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And His Eternal Consort Sita devi- Today is His Holy appearance day and I want to know what others know about Him. -Sincere answers please.

2007-03-26 13:56:01 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Psychology

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Hare Krishna, hope you had a good Ramanavami!

Please check out this link below, has a good desciption of Lord Rama and Sita devi, believe it or not i found it on a sikh heritage website.

http://www.sikh-heritage.co.uk/festivals/Ramnavmi/ramnavmi.htm

2007-03-28 10:52:16 · answer #1 · answered by Krsna Dasi 2 · 1 0

In the gradual development of sense gratification or material knowledge, the first stage is atheism, then skepticism, then antagonism, then impersonalism, and finally voidism.

In the gradual development of Krsna's sense gratification or transcendental knowledge-that is, when the conception of spiritual variegatedness surpasses the stages of impersonal Brahman and Vasudeva without His energies, the first stage is the worship of Laksmi-Narayana, the second is the worship of Sita-Rama, the third is the worship of Rukmini-Dvarakadisa, and the fourth is the worship of Radha Govinda.

As human beings gradually develop sense gratification, Radha Govinda's transcendental pastimes appear to them obscene, while the pastimes of Rukmini-Dvarakadisa appear a little better. Moreover, they consider the idea of Ramacandra, who vowed to accept only one wife, as more ethical than the behavior of Dvarakadisa Krsna, who accepted many wives. They consider Laksmi-Narayana to be more pure than Ramacandra. Moreover, they imagine that
the conception of Vasudeva without His saktis to be more ethical than the conception of the Supreme in the form of male and female.

But to imagine Vasudeva, who is full of spiritual energies, without His energies, is the first step toward atheism and impersonalism. In this way through the exercise of material knowledge, one ultimately ends up with impersonal Brahman. Impersonalism tries to perpetually separate the Absolute
Truth from His eternal spiritual characteristics. In other words, it endeavors to destroy the existence of His transcendental personality. When this conception is further advanced, it embraces the philosophy of Jainism and Buddism. Overly ethical Jainism and Buddism transform the spiritual concept into a material concept, theism into atheism and voidism. Thus the gradual development of sense gratification distracts human intelligence from the idea of gratifying Krsna's senses and sets a course toward the deep water of godlessness.

(By Srila Bhaktissidhanta Sarasvati. Quote from the book "Amrta Vani" chapter "Material and Spiritual Topics)

2007-03-27 19:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by Gaura 7 · 0 0

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