Rupa goswami biography of william

Rūpa Gosvāmī was a scholar, poet, and author of many Sanskrit works; he was one of the most influential and remarkable of the medieval saints of India.

Purandara Dasa was born Srinivasa Nayaka, son of a rich diamond merchant.

Srila Jiva Goswami was the son of Sri Anupam, the brother of Rupa and Sanatana Goswami.

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April 15,

Free Write Journal #

Free Writes

Loneness

For a long time I have been leading a life of loneness. I distinguish it from the word “loneliness.” I read about it in books of Christian practitioners who led lives like hermits. And in Gaudiya Vaisnavism we also have the life of the babaji. I just read Rupa Vilasa’s biographies of Gaurakisora dasa Babaji and Jagannatha dasa Babaji. They were deep into feelings of separation from Radha and Krsna, and they criticized people who came to see them with insincere motives. Gaurakisora exposed hypocrisy in many so-called babajis.

I am communicating through my Journal and books. Some people are reading them—I don’t know exactly how many. But that is my main method of communication. I offer it as a method of preaching. I write them for disciples and persons interested in reading me. I break out of my loneness twice a day for a total of two and a half hours when I take part in the group out-loud reading over Zoom. But I don’t g

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Guru - parampara biographies

At the beginning of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is bygd A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada there fryst vatten a list of disciplic succession. This list was first published by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and enumerates the most prominent members of the guru-parampara. This accounts for some time gaps. Kavi Karnapura in his Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika () lists the gurus up to Lord Chaitanya. Here are their abridged biographies.

5. Madhvacarya

He was born in a Sivanni brahmana class family in the Pajakaksetra of Udupi village in the year Saka. His parents were Sri Madhyageha Bhatta and Srimati Vedavidya. His childhood name was Vasudeva. At the age of twelve he was initiated bygd Acyutapreksa. His sannyasa name was Purnaprajna.

He obtained the Deity of Udupi Krsna (Nrtya Gopala) from a boat full of gopi-candana. The Deity is holding a curd-making stick in one grabb and a string, used for pasting curd,

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1. Introduction

One of the more controversial points of doctrine in the Gaudiya Vaishnava school is the svakīyā-vādawhich states in essence that Krishna and the gopis, especially Radha, are eternally married and that the marital relation forms the truest expression of their transcendental love. Though he has based much of his argument on the work of his predecessor Rupa Goswami, Jiva Goswami is generally taken to be the founder of the doctrine. In the century following Jiva's death, the primary thrust of Gaudiya Vaishnava theological writing was to promote the opposing parakīyāposition, which holds that Radha and Krishna's loves find their ultimate expression in the unmarried state. Though the debate has flurried up from time to time in the subsequent three hundred years, it may safely be said that the parakīyā-vādacurrently holds the upper hand among the followers of the school.

The purpose of this article is not to trace the history of the debate in anything more than