Shishir Katote R Does vaidhi bhakti refer to sadhana bhakti and bhava bhakti to raganuga bhakti? I find it more of a preaching strategy that vaidhi bhakti gets converted to raganuga bhakti. Why? Sadhana-bhakti arises from nirguna-sraddha or paramarthiki sastriya sraddha arising out of visuddha-sattva. Brahma-Samhita (5.61) clearly states that the caliber of sadhya-bhakti (the stage of siddhi or perfection) depends on the caliber of sadhana-bhakti (i.e. bhavana). Vide – “…yādṛśī yādṛśī śraddhā siddhir bhavati tādṛśī…”. Hence, the sadhana-bhakti is also part of uttama-bhakti, though not its paramount stage. JG writes in his vaisnava-tosani commentary to SB 10th canto that "sraddha tu raty-ankura-rupa jayate..." or that this paramarthiki sraddha arises as a seed of the actual rati or bhava. If bhava and prema are visuddha-sattvatmika (as explained in BRS 1.3.1 and BRS 1.4.1), then the seed of that bhava and prema will also be visuddha-sattvatmika – making it to be uttama also (b
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7. The next question is:
Did Krishna, while playing humanlike pastimes as the son of Nanda in Vrindavana know
He is God in the same way as He knew it as the son of Vasudeva in Dvaraka, or not?
If you say “yes” then I say He would not have been able to cry tears of fear while He
was being bound with ropes by Mother Yashoda.
It does not look good on learned devotees to explain that He was simply pretending to
be afraid, and that’s why He was crying tears. Only a less intelligent society would
have given such an explanation.
If intelligent devotees would give this explanation then the words of Queen Kunti in
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.31 “Mother Yashoda took up a rope to bind You when You
committed an offense, and Your perturbed eyes over flooded with tears, which
washed the collyrium from Your eyes. And You were afraid, trying to hide Your face,
although fear personified is afraid of you. This sight is bewildering to me” would
never contain the word ”vimoha” (enchanted).
The purport of this
