Gaura mani dasi biography of albert
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The Treasure of the City of Victory by Visakha-Priya Devi Dasi
Sri Radha Govindaji
In Jaipur, the capital of "the Land of Kings," Lord Krsna is the center of devotion.
WHILE VISITING JAIPUR, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan ("the Land of Kings"), I have the good fortune to stay two houses away from the city's most famous Krsna temple, the Govindaji Temple. I can easily walk to mangala-arati, the early-morning worship, without having to look for a ricksha. At A.M. I walk out my host's front gate and join the hundreds of rickshas, scooters, bicycles, and pedestrians hurrying toward the temple. The street buzzes with spiritual energy.
I walk across the temple compound and leave my shoes under a tree, praying to find them again among the thousands of shoes scattered all around. The large pink latticed wooden doors to the Deity room are still locked and chained, but a large crowd has already gathered, and people are singing again and again, "Govinda Hari, Gopala Hari, Jaya Jaya Prabhu Dina-dayala Hari."
As the doors open, a white curtain is drawn sideways, unveiling another white curtain. Worshipers throw coins and flower petals toward the Deity chamber. Then the second curtain opens to
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(1) Narayan Maharaj's comments on Sva-likhita-jivani
(2) Lalita Prasad Thakur and Bhaktivinoda's meat-eating.
This version is a little shorter, since I have here been able to rely on the testimony of Shukavak Das and the photos from the MS.
This file also includes some comments on the new translation and acknowledgements and appreciation at the end.
Though it seems barely worth mentioning, there are unfortunately some who doubt the authenticity of the Jīvanī. These persons have put forth various speculations on why it may be a forgery or have been tampered with in some way. This seems to have arisen out of a misunderstanding of the genre and mentality of Bhaktivinoda Thakur in writing his autobiography.
Perhaps these suspicions -- always coming from those who have little or no expertise in Bengali or Bengali history -- arise out of a fear that anything that disagrees with the image of the Thakur as someone who descended from the Spiritual World, unblemished in any respect by matter, as the incarnation of Gadadhar or his shakti, even Radha herself, in order to teach bhakti to the conditioned souls and bring them back to Godhead, could not possibly be genuine. Their idealized image would be con