20250122- Second Stream — Analysis of the Gradual Rise of Prema part 3

Swami.

Saitana.

Krishna.

Halayanamah.

Hare Krishna. Dear devotees, today we will continue with the reading from Sri Chaitanya shikshamrata. I think sixth shower 6.2 analysis of prema number nine prema, love of God. When Bhava attains possessiveness of Krishna, it becomes Prema. This is the permanent ecstasy suitable for Rasa practicing. Devotees should always observe their own state. They should not reflect on how they were yesterday. Sorry. They should reflect on how they were yesterday and how they have improved today. If after observing for a few days, they see no progress according to the gradual process, then they should consider that some offense has occurred. They should identify and avoid this offence and rectify the damage through saintly association. They should constantly practice and pray to Ka to avoid repeating the offense and be vigilant. Those who do not pay attention to their gradual progress may experience significant delays in advancement due to unnoticed obstacles. Therefore, O practitioners, be especially cautious in this matter.

So when we notice how progressing.

So when we notice how we are progressing, then we can achieve Prema quickly.

Offenses stop our progress.

But different obstacles like offenses may stop our progress. So we should make notice whether we are making advancement or not. If we are making advancement or not.

That how we progress. The original source. We have to see if our gradual progress.

So how we are advancing, progressing in devotional service or not. We have to see how our devotional service is advancing.

Not making advancement. Then we should see that there's a result.

But if you are not making advancement, then we should see that and do the needful.

Not really.

Like if you are making advancement but not really progressing.

Is another thought.

And then we should notice that and somehow make up for any mistakes. So we should be very careful in this matter. We have completed the chapter.

We have completed the chapter.

Eknath saying you could expand it. So the obstacles come in the form of offenses. And pray to Krishna to avoid offenses and also see the advancement day by day.

Step by step advancement.

So Bhaktiyanath Thakur is showing step by step advancement.

And.

One does this step by step gradual process.

If one does this step by step gradual process, then he or she can very quickly advance it.

Marriage? Yes.

It.

So what they've done is he was unconscious on the tree and he brought on soldiers. But he was hard like this.

So Lord Chaitanya was unconscious under a tree. And the Patan soldiers, they thought that he was robbed by his associates.

Soldiers are shaking.

The Bengali associates were shaking.

I got 200 soldiers talk loudly. A government attacking all.

So the Rajput soldiers were saying I got 200 soldiers. What was the. The last part? Will come and attack you all. And then Lord Chaitanya came conscious. I am a Sanyasi. I don't have anything to rob.

I got epilepsy.

I got epilepsy.

Sometimes I fall unconscious.

Sometimes I fall unconscious.

There was one.

Here.

Certainly was.

So there was one peer, a saintly Muslim in the Patan group.

And Lord Chaitanya started talking to him.

And then Lord Chaitanya started talking to him. And he.

Believed that supreme personality, all that is impersonal.

He believed that the supreme personality of Godhead is impersonal.

And Lord Chaitanya and Lord Chaitanya defeated him. And then there was a prince, son of the king, he was there.

And then there was a prince, a son of the king. He was there.

I don't know how study the scripture.

And he said, these Muslims, they don't know how to study the scriptures.

The further you get along in the scripture, the more enhanced Sahaja.

The more you get along with the scriptures, the more advanced the subject is.

So he said, he demonstrated how the Quran at the end says that Allah is a person.

He said that how the Quran it says that how the Quran says at the end that Allah is a person.

Context.

And he gave different context, different verses for that.

People were amazed to hear Lord Chaitanya.

And people were amazed to see Lord to hear Lord Chaitanya.

In the Hadith the Quran.

Is.

Rabbi Muhammad, please read upon him.

The Quran was made by Muhammad. May peace upon him.

As.

The Quran is considered more authoritative.

And the Hadith it says that Muhammad is the honor.

He.

He came for the morning prayers.

So in the Hadith it says that Muhammad, peace be upon him. He came for the morning prayers.

He fell asleep reading the Quran.

He fell asleep reading the Quran.

Look, I saw the hand of Allah.

He looked on his shoulder, there was a hand of Allah.

And sacred books, all these things are revealed.

So like this. In sacred books all these things are revealed. And so.

Hazra Muhammad praised the various realizations.

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him, he had various realizations.

And.

So he gave all these realizations.

And he gave all these realizations Allah. Apparently there are many persons state that Allah is impersonal.

That wasn't that was.

Told.

Gradually.

That's told gradually.

It's hot. His Patans are known as Pathan Vaishnavas.

So the Patans are known as Patan Vaishnavas.

And they all became Vaishnavas. On the rhino preaching of Chaitanya Mahara.

They all became Vaishnavas by the preaching of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. There's a question. Which one? The first or second? Okay. This is a question from Dinanath Sri Krishna Das from Sydney, Australia. Hare Krishna. Dear Guru Maharaj, please accept my respectful obeisances onto your lotus feet. As you mentioned in your previous class about idolatry and deity worship, lot of people, they have misconception. Both idolatry and deity worship is identical. And they think that if they follow idolatry process they achieve the same highest perfection. So I just want you to clarify the difference between them. Here.

The installation is something that was handed down by Brihaspati.

So the deity installation is a procedure which was handed down by Brihaspati.

Who is the guru of the Devas.

Who is the guru of the devas.

We chant the mantras and do the ceremony as us hand them down.

While we are swaddling, we install the deity. We chant the mantras. We do the rituals and ceremony as it was handed down by Brihaspati.

Here deity is installed by these wonders and they are seeing the deities.

So the deities are installed with these mantras and they are seeing the deities.

And they have the direct experience of the deity.

When they are seeing the deities, they have the direct experience of the deity.

Idol is something that you circulate.

Idle is something that you speculate.

And this deity is something that's made in the present form of Krishna.

So this deity is something which is made as a form of Krishna. And there are different adivasas and ceremonies.

These are very sacred rituals.

So these are very sacred rituals.

And other neurotics are able to call the deity and to this material things.

So the devotees are able to call the deities into these material things. Okay. Thank you Guru Maharaj for the wonderful lecture. Please bless all of them. Guru Maharaj. Please bless. Blessings it.

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