sheer stupidity, bizarre GV beliefs Options

[Brainiac]

Hehe, there's plenty more juice in that Brahmavaivarta Purana. Why hide the rasa, Ras?

[kalki]

Hehe, there's plenty more juice in that Brahmavaivarta Purana. Why hide the rasa, Ras?

when do we start a thread on silly GR beliefs?

[ras]

Hehe, there's plenty more juice in that Brahmavaivarta Purana. Why hide the rasa, Ras?

Isn't there though? I have just recently started to look at that. Now I feel like such a bumblefu*k for having gone on in Iskcon for years not knowing where so many of its teachings came from, such as worshiping a plant.

But hey, I just this morning learned how the gopis were born from Radha's armpits (if that's a synonym for "hair-pits"). And that you rot in hell for thinking that Krishna is any different from Radha. So now we know that Krishna has girl boobs. Life gets newer all the time as I approach old age.

I thought I read that you also rot in hell for not chanting the name Radha before Krishna's name. But I can't find it now so I'm not sure if I got that right. At any rate, it's all starting to sound something like this..

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[darwin]

But hey, I just this morning learned how the gopis were born from Radha's armpits

Beautiful

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[ePiTau]

But hey, I just this morning learned how the gopis were born from Radha's armpits (if that's a synonym for "hair-pits").

Nah, "hair-pits" are not armpits. The word is all over the place in medieval Hindu texts. You have certainly heard it in ISKCON during Brahmasamhita recitations.
Like in these two verses:

Brahma-saṁhitā 5.47
yaḥ kāraṇārṇava-jale bhajati sma yoga-
nidrām ananta-jagad-aṇḍa-sa-roma-kūpaḥ
ādhāra-śaktim avalambya parāṁ sva-mūrtiṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

Brahma-saṁhitā 5.48
yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya
jīvanti loma-vila-jā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ
viṣṇur mahān sa iha yasya kalā-viśeṣo
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

Here you have roma-kūpaḥ (hair cavities, hair holes, i.e. pores of the skin), and loma-vila-jāḥ (born from the hair-pits, vila = bila, i.e. hole, pit, cavity). Both roma and loma mean hair. The Sanskrit words for pores of the skin are roma-kūpaḥ, roma-garta, roma-randhra, roma-vila, etc..

Earlier than the Brahmavaivarta Purana, the Narada Purana mentions how the gopis came from the pores of Radha's skin:

Nārada-Purāṇa, Pūrva-Bhāga, 83.16
rādhāṅga-loma-kūpebhyo babhūvur gopa-kanyakāḥ | "From the pores of Rādhā's limbs the gopi girls came into existence."

And, finally, I am adding the mystic touch of the Brahmavaivarta:

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From The Goddess in India:
The Five Faces of the Eternal Feminine
(Dancing Nymphs, page 82)
By Devdutt Pattanaik

[ras]

And another thing I don't remember (other than hair-pits aren't hairy-pits ha ha)..

..was being told you would go to hell for not fasting on Janmastami. But here it is in technicolor..

Those who consume food during the birthday of Krsna earn the sin of enjoying the company of their mothers and besides earning the sin of Brahmahatya. Besides destroying the merits of crores of their earlier births, they are considered unfit for performing religious ceremony for the gods and the manes and have to remain in the kalasutra hell, till the sun and the moon last. The insect with sharp teeth bite them daily in hell. Thereafter getting redeemed they are reborn in the land of Bharata and serve as a cowherds for sixty thousands crores of years, a pig for hundred births, a jackal for seven births, a snake for seven births, a crow for seven births, and a deaf and dumb person suffering from leprosy. He always remains anxious thereafter. He is there born as an animal, a wild animal, a snake charmer, a thief, a vulture, a washerman and blacksmith and thereafter he is born as a temple priest. -Brahmavaivarta Purana Krsna-Janma-Khanda Chapter 8

This also brings to mind what happens when a birthday goes bad, such as when a boy doesn't get what he wants for his birthday..

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[ePiTau]

But hey, I just this morning learned how the gopis were born from Radha's armpits

Beautiful

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The Prākṛt poet Hāla wrote two poems for Darwin:

mālārīe vellahalavāhumūlāvaloaṇasaaṇho /
aliaṃ pi bhamaï kusumagghapucchiro paṃsulajuāṇo //

"Yearning to see her armpits, the sweet ones,
the loose young man repeatedly strolls, in circles
around the garland maker (and her flowers)
and asks, (pretendedly), for the prices."

Hāla wrote another poem on the same topic (I only have a German translation):
"Showing the newly plucked flowers, the garland maker girl also plucks apart,
with her raised, pretty armpits, the hearts of the adolescents."