely absorbed in him: 9. Those who were shut up in their homes and could not come out closed their eyes, with ...
... local kingdoms that survived them a while. The Matsya account ends here with the mere mention of the Kilakila kings and no MS of the Matsya contains anything later.... The Vāyu. Brahmānda, Visnu and Bhagavata all carry the narrative on to the rise of the Guptas, which is the later stage." But we must add that within the first stage there are two steps; for the Kilakilas stand apart from the other local... we take the 200 as the limit, we may wonder how the Matsya, compiling its account two whole centuries after the Āndhras, could yet omit the various dynasties which the Vayu, Brahmānda, Vishnu and Bhagavata bring in. The Guptas themselves would surely find an entry. Definitely, the 200 years as a post-Āndhra period must be ruled out: much of them must be thought of as falling within the period of the ...
... knowledge and learning, preserved through countless generations, is known as the 'Smriti'. 4 Although not as "infallible" as the Sruti, the Smriti also - notably the Vishnu Purana and the Bhagavata - have been included among the "authoritative scriptures of the Hindu dharma". 5 As for the Gita, it was Sri Aurobindo's ardent hope that it might become "the universally acknowledged Scripture ...
... Buddhism was suffering a severe slump, as it could if Aśoka (and consequently Buddha) lived centuries earlier, and if Sandrocottus was the founder of the Imperial Guptas who were mostly Vaishnavites or Bhagavatas, worshippers of Vāsudeva-Krishna, and if the Brāhmanical Śungas, Kānvas and Āndhra Sātavāhanas had already reigned before Sandrocottus. And in contrast to the insignificance of Buddhism in the... earliest Buddhist works and the inscriptions of Aśoka. Sircar 2 writes: "The Buddhist canonical work Anguttara Nikaya gives a long list of religious sects, but does not mention Vasudevaka or Bhagavata. The inscriptions of Aśoka; which speak of Brāhmana, Śrāmana, Ājīvika and Nigrantha, do not refer to the followers of Vasudeva." Aśoka's empire included the places where Megasthenes found Kris... The Age of Imperial Unity, 127. 5. Ibid., p. 115. 6. The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, Vol. XI, 1949, p. 101. 7.Aitareya Brāhmana, VIII.21; VII.34; IV.27. Also Bhagavata Purāna, IX.22.37. 8.R. Mitra, Indo-Āryāns, Vol. II, pp. 36-37. Page 275 of one of Aśoka's own near-ancestors: Turakuri, a partly dialectal variant of which is Tulakuchi ...
... There are such wonderfully articulated prayers in the Ramayana, the Mahabharata 26 Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 22, p. 73. 27 Ibid., p. 314. Page 193 and the Bhagavata. Stotras like Aditya Hridayam, Vishnu Sahasranamam and Gajendra's Prayer have been priceless gifts for the sadhaka down the centuries. Such prayers stop us on our tracks and we gain a rare Ananda ...
... naturally did not fall within the idea and the form — or rather the formal definition — of epic in the West. But that is no reason to deny the right of epic to the Indian Mahabharata, Ramayana and Bhagavata Page 92 of the Sanskrit language and Shahanama of the Persian besides literary epics like the Raghuvaṃśa of Kalidasa and Jānakiharanam of Kumardas. The Indian epics represent ...
... when it becomes one with the Eternal' s gaze. A vision that is omniscient sees and sustains all that is. 8: If we put Savitri in the class of religious texts, such as Saptashati and Devi Bhagavata, then it has to be recited aloud daily. It has the power of profound vibrations that can create in us states that have sound forms of reality. Although such an approach of looking at it as a scripture ...
... still divided and that means that he is not yet ready. It is also clear that Maya is not yet free inwardly from the hold of Shankar—so! It is quite possible for the Divine to have defeats —the Bhagawat Purana even enumerates running away from battle, palāyanamani, as one of the usual incidents in the life of the Avatar; only there is usually a method or at least a meaning in his flight, and what matters ...
... aids are frequently used. Philosophy of Education, Unity of Religions and Faiths, Ethos and Values and their Relevance in the Current Milieu, Life and its Quest, Study of Classics: Ramayana and Bhagavata form the course content of the Awareness Course at the undergraduate programme. Bhagavad-Gita forms the course content of the Awareness Programme at the postgraduate level. (SSSIHL, 2000). ...
... say. It's just because you are not strong that we are here with you. Man, however great he may be, cannot attain the Divine by himself. It is the Divine Grace that makes everything possible. As the Bhagavata says, the Grace can make the dumb speak and the lame 'climb the tallest mountains. There is no miracle the Grace cannot perform." "There is one thing that seems strange to us. On the one hand, ...
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