Please Accept My Humble Obeisances.All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Gurudev & Gauranga.Hare KrishnaI have heard very little about Srila Gaura Kisora Das Babaji Maharaja.I know that He was very much against all things material.I have also heard that He took renounced order of life after His wife passed away.Please if anyone has any information on this Great Personality, please share with me. I feel great attraction for Him and pray to be in His Divine Service to the Lord.Gauranga Hari Bol!Your Servant,Bhakta David
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After reading your article,its very clear that Srila gaura kishora babaji maharaj was the purest of pure, but how to follow his instructions.he was so strict and in this modern age how to apply it.
i have done so many wrong things, so is it very difficult to go back to the kingdom of Krsna because such kind of devotion can't be developed in one night or even in a lifetime.
The questions that you are asking show a genuine concern to how to follow instructions in the modern age. Fortunately, his divine grace, A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, as well as his own master, his divine grace, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati has given explanations in several books, on this topic and the quotes should help to understand. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati came to know Srila gaura kishora babaji maharaj through his father, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur and later became the disciple of Srila gaura kishora babaji maharaj. What must be remembered is that Srila gaura kishora babaji maharaj was very renunciate and pure. He avoided association especially people with materialistic thoughts just like many babajis but still left great instructions and was often compassionate with people who wanted to improve and transform their lives.
In fact, all 4 spiritual masters wanted to propagate love of godhead following in the footsteps of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, incarnation of Godhead, that is Krishna himself who wanted to preach love of god to everyone, even to materialistic or fallen persons. If you feel fallen, remember Lord Chaitanya and try to learn about him and do some service to him. He is considered very merciful.
From the Srimad Bhagavatam:
"One should not be attached to material opulence, but material opulence may be accepted in the Krsna consciousness movement to facilitate the propagation of the movement. In other words, material opulence may be accepted as yukta-vairagya, that is, for renunciation."
"However, we should note that the times have changed. It may be beneficial for a saintly person's own interest to go to the forest and live in a cottage, but if one becomes a preacher, especially in Western countries, he has to invite many classes of men who are accustomed to living in comfortable apartments. Therefore in this age a saintly person has to make proper arrangements to receive people and attract them to the message of Krsna consciousness. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, perhaps for the first time, introduced motorcars and palatial buildings for the residence of saintly persons just to attract the general public in big cities. The main fact is that one has to
associate with a saintly person. In this age people are not going to search out a saint in the forest, so the saints and sages have to come to the big cities to make arrangements to receive the people in general, who are accustomed to the modern amenities of material life. Gradually such persons will learn that palatial buildings or comfortable apartments are not at all necessary. The real necessity is to become free from material bondage in whatever way possible."
"In our preaching work also, we deal with so much property and money and so many books bought and sold, but because these dealings all pertain to the Krsna consciousness movement, they should never be considered material. That one is absorbed in thoughts of such management does not mean that he is outside of Krsna consciousness. If one rigidly observes the regulative principle of chanting sixteen rounds of the maha-mantra every day, his dealings with the material world for the sake of spreading
the Krsna consciousness movement are not different from the spiritual cultivation of Krsna consciousness."
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All glories to Srila Prabhupada
After reading your article,its very clear that Srila gaura kishora babaji maharaj was the purest of pure, but how to follow his instructions.he was so strict and in this modern age how to apply it.
i have done so many wrong things, so is it very difficult to go back to the kingdom of Krsna because such kind of devotion can't be developed in one night or even in a lifetime.
with regards,
YS
Shashank
Hare Krsna,
The questions that you are asking show a genuine concern to how to follow instructions in the modern age. Fortunately, his divine grace, A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, as well as his own master, his divine grace, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati has given explanations in several books, on this topic and the quotes should help to understand. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati came to know Srila gaura kishora babaji maharaj through his father, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur and later became the disciple of Srila gaura kishora babaji maharaj. What must be remembered is that Srila gaura kishora babaji maharaj was very renunciate and pure. He avoided association especially people with materialistic thoughts just like many babajis but still left great instructions and was often compassionate with people who wanted to improve and transform their lives.
In fact, all 4 spiritual masters wanted to propagate love of godhead following in the footsteps of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, incarnation of Godhead, that is Krishna himself who wanted to preach love of god to everyone, even to materialistic or fallen persons. If you feel fallen, remember Lord Chaitanya and try to learn about him and do some service to him. He is considered very merciful.
From the Srimad Bhagavatam:
"One should not be attached to material opulence, but material opulence may be accepted in the Krsna consciousness movement to facilitate the propagation of the movement. In other words, material opulence may be accepted as yukta-vairagya, that is, for renunciation."
"However, we should note that the times have changed. It may be beneficial for a saintly person's own interest to go to the forest and live in a cottage, but if one becomes a preacher, especially in Western countries, he has to invite many classes of men who are accustomed to living in comfortable apartments. Therefore in this age a saintly person has to make proper arrangements to receive people and attract them to the message of Krsna consciousness. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, perhaps for the first time, introduced motorcars and palatial buildings for the residence of saintly persons just to attract the general public in big cities. The main fact is that one has to
associate with a saintly person. In this age people are not going to search out a saint in the forest, so the saints and sages have to come to the big cities to make arrangements to receive the people in general, who are accustomed to the modern amenities of material life. Gradually such persons will learn that palatial buildings or comfortable apartments are not at all necessary. The real necessity is to become free from material bondage in whatever way possible."
"In our preaching work also, we deal with so much property and money and so many books bought and sold, but because these dealings all pertain to the Krsna consciousness movement, they should never be considered material. That one is absorbed in thoughts of such management does not mean that he is outside of Krsna consciousness. If one rigidly observes the regulative principle of chanting sixteen rounds of the maha-mantra every day, his dealings with the material world for the sake of spreading
the Krsna consciousness movement are not different from the spiritual cultivation of Krsna consciousness."
Hari Bol,