Appearance of Bhagavad Gita (Gita Jayanti)

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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati opposed employing the word jayanti for birthdays of eminent

national figures, for according to several Sastriya references given in chapter fifteen of Hari-bhakti-
vilasa, jayanti indicates the specific time when the star Rohini is conjoined with the moon on the
krsna-paksa astami of the month of Bhadra, and thus exclusively refers to the avirbhava-tithi of
Krsna. However, Gaura being nondifferent from the original Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna,
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati also approved and employed the term Gaura-jayanti for the
avirbhava-tithi of Gaura.

(From Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava, Vol 1, Page 335)

This clears your question.

However, someone may say: Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati adopted Jayanti for Gaura on the basis that
Gaura is nondifferent from Krsna. Then why don't we adopt to Bhagavad-gita which is also
nondifferent from Krsna?

Well. the answer is simple. We are not Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. And if we adopt that logic, then
everything is non-different from Krsna. Better we stick to acharyas rather than finding new terms
which they never used.

Your servant
Sri Giridhari Dasa

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