B H A K T I (DEVOTIONAL SERVICE). part 7.
kṛṣṇa-bhakti — abhidheya, sarva-śāstre kayaataeva muni-gaṇa kariyāche niścayaA human being's activities should be centered only on devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa. That is the verdict of all Vedic literatures, and all saintly people have firmly concludeded this. (CC-2:22:5).'nitya-mukta' — nitya kṛṣṇa-caraṇe unmukha'kṛṣṇa-pāriṣada' nāma, bhuñje sevā-sukhaThose who are eternally liberated are always awake to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and they render transcendental loving service at the feet of Lord…
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THE PERFECTION OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE.
Mental equilibrium is to fix the mind on Lord Krishna.
Mere peacefulness without Krishna consciousness
is dull and useless state of mind.
Discipline means first to control one`s own senses.
If one wants to discipline one`s children, disciples
or followers without controlling one`s own senses,
one becomes a mere laughing stock.
Tolerance means to patiently endure unhappiness,
such as that provoked by the insults or negligence of others.
One must also sometimes accept material inconvenience
to carry out the injunctions of the scriptures,
and that unhappiness also must be patiently endured.
Truthfulness means that one should speak in a pleasing way
so that there will be a beneficial effect.
If one becomes attached to pointing out the faults of others
in the name of truth, then such fault-finding
will not be appreciated by saintly persons.
Cleanliness means to give up material attachment,
not merely to frequently clean one`s body.
Real modesty is to be disgusted with improper activities.
Steadfastness means to control the tongue and the genitals.
Austerity means to give up lust and sense gratification
and to observe prescribed vows such as Ekadasi.
It does not mean inventing whimsical methods
for torturing the material body.
Beauty is to possess good qualities such as detachment.
Real happiness is to transcend material happiness and unhappiness.
Real misery is to be implicated in searching for sex pleasure.
Real education means to give up the false idea
that anything is separate from Lord Krishna, the source of all potencies.
Real charity means to renounce all aggression toward others.
If one gives money to charitable causes but at the same time
engages in exploitative business enterprises or abusive political tactics,
one`s charity is worth nothing at all.
Real wealth is to be religious.
Real heroism is to conquer one`s lower nature.
Certainly everyone likes to propagate his own fame as a brilliant person,
but everyone is also subjected to lust, anger, greed and so forth.
Therefore one has to conquer these lower qualities.
Real renunciation means to give up one`s false sense of proprietorship
over one`s family, and not just giving away material objects.
Equal vision means to give up jealousy and envy and
to recognize the existence of the soul within every material body.
One must also see the true spiritual equality of all living entities and all situations.
Real religious renunciation means that one should serve saintly persons
who enlighten us with spiritual knowledge.
A fool is one who identifies with the material body and mind.
A wise person is one who knows the process of freedom from bondage.
The wrong path is sense gratification by which the consciousness is bewildered.
The real path in life is that which leads to Lord Krishna.
The purpose of life is to transcend materially good and bad qualities
and come to the liberated platform of pure Krishna consciousness.
bhave bhave yathā bhaktiḥ
pādayos tava jāyate
tathā kuruṣva deveśa
nāthas tvaḿ no yataḥ prabho
O Lord of lords, O master, please grant us
pure devotional service at Your lotus feet, life after life.
nāma-sańkīrtanaḿ yasya
sarva-pāpa praṇāśanam
praṇāmo duḥkha-śamanas
taḿ namāmi hariḿ param
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Hari,
the congregational chanting of whose holy names
destroys all sinful reactions, and the offering of obeisances
unto whom relieves all material suffering.
Simply by chanting Hare Krishna
one can be freed from all undesirable habits.
Chanting Hare Krishna with strong attachment
one achieves the fruit of love of God very soon.
By chanting Hare Krishna we are engaging in the devotional service,
the divine service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna.
Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra purifies one`s consciousness
and produces waves of ecstatic love that completely cleanse the soul.
Harinama is invested with the full potency of the Supreme Lord.
Harinama is absolutely transcendental and possess
the power to dissolve the illusion of the entire material creation at will.
The chanting of Hare Krishna is like a lion`s roar.
As a lion`s roar frightens all small creatures,
the chanting of Hare Krishna ends all of one`s sinful reactions.
Chanting Hare Krishna exerts the deepest and most profound influence
upon anyone who chants it in a mood of reverential devotion.
By chanting the Hare Krishna mantra one can attain the perfection
of associating with the Supreme Personality of Godhead
in complete bliss and satisfaction in one`s constitutional state.
Chanting Hare Krishna makes one fearless,
bestows supreme peace,
dissolves sins and puts a stop to the cycle of birth and death.
Chanting Hare Krishna is the easiest process of meditation in this age.
It is the easiest means of self-realization.
And it is the simplest means to spiritual perfection.
By chanting Hare Krishna, one can be delivered
regardless of caste, creed, colour or social position.
It does not depend on any paraphernalia, nor birth in a good family.
By chanting the Hare Krishna mantra
one is purified from the false identification of the body
as "I" and bodily possessions as "mine" and
one then transcends the so-called material happiness and distress.
By chanting the glories of Lord Krishna
in the association of devotees,
one becomes satisfied and happy and
develops a loving friendship with the devotees.
Chanting Hare Krishna is so attractive that
anyone who chants it becomes imbued with love of Krishna.
The fruit of love of God is distributed
through the medium of chanting Hare Krishna.
The maha-mantra contains the topmost
sweet names of the Supreme Lord.
The mantra reveals that a soul has an
individual attraction for the Supersoul
by the connection of love.
Harinama has appeared solely
for the benefit of the living entities.
Harinama is the best form
of remembrance of the Supreme Lord.
Nothing is as potent or powerful as Harinama.
Chanting the Hare krishna mantra
extinguish the horrible forest fire of
material existence and removes all material tribulations.
Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra
vanquishes all the effects of sinful activities
whether they are heavy or light.
The formula for world peace is
to develop Krishna consciousness by
chanting the Hare Krishna mantra.
It eradicates envy and hatred and
thus brings real peace, unity and fraternity.
By chanting the Hare Krishna mantra
one can be delivered regardless
of caste, creed, colour or social position.
Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra
drives away all the darkness of ignorance,
cures one of worldly desires and
makes one`s birth in this world successful.
Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra
purifies the mind and heart and
destroys the six enemies which are
lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride and envy.
By chanting the Hare Krishna mantra
one will automatically develop all good
qualities like absence of false prestige and
concern that time should not be wasted.
Our whole spiritual life develops from our
chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra,
like a big tree which grows out of a seed.
(1)
śrimac-caitanyadeva tvāḿ vande gaurāṇga-sundara
śacī-nandana māḿ trāhi yati-cuḍāmaṇe prabho
(2)
ājanu-bāho smerāsya nīlācala-vibhūśaṇa
jagat-pravartita-svādu-bhagavan-nāma-kīrtana
(3)
advaitācārya-saḿślāghin sarvabhaumābhinandaka
rāmānanda-kṛta-prīta sarva-vaiṣṇava-bāndhava
(4)
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caranāmbhoja-premāmṛta-mahāmbudhe
namas te dīna-dīnaḿ māḿ kadācit kiḿ smariśyasi
TRANSLATION
1) O beautiful, fair-complexioned Lord Caitanyadeva, I offer respectful obeisances unto You. O Lord, O delight of Saci-devi, O crest-jewel of the sannyasis, please protect me.
2) O Lord Caitanyadeva, O decoration of Nilacala (Jagannatha Puri), O Lord whose face is smiling and whose arms reach down to Your knees, O preacher of the glories of thenectarean Holy Name of the Lord througout the universe,
3) O Lord Caitanyadeva, You praise Advaita Acarya and You delight Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. You are affectionate to Ramananda Raya,and You are the friend of all theVaisnavas.
4) O Lord Caitanyadeva, O great ocean of the nectar of pure love for the lotus feet of Krsna, I offer respectful obeisances unto You. Do You sometimes remember me, the most wretched of all wretched people?
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