{"id":75004,"date":"2025-12-11T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=75004"},"modified":"2025-07-20T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:53:48","slug":"the-perfection-of-all-bhajana-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-perfection-of-all-bhajana-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfection of all Bhajana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Radha-Kunda-e1753012362269.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-75005 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Radha-Kunda-e1753012362269-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Radha-Kunda-e1753012362269-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Radha-Kunda-e1753012362269.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>The Perfection of all Bhajana<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">By Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Bhaktivinode Thakur discusses the glories of Sri Radha Kunda in his piyusha-varshini commentary on the last verse of Srila Rupa Gosvami\u2019s Upadesamrita.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">sri-radha-krishnera svabhavika mahatmya varna-na-dvara sadhakera citte dridhata utpanna karibara abhipraye ekadasa slokera avatarana. sri radhika sri krishnera atisaya pranaya-vasati evam anya- priyajana apeksha sarvatabhave preshtha. munigana sastre ei-rupa utkarsha sri-radha-kunda sambandhe likhiyachena. kevala sadhaka-bhakta digera ta kathai nai, ye prema naradadi preshtha-vargera paksha-u durlabha, taha anayase bhaktipurvaka radha-kunde snana karile sei kunda pradana karena. sutaram radha-kundai samasta bhajana- parayana-digera-vasa-yogya sthana. aprakrita vraje aprakrita jiva aprakrita gopi-deha labha kariya sri-radha-kunde sviya guru-rupa sakhira kunje palya-dasi-bhave avasthiti karatah bahye nirantara namasraya-purvaka krishnera ashta-kaliya sevaya srimati radhikara paricarya karai sri-caitanya-caranasrita vyaktira bhajana-caturi.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the description of the natural glories of Sri Sri Radha Krishna<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, this eleventh verse is composed with the intention of solidifying the devotional consciousness of the practitioner of devotional service.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Srimati Radhika is the topmost abode of deep-rooted love of Krishna, and moreover She is superior in all respects to all other dear cowherd girls. The glories of Her kunda have also been described by the great sages in a similar way in the revealed scriptures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prema that is difficult to attain even for sages like Narada, what to speak of general practitioners, is attained by devotionally bathing in the waters of this kunda.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2028<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, its banks are the ideal residence for all those engaged in perfecting their devotional life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">The expertise of a living entity sheltered at the feet of Lord Chaitanya will be exhibited in three ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">1) he will externally chant and remember the asta-kaliya pastimes of the divine couple,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">2) he will internally serve Srimati Radharani by acquiring a spiritually perfected gopi body in the divine realm of Vrindavan, and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) he will always keep a mood of being the maintainer maid-servant<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the flowery bower<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> created by the sakhi who is one\u2019s guru<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cBrilliant As the Sun\u201d(English).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/brilliant-as-the-sun-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perfection of all Bhajana By Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura \u00a0 Bhaktivinode Thakur discusses the glories of Sri Radha Kunda in his piyusha-varshini commentary on the last verse of Srila Rupa Gosvami\u2019s Upadesamrita. \u00a0 sri-radha-krishnera svabhavika mahatmya &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-perfection-of-all-bhajana-3\/\" aria-label=\"The Perfection of all Bhajana\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":75005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-75004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-brilliant-as-the-sun-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 12:17:48","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\/75004","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\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}