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On the afternoon of 4th February, 2016, HH Radhanath Maharaja visited ISKCON desire tree (IDT).

A treasury of memory

He first came to the flat where I do video recordings – I think of it as my digital bhajan kutir. When he saw a picture of Srila Prabhupada in the studio, he immediately said, “This is from New Vrindavan. It was in 1972, Kirtananada Maharaja was near Prabhupada and I was there too, standing where you are.” He pointed to where I was standing. Looking closely at the picture and then at me, he said, “No, I was not that close. I was where Vaishnava Seva Prabhu is.” He pointed to a spot a couple of feet away. Maharaja gazed at the picture for several long moments – it was clear that he was in a different world.

As I was observing Maharaja, another similar incident flashed through my mind. A few months ago when I had met Giriraja Maharaja in America, I had given him my book Prabhupada: The moments that made the movement. On seeing some of the pictures of Srila Prabhupada in that book, He too had become momentarily lost in devotional absorption.

It struck me that Srila Prabhupada’s disciples have a treasury that we his grand-disciples don’t. They have such rich memories of Prabhupada, something that we can relish only as long as they are still with us on this planet. After that, we will be bereaved of that great treasure of personal memories of the person who has changed the course of Vaishnava history.

As Maharaja turned to leave, he again turned back to the picture and said to me, “I helped make that vyasasana which Prabhupada was sitting on. It was 1972, and I was not even initiated – I hadn’t even shaved my hair. But I got to help in making that vyasasana, and Prabhupada sat on it every day when he gave class. After that, it was taken to the bramachari ashram and used there for many years.”

As we left the flat, Maharaja asked me about my realizations from my US visit. As we had just started speaking, we reached the IDT office, and our discussion was cut short.

“Even I am inspired by Vaishnava Seva Prabhu’s dedication”

IDT office is actually the same as Vaishnava Seva Prabhu’s home. He has taken two adjacent flats and merged them into an improvised office. He is a respected surgeon, Dr Bimal Shah, specializing in laproscopic surgery and heading the Department of Laproscopic Surgery at the Bhaktivedanta Hospital in Mira Road, Mumbai. His wife Dr Kshama Shah (Kalindi Mataji) is chief anesthesiologist at the same hospital. Both of them stay in just one room and his father stays in another room. He keeps a guest room for visiting devotees, usually those who want to recuperate after treatment at the Bhaktivedanta Hospital. The rest of the home is used as workspace for over a dozen employees.

From this inconspicuous base has issued a gigantic digital outreach of Krishna’s message. Iskcondesiretree.com has 23.000 members […]

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kanyā varayate rūpaṁ

mātā vittaṁ pitā śrutam

bāndhavāḥ kulam icchanti

miṣṭānnam itare janāḥ

kanyā — bride; varayate — desires; rūpaṁ — beauty; mātā — the mother; vittaṁ — finance; pitā — the father; śrutam —education; bāndhavāḥ — the immediate relatives; kulam — a prestigious family; icchanti — desire; miṣṭānnam — sweets; itare — other; janāḥ — people;

 

“[In a wedding], the bride desires a smart and handsome man; her mother desires a financially stable man; her father desires a highly educated man; the immediate relatives desire a man from a prestigious family; and all others — they simply desire to have good sweets in the wedding feast!”

— (Subhāṣita-ratna-bhāṇḍāgāra, Saṁkīrṇaka-prakaraṇa, page 387, Verse 401)

[Subhashita and translation provided by Hari Parshad Prabhu]

 

This verse illustrates graphically that our desires shape our vision. Even while seeing the same thing, people see different aspects of that thing.

A more well-known example is that of the outline of a female form – two men may argue whether the woman is young or old. And they won’t resolve their argument till they realize that the difference in their perceptions is not logical – it is psychological.

That our desires shape our vision is acknowledged in the Bhagavad-gita. The Gita contextualizes our perceptions in its analytical framework of the three modes of material nature: goodness, passion and ignorance. Different people see things differently based on the specific combination of modes that colors their mental world.

In the Mahabharata, when Arjuna disguised as a brahmana won Draupadi’s hand in the svayamvara, Drupada sensed that his to-be son-in-law was actually a kshatriya. So, when he invited the bridegroom and his family for a banquet at his palace, he arranged to have on display in the dining hall sacrificial paraphernalia, weapons and plows – items associated respectively with brahmanas, kshatriyas and vaishyas. Arjuna and his brothers went straight to the weapons, examined them carefully and started talking about them animatedly. From their spontaneous attraction to weapons, Drupada concluded that they all were kshatriyas, as was soon confirmed when they revealed that they were the Pandavas.

Empathic people often say about others: “I understand where they are coming from.” By taking into account the social, cultural and intellectual backgrounds of others, we can appreciate why they think the way they do. Suppose we find ourselves arguing with someone. If we can resist the temptation to make snap judgments and instead try to see things from their perspective, their stand will often become at least intelligible, if not acceptable.

That different people see things differently doesn’t justify metaphysical relativism, the notion that there is no objective truth. The variety in vision just means that we may not be seeing the objective truth, at least not at first glance. Gita wisdom firmly asserts that objective truths do indeed exist – and that all such truths are founded in the ultimate reality, the Absolute Truth, Krishna.

Significantly, although Krishna is the Absolute Truth, to approach him, we don’t have to reject all subjectivity. Gita wisdom explains that our subjectivity springs from our individuality. And our individuality is […]

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No; he was driven by lust for Sita, not love for Shurapankha.

After Shurapanakha’s nose was cut and her brothers Khara and Dushaan were killed singlehandedly by Rama, Shurapanakha went temporarily mad with fury and frustration, and wandered about crazily in the forest before thinking of going to Ravana. Meanwhile, the only survivor from the army at Janasthana, a warrior named Akampana, fled to Lanka and informed Ravana about the destruction of his army. The incensed Ravana wanted to immediately take revenge, but Akampana, being a shrewd warrior and having seen Rama’s prowess, cautioned his king that Rama was way too powerful and had best be left alone. Though Ravana didn’t like this advise, he abided by it remembering that the boon he had from Brahma didn’t guarantee him protection from humans.

Later, when Shurapankha came to him and insulted him publicly for doing nothing to protect his own sister’s honor, Ravana became outraged at the insult, resolving to take revenge. But when he heard that Rama and Lakshmana were the cause, his inclination to take revenge subsided visibly. Seeing this, Shurpanakha, knowing her brother’s insatiable lecherousness, decided to trigger his lust by describing Sita’s matchless beauty. Then she further spun a story saying that she had approached the humans just to get Sita for Ravana, while actually she had had no thought of Ravana at all at that time – she was simply lusting for Rama and had even tried to murder Sita when she had perceived that Sita was the obstacle to her getting Rama. But Ravana his intelligence destroyed by his inflamed lust bought into Shurapankha’s story and set off to abduct Sita.

According to some retellings of the Ramayana, Shurapanakha had her own axe to grind. When Shurapankha’s husband, a formidable demon, had started becoming too powerful for Ravana’s comfort, that demon-king had conspired to have his brother-in-law killed. Shurpankha had come to know of Ravana’s role in making her a widow and wanted to take revenge. But given Ravana’s power and boons, she couldn’t do so herself. So when she saw Rama’s unparalleled prowess, she discerned that he was strong enough to kill Ravana and decided to do whatever it took to make him angry with Ravana. Accordingly, she instigated Ravana’s lust so that he would go after Sita, thereby making him provoke Rama’s anger and court destruction at his hands. Therefore, whether the core issue was of Shurapankha’s honor is itself questionable.

Further, if the issue had been of honor, what honor was there for him to abduct Sita behind Rama-Lakshmana’s back? If he had been really in the mood of a brother wanting to revenge his sister’s dishonor, he should have challenged Rama or Lakshmana to a duel and defeated his opponent in a fair fight. To avenge the perceived dishonoring of one woman by victimizing another woman is cowardly and barbaric.

 

 

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On the spiritual path, adversity is a well-known challenge, but paradoxically prosperity can be an even greater challenge. While misery can threaten our faith, pleasure can deaden our sense of purpose.

Comfort breeds complacency

The Ramayana illustrates this through the story of Sugriva, the simian-hero who had been unfairly exiled by his brother, Vali, due to a misunderstanding. During the exile, after all his attempts at reconciliation with his brother had failed, he formed an alliance with Rama, who himself had been exiled from his kingdom Ayodhya and was searching for his abducted wife, Sita. Rama helped Sugriva right the wrong and gain the kingdom. In return, Sugriva promised to help Rama find Sita.

By the time Sugriva was enthroned as the king, the rainy season had started. The four months of rains made traveling impossible. So Rama and Sugriva agreed to wait for the rainy season to end before they began the search for Sita. During the waiting period, Sugriva invited Rama to stay in his kingdom in a royal palace. But Rama, wanting to be true to the terms of his fourteen-year exile, stayed in a cave outside the kingdom.

During this four-month period, Sugriva found himself amidst prodigious creature comforts – comforts that he had long been deprived of during his exile. And he unwittingly lost himself in sensual revelry, forgetting all about his promise to Rama.

Time passed and the rainy season ended. Rama found no sign of Sugriva making any arrangements for the search. Feeling concerned, Rama asked his younger brother Lakshmana to go to the monkey kingdom to take stock of the situation. On his way to Kishkinda, Lakshmana contemplating what he thought was Sugriva’s ingratitude became increasingly incensed till he was seething with fury. Seeing him, the monkey-guards became alarmed and scurried off to the palace to alert their king.

Meanwhile, Sugriva hadn’t remained entirely inactive – he had been jolted into activity by his vigilant counselors, his wise wife Tara and his able minister Hanuman. When the rains had started lessening, they had reminded Sugriva of his promise and he had immediately ordered that monkeys be summoned from far and wide so that they could join the search. But after this brief phase of dutifulness, Sugriva was once again sucked into indulgence by his surrounding luxuries.

When Lakshmana entered Sugriva’s chambers and saw the signs of sensual revelry, he exploded. He declared that ingratitude was the greatest of sins and condemned the ingrates who enjoyed themselves while neglecting their promises to their friends. While Sugriva was mortified, Tara intervened and pacified Lakshmana with gentle words: Even great sages had fallen prey to temptations – what then to speak of a monkey who had been long deprived of pleasures and was suddenly surrounded by them. When she assured Lakshmana that powerful monkeys from far and wide were already on their way to Kishkinda to assist in the search for Sita, Lakshmana became pacified.

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Work is essential for survival, as the Gita acknowledges. When work becomes the sole definer of our self-identity and self-worth, it degenerates to an indulgence, even an addictive indulgence.

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There is no statement to that effect in the Mahabharata. To gain a sense of Draupadi’s feelings towards Karna, let’s look at the relevant incidents.

Svayamvara: The first interaction between Draupadi and Karna is during her svayamvara. When Karna tried to compete, she certainly didn’t favor him in any way. Irrespective of whether Karna was refused permission to participate in the svayamvara by her or by Dhrishtadyumna, or whether he competed and missed the target by the thinnest margin among all the kshatriyas (as stated in the Mahabharata-tatparya-nirnaya by Srila Madhvacharya), the key point is that Draupadi didn’t exhibit any sign of love for Karna, whether at first sight or later.
Marriage amidst poverty: When Arjuna in the garb of a brahmana won Draupadi’s hand in that svayamvara, she willingly, even happily, accepted a life of poverty while serving him. She may have accepted such a life either out of deference to her father’s will and the svayamvara tradition or out of attraction to Arjuna, who had so spectacularly won her hand during the svayamvara and the fight thereafter with Karna and the other peeved kings. If she accepted that life because of deference, then it’s extremely unlikely that such a submissive woman would entertain love for anyone like Karna who was an avowed rival of her husband. If she accepted that life because of her attraction to Arjuna, then it’s even more unlikely that she would feel love for her beloved’s enemy.
Marriage amidst prosperity: Draupadi’s poor-seeming husbands turned out to be princes, who went on to become emperors. During this period of rising fortunes, there’s no reason for her heart to have turned to someone other than her husbands. The Mahabharata reports neither any friction between her and her husbands, nor any noteworthy interaction between her and Karna.
Dishonor in the gambling match: Some people hold that, after the failure of her husbands to protect her during the gambling match, she felt that Karna would have protected her better. But such an analysis overlooks the reality that Karna was the very person who had instigated her dishonor by suggesting that she be dragged into the assembly and be disrobed in public. And it was Karna who called her a prostitute for having married five men. Even if she had had any affection for Karna as a hero, that attraction would have been destroyed by his villainous behavior. And the short duration of the incident as well as her strong-willed nature wouldn’t have allowed the occurrence of anything remotely resembling the Stockholm syndrome.
Need for a protector: Even if Draupadi had felt that she would have been better off with some protector other than her Pandava husbands, that feeling didn’t make her turn to Karna. Even though he was present right there in the assembly, she didn’t ask him for protection; instead, she prayed to Krishna, even though he was not present visibly. During their forest exile, when Jayadratha kidnapped her in the Pandavas’ absence, she castigated him not just […]

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Sunday feast at Radha Gopinatha temple on 17-1-16

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