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Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna

Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna
Gopis performing Devotional Service to the Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna

Iron age of addiction,Knowledge of Sankhya-Bhakti Yoga

In this iron age,people are also iron hearted. One's ability to make the most of sense enjoyment is considered advanced civilization now. Truth is looked down upon,but Word jugglery which covers the truth is appreciated.Religious principles are considered obselete&only meant for old timers. What a pity? No one knows what is good for their own self. All have become mad men addicted to the abominable Habits of nasty lust,greed,pride,envy,anger,madness. These habits have
brought only self-destruction and destruction to those around all the time in the past,present and in future as well. This is an age of addiction. We are getting addicted to unwanted things even without our knowledge.
The same activities dancing,singing,sporting which when performed in clubs would otherwise bind us in the cycle of birth&death would liberate us when performed in front of Krishna in His temple for His pleasure. What's the difficulty? The result is twofold.We revive our lost Love for God. Other thing is We get released from the clutches of material energy simultaneously without even endeavoring for it separately.

The senses are like venomous serpents which need a better engagement like a snake charmer charming the snakes. The charm of the bluish boy standing on the banks of the river Yamuna alone can keep the senses intoxicated&free from the poison of the iron age. 

It's actually the same material elements transformed into poison because of the enviousness of snake. The same material elements transformed to different ones by the consciousness of the living entity. Food is converted to blood in the process of digestion, the body of a man automatically converts his blood to semen by his thinking of a woman, a mother her blood to milk to feed the baby. All this is acintya-inconceivable. The nails, hair that are growing are also inconceivable to us.

In the actual sense,we are simply observers and only choice makers with what is provided to us by nature. Even the evacuation which is our normal day to day activity is controlled by a demigod. 

" Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment"- BG-3.5


Therefore,knowledge of the real self as soul,the field of
activities-body,nature,the controller-The Supreme Lord,the actor,the
actions,time are knowable&considered as knowledge by Krishna
Himself.Besides this anything else is ignorance. Only a pure devotee
of Krishna can completely understand this knowledge which
differentiates the material elements-jadam from the
Spirit-Cetanam,conscious entity,which is to be knowable.

This is why Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that the Sankhya philosophy
is already contained in Bhakti Yoga and only the less intelligent
class of men make a distinction between sankhya-yoga and bhakti-yoga.

--
Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com



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Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com


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Drops of Bhakti!

1. If one has money , he spends it for sense gratification when that
becomes uncontrolled one does sinful activities.
2. In varnashrama dharma one has rules , they are allowed to have
money but it should be spent in a lawful way and not sinful.
3. According to the guna also the rules changes , a person in sathva
gun has to follow more rules than the others.
4. Bhakthi is beyond the gunas and it is for everybody , one who is in
or above or below varnashrama dharma can practise bhakthi.
5. Only qualification is for bhakthi is faith and the hope is that
one will ultimatly transcend the whole system and simply dedicate
everything to the supreme lord.
6. The principle of bhakthi is superior ,when other rules obstruct
bhakthi they can be given up-HH.Bhanu Swami Maharaj SB#5.14.7
Source#SB notes from Priyadarshini Mataji

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Material nature seems to produce life,but Supreme Lord is the life force in everything that pervades [BG.14.03]

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is | Part [BG.14.03]

TEXT 3:

mama yonir mahad brahma

tasmin garbham dadhamy aham

sambhavah sarva-bhutanam

tato bhavati bharata

TRANSLATION:

The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is
that Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births of all living
beings, O son of Bharata.

PURPORT:

This is an explanation of the world: everything that takes place is due to the
combination of kshetra and kshetra-jna, the body and the spirit soul. This
combination of material nature and the living entity is made possible by the
Supreme God Himself. The mahat-tattva is the total cause of the total cosmic
manifestation; and that total substance of the material cause, in which there
are three modes of nature, is sometimes called Brahman. The Supreme Personality
impregnates that total substance, and thus innumerable universes become
possible. This total material substance, the mahat-tattva, is described as
Brahman in the Vedic literature (Mundaka Upanishad 1.1.9): tasmad etad brahma
nama-rupam annam ca jayate. The Supreme Person impregnates that Brahman with
the seeds of the living entities. The twenty-four elements, beginning from
earth, water, fire and air, are all material energy, and they constitute what
is called mahad brahma, or the great Brahman, the material nature. As explained
in the Seventh Chapter, beyond this there is another, superior nature—the
living entity. Into material nature the superior nature is mixed by the will of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thereafter all living entities are born
of this material nature.

The scorpion lays its eggs in piles of rice, and sometimes it is said that the
scorpion is born out of rice. But the rice is not the cause of the scorpion.
Actually, the eggs were laid by the mother. Similarly, material nature is not
the cause of the birth of the living entities. The seed is given by the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and they only seem to come out as products of material
nature. Thus every living entity, according to his past activities, has a
different body, created by this material nature, so that the entity can enjoy
or suffer according to his past deeds. The Lord is the cause of all the
manifestations of living entities in this material world.
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Translation and commentary by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada

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Varnasrama ensures the quality of relationships between people so they are satisfied physically, mentally, and emotionally, and can thus peacefully execute their spiritual duties

Varnasrama ensures the quality of relationships between people so they are satisfied physically, mentally, and emotionally, and can thus peacefully execute their spiritual duties.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami, Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 1, Chapter 19

Devotional service is very simple. It can be attained in a moment. It is a matter of changing perspective. We just have to change our idea that we are the controller and enjoyer to the idea that God is the controller and enjoyer. The whole thing is to convince our mind that devotional service is OK. We worry about losing our identity. If I give up my material identity, will I be maintained? Will things go OK?

We are materially attached because we are in illusion thinking that the material world is eternal and full of happiness. Thus the Bhagavatam is always reminding us that this world is temporary and full of misery. It is not required to tell people that material endeavor is useless since by knowing this world is temporary and miserable, people can figure it out.

Vedic principles involve applying transcendental ideas to the material world.

When devotees would criticize other devotees Srila Prabhupada would correct them by telling them to first take up the service of those they were criticizing, and then they could criticize.

An uttama-bhakti (first class devotee) can be in bhava or prema . From bhava one can fall down, as did King Bharata. So a first class devotee can fall down, contrary to what some people think.

Varnasrama is to insure the depth and quality of the relationships between people so they are satisfied physically, mentally, and emotionally, and can thus peacefully execute their spiritual duties. It is not an economic system. Economics is there so that the other can go on.

Fire analogy: Let say you have a big pile of wood. Some is dry. Some is wet. Some has mud on it. Some has lichens growing on it. And you have a little flame. So what do you focus on, the little flame or the big pile of wood with all its little defects? If you focus on the flame, in time the pile of wood will become a lump of ashes. A devotee focuses on the flame.

In varnasrama one is classified according to one's prominent interests, activities, and abilities, as persons may have characteristics of multiple varnas or asramas.

It is not a problem that people have anarthas (unwanted desires) in the heart. It is a problem when they do not identify them and try to purify or remove them.

Bhaktivinoda Thakura advised that periodically we should analyze our situation and try to increase the quality of our service. If we understand where we are actually at, then we can see how to progress.

Our strategy should be to adjust our situation so the anarthas do not bother the spark of devotion we are fanning. While doing this cultivation, we should focus on the spark of devotion not the anarthas.



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Making a connection with Krishna part 2

 
 

Sent to you by dinesh via Google Reader:

 
 

via kksblog.com by hina on 1/24/12

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta part 7

In South Africa one of our leading devotees, who was the head of the BBT. He used to be a Christian activist. He used to go around, putting brochures in people's hand. When he saw the devotees he thought:

" Let me go and save those guys!"

So he went to the harinama party, and stood there with this brochure and was trying to give it to someone, but everyone was involved in the kirtan, and therefore no one was taking it. Until finally one of them said:

"Oh, we've only to take that? Okay I will take it".

And he walked away.

"I saved him! I saved him!"

But when he got home, he was thinking:

"They looked really happy, did those guys!"

And it impressed him so much that he actually went to the temple and became a devotee, and now he is a big leader in South Africa!

1st Devotee: I know a Prabhu who used to be a roller skater in Denmark, and had an attitude, within the roller skaters and the skateboarders' environment. Every time he saw the harinama party come by, then he would throw things at them, such as food, rocks and whatever he could find. And he is now living here in Mayapur!

2nd Devotee: There was a lawyer named Mahaprabhu, who lived in Chowpatty, and had joined the movement around in 1978. He was a gṛhastha and had another job. For some reason or other, he was involved in a case, and someone wanted him killed. So that person had hired a hit man, to go and kill Mahaprabhu. So this hit man came to the Chowpatty temple to kill Mahaprabhu. He came to the temple and found the devotees to be so overwhelmingly friendly and nice that he too became a devotee!


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