Understanding rasa dance?--4 August 2024 (C.E.538)

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Can an Unrealized Person understand the Rasa Dance?

One time, while Prabhupāda was eating jackfruit, he joked about the taste of jackfruit. A man in a foreign land tried to describe jackfruit to a friend, but he confessed that there was no way to describe it unless you tasted it. When the friend insisted on some verbal description, the man replied that if you were to drink sugarcane juice through a Muslim’s beard, then you might understand the taste of the jackfruit. Prabhupāda said that attempts to understand the rāsa dance of Kṛṣṇa by unrealized persons are like that.

So instead of speculating on the rasa dance we should learn about it from Srila Prabhupada.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Questions and Answers

My Dear Respected Gurudeva.
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

How to avoid the fallacy of half-hen logic?

Sincerely yours,
Kaspars

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA

My Dear Kaspars,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Half-hen logic means that the owner of the hen did not like the head of the hen because he had to feed that end of the hen. And he liked the other end of the hen because it laid eggs. So the foolish man cut off the head of the hen and threw it away keeping only the end of the hen that laid eggs. The rascal became unhappy when he saw that the hen was dead and unable to lay eggs.

This is mentioned in Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 5.176

ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya
Half-hen logic.

It refers to a fool who only wanted to accept Lord Caitanya and not accept Lord Nityananda. By this foolishness he fell down from devotional service.

To avoid this you must fully surrender to both Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda.

I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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