Pradyumna : son of Sri Krishna by Rukminie, said to be a reincarnation of Kāmadeva. “Symbolically, Pradyumna is the third Power of the Chaturvyuha, with Love as His manifestation, & sweetness & delight as His attributes; the Dwāpara Yuga is full of Pradyumna, the Vaishya.” [SABCL 3:452-53; s/a Yuga(s)].
... together,—the chaturvyuha, Srikrishna, Balarama, Pradyumna, Aniruddha. Srikrishna contains all the others and puts them out from His being. He is Ishwara, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu. Lordship is His manifestation, Might and Wisdom are His gunas. Balarama is the second Power. Force is His manifestation; strength and wrath are His attributes. Pradyumna is the third Power. Love is His manifestation; sweetness... might under the guidance of the Knowledge. Balarama is the Kshatriya. He allows Srikrishna in Him to guide His strength and wrath, but He does not guide them Himself, He enjoys them. He is Rudra. Pradyumna is the Vaishya. He is for dana, prema, karuna. He gives Himself to men and buys their love in exchange. He is the universal philanthropist. He is the sweet and throbbing heart in things. Aniruddha... when men are full of might and wisdom. The Treta is full of Balarama; the Chakravarti Raja is the incarnation of the Treta; it is full of great wars and mighty sacrifices. The Dwapara is full of Pradyumna; He prepares in the Dwapara the love which supports men through the Kali. Aniruddha, the Sudra, reigns in the Kali; He breaks the ancient moulds, He shatters to pieces the achar; He questions everything ...
... by Thee in Pāncharātra and other devotional texts and attain to spiritual Page 144 perfection, by meditating on Thee as the manifold form of the four Vyuhas (Vāsudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Anirud-dha), and as Mahānārāyana, the one Universal Being. 8. O Lord! Owing to the prevalence of different spiritual traditions based on the teachings of a variety of teachers, there are still... s to Thee, Rāma the leader of the Raghus, who destroyed Rāvana and his followers! 21. Salutations to Thee manifested for the protection of the devotees as the four Vyūhas — Vāsudeva, Sahkarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha! 22. Salutation to Thee as the Buddha, the pure one, who would bring confusion among the Daityas and Dānavas! Salutations to Thee as Kalki who would bring the destruction of kings and... controlling the three factors of Time, Karma and Nature that determine the destiny of Jīvas! 30. Salutations to Thee Vāsudeva, the soul of all souls; to Thee Sankārsana, the support of Aharikara; to Thee Pradyumna and Aniruddha, the controllers of the mind and the senses! Protect me who am fallen at Thy feet, O Lord! Page 147 Entry into the city of Mathura Śrī Krsna's Query about the Vision ...
... dynamic truth consciousness, creating and leading the cosmic evolution. The Four Page 74 Aspects of Ishwara, forming the male or purusha line, are the great names: Mahavira, Balarama, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. And the corresponding four aspects of Ishwari form the other great quaternary: Maheshwari Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. They embody the four major attributes of the Divine... consciousness who releases us from the triple bonds and shows us the winding way into the embrace of the infinite Mother. His associate, Mitra, is the lord of love and harmony, evidently an emanation of Pradyumna (or Mahalakshmi). Other gods of the same category are Bhaga and Soma. The Balarama or Mahakali aspect is manifested in Aryaman: Rudra being another form of the same. And Mahasaraswati (or Aniruddha) ...
... developed) perfect but not yet capable of stability. This is already developing. The vani strongly anandamaya, first of the vijnanamaya ananda, then of the others, reappears full of the Vishnu or Pradyumna personality, taking into it Rudra (Balarama), Page 72 Shiva (Mahavira) and Aniruddha (Kama). The definite personality of the Master in his personal relations to this Yoga and the Jiva... means & steady progress used in the siddhi, but the Balarama element awaits satisfaction. The Mahavira element has also been satisfied by the floods of knowledge that are being poured down, but the Pradyumna element awaits satisfaction. In the Adeshasiddhi there has as yet been no perfect satisfaction even to the Aniruddha element. Lipi (on Sultan's back, chitra formed by the hairs). Satisfaction to ...
... fourfold valency of the dynamic truth consciousness, creating and leading the cosmic evolution. The Four Aspects of Ishwara, forming the male or purusa line, are the great names: Mahavira, Balarama, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. And the corresponding four aspects of Ishwari form the other great quaternary: Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. They embody the four major attributes of the Divine... consciousness who releases us from the triple bonds and shows us the winding way into the embrace of the infinite Mother. His associate, Mitra, is the lord of love and harmony, evidently an emanation of Pradyumna (or Mahalakshmi). Page 207 Other gods of the same category are Bhaga and Soma. The Balarama or Mahakali aspect is manifested in Aryaman: Rudra being another form of the same ...
... from Walker 1 the note: "Śambara in the Vedas is a demon, and appears like Vritra to be a personification of drought. He opposed Divodāsa, and was defeated by Indra. In the Purānas he carried off Pradyumna and was killed by him." Along with the growing legend of the divine son of Vāsudeva, there seems to have been a lingering legend of a devilish spirit of the same name who could team with the likes ...
... Vaishnava terminology: (z) Mahavira, embodying the Brahmin quality of Knowledge and Light and wide Consciousness, (n) Balarama, embodying the Kshatriya quality of Force and intense dynamism, (w) Pradyumna, embodying the quality of love and beauty—the Vaishya virtue of mutuality and harmony and solidarity, and (iv) Aniruddha, embodying the Sudra quality of competent service, of organisation and execution ...
... Vaishnava terminology: (i) Mahavira, embodying the Brahmin quality of Knowledge and Light and wide Consciousness, (ii) Balarama, embodying the Kshatriya quality of Force and intense dynamism, (iii) Pradyumna, embodying the quality of love and beauty—the Vaisya virtue of mutuality and harmony and solidarity, and (iv) Aniruddha, Page 41 embodying the Sudra quality of competent service ...
... Motilal Roy. Page 344 house of a friend of Motilal's; but this house, too, proving unsuitable, he was brought back to Motilal's. "He discoursed... about Vasudeva, Sankarshan, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha, and I listened with rapt attention. On the subject of incarnation, he cited instances of the philosophic and practical types of manifestation, explaining in detail that Vyasa was the ...
... side. Otherwise "The Kuru heroes of his own side" i.e. Abhimanyu's which is awkward 3) वृद्धौ this supplies the reason of their preeminence 5) प्रदुम्नसाम्बौ च युधि प्रवीरौ. This establishes Pradyumna & Samba as historical sons of Krishna विराटपुत्रैस्च Virata has therefore several sons, three at least. 7) The simile is strictly in the style of Vyasa who cares little for newness or ingenuity ...
... the Yoga. Kamananda now possesses the whole day in the subdued form with the intense rising out of it; it is discontinued at night. 12 February 1913 The Balaram-Aniruddha Bhava suffused with Pradyumna and based on concealed Maheshwara now governs the Yoga; but in the Prakriti, the Maheshwara bhava is not yet concealed. In neither is there as yet a very powerful energy of the Balarama or Mahakali ...
... Vaishnava terminology: (i) Mahavira, embodying the Brahmin quality of Knowledge and Light and wide Consciousness, (ii) Balarama, embodying the Kshatriya quality of Force and intense dynamism, (iii) Pradyumna, embodying the quality of love and beauty – the Vaishya virtue of mutuality and harmony and solidarity, and (iv) Aniruddha, embodying the Sudra quality of competent service, of organisation and execution ...
... English his article "Life's Companion" in which there is reference to Sri Aurobindo. Purani read out portions of the article. PURANI: "He (Sri Aurobindo) used to raise the topic of Vasudeva, Pradyumna, etc., and explain the subject with emotion." SRI AUROBINDO: I didn't know that I had any emotion during my explanation. PURANI: "I used to read all my articles to him. Udbodhan , a dramatic ...
... third of Mahâlaksmi and the fourth of Mahâsaraswati. 2 They correspond more or less approximately to the four aspects of Nârâyana as described in the Vaishnava Pancharâtra—Vâsudeva, Shankarshan, Pradyumna and Aniruddha—and can be said to be the primal differentiating terms of the four Varnas or four basic types of human temperament. Brâhmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. It is a harmonious establishment ...
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