The document provides an overview of the Radha Vallabh Sampradaya philosophy. Some key points:
1) It discusses how the Sampradaya differs from Chaitanya Sampradaya in viewing Love itself as God, rather than God having the attribute of love.
2) Radha Vallabh focuses worship on the divine couple of Radha and Krishna, rather than just Krishna, and presents their eternal and transcendental love leelas.
3) It highlights additional differences in the Sampradaya's views around Krishna's leelas and the role of the Sakhis in worship of the divine couple.
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Dear Divine Souls, this article is a humble attempt to share some basic info about the eternal dharma, Sanatan Dharma from Traditional POV.
The article covers wide range of topics including importance of Guru, 14 abodes of knowledge, about women, 8 types of marriages, different types of Yoga and sects, varnashram dharma, why a dharma should be eternal, religious tolerance, Vegetarianism and Non-violence, and more.
The article also explains why Hindu Dharma is the most organized, integrated spiritual and practical way of life.
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The Vedas are a large body of knowledge texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
Hindus consider the Vedas to be apauruṣeya, which means "not of a man, superhuman" and "impersonal, authorless".
Updated: 25th Oct 2016 | Current Version: v10.3.2 b [beta]
Added some info of 'What are veda-s?
|| Hari OM ||
Dear Divine Souls, this article is a humble attempt to share some basic info about the eternal dharma, Sanatan Dharma from Traditional POV.
The article covers wide range of topics including importance of Guru, 14 abodes of knowledge, about women, 8 types of marriages, different types of Yoga and sects, varnashram dharma, why a dharma should be eternal, religious tolerance, Vegetarianism and Non-violence, and more.
The article also explains why Hindu Dharma is the most organized, integrated spiritual and practical way of life.
Please note that this is not a complete article and much needs to be added. Incomplete articles are tagged as [under construction]
|| Hari OM ||
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Humanities and Social Science. IJHSSI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Humanities and Social Science, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
The Vedas are a large body of knowledge texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
Hindus consider the Vedas to be apauruṣeya, which means "not of a man, superhuman" and "impersonal, authorless".
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HINDUISM
REINCARNATION
-the Wheel-
-Transmigration
of the Soul–
-almost endless
Cycle of Life,
Death, &
Rebirth-
REINCARNATION
-the Wheel of
SAMSARA-
-Transmigration
of the Soul–
-almost endless
Cycle of Life,
Death, &
Rebirth-
the Spiritual
GOAL of
HINDUISM
-MOKSHA- -NIRVANA- -
SATORI-
-Escape from SAMSARA/the
WHEEL of REINCARNATION-
-STOPPING the Wheel of
REINCARNATION-
-No More REBIRTHS-
-No More LIVES-
-No More SUFFERING-
-ATMAN/SOUL Reunites with
BRAHMAN-
CASTE LADDER
SOUL
the piece of
Brahman in
each: deity,
human, animal,
plant, & natural
object
ATMAN
MAYA
ILLUSION
MATTER
The TANGIBLE
WORLD
TEMPTATION
PLEASURE
Produces
FOOLISHNESS
MAYA
MAYA
SADHU = ASCETICISM
SELF-DENIAL of PLEASURE RENUNCIATION
SADHU = ASCETICISM
SELF-DENIAL of PLEASURE RENUNCIATION
AHIMSA
NON-
VIOLENCE
NON-
HARMING
LAW of CONSEQUENCES
–Law of Consequences
(Rewards &
Punishments) that
determines
where each
atman/soul will
Be reborn on the
caste ladder –
-Cosmic Boomerang –
-What goes around
comes around-
KARMA
2 main INFLUENCES on KARMA
DHARMA
(Duty; Rules of Caste & Gender)
BHAKTI
(Devotion thru Worship)
The Path of Action
Path of Action - Student, Householder, Hermit, Pilgrim, (Suti)
Student – a young sadhu who studies
Householder – a married working man with children
Hermit – a middle-aged sadhu who lives alone
Pilgrim – an old sadhu who walks from shrine to shrine
Suti – a good wife who throws herself on husband's funeral pyre
Sadhu - Ascetic
MONISM aka PANENTHEISM
MONOTHEISM
+
PANTHEISM
Simultaneously
MONISM aka PANENTHEISM
MONOTHEISM
+
PANTHEISM
Simultaneously
BRAHMAN
the Main,
impersonal
Hindu God;
beyond
Maya;
the Force in
the Universe
TRIMURTI
TRIMURTI
BRAHMA
the main
Creator deity,
4 Heads,
member of the
Hindu
Trimurti/Trinity
VISHNU
main Preserver
deity;
Dreaming on
lotus in a pond;
Disc on his
Finger;
Protected by
Cobras;
member of the
Hindu
Trimurti/Trinit;y
SHIVAthe main
Destroyer deity;
deity of Fertility;
often shown
Dancing;
Fiery;
member of the
Hindu
Trimurti/Trinity
KALI
the main GODDESS of
DESTRUCTION
KALI
the main
GODDESS of
DESTRUCTION
KALI
the main
GODDESS of
DESTRUCTION
KALI
the main
GODDESS of
DESTRUCTION
KALI
the main
GODDESS of
DESTRUCTION
KALI
the main
GODDESS of
DESTRUCTION
KALI
the main
GODDESS of
DESTRUCTION
LAKSHMI
GODDESS
of
PROSPERITY,
MATERNITY,
&
BEAUTY
SARASVATI
GODDESS
of
WISDOM,
LEARNING,
CREATIVITY,
MUSIC,
ART,
&
SPEECH
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Krishna Voice is an English monthly newsletter published by ISKCON Bangalore. One of the objectives of our temple is to increase Krishna Consciousness in the community. Through this newsletter, we want to promulgate the message of the Vedic scriptures like Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Certain things or events, happens, that gets ingrained in the memory of not one person but of the whole race or population and then that information is passed on from one generation to the other thus becoming a legend. One such event was the great flood which got ingrained in the memory of humanity in a large scale as is evident from various legends not only from India but also from different parts of the world. The legend of the flood is one such memory of the humanity that is there in the legends of many tribes and civilizations, present and past, from Celtic in the north to India and also mentioned in the old testament. The mention of the great flood in also there in the Vedas
1. Foreword
I have read through the manuscript of ‘Love is God’ by Shri Lalita Charan Goswami. Shri
Goswami is an authority on the philosophy of Divine Love propounded by the founder of
the Devotional Cult-Radha Vallabh and has a number of important works in Hindi to his
credit. The present monograph in English is another feather to his cap. It is written in a
fine literary style and will certainly appeal to readers with a devotional bent of mind who
are not quite conversant with Hindi language.
Preface
From Vedic times onwards the natural urge in man blur spiritual progress has expressed
itself through the medium of three paths namely - the path of knowledge, path of action
and path of emotion (Gyan Marg, Karm Marg and Bhakti Marg). In the long religious
history of India we have seen that the founders of various religions have been very
skeptical about or even averse to emotions and have discouraged paths of spiritual
progress in which emotions play a prominent role. On the other hand, it is also known to
us that in spite of all their efforts, with the passage of time, emotions and the paths of
spiritual progress based on them, have crept in the systems founded by them. Kenyan -
the oldest form of Buddhism is, for all purposes, a path of knowledge. But a few Centuries
later, we find Mahayana - an offshoot of Buddhism coming up with emotions playing
significant role in its development. Mahayana accepted the theory of Divine Descent
(Antiradar) and with it came the emotional relation with the deity. Kenyan was not
popular among the common people but the new form of Buddhism (Mahayana) caught
hold of the imagination of the masses and seemed to fulfill most of their aspirations.
Parallel to the advent of Mahayana a renaissance was taking place in Hinduism also and
naturally, both of them were influencing each other. In the field of philosophy, Mahayana
had developed several new systems which seemed to demolish the philosophy based Of
Upanishads. In the 8th century one of the greatest’ philosophers of the world -
Shankaracharya - was born in South India. He defeated the upholders of Mahayana
philosophy by holding direct discussions with them and made way for general decline of
Buddhism in India.
On the other hand, the philosophical system of Shankaracharya was too abstruse and
lacked the warmth of intimate relation with one’s object of worship. According to most of
the historians, Alwars in the South, even before the advent of Shankaracharya had been
propagating devotion (Bhakti) as the best method of attaining the summum bonum of
human life. These great devotees were attached emotionally with different incarnations of
Vishnu. So they were called Vaishnavas. Ramanuja, who was horn in the lineage of
Alwars, gave Bhakti movement initiated by Alwars the required philosophical base to make
it attractive for Sanskritknowing savants through out India. The philosophical system
developed by him was the first Vaishnav effort in this direction. Madhava, Nimbarka and
Vallabha followed him. Though all of them were great devotees and subscribed to Vishnu
worship in general, yet in their commentaries on Brahm-sutras they developed
philosophical systems different from each other - Ramanuja’ s system is known as
Vishishtadvet’, Madhavas Dvet’, Nimbarka’s ‘Dvetadvet’ and Vallabha’s Sudhadvet’. They
2. all, however opposed ‘Kewaladvet’ (Mayavad) of Shankaracharya as it was placed against
the very fundamentals of Bhaktivad.
Vallabha was the last of these Vaishnavacharyas. He was first to substitute Krishna for the
word ‘Brahm’ in his commentary on Brahmsutras. With it he accepted Shrimad Bhagvat as
an authority alongwith Brahmsutras, Bhagvadgeeta and Vedas and ii proved to be very
helpful in spreading the cult of Krishna through out India. Though Vallabh too hailed from
South India - horn in the year 1535 (Vikram) or 1478 (A.D), he lived near Allahabad in
UP. on the hank of the Ganges and his activities were centred in Braj.
Chaitanya was born in the year 1542 (Vikram) or 1485 (A.D) in Navadeep, (West Bengal).
He was a consummate devotee. He gave birth to a great Bhakti movement in Bengal.
Though he personally came to Vrindavana only once, he advised his followers to make it
their centre for propagation of the new movement. Chaitanya, like the Alwars of South
India, emphasized the practice of devotion in its purest form without worrying or caring
much for its philosophical base. Shrimad Bhagvata is considered by him sole authority on
which the whole gamut of his worship (Upasana) is based. His followers have written
commentaries on Shrimad Bhagvata as well as some original works on ‘Bhakti Rasa’.
Sanatan Goswami, Roop Goswami and Jeev Goswami are prominent among those. Gopal
Bhatt compiled the first smriti or the memory- borne codes of law for Vaishnavas. The
credit of discovery of several places of Krishna-leela in Braj goes also to Chaitanya and his
followers.
In a well-known Sanskrit verse nearly all the salient features ol Chaitanya Sampradaya
are outlined beautifully. The verse says that, in the doctrine expounded by Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu, the main object of worship is Bhagwan Nandnandan (Shri Krishna),
Vrindavana is his abode (Dham), the beautiful mode of worship (Upasana) is the one that
was assumed by Gopees of Braj, the only authority is Shrimad Bhagvata, and the great
object of human pursuits in love.
Followers of Chaitanya came from the east in Vrindavana which was at that time a decoit-
infested area. So they had to live in other places of Braj. The founder of a distinct sect of
Prema Bhakti - Hit-harivansh came down to Vrindavana during the same period from the
west. it was he who made Vrindavana inhabitable by bringing about a total change of
mind in Narwahan - the leader of decoits then active in the area. Both these doctrines of
Prema-Bhakti which converged in Vrindavana at that time had some similarities. But the
difkrences between the doctrine of chaitanya as outlined in the atre metioned Sanskrit
verse and that of Hit-harivansh are:
(i) In haitanya Sampradaya love is declared to be the most innate of the three powers -
Aalhadini, Sandhini and Samvit of the Supreme Being or Bhagwan. Naturally, therefore,
the whole structure of their doctrine is based on these three attributes of Bhagwan i.e.
Krishna or Nandnandan and He is their main object of worship. On (he other hand, in the
opinion of Shri Hit-harivansh’s Radha Vallahh Sampradaya Love is God and these energies
of Bhagwan are quite foreign to the psychological composition of love which is essentially
composed of three components namely (a) lover (b) beloved and (c) relation between the
lover and the beloved commonly known as love. The doctrinal sturcture of Radha Vallabh
Sapradaya is built on this distinctive psychological approach to love and accordingly their
3. object of worship is not only Nandnandan hut it is the divine couple comprising
Nandnandan (Krishna) and Vrishbhanunandnj (Radha) as Bhogta and Bhogya.
(ii) Another distinctive feature of Radha Vallabh Sampradaya is its view-point about
‘Leela’. For Speedy spiritual progress, followers of this Sampradaya believe that
concentration of mind on a well-defined point is very necessary. According to them,
Krishna’s leelas, as they are many in number and varied involving innumerable characters
and places, do not help humam mind concentrate on an exclusive point. Moreover, in
some leela we find Krishna displaying his super human powers to his parents, friends and
Gopees. They all are amazed, confused and frustrated too at the sight of it and begin to
doubt whether it was proper for them to claim intimacy with such an omnipotent person.
To achieve its objective of providing a single point concentration, Radha Vallabh
Sampradaya presents only one leela i.e. Prem Leela of Radha and Krishna. This Prem
Leela has its own distinctive feature, namely (a) in these leelas the object of love is Radha
instead of Krishna who is the centre of attraction in all the leelas as depicted in Shrimad
Bhagvata and other puranas (b) Leelas of Radha and Krishna as narrated in various
Puranas were enacted within a limited frame of time and space. As a result of this, both of
them had to experience separation as well as reunion at different times. But leelas of
Radha and Krishna are introduced by Hit-harivansh and his followers as being performed
in present time and that present is pointed out to be eternal one. To underline this idea,
most of Hitacharya’s Braj Bhasha Verses begin with the word ‘AAJ’ (today). These
transcendental leelas of the divine couple with the supremacy of Radha are called ‘Nitya
Vihara’.
(iii) The most charming form of worship of the divine couple Radha-Krishna, is initiated by
Sakhees who are personification, pure and simple, of the selfless love i.e. relation existing
between the said couple.
(Vi)Hitacharya is unique in declaring that Love is God (not that God is love) and Radha
and Krishna are its embodiments or personified forms. This shows that the concept of love
and love sports as presented by Hitacharya in his writings is different from that of
Shrimad Bhagvata. Followers of Radha Vallabh Sampradaya, therefor, have to depenJ
completely on Hitacharya’s Braj Bhasha and sanskrit works and these writings are
invariably considered as final authority for them. For traditional shape of Bhakti i.e.
Navdha Bhakti, however, Shrimad Bhagvata is considered in this Sampradaya to be the
preparatory authority and it can be categorically stated that the concept of Hitacharya
does not come into conflict with that of Shrimad Bhagvata.
(V) Love is not only the object of human pursuits but it is ‘God’ Himself. In this small book
we have tried to give a short exposition of the religious system established by Radha
Vallabh Sampradaya on the concept ‘Love is God’. We hope the readers will find it not only
thought provoking but also of great spiritual value.
Contents
1 Foreword
2 Preface v-x
3 The Founder 1-7
4 Object of adoration 8-14,
4. 5 Love Sports (Prem-Vihar) 15 - 19
6 Shri Krishna 20 - 22
7 shri radha 23 - 26
8 Vrindavana 27 - 31
9 Sakhi Or Sehchari 32 - 33
10 The Path Of Worship 34 - 38
11 Message Of The Sampradaya 39 - 41