Hare krsna
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
I have a question about Demi Gods. Why and how should we worship the Demi Gods? Are all demigods Pure Unalloyed Devotees of Krishna?
It is like this that when a devotee acquires certain amount of merit and has a worldly desire He according to His merit & desire is given a post of one of the demigods.
Say for example we are all practicing devotees. we are not pure but walking on the path of bhakti to become pure. In such a condition when we leave our body with certain desires and since we have followed the path of Bhakti based on these two factors that lord assigns a role to us as an demigod so that we are able to fulfill that desire of ours.
The material world will continue to exit till there is even tinch of desires in us. Kinds of desires kinds of lokas to enjoy, kinds of body for such desires to be fulfilled. Birth old age disease and fear of death is always there till we are able to cross the material realm. Therefore ideal is to serve not our sense but Krsnas senses and go back to godhead.
Krsna taught us to worship Govardhan instead of Indra. So Dharma means Dharmam tu sakshad bhagavath pranitam. So what does bhagavan say Sarva dharman parityaja...
It is said in Brihat Bhagavatamrita that when a human follows the strict rule of Varnasrama dharam for 100 human life time He gets the post of Brahma
When a human gets and opportunity for being Brahma for 100 life times then He is given the post of Shiva. Demigods are all in the mode of goodness. Spiritual life starts once we come to the mode of goddess. Our goal becomes long or short based on our desire to enjoy.
If we do not desire to enjoy but only desire to serve then we go back to Krsna in this birth itself. If we have a desire to enjoy then since we have Krsna in center He will provides us with the opportunity were in we can be able to fulfill our desires of becoming as powerful as even Brahma.
When there is no qualified human then the Lord Himself becomes Brahma. We have heard the Lord taking the role of surya and therefore we address Him as Surya Narayana. when there was no qualified Shiva He became Shiva Himself and hence He was addressed as Sadashiva.
Demigods are not pure unalloyed devotees they are all mixed devotees.
pls correcr me... if i m wrong any where & & pls share ur views
your servant
vinay
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PURE UNALLOYED DEVOTEES.
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CONTACT WITH A PURE DEVOTEE.
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HEARING FROM PURE DEVOTEES.
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INSTRUCTIONS OF A PURE DEVOTEE.
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TAKING SHELTER OF A PURE DEVOTEE.
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SERVING A PURE DEVOTEE.
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Q. WHAT IS THE POSITION OF A PURE DEVOTEE ?
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ACTIVITIES OF A PURE DEVOTEE.
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DUTY OF A PURE DEVOTEE.
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GLORIFYING LORD KRISHNA AND HIS DEVOTEES.
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Hare Krishna dear Devotees, please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Devotee is dear to everyone and everyone is dear to him.
In this way even Demigods are also dear to him. He does not worship them but we know the statement "das anu das".
Only by serving to Devotees we can attract Krishna's mercy.
Also humble than a blade of grass, tolerant than a tree, always respect OTHERS and not to wait for respect to OURSLEVES.
In this way if Devotee serves to others, he does not need anything in return - elfless.
And respect - in our Vaishnava ettiquette we show our respect to Demigods very nicely.
For example, by taking bath in cloth we show our respect to the water God.
By not spitting to water again respect to the Demigods. By being careful with fire we show our respect to Fire God.
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respect means to accept needs of other party as they are and do not bring disturbances....
In order to become free from material desires we have to understand that this material world is full of or made of misseries. There is no happiness. There is only suffering. But when this suffering stops for some time we think that we became happy. But it is not true. Our position is to be happy not to suffer.
But to be in this body is the disaster. This body is the cause of all sufferings. Because of that not loosing time we have to take to Kishna Consciousness seriously.
Your servant,
here krishna,
prabhuji ur explanation to the question regarding demigods is really logically n stays in line with the preachings of our great vedic acharyas.............
your servant sidharth
Hari Bol!
Only advice - do not be disrespectful to any form. Accept all as One, whoever you call whatever you call.
Your servant,
Sharanagat