{"id":527,"date":"2008-09-02T14:17:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T08:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2008-09-10T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T03:49:34","slug":"kk53-kaviraj-goswami-explains-forbidden-food-for-us-sadhaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet_books\/excerpts-from-sri-krishna-karnamritam\/kk53-kaviraj-goswami-explains-forbidden-food-for-us-sadhaks\/","title":{"rendered":"KK5.3 – Kaviraj Goswami explains ‘Forbidden food’ for us (sadhaks)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Explanation of \u2018vishaya-vish-<\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00e2<\/span><\/em>misha \u2013 grasana \u2013 gridhnu\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018There is an external meaning of the verse \u2018vishaya-vish-\u00e2misha\u2013grasana\u2013gridhnu\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. <\/span>It refers to the worldly pleasures such as money, wealth, women etc.These material objects are indeed poisonous or tortuous. We shall never get peace if we partake of these material objects. It will only result in pain. Srila Narottam d\u00e2s Th\u00e2kur Mah\u00e2shay has said \u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“bishay garalmay, tate m\u00e2no sukhachay,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

sei sukha duhkha kori m\u00e2no.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

gobinda bishay-ras, sanga koro t\u00e2nr d\u00e2s,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

prema-bhakti satyo kori j\u00e2no.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Meaning: – “Worldly pleasures are poisonous. Consider such pleasures to be harbingers of sorrow. Real ras <\/em>exists in Lord Govinda (Krishna) alone. Always associate with His servants (devotees). Know love and devotion to be the Ultimate Truth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Importance of association<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Money, wealth and women are extremely aginising. Still, waylaid men consider these pleasurable. Because of associating with these worldly objects, the living entity keeps on moving in the cycle of birth and death. The living entity is conditioned to be addicted to material objects since infinity. He is greedy for ras<\/em>. You cannot stop him from desiring ras<\/em>. He will be able to give up this very poisonous lowly ras<\/em> only if it is replaced by some sweet nectarine ras<\/em> of very high quality. A fortunate devotee who is engaged in practising prem-bhakti<\/em> s\u00e2dhan\u00e2<\/em> gets the opportunity of relishing this ras<\/em> only when he associates with great Krishna-devotees. Then he forsakes the lethal ordeal inflicted by worldly objects and becomes afloat in the ocean of nectar. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sri Lil\u00e2shuk is saying \u2013 even if this worldly venom is distressful, it is \u2018\u00e2mish<\/em>\u2019 or forbidden fruit. Medini-Kosh dictionary states “\u2018\u00c2mish<\/em>\u2019 also means \u2018tempting\u2019\u201d. If Sri Krishna mercifully appears in my heart that is so engrossed in worldly objects, then alone it is possible to have a \u2018sphurti<\/em>\u2019. Otherwise He is out-of-reach for a fallen soul as myself, “May such an inexpressible Splendour be forever enthroned in my heart\u201d \u2013 this is Srip\u00e2d Lil\u00e2shuk\u2019s humble prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These material objects are indeed poisonous or tortuous. We shall never get peace if we partake of these material objects. It will only result in pain. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts-from-sri-krishna-karnamritam","category-verse-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}