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Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja "CRYING SCHOOL"
CRYING, CRYING, CRYING IN THE HEART "HOW CAN I KNOW THESE THINGS"
Catur-viddha bhajante man janah sukrtino’rjuna, atho jijnasur artharthi jnani.....four types of sukrti - banta purus, they do My bhajan. Who are they? Arti, artharti, jijnasa, jnani.
One of them jijnasu arti—who has been put in a dangerous situation. To get out of that situation he offers prayer to Krsna isn't it?
Atharti—who is a poor man, suffering out of poverty. He also offers prayer to Krsna. Please do away with my body. Give me some wealth.
Here comes jijnasa. jijnasa means what?
Devotee: Inquisitive.
Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja: Inquisitive. Here Pariksit Maharaja is an inqusitive. Therefore he inquires. Understand. This comes here. Who is inquisitive, who wants to know what is paramatma tattva. Understand? What is paramatma tattva, isa tattva, jiva tattva, sakti tattva. Who am I? Do you follow? How can I understand Lord? Who is Lord? What relationship I have with Him? What is my duty? What do I want? What is needed? These are all inquiries. Who's very inqusitive to know these things he's jijnasa. He must inquire. Yes. Pariksit Maharaja, is inquisitive. He wants to know all these things therefore he inquires. So it is required, and that is one of the sukrti banta purusa, sukrtana.
He offers prayer to Krsna, 'Oh Krsna how can I know all these things, please help me.' He's very, very eager. He has strong desire to know all these things. Then Krsna, He's there in the heart, understands. "Yes, he's offering prayers to Me to understand all these tattvas. He's crying in the heart, crying, crying in the heart. Yes. How can I know all these things?" Then Krsna appears as guru, jamebe se prun.(?).............................. Who is there in the heart, Paramatma is known as caittya guru, he appears before such enquirer, inquisitive persons—jijnasu assuming a body. That is guru. Understand?
Therefore it is said, guru krsna-rupa hana sastrera pramane This is sastra pramana (sastric evidence) What is that verse, saksad dharitvena samasta sastra sastrair uktas tatha , sastrair ukta, it is said in sastra. Understand?
guru krsna-rupa hana sastrera pramane
guru-rupe krsna krpa karena bhakta-gane
"According to the deliberate opinion of all revealed scriptures, the spiritual master is non-different from Krsna. Lord Krsna in the form of the spiritual master delivers His devotees." Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 1.45
Caitanya-caritamrta says. Yes. You follow?
From: "HOW TO INQUIRE FROM GURU"
Srimad Bhagavatam 2.8.1 PARIS—24/07/1995
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es one of all painful endeavors in practicing religion, meditation, charity, deity worship and austerity.
It awards liberation to one who utters it even once.
Krsna-nama stands alone as the supreme nectar and sole treasure of my life".
Srila Sanatana Goswami
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HOW TO MAINTAIN EAGERNESS IN SERVING SRILA GURUDEVA
Question: I was eager to have guru. Now I have guru, but how do I maintain this constant eagerness?
Gour Govinda Swami: You must maintain it by thinking, “Out of Krishna’s mercy I met my guru. But how I can get always the association of my guru?” You should be very eager to always have the association of guru and listen to him. Unless you listen to your guru, your doubts cannot be dispelled. If you cannot get the mercy of
guru, you cannot get Krishna. So you should be very, very eager, “How can I best serve my guru and please him?”
yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo,
yasyāprasādān na gati kuto ’pi
— If gurudeva is pleased, then Krishna will be pleased and you
will get Krishna’s mercy. If gurudeva is displeased, then where is your position, where is your place gati kuto ’pi?
So, our concern, our duty, is to please he spiritual master. How is that done?
guru-mukha-padma-vākya, cittete kariyā aikya, āra nā kariha mane āśā
One should carry out the orders of the spiritual master. Gurudeva has many instructions.
Some of his instructions are general, and some are specific. General instructions are for everyone. Specific instructions are what he tells specific, individual disciples. One should be especially eager to follow the individual instructions that gurudeva
gave to you. One should think, “Gurudeva has ordered me to do this. How can I best do it? How can I best please my spiritual master? How can I best serve him, and please him? Doing so I will get the mercy of Krishna. Otherwise janama
biphala, my life is unsuccessful.”
“I Have Not Gotten!”
If one always thinks like that, then one can maintain that constant eagerness. vai snava krpā taha sarva siddhi — If you get the mercy of a vai snava, pure devotee, or guru, then you can have all perfection, sarva siddhi.
One should think, “Oh, I can’t do anything. I’m such a wretched, unqualified, unworthy person! I cannot render any service to my guru. I cannot please him. I have not gotten anything. I have not gotten the mercy of my guru. I have not pleased him. I have not taken advantage of meeting my guru. Oh, what shall I do? I have not done anything. I do not have the mercy of guru! How can I get his mercy?” You should always think like that. If you are satisfied and think, “Oh, I have guru. I have pleased him. I have gotten his mercy,” then everything is finished! It means you have not gotten it. This is how you can maintain eagerness. Otherwise, it is not possible.
— Darśana, 18 July 1986, Paris, France.
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WITHOUT SERVING A VAISNAVA, NO ONE HAS ATTAINED PERFECTION!
Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has sung, chadiya vaisnava-seva nistara payeche keba: "Without serving the lotus feet of a pure Vaisnava or spiritual master, no one has ever attained perfect liberation from material bondage."
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Srila BV Narayan Maharaj Ji ,''I have seen so many small dogs with their masters. The master puts a belt around the dog's neck and attaches a chain to that belt. Then the master takes him walking. If that small dog sees a very big dog coming, he wants to jump and bark. When he is walking alone, however, he will run away. He is proud when he is with his master. He thinks that his master has a gun, and if anyone attacks he will shoot him. He is such a powerful master.
Similarly, if you have taken shelter of the Supreme Master, who is so powerful, why fear for your maintenance? If you are worried for this, you have not really surrendered. There is a loophole at the root, and this is why you want to have a very good house, good family, and so on. You have no faith in Krsna. This is lacking. Even though our gurus have opened our eyes to see, still we try to keep our eyes closed. Try to see and understand all these things, then suddha-sattva may come. Otherwise, how can it come?. . . .
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Jaya Gurudev
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Jaya Prabhupad
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OFFER WORSHIP TO SRILA GURUDEVA WITH UTMOST CARE
Vando mui savadhana mate. You should do vandana, offer prayer or worship with utmost care, savadhana mate. Three types of vandana are there: kayika, vacika, manasika, through your body, through your words and through your mind you should offer obeisances, offer prayer, and offer worship to the lotus feet of Sri Guru. So through your body you do dandavat pranam, falling flat on the ground. Dandavat pranam iskayika-vandana.
Vacika-vandana, through your words, you offer prayers, glorify Guru. Through your mind, manasika, always think of the lotus feet of Guru, such nice, beautiful, peaceful, transcendental, blissful lotus feet of Guru. Always meditating and thinking through your mind.
Kayika, through your body, also means through what you have gotten. You’ve gotten some money, material opulence, so you offer; render service through that money, that is kayika, physical. You also have some followers, dependents, jana. With all your subordinates, you should serve Guru. That is kayika. Offering everything, one should render loving service to the lotus feet of Guru. ‘Followers’ means you are a family man. You have wife, you have son, you have daughter, you have friends, servants, whatever. So you serve with all the members of your family. That is kayaka. Through all your capacity, you should serve. This is why it is said, vando mui savadhana mate, with utmost care one should do vandana, offering prayers we should worship Guru - with utmost care, savadhana mate.
Vacika, through your words, you also offer prayers, glorifications to Guru. Also, hear from Guru, sravana guru vakya guru katha sravana. What you have heard, tell that thing to others, also. Allow other persons to hear through you, that is using your words, vacika.You also have some doubts, humbly ask questions and clarify your doubts, that is pariprasna. This is all service, seva.
Manisika, mind, you should put firm faith, unflinching faith, in the words of Guru, firm faith, unflinching faith. And you should understand that in various forms, my Guru has manifested before me and is helping me and showering mercy onto me. This is the thinking of the mind. That is how you should serve through your mind. This is kayika, vacika, maniska.
All vaisnava-sadhus in the world are all manifestations of Gurudeva. Guru-krpa, the mercy of Guru, is my only asset. Nothing else. Therefore, we say, vando mui savadhana mate, do Guru vandana with utmost care. Understand? Be careful! Don’t be careless.
From: “Sri Guru Carana Padma - The Lotus Feet of Sri Guru.” Originally spoken on May 31st, 1994 in American Canyon, CA, USA.
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Close by Iskcon's property is the Dhaudia River. It is beautiful serene and clean causing a natural defining line for Puri. The air quality off the river and the Bay of Bengal is superb. The churning of the ocean creates massive amounts of healthy negative ions, besides being such a Holy Dham that Lord Caitanya choose to live 18 years of His Glorious Life there.
A new plan has been mastered and is set to start construction in October - November. They are offering flats for sale in an assortment of sizes. The studio flat is about 425 square foot, the one bedroom is about 900 square foot and the two bedroom is about 1125 square foot. The price will be about 3500 rs a square foot. Any one who wants to live in a Holy Dham should seriously consider Jagannath Puri as one of their retirement options. Below see a picture of the Dhaudia River and the Bay of Bengal. There is a really beautiful Krishna world place so close to Iskcon called Gaur Vihar!
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Srila Narayana Maharaja: What question do you have?
Lady devotee: We recently had a member of our family pass away. She was initiated by Srila Prabhupada. She had dedicated her whole life to serving Krishna. She had very few possessions. She was a very humble devotee. I'm wondering, when a devotee very suddenly passes away before old age, due to poor health or some circumstance, is that person going to be with Krishna? Are they taking birth immediately again in another body? Or, is there a subtle body that stays until the gross body is cremated? I'm not knowing what happens.
Srila Narayana Maharaja: Continue what you are saying.
Brajanatha Prabhu: She's asking, is the process not complete until the ashes are given to the Ganges? Or, will that soul reach her destination before or after the ashes of the gross body are offered to the Ganges or Yamuna? Or, what is the destination?
Srila Narayana Maharaja: It depends on the devotee. It depends on whether she has really taken initiation or not - in the real, true sense. It depends on whether one is chanting krsna-nama properly and purely or not. Was she realizing her position or not? Has she attained nistha (the stage of steadiness in bhakti) or not? Has she attained the last fraction of bhakti - sraddha? If one actually has sraddha, he will think, "Even if anyone will cut me in so many pieces, I cannot give up harinama. Was there even a transcendental sraddha? Was there some desire to serve Krishna in the real sense? Perhaps she died without this. She was a pious person, and doing some sukrti. Perhaps she wanted to always have good association. She was doing so much book distribution, and making money and giving it to Srila Swami Maharaja out of duty, but she never had a high class of association. Perhaps her sraddha was still weak. In that case, whether her body was burned or put in a grave, there is no harm.
She may then take birth anywhere, in an ordinary devotee's house. Do you understand? In the home of a general devotee. There she may hear from childhood that only by serving Krishna can anyone be happy. Otherwise one can never be happy. In this next birth, she is chanting from the very beginning, but not purely. There are so many worldly desires and her heart is still not pure. So many anarthas, unwanted things, are there. Yet, gradually, she will come in the association of a somewhat higher devotee. There she will understand what is sraddha. From the beginning she will have a better chance to attain nistha. In her past life she had never attained nistha. Do you know what is nistha? I know you don't know.
Lady devotee: I don't remember.
Srila Narayana Maharaja: Nistha (steadiness in bhakti). By intelligence one will determine, "I must chant, because there is no other way for success." At this stage one is not realized, but still there is a very strong determination. He will not think, "Should I marry; should I not marry? Narada never married, but the father of Sukadeva, Vyasadeva, did. What should I do?" In sastra it has been written that this world is like a well. What is that well? To marry and to be very attached to one's family. If one is attached to Krishna, will he be attached to this world? Without such attachment to Krishna, one is in dilemna about what to do: "Should I remain in my house with my father, mother, wife and children, or should I give up all these things and go to high-class association, always chanting, hearing, and developing my faith?" He's now in a dilemna. This is not nistha-bhakti.
Do you understand? Nistha will come, but it is not there yet. If one dies in this stage, what will happen? He was without nistha. Rather, he was in dilemna about what to do. In that case, in his next birth he will seek a higher class of association, and now he may have nistha. Now he has determined, "Oh, I should be in worldly life and, like the Pandavas, like the gopis, I will do bhajana." Or, he will determine, "I will be like Sukadeva Gosvami, I will not marry." He has decided; he has come to a conclusion: "And I will always serve Vaisnavas." In his second birth Bharata Maharaja decided, "I will never go to worldly desires, or anything which can cause attachment and make me give up attachment to Krishna." He has decided this.
Suppose a taste has come for chanting and remembering hari-katha. Ruci, a taste has come, and suppose that he dies in the stage of ruci. What will become of him? Now he has come in the standard of bhakti. If he dies at this stage Krishna will manage that he will go to any high class of guru. There, serving him and always hearing from him, asakti, attachment for Krishna, may come.
If he dies in the stage of asakti, what will become of him? Oh, he will surely take birth in the house of a very exalted Vaisnava. In Gita it has been told, "Sucinam srimatam gehe." From there he will practice his sadhana only for attaining bhava-bhakti. From that stage it may be that in one birth, two births, a hundred births, or a thousand births, he may attain suddha-prema, suddha-sattva, and that is rati (bhava).
If anyone dies in the stage of rati, he has nothing to do. Surely he will become like Sri Sukadeva Gosvami, Sri Narada Gosvami, Srila Rupa Gosvami, and Srila Sanatana Gosvami. From the beginning he will start his suddha-sattva bhakti, his rati or bhava. Then, if he is qualified in rati, matured in rati, what will happen? At once, when he leaves his body, Yogamaya at once manages that his soul should go to Mahaprabhu. He will go to the planet and place where the lila, pastimes, of Mahaprabhu are going on. There he will chant and remember with a high class of rati, in the association of Sri Rupa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Svarupa Damodara and Sri Raya Ramananda.
If he gives up his body after he has matured in this rati, Yogamaya will take him where Krishna's pastimes are going on, and he will come in the womb of any gopi -according to his taste, or in other words, according to his specific relationship with Krishna. If he is in a relationship of friendship, he will come like a brother of Sridama, Subala, Madhumangala, and others like them. If he is in the relationship of vatsalya, parental affection, then he will come like Nanda Baba and Yasoda. For perfecting any of these relationships he will have to come through the womb of any gopi. And, if he is seriously following Srila Rupa Gosvami - if he is not only raganuga, but especially rupanuga, then he will come in the womb of a special gopi. When he (she) grows up she will be married anywhere, especially in Yavat, and she will be associated with a high class of kayavuha (a gopi who is a bodily expansion) of Srimati Radhika. If that association is closed to her, then the door of her home will be closed, or locked, and she will give up her life and meet Krishna by her separation mood. And, if she is associated with nitya-siddha, gopis, then she will meet Him very quickly. If there is a trace of unwanted things, if there are any children, one cannot join rasa by that body, not even if one has come by the womb of a gopi. Never. Her husband will check her, and she will give up this body. Of course it is not that one can give up the body; there is no death there. So she gives up that mood that, "He is my child and he is my husband." At that time all obstacles will go away, and Yogamaya will then take her to rasa, and take her to serve the gopis.
There are so many laws, as in court; so many laws or rulings for different aparadhas. Suppose you take a gun and play with it, and by chance a man is shot and dies. If you can prove that you had no wish to kill him, that it happened by chance, by accident, you may be given very little punishment - not death. However, if you have a motive to kill anyone, and if you have aimed your gun at him and shot it, but the person was not shot, still you will have to go to court and be punished severely. There are so many laws, and all these laws have come from these transcendental laws. This is the shadow of that.
If anyone is chanting three lakhs of names, always reading books and serving so much, and he also has some worldly motivation, what will be the result? His whole bhakti is poisoned. He is performing those activities for himself. However, suppose anyone appears like a Queen, not doing anything, not chanting much harinama - like Srila Rupa Gosvami, and Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. He is simply calling out, "O Krishna". Fainting, he cannot chant. Even in one entire day it may be that he cannot chant even 16 rounds. Even by chanting one Krishna name, he faints for the whole day and night, and he is serving Krishna internally. Tears are always coming. He is always weeping, weeping, his bodily hairs are standing on end, and all sattvika-bhavas are coming. So he cannot chant, though he wants to. What will be the result? He will become more than Haridas Thakura. Srila Rupa Gosvami and Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami wanted to chant but they could not. Sankya purvaka.They were calling out, "He radhe vrajadevi-ke. "O Krishna, where are you?" They went to Giriraja Govardhana and there they were weeping still more. Then they went to Nandagaon, Varsana, and here and there. They were always lamenting. When they will count their names?
Mahaprabhu was at the Ratha Yatra festival - for the whole day. What was He doing? He was calling out, "Se ta prananatha paina. My beloved, I have now met you", and He became faint. For the whole day he was doing this, here and there. Has He completed his rounds? After the festival, when He went to Gambira, He was lamenting with Sri Raya Ramananda, "Where is my Krishna?" "Oh, Krishna is in your heart". Then He became very happy. He wanted to see Krishna. He was lamenting like this until morning. When will He complete His chanting? This is also true for Sri Svarupa Damodara, who was always pacifying Mahaprabhu. When will He have time to chant? Actually, this is more than chanting. Oh, this is the fruit of chanting. Do you understand somewhat? I have told this in so much detail, so it may be that you cannot understand.
Lady devotee: In my understanding, depending on the person's level of faith.
Srila Narayana Maharaja: Oh, don't try to take your understanding. Always try to understand the understandings of our guru-parampara. Otherwise you cannot understand. Your intelligence always fails. Always fails. Try to forget your understanding and try to accept the understanding of our guru-parampara. Especially Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, and more recently, in the very simple words of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. His words are very simple.
And follow also Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja, but in a real sense. If all the devotees, sannyasis and so many brahmacaris with saffron cloth were serving him and following him, then why did they leave the institution? Why all this? Why did they leave and become weak? Why? It means that they are not aware of what Srila Swami Maharaja wanted. They were not following so much. They were following like this: They were making money even by selling ganja pan. They thought, "No harm. We should make money for Prabhupada." But your Prabhupada has never, never told them to do that.
So we should try to give up our understanding, and try to fulfill our hearts by our guru-parampara. Do you understand? If so, then you can realize, you'll have a taste in chanting and remembering, and there will be no doubts.
Lady devotee: What I wonder is, if our goal is to serve Krishna, and to serve guru, then why is there so much arguing amongst each other? "I belong to this group, I follow this person, I belong to that group."
Srila Narayana Maharaja: Because our goal is not fixed. What is your goal? Do you know? I know that you have a goal to serve, but in what way? We should serve the devotees.
Vanamali dasi: Of course.
Srila Narayana Maharaja: Of course? Can you serve all the devotees as you are serving your husband?
Lady devotee: I can try.
Srila Narayana Maharaja: I know you cannot. You cannot tell, or not tell. But I can tell. You cannot serve. Service requires a special relation. Now our goal is not fixed. What is our goal? "I should serve Krishna. I am an eternal servant of Krishna". But what kind of servant are you? This goal must be fixed, and it will come if you are initiated in the true sense; not only by fire sacrifice or when the guru changes your name. Simply that will not do. Srila Vyasadeva initiated Srila Sukadeva Gosvami. Narada initiated Vyasadeva. Brahma initiated Sri Narada. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhju initiated Rupa. Who is the guru of Srila Rupa Gosvami? Caitanya Mahaprabhu is his guru. But we see there was no fire sacrifice performed. Mahaprabhu never directly gave any mantra. Still, Srila Rupa Gosvami always thinks that Mahaprabhu is his Guru.
This is called transcendental initiation. And ours - although with fire sacrifice -after some days we become weak and give up everything. Again we take fish, eggs and so on. This 'initiation' is really for kanistha adhikaris, to fix in their minds that, "Oh, I am initiated." You must follow the rules. By this you are admitted in the class, or the school of initiation. When you will be matured, you will realize your special relation with Krishna. What is the relation? Krishna is my friend or son, or Krishna is my beloved. What kind of beloved? There are so many things to be learned. When that learning will be completed, then you will realize this special relation with Krishna, and all your unwanted things will go. Diksa: Di--divya jnana, and ksa - all unwanted things will go. Then it is really diksa. Otherwise diksa is not completed. I think it is very rare in this world that the goal is achieved. At this time one is really a devotee.
Gaura-premanande!
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