bhakti (11)
prema dhana vina vyartha daridra-jivana
dasa kari vetan more deha prema dhana
Life without Love is useless and poor they say,
Appoint me in Thy service, Oh Lord with Love as my pay.
"Similarly, we must find out the essential part of a living being which is always companion with him. That part of constant companion of the living being is his eternal quality, and the eternal part of the living being's quality is his eternal religion."
We all feel spiritual life, the flow of bhakti shakti as it were, that sustains our life, that brings us aesthetic pleasure and meditative regard of great unending ever-fresh Beauty and even innocence. We may constantly worship with highest regards this Source of our life, the lotus feet. And what or Who is that Source? Even Krsna worships Her lotus feet, and the feet of His Parents.
If we constantly respect, cherish, honor and serve this flow of nectar, understanding that it is the most precious well of life overflowing and sustaining us against an ocean of nothing, then we shall not commit offenses due to centuries of bad-conditioned mind or current occupation by demons. We are living within a vain and bewildering demon-infested plane of existence. Earth current makes total purity everywhere always next to impossible, like living in a cake filled with worms. But we can be sincere and steady in determination to serve Srila Prabhupada despite the fluctuations in the world around us, a
YES ! , we have No Automatic
From Srila Prabhupada's Gita, " [the jiva in the material body is ] ...as if on a machine made of material energy."
Imagine yourself living in a rich human culture. You are driving down the endless gorgeous avenues, following the signs, the well-maintained road, obeying for the better part all the safety rules, and, you always have the brakes. It is smooth and natural, well planned, well outlined, well executed, it is orchestrated nicely, things go on as if on automatic...
But you waver after a while in your comfort, you fall asleep, ....and suddenly ! your car veers. While your head dropped, greater laws took force. Your loss of awareness almost led to disaster. But, fortunately, you shockingly awaken and correct the deviation...
But enough of the analogy. As you guessed, it will come down to this;
Your Conscious Voluntary Participation is AT ALL TIMES NECESSARY, in spiritual life. THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC, and There is NO FORCE.
There is Free Will, a will
pamho tamohara prabhu agtACBSP!
This comment come from the sublime nectar on the vani seva of our guru maharaj and is to help the new comers of SRILA PRABHUPADA spirit net,to become a krsna conscious person. the living entity must come to the paltform of acintya abheda bheda tattvam. that means that all the forms of life materially and spiritually are SRI KRSNA and in the same time, different from SRI KRSNA, Who said in the SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA that the matter and the spirit are within HIS supreme personality of godhead, almost everyone is trapped in the false images of the fake reflection which is making by contaminate substances, and unless one realized that this fake image is also SRI KRSNA, one can't become krsna conscious, but keep on to take birth and die alone with a lot of troubles to overcome life after life. that's why our beloved acharya used to repeat very often how important is to become a living entity conscious of SRI KRSNA.
Of course the material nature with all h
pamho tamohara prabhu agtACBSP,
As we know to follow the instruction of SRILA PRABHUPADA means to chant the maha mantra hare krsna as much as we can at brahma muhurta time. by listening the SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM class daily in this way we are serving SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA directly until we realize that everything is krsna and in the same time different from SRI KRSNA like the milk come from the cow but the milk is not the cow. we can become krsna conscious by meditating on the sublime vani seva of SRILA PRABHUPADA constantly. we can become blissful again beyond the factor time and the five seeds of sinful activities, because one through the same factor time become rich in knowledge coming in from yato bhaktir adhoksaje by hrisikena hrisikesa sevanam bhaktir ucyate. this is bhakti.
With the senses and mind purify completely free from desire niskama, although almost everyone start the bhakti yoga through the sakama stage like dhruva maharaj did, but at the end a such exalted and determina
Courtesy Ines Naradic, ie Naradakunda devi dasi; Meaning of Perfect
Prabhupada: Yes. Acarya is explained, bhakti-samsanah: “One who’s preaching the cult of devotional service, he’s acarya.” Then why should you find any discrepancy?
Jayadvaita: Because we see … For instance, sometimes the acarya may seem to forget something or not to know something, so from our point of view, if someone has forgotten, that is an imperfection.
Prabhupada: Then you do not understand. Acarya is not God, omniscient. He is servant of God. His business is to preach bhakti cult. That is acarya.
Jayadvaita: And that is the perfection.
Prabhupada: That is the perfection. Hare Krsna.
Jayadvaita: So we have a misunderstanding about what perfection is?
Prabhupada: Yes. Perfection is here, how he is preaching bhakti cult. That’s all.
Satsvarupa: Prabhupada, in one purport in the Bhagavad-gita, you write that a disciple of a bona fide spiritual master is supposed to know everything.
Prabhupada: Yes, if he follows th
Shishir Katote R Does vaidhi bhakti refer to sadhana bhakti and bhava bhakti to raganuga bhakti? I find it more of a preaching strategy that vaidhi bhakti gets converted to raganuga bhakti. Why? Sadhana-bhakti arises from nirguna-sraddha or paramarthiki sastriya sraddha arising out of visuddha-sattva. Brahma-Samhita (5.61) clearly states that the caliber of sadhya-bhakti (the stage of siddhi or perfection) depends on the caliber of sadhana-bhakti (i.e. bhavana). Vide – “…yādṛśī yādṛśī śraddhā siddhir bhavati tādṛśī…”. Hence, the sadhana-bhakti is also part of uttama-bhakti, though not its paramount stage. JG writes in his vaisnava-tosani commentary to SB 10th canto that "sraddha tu raty-ankura-rupa jayate..." or that this paramarthiki sraddha arises as a seed of the actual rati or bhava. If bhava and prema are visuddha-sattvatmika (as explained in BRS 1.3.1 and BRS 1.4.1), then the seed of that bhava and prema will also be visuddha-sattvatmika – making it to be uttama also (b
It seems every Indian thinks the most important thing Krishna stresses in the Bhagavad-gita is that “You should do your duty.” Krishna's instructing Arjuna to do his duty as a ksatriya and fight in the battle is certainly a very strong theme in Bhagavad-gita:
tasmāt sarveṣu kāleṣu mām anusmara yudhya ca
mayy arpita-mano-buddhir mām evaiṣyasy asaṁśayaḥ "Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me, and at the same time you should continue your prescribed duty and fight. With your mind and activities always fixed on Me, and everything engaged in Me, you will attain to Me without any doubt." (Bg. 8.7)
Arjuna is a ksatriya, a fighter, and therefore his duty is to fight. All political avenues have been explored and there is no alternative to the fight. Therefore it is Arjuna’s duty to fight. And Krishna is instructing him to fight. The situation is quite difficult for him however because practically speaking all the soldiers on the battlefield on both sides are Arjuna's frie |