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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
INTRODUCTION,
audience. As it contains an outline of the nature of Bhaktí, we give it entire.
(Scene-a plain before the temple of Jagannátha at Puri.) ACTOR.--Sir, who are these people assembled here? MANAGER.—The followers of Krishna Chaitanya. Act.-And who is this Chaitanya?
MANAG.—My good fellow, you seem as if you were as yet an unborn babe, since you happen not even to have heard the name of the great lord. Listen : .
A wonderful tree, called Chaitanya, has appeared in this earth. Its root is the illustrious Yati Mádhabendra Purí, Aditya is its germ, the renowned Abadhuta* is its trunk, and Vakréswara and others of overflowing faitht form its main branches; its expansion is Sarupa, the exercise of faith forms its flower, and its fruit is sincere love for the Deity; its point has penetrated far above the felicitous regions of Brahmá ; whereon a brace of playful birds called Rádhá and Krishna, I which know no difference of feeling, have found a roosting-place; its shade is a sovereign relief for the fatigues to which the way-farers of this earth are doomed; it is the source whence the desires of the faithful are obtained.
ACT.--And what is the use of this incarnation, my learned Sir ?
MANAGER.—Listen. Learned sophists, led by the planet of their own ardent theories, believing in the ancient dogma that absorption in a Brahma without attribute and w.thout end, is the greatest good, and meditation on the Divine Unit is the means of attaining that treasure, do not feel the great truth that the great lord Sri Krishna is Brahma, that he is an
* Alias Nityánanda.
+ Lit. of juicy body, 571171*:, full of the humour of love, a double entendre.
Rádhá literally means “ adoration ;" TIH 19 feet and Krishna “true happiness :" they go hand in hand and cannot be separated.
efaray Hide fanale: विष्ण स्तभावयोगाच्च कृष्णो भवति सात्वतः ।
Mahábhárata; Udyoga Parva.
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