Bhakti

This page contains some rough notes; mostly for myself…

Bhakti-Vedanta Commentaries and Purports

Nobody has to give me an honorific title or anything like that! But I am posting some of my own commentaries on the Gita and Bhagavatum below. I call these “Bhakti-Vedanta Commentaries and Purports” not to make a big of myself or compare myself to others.

Instead, what I mean is that I am offering a perspective on these texts coming from a place of Krishna Consciousness in the same vein as other great teachers and commentators.

Veda of course means knowledge, so the Vedanta means: “the end of the Vedas”, or the end of knowledge. The vedanta, which are called the Upanishads, are “that which completes the vedas”, and are spiritual aspect of the Vedas; the Upanishads concern the relationship between the Atman and the Brahmin. Additionally the word “Upanishad” means something like “to sit near [a learned person; a teacher]”, which implies that it is helpful to have a knowledgeable person explain the concepts to you.

The word Bhakti means something like “Love-Surrender-Devotion”, so in this context saying “Bhakti Vedanta” means something like Krishna-Bhakti is the end of all knowledge, because one of the primary opulances of Krishna IS possession of all knowledge. This means that higher consciousness is full of knowledge that is not “about something else”; it is just is the knowledge that everything else is some derivatie approximation of. People who take Mescaline or other psychedelic drugs [which suppress the default mode network in the brain] often say stuff like this: “its like everything just IS… it doesn’t “stand for something else”; everything just IS”, etc.

Therefore, Krishna consciousness can be defined as the non-redundant consciousness, where the Dharmic unfolding of Reality itself is the self-witnessing miracle called Kundalini. Therefore, the “Supreme Knowledge” of someone in Krishna Consciousness is not “knowledge about something”; it is the Experiential Knowledge of God.

Anyway! I am starting to post my own interpretations of some of my fav verses from the Gita and Bagavatum.

  • Bhagavad Gita
    1. Chapter 1: arjuna-viṣāda-yogaḥ
    2. Chapter 2: sāṅkhya-yogaḥ; sarva-gītārtha-sūtraṇam
    3. Chapter 3: karma-yogaḥ
    4. Chapter 4: jñāna-yoga; jñāna-karma-saṁnyāsa-yogaḥ; brahmārpaṇa-yogaḥ.
    5. Chapter 5: karma-saṁnyāsa-yogaḥ; saṁnyāsa-yogaḥ; sva-svarūpa-parijñānam
    6. Chapter 6: dhyāna-yogaḥ; ātma-saṁyama-yogaḥ; adhyātma-yoga
    7. Chapter 7: jñāna-vijñāna-yogaḥ; vijñāna-yoga; adhikāri-bhedenajñeya-dhyeya-pratipādya-tattva-brahma-nirūpaṇaṁ
    8. Chapter 8: akṣara-para-brahma-yogaḥ; tāraka-brahma-yoga; adhikāri-bhedenākṣara-para-brahma-vivaraṇaṁ
    9. Chapter 9: rāja-vidyā-rāja-guhya-yogaḥ; adhikāri-bhedenarāja-vidyā-rāja-guhya-yogaḥ;
    10. Chapter 10: vibhūti-yogaḥ; adhikāri-bhedenavibhūti-yogaḥ
    11. Chapter 11: viśva-rūpa-darśana-yogaḥ
    12. Chapter 12: bhakti-yogaḥ
    13. Chapter 13: kṣetra-kṣetrajña-yogaḥ; prakṛti-puruṣa-viveka-yogaḥ
    14. Chapter 14: guṇa-traya-vibhāga-yogaḥ
    15. Chapter 15: puruṣottama-yoga
    16. Chapter 16: daivāsura-sampad-vibhāga-yoga
    17. Chapter 17: śraddhā-traya-vibhāga-yoga
    18. Chapter 18: mokṣa-saṁnyāsa-yogaḥ; paramārtha-nirṇayaḥ; saṁnyāsa-yog

Srimad Bhagavatam

  1. Canto 1, Chapter 1; Text 2