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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

HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL?

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A Krsna conscious person is above duality because he does not hesitate to act in any way for the satisfaction of Krsna. Therefore he is steady both in success and in failure. These signs are visible when one is fully in transcendental knowledge. 

One should follow in the footsteps of great acaryas who are in the disciplic succession and thereby attain success.

A Krsna conscious person has no desire for self-satisfaction. His criterion of success is the satisfaction of Krsna, and thus he is the perfect sannyasi, or perfect yogi. Lord Caitanya, the highest perfectional symbol of renunciation, prays in this way:

na dhanam na janam na sundarim
kavitam va jagad-isa kamaye
mama janmani janmanisvare
bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi
 [Cc. Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4]

"O Almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy beautiful women. Nor do I want any number of followers. What I want only is the causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth." Bg 6.1

The yoga practitioner should be determined and should patiently prosecute the practice without deviation. One should be sure of success at the end and pursue this course with great perseverance, not becoming discouraged if there is any delay in the attainment of success. Success is sure for the rigid practitioner. 

Regarding bhakti-yoga, Rupa Gosvami says:

utsahan niscayad dhairyat
tat-tat-karma-pravartanat
sanga-tyagat sato vrtteh
sadbhir bhaktih prasidhyati

"One can execute the process of bhakti-yoga successfully with full-hearted enthusiasm, perseverance, and determination, by following the prescribed duties in the association of devotees and by engaging completely in activities of goodness." (Upadesamrta 3) Bg 6.24

- From the Bhagavad-gita As It Is

 
 

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    • HOW TO NOT BE OVERWHELED BY OTHER PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS

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    Q: When I speak to people about their problems, I get overwhelmed with or drained by their problems. What to do?

    A: You need to change your perception of their problems and your role as a helper. The problems people face are not meant to crush them (or you). They are meant to help them learn, grow and become stronger. Your role is to help them see their problems as opportunities to make advancement and raise consciousness. Then their problems are not a burden even for them, what to speak of you. With that fresh spiritual perspective, their problems become an exciting challenge and opportunity.

    The  best way to help people is to help them help themselves. In order to do that, they need to struggle in order to get stronger and wiser. You are not a problem solver but a facilitator of their growth and empowerment. In this way you do greater service for them then simply helping them.

     
     

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    • SPIRITUAL WISDOM-Must Read!

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    BY BHAKTISIDDHANTA SARASVATI

    1. We are put to test and trial in this world. Only those who attend the kirtana of the devotees can succeed.

    2. Every spot on earth where discourses on God are held is a place of pilgrimage.

    3. Possession of objects not related to Krsna is our main malady.

    4. Let me not desire anything but the highest good for my worst enemies.

    5. As dalliance with the body in luxury increases, so wanes the spirit of service of the Lord.

    6. Those favored by God find their paths set by thorns.

    7. There is no peace or happiness in our worldly life. Circumstances create turmoil and annoyance.

    8. Chant the maha mantra loudly and with attachment. This will drive away inertia, worldly evils and pests.

    9. Be indifferent to bazaar gossips, stick firmly to your cherished goals, no lack or impediments of the world will ever stand in your way.

    10. Pay due respects to the extroverts of the world, but do not be appreciative of their manners and conduct. They are to be shaken off from your mind.

    11. A devotee feels the presence of God everywhere, but one averse to the Lord denies His existence anywhere.

    12. You cannot appreciate transcendental matters with the reasoning of the world. It is sheer nonsense to decry them with the measuring stick of your intellect.

    13. To recite the name of Sri Krsna is bhakti.

    14. Life is for the glorification of topics on Hari. If that is stopped, then what need is there to carry on life.

    15. Physical illness with Hari-bhajana is preferred to physical fitness without Hari-bhajana.

    16. Our span of life on earth is short. Our life will be crowned with success if the body wears out with constant discourses on Hari.

    17. We are here on earth not to work as artisans for making big buildings with wood and stone but to work only as messengers for the teachings of Sri Caitanya Deva.

    18. A sycophant (a person who acts obsequiously toward someone in order to gain advantage; a servile flatterer) is neither a guru or a preacher.

    19. To transform the adverse desires of the jivas is the supreme duty of the most merciful. To rescue one person from the stronghold of Mahamaya is an act of superb benevolence, far superior to opening innumerable hospitals.

    20. Unless we are devoted to God, secularism shall not leave us.

    21. Look within. Amend yourself, rather than pry into the frailties of others.

    22. In this world of Maya, averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends for Hari-bhajana.

    23. The Lord, Gaurasundara, puts His devotees in various difficulties and associations to test their patience and strength of mind. Success depends on their good fortune.

    24. When faults in others misguide and delude you – have patience, introspect, find faults in yourself. Know that others cannot harm you unless you harm yourself.

    25. I wish that every selfless, tender-hearted person of Gaudiya Math will be prepared to shed two hundred gallons of blood for the nourishment of the spiritual corpus of every individual of this world.

     
     

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    • OUR MISSION

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    Our mission is that we want to see everyone happy.


    Sarve sukhino bhavantu. 


    People do not know how to become happy. They do not take the standard path to become happy. They manufacture their own way. That is the difficulty. 


    Therefore, Ṛṣabhadeva gave this advice to his sons: "My dear boys, just undergo austerity for transcendental realization." 


    Everyone is performing austerity. This boy I know—he had to go to a foreign country to learn commercial management. Now he is well situated. In this way. everyone must undergo some austerity for future life. So why not take that austerity for permanent happiness? 


    You have to purify your existence and your body. As many times as you accept a material body, you will have to change it. But as soon as you get a spiritual body, there is no question of change. 


    You already have a spiritual body. Now, due to our material contamination, we are developing the material body. But if we associate with spiritual life, then we shall develop a spiritual body.


    - Srila Prabhupada, Perfect Questions Perfect Answers 

     
     

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    • IF HE IS INTELLIGENT

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    People are suffering. Let them have this knowledge and be happy. Our proposal is sarve sukhino bhavantu. That is Vedic civilization: "You all be happy." 


    The Vedic civilization is not "Oh, here is very nice, fat. Oh, you have got money. Let me exploit you and bluff you and take your money." That is not Vedic civilization. Vedic civilization is to think, "Oh, let everyone be happy." Sarve sukhino bhavantu: "Everyone be happy." 


    So we are preaching this Kṛṣṇa consciousness cult. It is not a cult. It is an actual, the fact for solving all problems. People should know. And if he is intelligent, he'll accept it. If he's intelligent. Because kṛṣṇa yei bhaje sei baḍa catura. Without being very intelligent, nobody can become Kṛṣṇa conscious. It is not possible. Less intelligent persons cannot do it. It is meant for the first-class intelligent men.


    Srila Prabhupada

     
     

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