20240806 - Determining the Sādhana part 2

Sabo Nityana Krishna Krishna Hare Hare.

So today we will continue with the reading from part two of the chapter entitled Determining the Sadhana. You read this. Actually you can read again. When the position of Ivartha is recording in progress, when the position of Vivara is observed, then this misery is seen in the living entity. When will this intelligence of Vivara be removed? When the conception of I am a servant of Krishna is strengthened after receiving good instruction from a bona fide spiritual master, then this intelligence of Vivara will no longer exist. As mentioned in Srimad Bhagavatam 11-11-24 and I quote, with steady intelligence you should develop unalloyed devotional service. By careful worship of the spiritual master and with the sharpened axe of transcendental knowledge, we should cut off all subtle material coverings of the soul. Thank you for cutting it off. Upon realizing the supreme personality of Godhead, we should then give up all acts that acts of analy analytic knowledge. Analytic analytic knowledge. Therefore, and thus ends the quote from Srimad Bhagavatam continuing from Bhakti. Therefore, while giving up the search of salvation is devotional service with Krishna is performed, then this intelligence of Vivara will easily be removed. In search of salvation, the practice of Swadharma is not achieved, only indirect practice is done. It you like that.

The water so it's hot.

So somehow the living entity thinks that is the body due to to the false ego and thought of Ivardabad.

So then he has to sorrow enjoy the water.

So then he has to suffer and enjoy through the body.

His father and his.

Suffering is Adhyatmic, Adipotic and Adidaivic. Suffering from the body, suffering from the.

Body.

Suffering from other living entities.

Stolen from the divine.

Suffering from the demigods, suffering from the Ali David from the demigods like he called Scar et.

Most people are doing hard with their body.

Most people identify with the body and.

So that's why people want a better material person.

That's why by worshipping Durga Shiva people want a better material situation.

What we're trying to get the people honest situation in the material world is ideal to be.

Trying to get the people to understand that there is no situation in this material world is ideal. Therefore we should worship Krishna in its different forms. Also it is mentioned in Srimad Bhakubata 7.10.4 and I quote on the other hand, one who desires some material benefit in exchange for devotional service cannot be your pure devotee indeed is no better than a better than a merchant who wants profit in exchange for service. End of quote. Therefore, bhakti is sadhana. Inexperienced people keep devotion at a distance and promote either karma or knowledge as sadhana. Also it is mentioned in Srimand Bhagavatam 775152 and I quote, My dear friends, O son of the demons. This is by Prahlad Maharaj. You cannot please the supreme personality of God by becoming perfect Brahmanas, demigods, great saints by becoming perfectly good in the etiquette of vast learning. None of these qualifications can awaken the pleasure of the Lord. No, by charity, austerity, sacrifice, cleanliness, vows can one satisfy the Lord. The Lord is pleased only if one has unflinching, unalloyed devotion to Him. Without sincere devotional service, everything is simply a show. End of the quote. Karma and knowledge in small quantity in secondary form can be sadhana, but they can never be primary sadhana.

If one serves the Lord.

If one serves the Lord to gain some material benefit that's not pleasing to the Lord.

Is pleasing to the Lord.

Unalloyed devotion is pleasing to the Lord. And he appreciates that most of the people, material people, they worship the Lord for some other reason.

Therefore.

So they don't stay completely under the shelter of the Lord.

For Lord always.

So Lord Chaitan and Lord Nithyananda, they give the mercy of the Lord so freely without his consideration. Naturally one develops pure devotion by chanting the holy names. They are always associating with Krishna.

So.

So in this way the thy goals are more merciful. So there's one standard here which is pure Bhakti.

With all our heart achieving pure Bhakti.

The people who are not achieving pure bhakti.

Close to the Lord.

We are not very close to the Lord. But by the mercy of Lord Shaitanya they can become very close also. It's mentioned in Srimad Bhagavata and I quote, devotional service on Lord Krishna is attained by charity. Charity, strict vows, austerities, fire, sacrifices by Jaffa, study of Vedic text, observance of regulatory principle, indeed the performance of many or other auspicious practices. The Lord instructed Sanatana Goswami, Krishna Devotional service to Krishna. This is Sanatan Siksha Mahaprabhu saying this to Sanatana Goswami. And I quote him, Devotional service to Krishna is the chief function of the living entity. For liberation of the conditioned soul, Karma, Jnana, Yoga and Bhakti. But all are dependent on Bhakti. But for devotional service, all other methods for spiritual self realization are weak and insignificant. Unless one comes to devotional service to Lord Krishna Jnana Yoga cannot give them the desired results. Speculative knowledge alone, without devotion service is not able to give liberation. On the other hand, even without knowledge, one can obtain liberation if one engages in the Lord's devotional service. The living entity is bound around the net by the chain of Maya because he has forgotten that he is eternally a servant of Krishna. If the conditioned soul engages in the service of the Lord and simultaneously carries out other orders of his spiritual master, or if the conditioned soul engages in the service of the Lord and simultaneously carries out the orders of the spiritual of his spiritual master and serves him, he can get out of the clutches of Maya and become eligible for shelter at Krishna's lotus feet. The fathers of the Varnashrama institution accept the regulatory principles of the post social orders for spiritual orders. However, if one carries out the regulatory principles of the orders but does not render transcendental loving transcendental service to Krishna, he falls into the hellish condition of material life. There are many philosophical speculators belonging to the Mayavada school who consider themselves liberated and call themselves. However, their intelligence is not purified unless they engage in Krishna's devotional service. Thus hence the quote.

Devotions.

So we should engage in devotional service.

And all the deep divine practices for devotion serves are.

So living here in Navadvir. The nine practices of devotional service are represented by each island.

Mounted down to go. And each island represents one of the practices nine practices.

So. So rather animate this nakdata with each island representing one practice of the nine practices of devotion service. There are so many activities that one does. But if one does them to please Krishna, then it's all right. Then we become very attached to serving Krishna and.

We become detached.

Then we become detached from lion service.

So devotional service is something that we do naturally.

Something that we do naturally.

And I asked also.

In the eighth chapter of the Adelaide in the eighth chapter of the Adhili Lashla Prabhupada say Lord Chaitanya gave the opportunity for both men and women to engage in devotional service. Next she manage.

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It's a long chapter. Can stop here because your policies and some online devotees are ch. Okay, okay, we'll let you to see that today. No, we'll make them make sure that you see them today. Yeah, yeah.

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Right.

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