Rupa Gosvami About Eligibility for Bhakti (Vaidhi and Raganuga) Translation by Ananta Dasa Babaji

Rūpa Gosvāmī About Eligibility for Bhakti (Vaidhī and Rāgānugā)

Translation Sanskrit to Bengali: Ananta Dāsa Bābājī

Eligibility for Vaidhī-Bhakti: Faith (śraddha)

yaḥ kenāpyati bhāgyena jāta śraddho’sya sevane

nātisakto na vairāgya bhāgasyām adhikāryasau

(Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu 1.2.14)

"When, by a stroke of inconceivable luck, a person develops faith and liking for serving Kṛṣṇa (bhakti-mārga) due to having associated with great saints and so forth, but has not yet attained firm attachment to the Lord and is only slightly averse to bodily attachments – such a person is eligible for sādhana-bhakti."

Eligibility for Rāgānugā-Bhakti: Greed (lobha)

rāgātmikaika niṣṭhā ye vrajavāsi janādayaḥ

teṣāṁ bhāvāptaye lubdho bhaved atrādhikāravān

(Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu 1.2.291)

"A person, who is greedy after the unalloyed, ecstatic rāgātmikā-bhakti that the Vrajavāsīs have for Kṛṣṇa, is eligible for rāgānugā-bhakti."

Symptoms of the Appearance of Greed (lobha)

tat tad bhāvādi mādhurye śrute dhīr yad apekṣate

nātra śāstraṁ na yuktiṁ ca tal lobhotpatti lakṣaṇam

(Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu 1.2.292)

“When the heart yearns for the sweetness of the mutual feelings of Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His eternal associates in Vraja, and one is not dependent on scriptural injunctions or logical arguments, this is said to be the symptom of the appearance of greed.”

Source: Rāga Vartma Candrikā 1.4-5, by Viśvanātha Cakravartīpāda, translated and commented by Paṇḍita Śrī Ananta Dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja, English Edition Rādhākuṇḍa 2003, Bengali Edition Rādhākuṇḍa 1994. (Above the author quotes three verses of Bhakti-Rasāmṛta-Sindhu by Rūpa Gosvāmī, the main work on gauḍīyā vaiṣṇava theology.)

Translation Sanskrit to Bengali: Ananta Dāsa Bābājī

Translation Bengali to English: Advaita Dāsa

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