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761210DB.HYD Lectures
“So we got this information from His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta SarasvatiThakura, and
The importance of the 'Association of the Devotees / Saadhu Sanga' is narrated in the following illustration from the Shaastra. For your satisfaction further, various Shaastric references (references from the celebrated texts) are also given :
Once the great sage Narada was intrigued by a doubt. He was sure that Lord Vishnu would clear it for him. He proceeded to the Ocean of Milk and found his Lord reclining on the giant hooded serpent-bed Shankarshana, His beautiful consort, Lakshmi devi besid
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Srila Vrndaban Das Thakur
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.57
so 'yaḿ sthiti-vyatikaropaśamāya sṛṣṭān
sattvena naḥ sura-gaṇān anumeya-tattvaḥ
dṛśyād adabhra-karuṇena vilokanena
yac chrī-niketam amalaḿ kṣipatāravindam
SYNONYMS
saḥ — that; ayam — He; sthiti — of the created world; vyatikara — calamities; upaśamāya — for destroying; sṛṣṭān — created; sattvena — by the mode of goodness; naḥ — us; sura-gaṇān — the demigods; anumeya-tattvaḥ — understood by the Vedas; dṛśyāt — glance over; adabhra-karuṇ
Rūpa Gosvāmī states that there are six characteristics of pure devotional service, which are as follows:
(1) Pure devotional service brings immediate relief from all kinds of material distress.
(2) Pure devotional service is the beginning of all auspiciousness.
(3) Pure devotional service automatically puts one in transcendental pleasure.
(4) Pure devotional service is rarely achieved.
(5) Those in pure devotional service deride even the conception of liberation.
(6) Pure devotional service is the onl
Maharaja Pariksit, the grandson of the P
