Sunday, May 31, 2009

Sanatana Goswami -advanced than Arjuna...

Govinda is in all of them.. Coolie no.1 , Hero no. 1, and the list goes on an on.... :)
Yes Govinda is no. 1.. Brahma , the creator of this material world , tells this..
Isvarah PArama Krsna...
Sachidanda Vigraha..
Anadir Adir Govinda..
Sarva Karana Karanam,..

So Dear .. stop competing in becoming no.1 , the only thing one can become is Fool no.1 .
Sanatana Goswami starts his conversation with Chaitanya Mahaprabhu saying .. I am fool no .1 but this people think i am a Pandita (How different is he from me, we say that i am a pandita and if people say so.. we think oh he/she has only understood me)..
Sanatana Goswami says
"'ke ami', 'kene amaya jare tapa-traya'iha nahi jani-'kemane hita haya'"
("What are the causes of my miseries, and what I am? What is my position?")

Srila Prabhupada in his commentary writes that Sanatana Goswami was more advanced than Arjuna.Quoting Prabhupada.. "So the first lesson, the inquiry of Sri Caitanya, of Sanatana Gosvami, is that "What I am? What I am?" Arjuna did not place himself "What I am?" but here, because the instruction which is given in the Caitanya-caritamrta is practically higher than Bhagavad-gita -- it is postgraduate study, higher than Bhagavad-gita. In the Bhagavad-gita the, Arjuna, he did not question "What I am?" He was perplexed with this bodily conception. Now here, Sanatana Gosvami he, he thinks that "I'm not..., I do not know what I am." So he's advanced than Arjuna. He accepts that "I do not know."
So because he inquired that ke ami-ke ami means "What I am?" -- therefore Lord Caitanya directly informs him first that jivera svarupa haya krsnera nitya dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108].

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