PART 1
- The Madhurya Kadambini sheds light on Siva-tattva.
- Explanation of two types of Brahma: Vairaja Brahma (jiva-koti-brahma/jiva-tattva) and Hiranyagarbha Brahma (Isvara-koti-brahma/Isvara-tattva).
- When a jiva attains the qualification for the Brahma position, he receives sakti from the Lord to be able to assume the function of creation.
- A funny story of how the proud Brahma sent a letter of resignation to Lord Visnu.
- The jiva who performs perfectly in the Brahma position attains the Siva position.
- Siva’s duty is to destroy, to perform the different pralayas. He deals with tama-guna.
- Nutrition is sattva-guna and creation is raja-guna.
- Explanation of two types of Siva: jiva-koti-Siva (Kailash Siva) and Isvara-koti-Siva (Sadasiva).
- Inappropriately, the Mayavadis and Advaitavadis take advantage of this Vedic truth (jiva and Isvara-koti…) and say that the jivas are God.
- Sadasiva is Visnu-tattva, but in rasa-vicara, He is Gopisvara Mahadeva.
- The Lord is fully conscious, Caitanya. Two types of conscious being: Isvara-caitanya and jiva-caitanya.
- Advaitavadis do not accept the concept/reality of jiva because by recognizing the existence of jiva, the two are established: Bhagavan and jiva, and the difference between them.
- Some examples that advaitavadis use to try to maintain their confusing philosophy that jivas are Brahma/God.
- Advaitavadis took 1 finger, but Madhvacarya raises 2 fingers: Brahma and Sakti.
- Two types of jiva: baddha-jiva and mukta-jiva.
- Isvara-abhista-jiva is the one who receives power from the Lord, and they are of two types: jnana-bhakti-sadhaka, and the other is completely absorbed in the service of the Lord.
- Detailed explanation about brahma-sayujya pursued by jnanis and impersonalists. They acquire a lot of knowledge but do not reach the essence of knowledge.
- Funny and important katha of cabbage: advaitavadis and mayavadis only say neti-neti (it is not this, it is not this) because they do not enter into the meaning of brahma, they acquire knowledge like a cabbage that has no essence.
- Brahma-sayujya (immersion in the brahman effulgence) is like spiritual suicide, but more dangerous is Isvara-sayujya (immersion in the Paramatma) because there is no turning back.
- Siva’s position is not at all easy, destroying it is very difficult. The jiva will never become Brahma/God. And Mahaprabhu defeats the arrogant philosophy of Kesava Kasmiri.
- Important explanation about vivartavada (theory that transformation is illusion); pratibimbavada (theory of reflection); vastu-parinamavada (transformation theory: the Lord Himself transforms Himself to manifest the jivas and the spiritual and material world; and Mahaprabhu emphasizes sakti-parinamavada and dualism: acintya-bheda-abheda tattva.
PART 2
