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27 March 2024
- 05:0405:04, 27 March 2024 diff hist +16 Formerly I (Rupa Gosvami) wrote the two dramas as one composition. Now I shall divide it and describe the incidents in two separate works No edit summary
- 05:0105:01, 27 March 2024 diff hist +39 Formerly I (Rupa Gosvami) wrote the two dramas as one composition. Now I shall divide it and describe the incidents in two separate works No edit summary
- 04:4904:49, 27 March 2024 diff hist +7 One should not mistakenly think that Srila Rupa Gosvami compiled 100,000 books. He actually wrote sixteen books, as mentioned in the First Wave of the Bhakti-ratnakara No edit summary
- 04:4804:48, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 Formerly I (Rupa Gosvami) wrote the two dramas as one composition. Now I shall divide it and describe the incidents in two separate works No edit summary
- 04:2904:29, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 After composing this verse, Rupa Gosvami wrote it on a palm leaf and put it on the roof of the thatched house in which he was living No edit summary
- 04:2004:20, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 Where has the Mathura-puri of Yadupati gone? Where has the Northern Kosala of Raghupati gone? By reflection, make the mind steady, thinking, ‘This universe is not eternal - the note written by Srila Rupa Gosvami to Sanatana Gosvami from Bakla No edit summary
- 04:1904:19, 27 March 2024 diff hist +11 This (CC Madhya 9.150) is a verse spoken by Narada Muni in the Lalita-madhava-nataka (6.14), a drama written by Srila Rupa Gosvami No edit summary
- 04:1704:17, 27 March 2024 diff hist +9 Thus being pleased, the Lord praised the writing by saying, "The handwriting of Rupa Gosvami is just like rows of pearls" No edit summary
- 04:1504:15, 27 March 2024 diff hist −11 Unless you are associated with devotees, you will not be able to understand the import of the writings of Srila Rupa Gosvami No edit summary current
- 04:1504:15, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 Where has the Mathura-puri of Yadupati gone? Where has the Northern Kosala of Raghupati gone? By reflection, make the mind steady, thinking, ‘This universe is not eternal - the note written by Srila Rupa Gosvami to Sanatana Gosvami from Bakla No edit summary
- 04:1404:14, 27 March 2024 diff hist +11 Who can count the rest of the books (headed by the Laghu-bhagavatamrta) written by Srila Rupa Gosvami? He has described the pastimes of Vrndavana in all of them No edit summary current
- 04:0304:03, 27 March 2024 diff hist +18 The technical inquiries by Srila Ramananda Raya and the replies of Srila Rupa Gosvami indicate that both of them were expert and fully conversant with the techniques of writing drama No edit summary
- 04:0204:02, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 The Nectar of Devotion is a summary study of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, which was written in Sanskrit by Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada. He was the chief of the six Gosvamis, who were the direct disciples of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary
- 04:0104:01, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 The Lord (Caitanya) instructed Srila Rupa Gosvami to write the transcendental literature named Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, the science of devotional service, and indicate therein the substance of five transcendental relationships No edit summary
- 04:0104:01, 27 March 2024 diff hist +37 The Lord, however, encouraged Rupa Gosvami, saying, "Why are you embarrassed? You should recite it so the devotees can hear the good fruit of your writing" No edit summary
- 04:0004:00, 27 March 2024 diff hist +11 Srila Rupa Gosvami writes: There were many previous incarnations of the SPG, but none were so generous, kind and magnanimous as Caitanya, for He distributed the most confidential aspect of devotional service, namely, the conjugal love of Radha and Krsna No edit summary
- 04:0004:00, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 Srila Rupa Gosvami writes in his Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu: Devotional service of the Lord that ignores the authorized Vedic literatures like the Upanisads, Puranas, Narada-pancaratra, etc., is simply an unnecessary disturbance in society. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 03:1003:10, 27 March 2024 diff hist −11 Srila Rupa Gosvami and Srila Sanatana Gosvami were high-ranking ministers of state, but they were able to leave behind them immense writings on transcendental knowledge, while residing only for one night underneath one tree No edit summary
- 03:0903:09, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 Srila Rupa Gosvami has written a very nice verse wherein one gopi advises another, "My dear friend, if you desire to enjoy the company of material society, friendship and love, then please do not go to see this smiling boy Govinda" No edit summary
- 03:0903:09, 27 March 2024 diff hist +18 Srila Rupa Gosvami thought, "Satyabhama ordered me to write two different dramas. Now I understand that this order has been confirmed by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu" No edit summary
- 03:0903:09, 27 March 2024 diff hist +11 Srila Rupa Gosvami writes: anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirnah kalau, samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam sva-bhakti-sriyam, harih purata-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandipitah, sada hrdaya-kandare sphuratu vah saci-nandanah No edit summary current
- 03:0103:01, 27 March 2024 diff hist +37 Srila Rupa Gosvami and his assistants, under the instructions of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, have all written various literatures for the guidance of prospective devotees No edit summary
- 02:5302:53, 27 March 2024 diff hist +18 Srila Rupa Gosvami and his assistants, under the instructions of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, have all written various literatures for the guidance of prospective devotees No edit summary
- 02:5002:50, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 Srila Rupa Gosvami, writing Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, quoting from so many Vedic literatures, giving evidence. Because formerly people would take it as truth when it is proved by the version of the Vedic literature No edit summary
- 02:4602:46, 27 March 2024 diff hist −8 Rupa Gosvami wrote: I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, known as Lord Caitanyadeva, because due to His inspiration I feel the desire within my heart to write something about devotional service No edit summary current
26 March 2024
- 14:2914:29, 26 March 2024 diff hist +11 Rupa Gosvami wrote: Because due to His (Caitanya's) inspiration I feel the desire within my heart to write something about devotional service. For this reason I am engaged in writing this book on the science of devotion known as Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu No edit summary
- 14:2814:28, 26 March 2024 diff hist +11 Rupa Gosvami writes, "I think now it is certain that gradually the verses of the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, describing the pastimes of the Lord, will enter your ears and go into your heart" No edit summary
- 14:2714:27, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 Rupa Gosvami further writes, "My dear foolish friend, I think that you have already heard some of the auspicious Srimad-Bhagavatam, which decries seeking the results of fruitive activities, economic development and liberation" No edit summary
- 14:1714:17, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 Referring to the words laksa-grantha, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the total number of verses written by Rupa Gosvami is 100,000 (eka-laksa or laksa-grantha). The copyists count both the verses and the prose sections of the Sanskrit works No edit summary
- 14:1514:15, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 On his way to Gauda-desa, Rupa Gosvami had been thinking of how to write the action of the drama. Thus he had made some notes and begun to write No edit summary
- 14:1414:14, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 One should have the common sense to ask why, if Krsna or Rama were fictitious, stalwart scholars like Sridhara Svami, Rupa Gosvami and many other recognized acaryas would have spent so much time to write about Krsna in notes and commentaries on SB No edit summary
- 14:1314:13, 26 March 2024 diff hist +30 One day while Rupa Gosvami was writing his book, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu suddenly appeared No edit summary current
- 14:1214:12, 26 March 2024 diff hist +18 Meanwhile, following the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Srila Rupa Gosvami returned to Vrndavana. He desired to write dramas concerning the pastimes of Lord Krsna No edit summary
- 14:0514:05, 26 March 2024 diff hist −1 I (Rupa Gosvami) shall write two separate invocations of good fortune and two different introductions. Let me think deeply about the matter and then describe two different sets of incidents No edit summary
- 14:0514:05, 26 March 2024 diff hist +11 Many acaryas, such as Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami, used to live beneath trees every night. Superficially it appeared that they were poverty-stricken, but from their writings we can understand that in spiritual life they were richest personalities No edit summary
- 14:0414:04, 26 March 2024 diff hist +15 I see that the truths regarding transcendental mellows that You expounded through my mouth are all explained in the writings of Srila Rupa Gosvami No edit summary current
- 14:0414:04, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 I (Rupa Gosvami) shall write two separate invocations of good fortune and two different introductions. Let me think deeply about the matter and then describe two different sets of incidents No edit summary
- 14:0414:04, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 In Vrndavana, Rupa Gosvami began to write a drama. In particular, he composed the introductory verses to invoke good fortune No edit summary
- 14:0314:03, 26 March 2024 diff hist +18 He very carefully followed the principles enunciated by the Lord, and he was a competent person to explain properly the pastimes of Krsna. Caitanya expanded His mercy to Rupa Gosvami just so he could render service by writing transcendental literatures No edit summary
- 13:5413:54, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 After having that dream, Srila Rupa Gosvami considered, "It is the order of Satyabhama that I write a separate drama for her" No edit summary
- 13:4513:45, 26 March 2024 diff hist +7 This verse (of CC Antya 14.53) is part of a description of Srimati Radharani’s different traits from Ujjvala-nilamani (Vipralambha-prakarana 153), by Srila Rupa Gosvami. In this book, he elaborately explains the ten symptoms as follows No edit summary
- 13:4413:44, 26 March 2024 diff hist −68 This is further explained (of CC Madhya 14.179) in the following verse from the Ujjvala-nilamani (Anubhava-prakarana 41) of Srila Rupa Gosvami No edit summary
- 13:4313:43, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 This is confirmed in the Vedas, and it will be further explained by Rupa Gosvami that, for a person who has unflinching faith in God and the spiritual master, everything becomes revealed very easily No edit summary current
- 13:2513:25, 26 March 2024 diff hist +6 This conception of the material world is very nicely explained by Rupa Gosvami, who says that when persons renounce the material world as illusory or false without knowing that it is a manifestation of the Supreme Lord, their renunciation is of no value No edit summary current
- 13:2413:24, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 Although many different processes for developing love of Godhead have been explained so far, Srila Rupa Gosvami now gives us a general description of how one can best achieve such a high position No edit summary
- 13:1813:18, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 The left wing and right wing of the gopis has been explained by Rupa Gosvami in his Ujjvala-nilamani No edit summary current
- 13:1813:18, 26 March 2024 diff hist +39 The Nectar of Devotion, a summary study of Srila Rupa Gosvami's Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, explains those symptoms (of bhava stage) and vividly describes other transcendental developments, both in steady and accelerating manifestations No edit summary current
- 13:1713:17, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 The real question is, How can we remain unpolluted by material contamination while in the material world? Srila Rupa Gosvami explains that we can remain uncontaminated while in the world if we simply make it our ambition to serve Krsna - CC Intro No edit summary current
- 13:1713:17, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 The real question is how can we remain unpolluted by material contamination while in the material world. It was Rupa Gosvami who explained that we can remain uncontaminated while in the world if we simply make it our ambition to serve Krsna No edit summary current
- 12:4112:41, 26 March 2024 diff hist −8 Srila Rupa Gosvami has explained that jagad-guru properly refers to one who is the controller of his tongue, mind, words, belly, genitals and anger. Prthivim sa sisyat: such a jagad-guru is completely fit to make disciples all over the world No edit summary current