{"id":81936,"date":"2023-02-21T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T10:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/190419265581"},"modified":"2023-04-12T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T11:56:18","slug":"radharani-and-forgivenesslord-indra-was-worried-maharaja-prthu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=81936","title":{"rendered":"Radharani and Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Radharani and Forgiveness
\nLord Indra was worried Maharaja Prthu might steal away some of his power and prestige, so he stole one of the horses for the sacrifice that Prthu was doing,and when he realized he had done wrong, he took shelter of Lord Visnu who then told Prthu to forgive Indra, which he did.<\/p>\n

So even the Lord wants us to be forgiving to an errant devotee. It is actually the will of the Lord that we be forgiving , so if I claim to love the Lord, I must be forgiving so that He may be pleased with me, otherwise what is my claim to be His devotee ?<\/p>\n

After a heavy pastime where Prabhupada shows his transcendental anger at Guru das for forgetting to state on the new letterhead of ISKCON incorporation that the \u201cFounder \u2013 Acarya has complete veto power\u201d<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada said,<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do something that I don\u2019t forgive, Krishna will forgive you, and if He doesn\u2019t forgive you , Radharani will \u201d<\/p>\n

( My comments : As you probably are well aware, there is a huge community of people that are into godesses these days, but few are aware that Srimati Radharani is the godess of all godesses.)<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that we should be apprehensive that to speak on Srimati Radharani is sahajiya and is too esoteric.<\/p>\n

I think that the forgiving side of Srimati Radharani needs to be explored in much greater depth, and will further help to shed a lot of light to personify the quality of forgiveness, and will give people more transcendental insight into how this quality of forgiveness is found in the highest embodiment of unconditional love, Srimati Radharani.<\/p>\n

We could really take this topic of forgiveness to a level that NOBODY out there is popularizing.<\/p>\n

Lord Caitanya, in the mood of Srimati Radharani also has this quality of a forgiving nature (ksama-silata).<\/p>\n

If this was included in the talk, ,then it would REALLY please the devotees who are nectar seeking, as well as giving everyday practical tips on our level. The two \u201cextremes\u201d could be there, with everything in the middle.<\/p>\n

We could sing the song that you have so nicely arranged from Our Only Shelter at a point in the program that you would consider appropriate, maybe at the beginning for devotees, or do an English translation version of it with the traditional melody for the western folks<\/p>\n

Sri Krsna-Caitanya prabhu doya koro more
\ntoma bina ke doyalu jagat-samsare<\/p>\n

O Prabhu Sri Krsna Caitanya, please be forgiving towards me, as there is no one more forgiving than You in this universe.<\/p>\n

Generally, worship is established for Gaura-Nitai Deities before it is offered to Lord Jagannath Deities. The reason for this is that there is less reaction for making any kind of offenses or mistakes when worshipping Gaura-Nitai than with Lord Jagannath Deities. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is very forgiving, more so than Lord Jagannath. Similarly, Srila Prabhupada is more forgiving of the neophyte\u2019s offenses than Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, which is why we must always begin with the Spiritual Master. Of course, there\u2019s a certain quality of mercy one can obtain by getting the benediction of any of these Deities.<\/p>\n

We shoud have Guru-Gauranga photos or murtis at the front of the presentation room, the embodiments of forgiveness.<\/p>\n

NOD states this. You have probably already researched this, but here it is again :<\/p>\n

Forgiving
\nA person who can tolerate all kinds of offenses from the opposite party is known to be forgiving.<\/p>\n

Lord Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a\u2019s forgiving quality is described in the \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la-vadha in connection with His forbidding the killing of \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la. King \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la was the monarch of the Cedi kingdom, and although he happened to be a cousin of Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a\u2019s, he was always envious of Him. Whenever they would meet, \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la would try to insult Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a and call Him ill names as much as possible. In the arena of the R\u0101jas\u016bya sacrifice of Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Yudhis\u0323t\u0323hira, when \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la began to call Lord Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a ill names, Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a did not care and remained silent. Some of the people at the arena were prepared to kill \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la, but Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a restricted them. He was so forgiving. It is said that when there is a thundering sound in the clouds, the mighty lion immediately replies with his thundering roar. But the lion doesn\u2019t care when all the foolish jackals begin to make their less important sounds.<\/p>\n

\u015ar\u012b Y\u0101mun\u0101c\u0101rya praises Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a\u2019s power of forgiveness with the following statement: \u201cMy dear Lord R\u0101macandra, You are so merciful to have excused the crow\u2019s clawing on the nipples of J\u0101nak\u012b simply because of his bowing down before You.\u201d Once Indra, the King of heaven, assumed the form of a crow and attacked S\u012bt\u0101 (J\u0101nak\u012b), Lord R\u0101macandra\u2019s wife, by striking her on the breast. This was certainly an insult to the universal mother, S\u012bt\u0101, and Lord R\u0101macandra was immediately prepared to kill the crow. But because later on the crow bowed down before the Lord, the Lord excused his offense. \u015ar\u012b Y\u0101mun\u0101c\u0101rya further says in his prayer that the forgiving power of Lord Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a is even greater than that of Lord R\u0101macandra, because \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la was always in the habit of insulting Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a \u2014 not only in one lifetime, but continually throughout three lives. Still, Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a was so kind that He gave \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la the salvation of merging into His existence. From this we can understand that the goal of the monist to merge into the effulgence of the Supreme is not a very difficult problem. Persons like \u015ai\u015bup\u0101la who are consistently inimical to Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a can also get this liberation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Radharani and Forgiveness
\nLord Indra was worried Maharaja Prthu might steal away some of his power and prestige, so he stole one of the horses for the sacrifice that Prthu was doing,and when he realized he had done wrong, he took shelter of Lord Visnu who then told Prthu to forgive Indra, which he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-81936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81936"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107611,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81936\/revisions\/107611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}