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Day 4: Giriraj Dandavat Parikrama Musings

  • woke up today still pretty stoked about the opportunity to offer my body in continuous obeisances although having a nightmarish time with sleep
  • SB 10.9.18 appears prominently in my mind during japa: sva-mātuḥ svinna-gātrāyā visrasta-kabara-srajaḥ II dṛṣṭvā pariśramaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ kṛpayāsīt sva-bandhane “Because of mother Yaśodā’s hard labor, her whole body became covered with perspiration, and the flowers and comb were falling from her hair. When child Kṛṣṇa saw His mother thus fatigued, He became merciful to her and agreed to be bound.”
  • Krsna seeing her parisramam “comprehensive labor” which wasn’t only internal, but manifestly somatic—svinna-gātrāyā (perspiration)—then his krpa-sakti came to the fore and Krsna was bound by Mother Yaśoda
  • If I had to write a book about this experience I think I would called it Somatic Tears: [Insert cool tag line here]
  • Although I believe the śrama (labor) becomes comprehensive (pari) when heart-voice-body together perform obeisance (hṛd-vāg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te), there’s something very visceral and substantial and believable in physically sweating in hopes of “binding Krsna” (in case of pure bhakti sankalpa) or “obliging” his krpa for separate interest (in case of bhakti/mukti sankalpas)
  • The image of somatic tears as the currency (yajna) for genuine communion with Krsna is indelibly imprinted on my mind
  • Thank Krsna he sent me this meditation before I started today. It held me together as I was suffering allergy, making they whole process doubly harder.

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