20241109 - Practices involving objects

Krishna. Krishna.

Foreign.

I remember reading it. Okay, so reading from Sri Chaitanya Shik Shamrita Continuing the section by Sh. Bhakti Thakur section is titled Third Practicing practices involving objects. Worship of the Banyan, Tulasi, Cow and Brahmanas. Object related devotional practices are manifold. It is as hard to count them as a number of objects. If a few are mentioned, the entire concept will be understood. A tree is an object. Therefore, for object related contemplation of the Lord, certain extremely sacred trees like the Ashwatha, Banyan, Dhatri, Amla and Tulasi are discussed in relation to the Lord. A deity is an object. Thus it is the duty to serve the deity form of the Lord that is manifest.

So there are many trees and other things, persons which are especially recommended for the Northeast.

So there are things, persons, trees which are mentioned for devotees to meditate upon. To meditate upon. To meditate upon Krishna.

Sometimes.

Some things are mentioned like the Govardhan. There is a Haridev Mandir. It is said that the deity was taken to Rajasthan for his protection. And the deity is there at not the war, even today.

And they have one room where you put.

And there they have a room where you put bhoga to offer to the deity. And they have different windows there, window for flowers, window for food, things like this. So like this they have different windows and each person can offer different things at those windows.

That.

Some people are bringing a bundle of firewood and a bag of a donkey or something and release the firewood.

So some people one day somebody was bringing a bundle of firewood on a cart or something and. And then they opened that bundle of firewood and the firewood fell on the floor and he yelled out and people.

Ran.

And they took up the firewood and they took it into the temple, into the kitchen.

So I took hold of dinner and ran up and grabbed a piece of wood on my head and followed the holies for the.

So then I took avail of this opportunity. I ran there, took up a piece of firewood, put it on my head and then I followed the devotees who were taking rest of the firewood into the kitchen.

So there was a pile in the.

Kitchen and there was a pile in the kitchen. So all the devotees put their wood there. I also put my wood there, the firewood there. And then I came out.

Wells, very deep.

Like that. They also have many wells. And these wells are very deep and they're filled with ghee.

Must be like hundreds of hundreds and hundreds of maybe thousands of gills.

There must be hundreds of Hundreds or maybe thousands of liters of ghee.

I was hanging back and I was like.

So I was walking bad. And I came to know that Pujaris there get no salary. They get Mah Prashad.

Son of Raja last.

Once some of the Prashad which they get, it lasts for months expiry. Oh. So they said this Prasadam 6 months validity.

3 months.

This one, 3 months. This one 1 month.

I asked for all the yogurt and. And you know.

So I asked what about the yogurt and the cucumber?

It's not. It has three hour.

So he said it has a three hours validity. You can have it.

Amazing DD worship.

So amazing. Deity worship of the Srinaji deity there note okay. Therefore the super soul is the chief within the body. The super soul is manifested to the individual soul according to the individual's comparative development of knowledge, austerity, penance and so on. When great sages and saintly persons saw mutually disrespectful dealings at the beginning of Trita Yuga, deity worship in the temple was introduced with all paraphernalia. Shimabharatam 7 1438-39 Shri. So at the beginning of each Yuga, the system of the Yuga Dharma will be established. These are different processes of worship.

Has introduced also.

So although the method of the Yuga Dharma for Treta Yuga is fire is fire sacrifice. But deity worship was introduced also at that time. So deity worship actually became the Yuga Dharma for Dwapar Yuga and the Yuga Dharma for Kali Yuga is chanting Hare Krishna. All materials suitable for use in the service and worship of the deity such as sandalwood, perfumes, clothing, ornaments and beds have been prescribed as offerings to the Lord. When all one's beloved items are offered to the Lord, what is this regulated devotional service becomes appropriate and perfect. The deity is worshipped in eight forms from Srima Bhagavatam. No, it's coming up actually.

Well, eight different r. So the DD.

Can be stone, marble, wood. There are eight different types sand. So in this way the deity is installed with the help of the mantras. The mantras are given by Briyaspati. So I have been present at many DD installations.

So there's a book how much details how to install.

Which details how to install a dd. So you take an inert object like made of marble, stone, sand and then you call Krishna in and then you worship him. So the Lord Krishna is so kind. Normally we can't see him, but in his deity form he allows us to serve Him. He becomes visible to us. Note Srimad Bhagavatam 7.11.27. The deity form of the Lord is said to appear in eight varieties. Stone, wood, metal, earth, paint, sand, the mind or jewels. Jewels. So the Gopis of Vrindavan would always keep Krishna in their mind. So all the different ways of Krishna's forms are given here. So here it is said, you can paint an object. You can, and that object can be considered as deity. On a beach one can make a deity out of sand. Or you can make a deity with jewels. 5. Social practice for cultivating Bhakti the Vaidi Bhakta saw that he began to contemplate the Lord with his body, mind, soul and the materials related to time, place and objects. This brought him immense joy. However. However, he felt there was still something missing and this troubled his mind. He realized that he would find complete happiness if his social relationships with other human beings also included contemplation of the Lord. With this thought he formulated the guidelines for social practices. So he was contemplating how to remember Krishna and in his social exchanges. Shrima Bhagavatam 7.1. 1.31 who desires his ultimate self interest should cultivate friendship with those persons who have accepted Krishna as the Lord of their life. One should further develop and and attitude of service toward all living beings. One should especially try to help those in the human form of life and among them especially those who accept the principles of religious behavior. Among religious persons, one should especially render service to the pure devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Because I was sick and not allowed to go out to the hot drop handle on His Holiness.

How to say that because I was sick I couldn't go multiple times to the Yatra Pandal of Radhana Swami and he came up to see me. So we were together for almost two hours and we were exchanging various exchanges of Krishna consciousness. And that was very, very wonderful. So he invited me one time to go to Pune Yatra where there were over 3,000 devotees.

I was in.

But I was in Bhaktivedanta Hospital.

I said, I want to go.

I said, I want to go. And doctors outside, they said, you can't go, you are sick.

Your Guru invited me saying, what kind of disciples are you?

I said, your Guru is inviting me and you said, I can't go. What kind of disciple are you?

So then he revealed and the doctors hollowed up.

So then he revealed. Radha Samara revealed. The doctors called him up and said, dear Maharaj, please retract your imitation he.

Said, I can only track it. I may be a little lizard or something.

And Radhanath Mahasaya Maharaj said, I can't retract it because I've retracted. I may become a lizard or something like that.

Senior devotee.

So he suggested. So he suggested to the doctors, why don't you all talk to the senior doctor? So they all went to the senior doctor.

He was not initiated. They're all initiated.

And he was not initiated. And all the other junior doctors were initiated.

They're not here. Then it's not here.

It's not here. No. Okay. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

So he said you're all doctors.

So he said you're all doctors.

Eliza, you like the hospital. He's a teacher.

He's a preacher.

He likes to priest.

He likes to preach. You should give him what he wants and what makes him happy. Happiness is the best medicine for him. So they took me by ambulance to the Pune Yatra. And I went zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. The ambulance crawled up or the ambulance.

Drove up.

And everyone was looking at the Pune Yatra, why there is an ambulance? And the door opened, I came out. I spoke for about half an hour and so. And then I went for hour and I spoke for hour and a half and then went back to Bombay.

We had nice talks like this.

So we had nice talks like this with his Holiness Radhana Swami. And he said it happened many years ago, but you remember everything.

So meeting with the Lord is wonderful. Talks about the deities.

So when we're meeting with devotees, we can have wonderful talks about the deities. About Krishna, all Krishna consciousness. 4 types of social practice for cultivating Bhakti. 1. Festive gathering of like minded devotees. 2. Increasing the Vaishnava population. 3. Establishing and enhancing Vaishnava family. 4. Taking care to spread Vaishnava Dharma to all souls. Live together with those who are the devotees of the Lord. Take prasadam together. Listen to topics about the Lord, Hari Katha and sing the lord's name together, etc. By these various activities that generate pure happiness. Observe festivals. So in Mayapur we have many festivals. Said Mayapur is the festival capital. And here it is mentioned the devotees they enjoy festivals.

We like to increase number of Vaishnava population.

We like to increase the number of Vaishnava population. We establish and enhance Vaishnava families.

Take care survival Vaijana Dharma souls.

And we take care to spread Vaishnava Dharma to all conditioned souls.

That you can participate is hard times of vulgarities.

So we hope that all of you can Participate in these four types of activities. Next section. Relishing the meaning of Rmad Bhagavatam among them who are very expert in Madhura Rasa devotees should relish the meaning of Rmad Bhagavatam various other transcendental literature with them. Two things should be very carefully understood regarding association among like minded devotees so that one never commits any Vaishnava offense. Shri Chatriya Mahaprabhu have given special warning to remain alert for the same. So there are 10 offenses to the holy names. One second.

First offense of the 10.

So the first offense of the 10 is offending a Vaishnava. So one should be very careful to avoid this. So who took initiation today?

Many but few have come.

Please practice these things.

So please practice these things your whole life. His Holiness.

The End Happy Gopashami Guru Dev People Singha Jai Guru Maharaj Manohar Purushottam sent loving heart Hare Krishna, My beloved Srila Gurudev. Please accept my Koti Koti Dhandavad Pranaams. I beg for your causeless blessings so that I can render devotional services nicely and can be able to please you and Krishna. Are you Sharma? Are you see Krishna? Guru Maharaj, please accept my humble obeisances. Baba.

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Participate.

In the photo session Leela for them. Yes. Okay.

Thank you.

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