Hare Krsna to all-pranams

SSR  2                  Choosing a Spiritual  Master         He appears before us  to reveal the light of the Vedas and to bestow upon us the blessings of  full-fledged freedom, after which we should hanker at every step of our  life’s journey.

   Gentlemen, our knowledge is so poor, our senses are so  imperfect, and our sources are so limited that it is not possible for  us to have even the slightest knowledge of the absolute region  without surrendering ourselves at the lotus feet of Sri Vyasadeva or his  bona fide representative. Every moment we are being deceived by  the knowledge of our direct perception. It is all the creation  or concoction of the mind, which is always deceiving, changing,  and flickering. We cannot know anything of the transcendental region  by our limited, perverted method of observation and experiment.  But all of us can lend our eager ears for the aural reception of  the transcendental sound transmitted from that region to this through  the unadulterated medium of Sri Gurudeva or Sri Vyasadeva.

…. All of us should hear him patiently. If we listen to the  transcendental sound without unnecessary opposition, he will surely have mercy  upon us. The Acarya’s Message is to take us back to our original home,  back to God.

Let me repeat, therefore, that we should hear him patiently, follow him in  the measure of our conviction, and bow down at his lotus feet for  releasing us from our present causeless unwillingness for serving the  Absolute and all souls.

   Personally, I have no hope for any direct service for the  coming crores of births of the sojourn of my life, but I am confident  that some day or other I shall be delivered from this mire of delusion  in which I am at present so deeply sunk. Therefore let me with all  my earnestness pray at the lotus feet of my divine master to allow me  to suffer the lot for which I am destined due to my past misdoings, but to let me have this power of recollection: that I am nothing but  a tiny servant of the Almighty Absolute Godhead, realized through  the unflinching mercy of my divine master. Let me therefore bow down  at his lotus feet with all the humility at my command.

Parrot like realization-SP

Hare Krsna to  all

Pranams

All glories to Srila  Prabhupada

Below we have a few different  lecture tidbits for you —

1. If we dont get the service of  Krsna, then repeated birth and death is our fate

2.for the kanistha is he says  Krsna is everywhere-he must have the practical realization

otherwise it is compared to  “parrot like” chanting and realization

3.the more one becomes expert in  Arcana (deity worhsip) the more he becomes spiritually advanced

4.the foolish person who makes up  his own path of bhakti is never successful

5.the greatest danger is when we  concoct or manufature our “own” process of worship of the Lord.

6.if one does not chant within  the acaryas methods of worship, this offense increases and gradually

it degrades into eventually we  will have no taste for devotional service.

7.if we say I dont need to wear  tilak/neck beads, etc, then we have not even begun on the spiritual  path.

8.a person who ignores the gurus orders never receives  the authority to chant Hare Krsna maha mantra

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

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761026SB.VRN — I have got already one body which is  klesada. Everyone has got

experience. No one is here who can say that “My body is  very nice.

There is no klesa. There is no pains and pleasure. I am  very perfect.”

That is not possible. As soon as you get a material body,  it must be

subjected to so many sufferings: adhyatmika, adhibautika,  adhidaivika.

Tribulations there must be. Material body means klesada.  Therefore the

Vedic civilization is to stop getting this material body.  That is

Vedic civilization. Not that  increase. That is explained in the

Bhagavad-gita. Two things are there. You must  accept, you must get the

service of Krsna. Otherwise you go on in this  way.

Mrtyu-samsara-vartamani. Asraddadhanan purusa  dharmasyasya parantapa

mam aprapya. If you don’t get Krsna, then there is no  other way. There

is no other alternative. The only alternative  is

mrtyu-samsara-vartmani. You get one body and again  you die, again get

another body. This will go on. Rsabhadeva, boys, said,  “This is not good.” Na sadhu manye yata atmano ‘yam asann api klesada asa  dehah.

   So  this culture, this education, is practically nil. Especially  in

Kali-yuga, it is very regrettable. But the  informations are there, the

science is there. If one is intelligent, he can take  advantage of this

science, Krsna consciousness, and mold his life  accordingly so that he

can stop this process of accepting a body which is  klesada. Klesada.

That is the perfection of life. And that can be  simply done very

easily if you simply study Krsna, if you come in this  temple and see

Krsna. Very simple method. Mayy  asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan

mad-asrayah. These are not our manufacture; Krsna says.  You come here.

The temple is meant for this purpose: that you come, see  Krsna, and be

attached to Krsna. The more you become attached to Krsna,  that is

called bhakti-yoga.

Then what will be the benefit? Suppose I understand you  (Krsna) very

perfectly. Then what will be the result? The result  is,tyaktva deham punar janma

naiti mam eti … Simply. If you simply know Krsna, then  this business, repetition of

birth and death, will stop. It is so simple thing. So we  should take

advantage of it and utilize our human form of life  perfectly.

   Thank  you very much. (end)

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Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

What follows is two short paragraphs from a lecture given by

Hare Krsna

701219SB.SUR                     Lectures
Prabhupada:…paramahamsa is the highest stage of perfection. Just like as   a
preacher we have to point out… Just like I told this boy, “You   sit
down like this.” But a paramahamsa will not say. A paramahamsa,   he
sees, rather: “He is all right.” He sees. But we should not   imitate
paramahamsa. Because we are preacher, we are teacher, we should   not
imitate paramahamsa. We must tell the right source, right   course.
Revatinandana: You must be higher than the paramahamsa   stage,
Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: I am lower than you. I am lower   than you.
Revatinandana: You are so beautiful. You are paramahamsa,   but still,
you are preaching to us.
Prabhupada: No, I am lower   than you. I am the lowest of the all
creatures. I am simply trying to   execute the order of my spiritual
master. That’s all. That   should be the business of everyone. Try best.
Try your best to   execute the higher order. That is the safest way of
progressing. One may   be in the lowest stage, but if he tries to
execute the duty entrusted upon   him, he is perfect. He may be in
lowest stage, but because he is trying   to execute the duty entrusted
to him, then he is perfect. ………