Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.18
So bhakti-yoga, devotional service, is so powerful that simply by taking to the bhakti-yoga according to the rules and regulation one is supposed to be purified.
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So bhakti-yoga, devotional service, is so powerful that simply by taking to the bhakti-yoga according to the rules and regulation one is supposed to be purified.
So what is the qualification of nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇa?
Therefore here it is said, bhakti-yoga means not only dedicating life to Kṛṣṇa but also to serve the Vaiṣṇava, tat-puruṣa.
So by karma we cannot become perfect perpetually.
, that these people in this age, they will not be able to undergo severe austerity.
Therefore in the Vedic civilization you'll find the human society is divided into four orders and four spiritual orders, material and spiritual, varṇāśrama.
This is the beginning of human life, that unless you come to this knowledge...
If one has no sense to understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or God consciousness, he is no better than the dog and cat.
Just like we are hearing the śāstra, so he has heard it from the lawbooks that if one commits theft he'll be punished.
So there are different varieties of sinful activities, just like there are different varieties of diseases.
The idea is that \"I surrender to my spiritual master or Kṛṣṇa.\" Spiritual master is identical with Kṛṣṇa because he gives true knowledge.
You have to take birth according to your desire, either as Brahmā or as ant, as a cat, as a dog, as demigod, and according to your capacity, Kṛṣṇa will give you: \"All right.
So here Śukadeva Gosvāmī is addressed as mahā-bhāga.
Answer is there in the Vedic literature that there is higher planetary system.
So that is the secret of success, śraddadhāna, to accept the words of guru very, very faithfully.
But since Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is being chanted, there is rainfall.
So description of brahmacārī is going on here, the dress.
So for reading Vedic literatures it does not require any erudite scholarship.
So our civilization is like that, that in the gradual process of evolution we have come to the platform of human being.
So as it is stated that human life is meant for tapasya, austerity.
Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommended, ramya kaścid upāsanā vraja-vadhu-varga-vīrya kalpita: \"There is no more better, sublime upāsanā, worship, than it was conceived by the gopīs.
So here, those who are dhīra actually, those who have understood his identity...
So if you simply understand Kṛṣṇa, divyam, divine nature...
A bhakta does not endeavor for anything except devotional service.
If somebody becomes angry, it takes some time to get out of the anger.
So, krīyatāṁ, he has advised to purchase, but one can enquire what is the price?
Anantarām Śāstrījī: [chants slokas] > vṛndāvane ramaṇe-reti-prasiddha-bhūmau > atraiva kṛṣṇa-balarāma supāda-mūle > jñānaṁ paraṁ parama-puruṣa bhakti yuktam > dātre sadaiva prabhupāda namo namas te
This is all-pervasive description of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
So yogena, this word, is very important in this verse.
This material world, everyone is working very hard—man, animal, bird, beast, everyone.
So Sanātana Gosvāmī therefore said, avaiṣṇava-mukhodgīrṇaṁ pūtaṁ hari-kathāmṛtaṁ, śravaṇaṁ naiva kartavyam [Padma Purāṇa]: \"One who is not Vaiṣṇava, from him one should not hear hari-kathāmṛtaṁ.
Nānyaṁ tvad asya śaraṇaṁ bhramato 'nupaśye: \"Except Yourself, I don't find he has got any hope who'll deliver him.\"...
> oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya > jñānāñjana-śalākayā > cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena > tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ > [Gautamīya-tantra 7.
> yasya prasādād ajño'pi sarvajñatām vrajet. > śrīmat śrīla prabhupāda tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ
Once chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is so powerful that all the sinful reaction of life—immediately gone.
As soon as we forget this principle, that \"I am eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa...\" This material life means this forgetfulness.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja in another place has said also the same thing.
So here is a very specific statement about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, His avatāra.
O lord, O Prabhupāda, may you always be the object of my vision.
So in the previous verse we understood that Lord Brahmā executed severe austerity for hundreds of years just to become purified.
So, of course, we offered him prasādam very friendly.
O lord, O Prabhupāda, may you always be the object of my vision.
These verses of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, they are Vedic mantras.
So we have already discussed that without spiritual touch there is no material creation.
Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says, idaṁ sad-asad-īśa.
> oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya > jñānāñjana-śalākayā > cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena > tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ > [Gautamīya-tantra 7.
So before Hiraṇyakaśipu was killed by His Lordship Nṛsiṁhadeva, Prahlāda Mahārāja never addressed his father as \"father,\" pituḥ.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu has taught us, gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ [[cc/madhya/13/80|[Cc.
So Kṛṣṇa can see within our mind how much we are surrendered and how much we are after material enjoyment.
Anantarām Śāstrījī: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.