bhaktivilasa

MuddugAre YasodA mungiti muthyamuvidu DidderAni mahimala Devaki suthudu caraNam 1 Anthanintha gollethala arachethi mAnikyamu PanthamAdey Kamsuni pAli vajramu KAnthula moodu lokAla Garudapachapoosa Chenthala mAlonunna Chinni Krishnudu caraNam 2 ratikeli rukminiki rangumovi pagadamu mithi gOvardhanapu Gomedikamu sathamye SankhachakrAla sandula vaidooryamu gathiyai mammu gAche KamalAkshudu caraNam 3 kAlinguni talapye gappina pushyarAgamu yelleti Sri VenkatAdri Indraneelamu pAlajalanidhilona bAyani Divya ratnamu bAluneevale dhrigi PadmanAbhudu Lord Venkateshwara is compared with precious gems in the form of Krishnavatar Leelas. Mother Yasoda is kissing the Bala Krishna (muDugare yasODa) and he is submerged in her kisses like in a tub of pearls (mungidi muTyamu). Like a ruby (mAnikyam) he is shining and for kamsa the demon he is strong as a diamond(Vajram). His consort RugminiÕs lips are like Coral (pagadam). When he is Govarda Giridhari, he is like gOdEDiga (a brown stone). He is wearing vaidUryam (another precious stone) in between his sanku and chakra. When he is dancing on the head of kAlinga, the serpant king, he glows like pushyaraga (yellow sapphire) and when he is Lord Venkateshwara, he is like indra nIlam (blue sapphire). On the whole he is like all the precious gem stones, always helping the devotees. http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c1182.html

what are you talking about ? But thats a really nice Vishnu Ashtotra thanks.

Don't feel miserable. Be happy. Or please share with some one about the thing that is making you miserable. Don't feel bad, everything can be fixed. As for the praying, the idea of religion is to give you bliss. You will not get bliss if you are miserable. So try to change whatever that is making you miserable. Do something nice for yourself or for someone. Cheer yourself up, life is not such a bad thing. This life has been given to you so that you can be happy. Try to be happy, if not for yourself then for God. Engage yourself in activities or try to solve the problem in a peaceful way, but don't continue feeling miserable like the guest here suggests because it will not help. Get out of that sad mood and start being happy.

Dear Ghariji, Bhakti vilasa means "some one who relishes in bhakti" . I saw similar names on this forum, so may be you have heard this name in the past?

"Hare Krsna Lust /images/graemlins/confused.gif Anger /images/graemlins/mad.gif Greed /images/graemlins/tongue.gif all as bad as each other. can't think which one is worse." Answer in good old bhagavad gita (3.36- 3.41): "Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrsni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force? The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world. As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the living entity is similarly covered by different degrees of this lust. Thus the wise living entity's pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire. The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him. Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bharatas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin (lust) by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization."

I started this thread, took up a name now. I appreciate your good spirited answers, thanks.