{"id":72223,"date":"2025-03-25T01:53:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=72223"},"modified":"2025-03-24T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T02:32:06","slug":"the-smarana-dasa-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-smarana-dasa-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smarana-Dasa Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/a>The Smarana-dasa stage: the difference between Vaidha and Raganuga Bhava. The need for the latter<\/span><\/h2>\n

Smarana-dasa; tahate vaidha o raganugata bhavera bheda. Sesatirai prayojana<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two types of smarana: vaidha and raganuga. Meditation at the raganuga stage is not in the injunctions of the Sastras.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smarana resulting from attraction to madhurya-rasa quickly leads to attaining the state of bhavapana[1]<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>The gradual progress of the devotee following the path of Vaidha<\/span><\/h2>\n

Vaidha-bhaktera unnati-krame<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time of smarana, the devotee following the path of vaidha always considers what is favorable according to the injunctions of Sastra.<\/span><\/p>\n

On attaining bhava, the moment it appears, the devotee abandons the injunctions of Sastra, knowing that they are a disturbance.<\/span><\/p>\n

One gradually progresses from sraddha, nistha, ruci, and asakti, up to bhava. At the time of attaining one’s identity, bhava manifests.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/a>At the stage of Apana Dasa, there is no difference between those devotees who follow the path of Raganuga and those who follow Vaidha<\/span><\/h2>\n

Apana-dashaya raganuga o vaidha-bhaktera bheda nai<\/span><\/p>\n

The Veda-Smriti states that upon attaining bhava, there is no longer any difference between devotees who follow the path of raganuga and those who follow vaidha.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Attainment of one’s bhava.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cHarinama Cintamani (English)\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The Smarana-dasa stage: the difference between Vaidha and Raganuga Bhava. The need for the latter Smarana-dasa; tahate vaidha o raganugata bhavera bheda. Sesatirai prayojana There are two types of smarana: vaidha and raganuga. Meditation at the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":72224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-72223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-harinama-cintamani-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 20:42:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}