Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Krishna performed His wonderful pastimes to attract our hearts and our minds to His loving service. He spoke the Gita to teach us how to strictly follow a lifestyle by which we can purify our existence and become pure servitors of the Lord. Bhagavad Gita is not simply meant to study as a theoretic scholarly practice. Bhagavad Gita is not meant simply to memorize and show the world how we can recite cloaks in perfect Sanskrit meter. Bhagavad Gita is meant to apply to every phase of our life. Arjuna was not a Brahmin. He was a Ksatriya. He was not a bramhachari, he was a Grihasta with many wives and many children. The Bhagavad Gita was spoke by Parthasarthy Krishna to Arjuna to impel him to put those teachings into his life 24 hours and to fight against all the enemies of illusion and exploitation, not for himself but as a humble service to the Supreme Lord Govinda. This is Bhagavad Gita.
man mana bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yaji mam namaskuru
mam evaisyasi satyam te
pratijane priyo 'si me
This is the essence of the Gita - to always remember Krishna; to become His devotee; to offer everything to Him; our body, mind, our words, our life. And this is the blissful life. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu who is Lord Krishna Himself in the divine mood of Srimati Radharani, appeared in this world, but He revealed Himself as a devotee to teach of us by His practical example how to perfect our lives; how to always remember Krishna; how to be His devotee; how to surrender everything for Krishna's sake; how to purify our hearts. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught us a simple process which is the essence of the application of all the teachings of the Vedas. And what is that? That we must associate intimately in a mood of humble service with the Vaisnavas; with those pure hearted sadhus who are dedicating their lives in the service of the Lord and in their association, we must learn the process of sadhana bhakti; we must learn to regulate and discipline our lives by following regulative principles - no illicit sex; no intoxication. no gambling; no meat eating. These activities further perpetuate the illusion and bondage of the imprisoned soul. They feed and nourish the six enemies which are destroying our spirituality; at the same time in the association of simple, humble pure hearted devotees, we must learn the proper process of serving the Lord; serving the devotees and the chanting the holy names of Krishna Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Krishna is non different than His name. kali-kale nama-rupe krsna-avataar. In this age of Kali yuga the Lord appears within His name (Garuda Purana)
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