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Appearance of Bhagavad Gita (Gita Jayanti)
Appearance of Bhagavad Gita (Gita Jayanti)
Appearance of Bhagavad Gita (Gita Jayanti)
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.
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