Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.124–25
Caitanya-Mahāprabhu says that veda-śāstra kahe—'sambandha'.
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Caitanya-Mahāprabhu says that veda-śāstra kahe—'sambandha'.
So here Caitanya Mahāprabhu quotes one verse from Viṣṇu Purāṇa: viṣṇu-śaktiḥ parā proktā [[cc/madhya/6/154|[Cc.
So jñānī, those who are actually searching after the Absolute Truth, they are very much appreciated in the Bhagavad-gītā.
So one has to transcend these guṇas; then God realization, or understanding of Kṛṣṇa, can be achieved.
That means the creation of this material world is from the Supreme Lord.
Now, here the Brahmā, the first authority, he is admitting Kṛṣṇa as Brahman, pūrṇa-brahma sanātanam.
Impersonal means the features the Supreme Lord has are nothing material.
The last discussion was between Śrīla Prabhupāda and Hanuman Prasad Poddar invited at Gītā Press āśrama Wednesday.
But nobody followed that, the instruction was simple, that by avoiding any other thing, just surrender your life at the Lotus feet of Lord Krsna, no they did not listen, some one said that this Krsna is very proud, look he is saying that leave…
These are the instances of Indian culture that at a certain age they must give up family relations and completely devote for the service of the Lord.
If you can understand and there is no difficulty in understanding Him.
This is a verse from Vedic scripture, Bṛhan-nāradīya Purāṇa, that \"In this age, if you want to realize yourself, then the simplest process is to chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
If you are advanced in devotional service, then you can conquer God.
If you have got any other name for God, you can chant that also.
So Caitanya Mahāprabhu is stressing that to read Vedic literature, Vedānta, Upaniṣad—these are principal literatures in the Vedic knowledge—then Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, all these books shoul...
So before studying Vedānta, we should understand this fact.
Their duration of life is very small, and they are not very intelligent—very slow to understand their importance of spiritual life.
Lord Caitanya, from different quotations of Vedas, He establishes that the Supreme Absolute Truth is person.
So His vision, His presence, His activities, they are all spiritual.
Similarly, spiritual world, that effulgence of the body of Kṛṣṇa, that is spread, and there hundreds and millions of Vaikuṇṭha planets are there.
Now how we can hide yourself from the eyes of God?
Now the spiritual master is explaining, \"Yes, this is the right result of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.
So you'll find, throughout the whole instruction of Bhagavad-gītā, not that blindly.
So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, five hundred years before, He knew it that in future the all these rascals will misinterpret Vedānta-sūtra.
Of course, in your country I do not know, but in our country, suppose a girl is married to a boy, and the boy has got father, mother, brothers and so many other relatives.
Just like in Christian religion, those who do not follow the Bible, they are called heathens.
This is a verse from Bhagavad-gītā, that those who are deriding upon God, \"God, there is no God; I am God,\" they are called asuras.
So this sense gratification means, as it is said by Ṛṣabhādeva, na sādhu manye: \"I do not think it is very good.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the disciple of Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī is quoting one verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in which it is said that simply for understanding, if you waste your time, but if you do not practically apply yourself, then it is…
So ye 'nye 'ravindākṣa vimukta-māninaḥ [[sb/10/2/32|[SB.
So far salvation is concerned, nobody can be liberated without bhakti, without devotional service.
In that shining, this material world, the spiritual world, they are resting.
This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Eleventh Canto.
Now, so far in confirmation of this statement that knowledge, cultivation of knowledge, is not sufficient to give one liberation—one must take to devotional service.
So we, the conditioned soul, is just like being kicked up by the material energy from this way to that way.
So those who are eternally liberated, they love Kṛṣṇa.
So this learned sage, by his experience he is saying that after studying all Vedic literature and all Upaniṣads, Vedānta, Purāṇam, four Vedas, Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, volumes of literature, so the conclusion is that \"O my dear Lord,\" bhavān eva…
So if somebody may argue, \"Oh, if I completely engage myself in service of Kṛṣṇa, then what to do?
Generally, those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness fully, they have—I have already explained to you—they have got all these twenty-six qualification.
This inferior energy is only one-fourth manifestation of the energy.
Brahmā says that \"Although I am Brahmā, and before me all the great sages, everyone, has tried to know the Supreme Lord in,\" I mean to say, \"incomplete, but nobody could understand where is the end of these unlimited potencies of the Supreme Lord.
Kṛṣṇa means Kṛṣṇa Himself, His name, His place, nāma dhāma, His quality, then His entourage, then His pastime.
So Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the king Parīkṣit, inquired to his teacher, Śukadeva Goswami, that Kṛṣṇa is on this earth, He appeared on this earth for paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām, dharma saṁsthāpanārthāya...
Similarly, kṛṣṇa-līlā is also just like an orbit.
Lord Caitanya says that incarnation of opulence... Śaktyāveśa avatāra means incarnation of opulence. We have analyzed the opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So śaktyāveśa avatāra... An i...
Now, we have been discussing this janmādy asya verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and this śloka, this verse, ascertains two features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa: constantly, eternally manifested features and temporary features.
Similarly, everything is there in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Buddha's activities and Kṛṣṇa's activities, there is difference.
So accept or no accept, His work, His activities, His characterize...
This is a śloka, verse, from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in connection with conversation with Mahārāja Parīkṣit and Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and, when the description of this Kali-yuga was given, Mahārāja Parīkṣit became very sorry that, because he was a pious…