Tulsi Prajna 2000 01

SR No.: 524602
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 128
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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The Role of Sense Organs (Indriya) in Vaisnava Philosophy
Nose : 'My nose being attracted by the odour of his body smelling like sandalwood paste has settled there like the intoxicated honey-bee. 88
Skin : 'My heart is weeping for the touch of the heart (of my Lord)'.89 Or. 'If His name is charged with so much potency. I wonder what would happen when I come in physical contact. 90
Ear: 'My friends, who was it who told me that name of Syām (another name of Krsna)? Getting into the ears it has pierced my heart: I feel disturbed'.
But with the help of the sense organs we can know only the natural objects and not the supernatural ones. The God of the Vaisnavas is qualified and personal, which attributes, however, are supernatural in character and so inexhaustible. So, it has been said that one who always drinks ambrosial sweetness can never quench his thirst which, on the contrary, goes on increasing ever more.92 In Vaisnava literature and scripture, therefore, we come across the debility of the sense organs. In the Bhāgavata the Gopīs have said when they have failed to drink the last drop of that sweetness of eternal beauty with their eyes: 'That Brahmā who gave eye-lashes to the eyes of those who look on at your beautiful face adorned with complex curly hair must have been cruel to do so." The Vaisnava poet says; 'Alas! God did not give me eyes all over my body and yet created this ocean of beauty for mel. 94 'Since my very birth I have gazed and gazed upon the Beauty, but my eyes are never satisfied'.
It has been said about sense-experience'... the sense-experience can be used as a mere first point from which it proceeds to a knowledge that has nothing to do with the sense-organs and often contradicts their evidence". 96 The divine power of abstruse observation which is infused to the potency of sense-perception, under the spell of spiritual consciousness outgrows the physical senses that are no longer capable of conveying the divine feelings. So, the Vaisnava poet says: 'However much I close my insignificant nose yet it reaches out to the smell of Svämal.97 Elsewhere, 'The more I resolve not to hear His name the more my ears rushes out to hear about Him.98 At this stage, the world of feelings of the aspirant is set against the sense-organs and beyond the control of his mind. Here his consciousness crosses the boundaries of senses and mind, and steps out into the resplendent word of intuition. In a condition. In a condition of this nature there occurs the disorder of the physical senses. The love-stricken eagerness of Sri Rādhā's mind overpowered by the love of Krsna has been expressed by the Vaisnava poet of Bengal thus : 'Hearing every moment about His quality my ears have now become eyes. Again, after seeing Him tears began to roll down from TAHU YETI 39-ATE, 2000 AMIT T W W 91