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" When Brahma was first created, he could not apply his creative energy to arrange the cosmic situation. At first there was only sound, vibrating the word tapa, which indicates the acceptance of hardships for spiritual realization. Refraining from sensual enjoyment, one should voluntarily accept all sorts of difficulties for spiritual realization. This is called tapasya. "
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Adi 1.50 Purport
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" which indicates the acceptance of hardships for spiritual realization. "
I am no one to comment on this as this is directly posted from the scriptures.
I don't understand loving Krishna is a hardship?
I find loving Krishna is so the nature of the soul.....I mean for me it is not an hardship. If you love someone then why it should be a harship?
"Refraining from sensual enjoyment, one should voluntarily accept all sorts of difficulties for spiritual realization. "
Again this one also.. I mean why one has to feel it as a difficulty ?
I am unable to understand.
Tapasya karke Krishna ko paya jaata hai?
I mean if I am taking up Tapsya and leaving all sensual enjoyments and pleasures and becoming a sadhvi.. how can I love Krishna? I will become niras
Niraaskth person how can he or she love the Rasik Bihaari Krishna
If i lose interest in everything.. do I even appreciate the beauty of Krishna?
let us say, I buy meerabai like orange saree and wear tulasi mala and strictly refrain my senses and wear orange dress.. can i love krishna?
Hare Krsna Gayatri Mataji
Honestly, I was not expecting anyone to answer that including myself so I was ill prepared. :)
Yogis may undergo severe austerities and penances for many births by practicing yama, niyama, asana and pranayama, none of which are easily performed. Yet in due course of time, when these yogis attain the perfection of controlling the mind, they will still be unable to taste even a particle of dust from the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. What then can we describe about the great fortune of the inhabitants of Vrajabhumi, Vrndavana, with whom the Supreme Personality of Godhead personally lived and who saw the Lord face to face?
PURPORT
We can simply imagine the great fortune of the inhabitants of Vrndavana. It is impossible to describe how, after many, many births of pious activities, they have become so fortunate.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.12.12
" To a pure devotee, Krsna is always visible, as stated in the Brahma-samhita (santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti) and as indicated by Krsna Himself in Bhagavad-gita (sarvatah pani-padam tat sarvato 'ksi-siro-mukham). If by accumulating pious activities (krta-punya-punjah) one is raised to the platform of pure devotional service, Krsna is always visible in the core of one's heart. One who has attained such perfection is all-beautiful in transcendental bliss. The present Krsna consciousness movement is an attempt to keep Krsna in the center, for if this is done all activities will automatically become beautiful and blissful. "
Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.13.8 Purport
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One time Narad muni visited Vrindavan... itseems
There were gopis who were strictly discussing something Narad muni overheard them talking..
The gopis' talked to attracted attention of Sri Narayan one must do Tapasya
So each one decided and took up a tree and sat nicely under a tree started to chant " Narayana Narayana .. hey narayana.. one sakhi immediately shouted to another .. ari Sakhi...mere bheje mein srif Krishna ghoom raha hai... Narayan ko kaise laaye.. mann mein?
doosari ne bola.. mai mantra jaap karti hoon toh krishna mere kano mein hawa phoon ke bhaag raha hai..
doosari ne bola.. Mere saath toh krishna ne aise kiya na.. bata bhi nahi sakti.. sakhi.. Ye Krishna hum ko bhagwan ke paas jaane hi nahi dega aisa toh.
ab hum bhagwan ko kaise paaye?
Narad muni was laughing .. hey narayan.. ye itni bholi ki jo Krishna inke peeche bhag rahe hai wohi Narayan hai ye inko itna bhi nahi pata?
Narad muni said Narayan Narayana jai ho tumhari.. bhagwan aapke saath hi hai aur aap bhagwan ke liye tapasya kar rahi hai?
Nara muni ji pranam.. humari sahayata keejiye. kehti hai gopiyan
humko Shree narayan ki upasana ka vidhi bataya gaya .. ki veh tapasya se prasann hote hai..
Hum kaise tapasya karein bataye kripiya karke... jisse ye Krishna humara mann se nikal jaaye aur hum sthir ho ke Shree Naryaan ka dhyan karein.
koi upaay bataye kripya karke.
" As recommended by Srila Rupa Gosvami, tasmat kenapy upayena manah krsne nivesayat (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.4). Somehow or other, whether one thinks of Krsna as an ordinary human child, as the source of the Brahman effulgence, as the origin of Paramatma, or as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one should concentrate one's full attention upon the lotus feet of Krsna. That is also the instruction of Bhagavad-gita (18.66): sarva-dharman paritajya mam ekam saranam vraja. "
Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.12.7-11 Purport
It seems the gopis must have acted on this in their previous lives and/or they received a benediction from Sri Rama as we have heard, in the Dandkaranya forest when they were great sages to get the Lord as Husband which was being fulfilled.
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