R-s 3b ❇️ My position in relation to the Lord

❧ Cc Madhya 19.142–143 ❧

Ooooh man, I'm sitting at my desk after Maṅgala-ārati having stayed up the whole night (again) working on the last video. I was determined to get it done on Saturday like I said I would. Well, it's Sunday at 5:00AM but that'll have to do. I guess it's still Saturday in the West. I'm not really in the right mental state to write too much now, so you can just watch the video to see what I'd normally be writing here. Lol

Here's the video:

The verses we went over

Text 142

sūkṣmāṇām apy ahaṁ jīvaḥ
Kṛṣṇa says: “Among the minute particles (sūkṣma), I am the jīva.”

(quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.16.11).

Text 143

aparimitā dhruvās tanu-bhṛto yadi sarva-gatās

The jīvas are countless (aparimitā) but if (yadi) they were fixed (dhruvāḥ) in the bodies they accepted (tanu-bhṛtaḥ)and they were all-pervading (sarva-gatāḥ)

tarhi na śāsyateti niyamo dhruva netarathā

then (tarhi) You would have no sovereignty (na śāsyatā) over them, You wouldn’t be able to regulate (niyamaḥ) them, O Dhruva, who are fixed (dhruva) in Your divine svarūpa, and not otherwise (na itarathā).

ajani ca yan-mayaṁ tad avimucya niyantṛ bhavet

They are generated (ajani) and made from You (yat-mayam), so they can never become separated (avimucya) from the Supreme Truth (tat) [You]. Thus, You must be (bhavet) their controller (niyantṛ).

samam anujānatāṁ yad amataṁ mata-duṣṭatayā

Some suppose (anujānatām) that the jīvas are equal (samam) to You, such (yat) an idea is unacceptable (amatam). Such a view (mata) is full of faults (duṣṭa).

(quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.87.30)

Sanskrit Verse Meter

I also went over Sanskrit verse meter in the above video. Here's a screen shot of the above verse divided according to laghus and gurus. Find out more below.

The rules for determining laghu and guru syllables

There are two types of syllables: short syllables (laghu – light) and long syllables (guru – heavy). Short syllables use these short vowels:

Syllables made of short vowels are laghu.

a          i           u           ṛ

Syllables made of long vowels are guru.

ā          ī           ū         e          ai          o          au

Also any syllable that comes before a conjunct becomes a guru. A conjunct means two consonants joined together (meaning there’s no vowel in between). So an example of a conjunct is the “nd” in vande, so because “va” comes before nd, that va is considered a guru.

Also a short vowels coming before a visarga (that’s a ḥ with a dot under it) and an anusvāra (that’s an m with a dot over it ṁ) is guru.

So once you get that down, you will be able to decipher the meter for any Sanskrit verse!

Zoom meeting for recitations

In a little less than 2 1/2 hours from now, we will be starting a Zoom session to recite the verse we learned two days ago. I'm gonna see if I can get two hours of sleep in before it starts!

That's all for now! Jaya Śrī Rādhe! Zzzzz

Aspiring to please Śrīla Gurudeva and the Vaiṣṇavas,

-Madhukar das