Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.109–114
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...
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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.
Then the rāsa dance should be stopped, and Kṛṣṇa will talk with the gopīs.
Bhajante means one engages himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord in complete emotion.
That is, the human life is not for, I mean to say, playing, sense gratification.
, some people argues that \"Arjuna was talking with Kṛṣṇa.
The hearing process is Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
As soon as I am convinced that I am not this body, then why should I take so much care for the body?
A man, ordinary worker, he is also trying to be happy by working, and a great capitalist, he is also trying to be happy by his work.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja is recommending that either material prosperity within this planet or in other planet, they are all destructible.
Their duration of life is very small, and they are not very intelligent—very slow to understand their importance of spiritual life.
So just like you are kindly hearing the description given by Prahlāda Mahārāja.
That is the beginning of spiritual life, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So if you want to wipe out the seed of this material existence, then Prahlāda Mahārāja recommends that tatropāya-sahasrāṇām [[sb/7/7/29|[SB.
So that spiritual existence, Prahlāda Mahārāja, he is giving hint here that \"We have got three stages of our existence.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa consciousness means to understand Kṛṣṇa, and as soon as you understand Kṛṣṇa, you understand everything.
So the science of God, or our relationship with God and our dealings with God, is called bhāgavata-dharma, occupation with God...
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.
If you are careless of your body, your health, you don't care for your finger.
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?
Therefore in the present education there is hardly a few persons who are actually in knowledge, because they have neglected the spirit side of the activity.
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.
Because the spirit does not die—eternal—so spiritual knowledge continues.
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.
You can dictate some of your followers, that's all.
Kṛṣṇa means Kṛṣṇa Himself, His name, His place, nāma dhāma, His quality, then His entourage, then His pastime.
So, na me viduḥ sura-gaṇāḥ prabhavaṁ na maharṣayaḥ aham ādir hi devānām [[bg/10/2|[Bg.
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.