God-human counsels

[Chris Beetle]

At 10:53 AM 1/22/99 PST, you wrote:
>Dr. Ganesan writes:
>>  What I originally meant was God-to-Human conversations.
>> Counsels between humans, mostly men, are rampant in Sanskrit.
>> The radical difference in Gita is it is God's counsel to
>> a Man which is unknown even after the advent of Gita in
>> Hinduism.
>
>I do not know how you can say this. In post-Gita Hinduism,
>God-human counsels are very prominent.  The Puranas are
>full of them. One need only look at the Bhagavata Purana,
>or the (Vaishnava, Saiva, or SAkta) Agamas to see this.
>One may argue that this too is the influence of Buddhism,
>either through the Gita or directly, but God-human counsels
>certainly aren't "unknown".

According to the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, even more recently, about 500
years ago, there was the instruction of Rupa and Sanatana Goswamis by the
divine incarnation Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu related in the Sri
Caitanya-caritamrta by Krishna das Kaviraj Goswami.  The Goswamis were so
inspired by Lord Caitanya's inspiration they went on to compile many books
on the practice of Krishna-bhakti based on their study of the revealed
scriptures.

Chris Beetle