bhaktajan 0 Report post Posted June 27, 2008 BG 10.34 . . . Among women I am fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience. PURPORT . . . The seven opulences listed—fame, fortune, fine speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness and patience—are considered feminine. If a person possesses all of them or some of them they become glorious. If a person is famous as a righteous man, that makes him glorious. Sanskrit is a perfect language and is therefore very glorious. If after studying one can remember a subject matter, a person is gifted with a good memory, or smrti. And the ability not only to read many books on different subject matters but to understand them and apply them when necessary is intelligence (medha), another opulence. The ability to overcome unsteadiness is called firmness or steadfastness (dhrti). And when one is fully qualified yet is humble and gentle, and when one is able to keep his balance both in sorrow and in the ecstasy of joy, he has the opulence called patience (ksama). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bhaktajan 0 Report post Posted March 9, 2009 Krishna is full in all (6) opulences—namely: 1) strength, 2) wealth, 3) fame, 4) beauty, 5) knowledge and 6) renunciation. So it seems that beauty is a masculine opulence? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bhaktajan 0 Report post Posted March 9, 2009 In his Bhagavat-sandarbha, Srila Jiva Gosvami states: “The complete conception of the Absolute Truth is realized in the Personality of Godhead because He is almighty and possesses full transcendental potencies. The full potency of the Absolute Truth is not realized in the brahmajyoti; therefore Brahman realization is only partial realization of the Personality of Godhead. O learned sages, the first syllable of the word bhagavan (bha) has two meanings: the first is ‘one who fully maintains,’ and the second is ‘guardian.’ The second syllable (ga) means ‘guide,’ ‘leader’ or ‘creator.’ The syllable (van) indicates that every being lives in Him and that He also lives in every being. In other words, the transcendental sound bhagavan represents infinite: knowledge, potency, energy, opulence, strength and influence —all without a tinge of material inebriety.” Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites