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by Janaka Mahajana on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 5:15am
SB 9.14
Prayer to Radha
Arjuna inquires, whether he should cease work altogether or work with full knowledge.
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Chapter 5
Karma-yoga-Action in Krishna Consciousness
TEXT 1:
arjuna uvaca
sannyasam karmanam Krishna
punar yogam ca samsasi
yac chreya etayor ekam
tan me bruhi su-niscitam
TRANSLATION:
Arjuna said: O Krishna, first of all You ask me to renounce work, and then again You recommend work with devotion. Now will You kindly tell me definitely which of the two is more beneficial?
PURPORT:
In this Fifth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that work in devotional service is better than dry mental speculation. Devotional service is easier than the latter because, being transcendental in nature, it frees one from reaction. In the Second Chapter, preliminary knowledge of the soul and its entanglement in the material body were explained. How to get out of this material encagement by buddhi-yoga, or devotional service, was also explained therein. In the Third Chapter, it was explained that a person who is situated on the platform of knowledge no longer has any duties to perform. And in the Fourth Chapter the Lord told Arjuna that all kinds of sacrificial work culminate in knowledge. However, at the end of the Fourth Chapter, the Lord advised Arjuna to wake up and fight, being situated in perfect knowledge. Therefore, by simultaneously stressing the importance of both work in devotion and inaction in knowledge, Krishna has perplexed Arjuna and confused his determination. Arjuna understands that renunciation in knowledge involves cessation of all kinds of work performed as sense activities. But if one performs work in devotional service, then how is work stopped? In other words, he thinks that sannyasa, or renunciation in knowledge, should be altogether free from all kinds of activity, because work and renunciation appear to him to be incompatible. He appears not to have understood that work in full knowledge is nonreactive and is therefore the same as inaction. He inquires, therefore, whether he should cease work altogether or work with full knowledge.
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Translation and commentary by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Arjuna inquires, whether he should cease work altogether or work with full knowledge.
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It is said that everyday, Srimati Radharani would be requested by Mother Yasoda, to come and cook. Because she had once pleased the sage Dhurvasa Muni, and she had received the benediction, that whatever she cooked, would taste like nectar, and that whoever ate it, would never be plagued by any disease or any other discomfort.
So therefore, Mother Yasoda wanted that Srimati Radharani would come, and she sends a golden palanquin, and Radharani was carried like that while maidservants were fanning her on the way. In this way the opulence of Vrindavan was not just ordinary.
(Kadamba Kanana Swami 2nd September 2010)
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Tastes Like Nectar
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We must take shelter of our spiritual master. That is important. We must take shelter again and again otherwise we have no strength. Without taking shelter we will not be able to succeed in spiritual life, we will struggle. We will not be able to maintain our vows, or we will not be able to take vows without taking shelter. It is like that; it is crucial, it is the cutting edge.
If one wants to be on the cutting edge, that's the only way that it will work - otherwise Krsna consciousness cannot take us very far and then we become a social club:
'and it's Sunday again and it's so nice to be here! And we had such a nice birthday party last week and guess what…we're going to do it today! Yeahhhh! There were three birthdays this week and therefore we are so happy... may you never take birth again!' ...
Okay and you can have your cake and eat it too, but, 'may you never take birth again', it's nice to sing the song but how to do it? It's not so easy never to take birth again. And a slip in between the cup and the lip and before you know, another birth again! Hmmm…
So to never take birth again is more than just eating cake! It is really a matter of making a commitment of being brave, being very brave and to go before someone and to say:
'I am…yours!' It's a scary thing to do. Very scary to become someone's property- completely whatever such person says one must do! That is the nature of this guru-disciple relationship.
Transcribed by Savitri Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, S Africa Durban, September 2010)
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More Than Just Eating Cake
Bhartrihari says: "For food, I have what begging brings and that too tasteless and once a day; for bed, the earth; and for attendant, the body itself; for dress, I have worn out blanket made up of hundred patches; still alas! lust does not leave me."
There is no hope for you to have Self-realisation or knowledge of the Self if you are not well established in Brahmacharya. Brahmacharya is the master-key to open the realms of eternal bliss. Brahmacharya is the very foundation of Yoga. Just as a house that is built on a rotten foundation will surely fall down, so also you will fall down from your meditation if you have laid no proper foundation, viz., the attainment of perfect Brahmacharya. You may meditate for a period of twelve years and yet you will have no success in Samadhi if you have not destroyed the subtle lust or the craving-seed that lingers in the innermost recess of your heart. You will have to search out carefully this dire enemy - lust, that lies hidden in the various corners of your heart. Just as the fox hides itself in the bush, so also this lust hides itself in the substratum and corners of the mind. You can detect its presence only if you are vigilant. Intense self-examination is very necessary. Just as powerful enemies can be conquered only if you attack them from all sides, so also you can keep the powerful senses under control if you attack them from all sides, from within and without, from above and from beneath.
By Sri Swami Sivananda
Source : http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Brahmacharya/id/23506
Some light on being Self-Restraint!
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Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2010, Pretoria)
SB 9.19.8: Aggrieved by her husband's behavior with another, the she-goat thought that the he-goat was not actually her friend but was hardhearted and was her friend only for the time being. Therefore, because her husband was lusty, she left him and returned to her former maintainer.
SB 9.19.9: Being very sorry, the he-goat, who was subservient to his wife, followed the she-goat on the road and tried his best to flatter her, but he could not pacify her.
SB 9.19.10: The she-goat went to the residence of a brāhmaṇa who was the maintainer of another she-goat, and that brāhmaṇa angrily cut off the he-goat's dangling testicles. But at the he-goat's request, the brāhmaṇa later rejoined them by the power of mystic yoga.
Kadamba Kanana Swami: Yes, so here is a life just based on sex life which is based on getting one entangled in complications. Here the complications took extreme forms but when the he goat was not faithful to his wife, then she took revenge as we can see and he suffered severely!
"You are meant to serve my purposes and as long as you co operate with that then I love you, but if you don't then you will have difficulty!"
Spritual life is different and of course if we would all be pure devotees then it would be totally different but we are not pure devotees therefore even in spiritual life some of these elements come in and then what do we do? ...
Then at least bring as much Krishna, as much mercy into our life as we can get. Devotional service is causeless, that means you have no rights - you can say:
'I am a South African citizen I have rights, I have rights!'
You can demand your right and people have over the years demanded their rights, protest marches "we want our rights" and people are protesting for their rights but when it comes to Krishna we have no rights we cannot say:
"You must give me mercy, it's my rights"
No, its his mercy, it's his causeless mercy and if He wants to give He gives if He doesn't want to give He doesn't give and yet this mercy is so great that He can take us to spiritual world a perfect world if He desires so but we cannot say "I have a right, I have a right to go to the spiritual world!"
We don't, it's entirely up to Krishna. Therefore mercy - mercy is what we require and mercy is that one element in our life that we must embrace - Not a member of the opposite sex! but mercy we must embrace- that is the intelligent thing to do and as much mercy as possible and if we somehow or other can take it more and more then we can change the whole situation around…
Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
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Embrace the mercy, not the opposite sex
Jiva Rising
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Sweep your dusty soul spin your destiny
It's written in the stars your ship must sail it's chart
Escape the dungeons hole we must die to live
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Hear the seed of sound
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- Which was the highest scripture ?
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