Monday, July 18, 2016

PRADYUMNA

Today is KB 2.21. Salva and Pradumnya fighting it out. And Salva's unusual airplane.
So I read and recorded first thing and am listening to the recording over and over. This is a short one.. only 15 minutes... So it plays over again fairly quickly.
I just wasn't appreciating this pastime at all. First of all Krishna isn't in it. I really love it when there are prayers and glorification of Krishna. His position and inconceivable potencies. There is none of that in this chapter. Just battle scenes. No Krishna and no prayers.
So it is playing and I am hearing it as I do whatever it is I need to do during the the day. But something is missing. Where is Krishna in all of this?

Then after about the 35th time... I get it. Pradumnya is Krishna's son by Queen Rukmini. This is about Krishna's son... fighting to defend Dvarka. Pradumnya is not an ordinary person. He is an expansion of Krishna. He is also Vishnu tattva. (He is not sakti tattva or jiva tattva. If I have that right.) He is as good as Krishna Himself. He is appearing as Krishna's son.
When Krishna accepts someone as mother or father they are not Vishnu tattva. When Krishna accepts a queen the queen is not Vishnu tattva. Krishna appears to come from the mother and father and He appears to be intimately connected to His queens, but the mother and father are not actually the source of Krishna and are not equal to Krishna. But when Krishna expands He generates Vishnu tattva. His sons and grandsons are expanded from Him. They are Vishnu tattva.
If I have that right? Anyone can say? If you have reference.


Aja Dasa
Aja Dasa It is said that Cupid, who is directly part and parcel of Lord Vāsudeva and who was formerly burned to ashes by the anger of Lord Śiva, took birth from the womb of Rukmiṇī, begotten by Kṛṣṇa. This is Kāmadeva, a demigod of the heavenly planets especially capable of inducing lusty desires. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, has many grades of parts and parcels, but the quadruple expansions of Kṛṣṇa—Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha—are directly in the Viṣṇu category. Kāma, or the Cupid demigod, who later took his birth from the womb of Rukmiṇī, was also named Pradyumna, but he cannot be the Pradyumna of the Viṣṇu category. He belongs to the category of jīva-tattva, but for exhibiting special power in the category of demigods he was a part and parcel of the superprowess of Pradyumna. That is the verdict of the Gosvāmīs. Therefore, when Cupid was burned to ashes by the anger of Lord Śiva, he merged into the body of Vāsudeva, and to get his body again he was begotten in the womb of Rukmiṇī by Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. Thus he was born as the son of Kṛṣṇa and celebrated by the name Pradyumna. Because he was begotten by Lord Kṛṣṇa directly, his qualities were most similar to those of Kṛṣṇa. Krsna book Chapter 54

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