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                                                             S cripture All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All Glories  to HDG  Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada  The Shasa dhatu is used as  the root for the word shastra or scripture which mean to discipline or exercise control. We usually use our senses as  the olfactory senses(smell) ,that related to hearing, seeing with our eyes ,touching and lastly  our mind in order to determine the characteristics of an object. But by the bent of a restless mind and false interpretations with solely  using evidence based on comparison , original history, social norms ,evaluation derived from the gross senses or comparison by eradication, we are still unable to accept the existence of the Supreme L...

                                            The Mercy of the Lord All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta  Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada The are various meanings allotted for the word Prasada. Out of them are the common meanings as mercy  in our discussion referring to the holy remnants of the Supreme Lord. In the proper conclusion we usually refer these two as the primary meanings. The Lord in gives mercy to the living entity in the form of the guru, the spiritual master, the holy name ,the revealed scriptures and lastly in the form of His holy remnants. Just as one who chants the Holy name repeatedly  then the holy name Sri Krishna  manifests to the chanter with His divine form. In the same way, one who is fixed in relishing only the  holy remnants of the Lord without fail will undoubtedly get the m...

                                         S urrender of Self  or atma nivedan All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All Glories  to HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada The meaning of atma nivedan is surrender to the Supreme Lord without any form of duplicity. Srila Rupa Goswami has mentioned the symptoms of this atma nivedanam in the Bhakti Rasmrta Sindhu as anukulasya sankalpam pritikula vivarjanam rakhsyati vishvaso goptatve varanam tatha  atma niksepa karpanya sad viddha sharangati meaning to accept what is favorable for devotional service and to reject everything that is unfavorable .Giving up of  fear understanding that He is protecting me from all types of fearful situations. The Lord being my maintainer means that there is no question of worry as to my maintenance in terms of food and clothing. F...

                                                                   Greed or Lauly All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All Glories to HDG Stila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada Of the six faults that have to be avoided  for one aspiring to cultivate pure devotional service the last mentioned  is greed. The commentary , upedeshprakshika states that just as a wanton prostitute takes on one lover after another   similarly the  wayward pilgrim sometimes  attempts to  strive  to  advance  in works  after that in the field of knowledge and then to that path  of devotional service in a restless way such that in the end his devotional creeper simply becomes destroyed. Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur describes this  greed (laulya) as ...

                                              Offences to the Vaishnavas              All  Glories to Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj          All Glories to Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami  Prabhupada In the purified scriptures the first offence is the blasphemy of the pure devotees. satam ninda namnah param aparadha vitanute yatah khyatim yatam katham utsehata tadvigarham meaning those who criticize the  unalloyed  devotees who are preaching the glories of the name all around the world  became liable to suffer as the holy name will never tolerate such blasphemy of the pure servants of the Lord. The seriousness of this offence to the pure Vaishnava has been illustrated as in the story of king Ambirish and Durvasa Muni from the Srimad Bhagavatam ,the essence of the...

                                                    Bad Association All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami All Glories  to HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada Of the six faults that are detrimental to devotion the fifth in that  list is termed as bad association. Bad association influences us  to stray away from talks relating to the Supreme Lord and naturally  our tendency to talk unnecessarily becomes prominent. Therefore our propensity to become externally  materially orientated and hence averse to SriHari .We all know that it is by bad association that we become averse to Lord Hari. So until and unless one gives up bad association there is no other way for our real welfare. The Bhagavat declares : asadbhih  saha sangestu na kartavyam kadachana yasmay sarva artha hanih syad...

      Servitude  All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All Glories  To HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada The eternal  identity of the living entity is as the servant of the Lord. We have forgotten our mood of servitude to the Lord and hence  our  present conditioning. Therefore if we are able  to be established in our position as the servitor of God then that will mean that our conditioning will go away. Unfortunately instead of being servitor, we are  content to act as  the master in this world under the jurisdiction of  the illusory energy which is actually  a problem. If we can give up this sense of lording over material nature then we can  come  to the  liberated platform where we are able to experience bliss in the service of the Supreme Lord. Fluctuating between the enjoying mood of being a gross sense enjoyer and in the reverse as the renouncer in thin...

                                                      Offences to the Name All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All Glories  to HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati  Prabhupada The name is transcendental. The conditioned soul by  favorable cultivation of service mood to the Lord results  in the syllables of the name attaining its original divine quality. Hence the name  although apparently consisting of material syllables is the expansion of the original transcendental name and non -different from the Supreme Lord. As stated n Bhagavat   Sandharbha: The living entity on chanting the holy name  in the mood of enjoying then at that time the divine name does not  become awakened  rather by some material relish only material syllables are invoked.. This type of ascension by chanti...

                                           Saranagati or Surrender to God All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati  Goswami Prabhupada The Supreme Lord is the controller of the material energy ,the reservoir of consciousness and intrinsically inconceivable to all beings. The living entity is an infinitesimal speck of the divine consciousness and by virtue of its minuteness can be overcome by the  external material energy. If the Supreme Lord be somehow compared to a huge furnace of fire , in that respect, the living entity will just be an  ordinary emitted spark. In the event of a storm there is no chance of the furnace being put off but in fact it  may become the  effects of the storm to increase  the burning destruction. But the in case of sparks ,they all immediatel...

                                               Eulogizing or Vandana All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj All Glories  to HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta  Saraswati Prabhupada  Though eulogy is mostly considered part of the  end worship of the Lord ,still it can be  known  independently as the sixth of the nine limbs of devotion. Now, because of some inability to perform worship of the Lord, if a devotee were to go in front of the Lord in an unalloyed manner  free from any unwanted  motives  and  in humility devoid of egoism were to pay prostrated obeisance in front of  the deity  of the Lord and the pure devotees with after eulogizing with choice verses   request for their causeless mercy it is definite that by that causeless mercy of the devotees , he will be able to o...

                                                          Worship All Glories to HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami  Maharaj All Glories  to HDG Srila BhaktiSiddhanta  Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada The fifth limb of devotion is worship. The worship of the deity involves the following of the systematic  set of rules and regulations in the proper manner  with the use of mantra. The worshipper should definitely take the shelter of the guru and Vaishnavas and be prepared to be initiated by genuine guru  before he commences in  such worship. Though there is apparent secondary importance attributed to worship of the Lord  in comparison with hearing and chanting as part of the nine limbs of devotion, still those implicitly follow the sage Narada  on the process of initiation with worship as the  subl...