{"id":65543,"date":"2025-01-21T01:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=65543"},"modified":"2025-01-20T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:36:02","slug":"chastising-rasikananda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/chastising-rasikananda\/","title":{"rendered":"Chastising Rasikananda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chastising Rasikananda<\/span><\/h1>\n

One day Rasikananda became absent-minded while listening to a lecture on the Srimad Bhagavatam in the royal assembly in Ghantashila. Becoming angry at this, Syamananda Prabhu kicked him twice. Rasikananda Prabhu felt very embarrassed, and prostrating at his Gurudeva\u2019s lotus feet repeatedly requested his forgiveness. Feeling very joyful, he said that by receiving such mercy from Gurudeva in the form of these kicks, his life was blessed and that all his auspicious and inauspicious actions had been destroyed[1]<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Chastisement from the Guru is important for various reasons. Here is what Srila Prabhupada said about receiving chastisement from the spiritual master. \u201cTherefore, in the first chastisement, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was accepted as spiritual master. A spiritual master has the right to chastise. Father, spiritual master, they are advised to chastise. Putra\u1e41 ca \u015bi\u1e63ya\u1e41 ca t\u0101\u1e0dayen na tu l\u0101layet. So father and teacher is advised by C\u0101\u1e47akya Pa\u1e47\u1e0dita that “You should always chastise your son and disciple. Chastise.” T\u0101\u1e0dayet. T\u0101\u1e0dayet means “Simply chastise. Always find out the mistake.” Don’t be angry, but it is the business of the teacher and the father simply to find out your mistakes, not to find out your good things. T\u0101\u1e0dayen na tu l\u0101layet. L\u0101layet means patting: “Oh, my dear son, my dear boy, you are so nice. You have done…” Sometimes it is done, but it is the business of the teacher and the father to chastise. Never recognize the disciple’s business or son’s business as very good. Then they will be spoiled. That is the injunction of C\u0101\u1e47akya Muni. L\u0101lane bahavo do\u1e63\u0101\u1e25: “If you simply pat, then there will be so many faults.” L\u0101lane bahavo do\u1e63\u0101\u1e25. Do\u1e63\u0101\u1e25 means faults. T\u0101\u1e0dane bahavo gu\u1e47\u0101\u1e25: “And if you chastise, oh, they will be very much qualified.” T\u0101\u1e0dane bahavo gu\u1e47\u0101\u1e25, tasm\u0101t: therefore, putra\u1e41 ca \u015bi\u1e63ya\u1e41 ca t\u0101\u1e0dayen na tu l\u0101layet, “simply chastise. Don’t pat.” This is the injunction, moral injunction. So, as far as we are concerned, when our spiritual master used to chastise us, we took it as blessing. That was very nice. And he would chastise like anything. “Damn rascal, foolish, stupid,” anything, all good words. (Lecture on SB 2.9.4 — Japan, April 22, 1972)<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cSyamananda, the Joy of Radharani (English)\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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