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For Gaudiya Vaishnavas, the right reason to worship Narasinghadeva is as Bhaktivinoda prays, “to beg at the lotus feet of Lord Narasingha for the benediction of worshipping Radha and Krishna in Navadvipa, perfectly safe and free from all difficulties.”
These lives we live, surrounded by beauty and horror, profound knowledge and pitiful ignorance, are a mystery to us all. To push that truth away with false certainty, falsely derived from either religion or reason, is to miss our most perfect truth.
In the past decade the number of retraction notices for scientific journals has increased more than 10-fold while the number of journals articles published has only increased by 44%.
“Many have interpreted anatta to be a metaphysical assertion that there is no self, but I argue that this is mistaken.”
Alain de Botton’s attempt to encourage secular society to steal religion’s most fruitful ideas is admirable but ultimately hollow.
Gurunistha,
this has to be my favorite to date! The people demand more.
Once we meet again, we might continue the negotiations of publishing.
And yes, we still feel that the minor notation would be a good idea, for those not that well versed in the scriptures. (like the cartoon above – you really need some background information to get it.)
But anyway, excellent one, keep it up!
That’s the way voidists think-”Being harassed by material existence,they decide to annihilate everything–unfortunately,even their spiritual existence.”
As we learn from Srimad Bhagavatam, Narada’s detachment from material life was in no way the same as the “voidists”. The detachment of the devotee and the detachment of the jnani are much different. Due to association with “the Bhaktivedanta’s” from a young age, Narada’s detachment from material life was enriched by an attachment to a positive spiritual existence – to the point that he was blessed with the darsana of Bhagavan. We should not confuse the renunciation of the devotee which blossoms from love for the Lord, with the renunciation of the jnani’s which sprouts like weeds from frustration with material existence.