Gaudiy Gosthi Pati Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada told that—“ there are two procedures for those who are trying to realize the absolute truth, one is descending, and the other ascending. Which way you prefer that depends on your samskaras. Ascending means out of my own effort I can know the Absolute truth, and the other is descending procedure. Which means to depend upon the divine power to come in life to know that absolute truth, which is called full Saranagati. The most effective example given by Srila Prabhupada can help us understand both about the ascending procedure and descending procedure. Srila Prabhupada used to speak that ascending procedure is just like a monkey baby holding mother while mother jumping from one place to another. Here mother—she has no responsibility about the safety of the baby, because the baby need to hold mother very carefully, if there is any fall down of the baby then the mother is not at all responsible for that. But the example of cat baby is just fitting for the descending procedure, because the cat mother going to hold on baby cat by the help of mouth bite, so surely baby cat can not have any responsibility about how to go and where to go, because all the responsibility lying with the mother cat. Good or bad anything in our life can easily be controlled by Sat-Gurudeva who can guide us up to the ultimate goal of our Bhajan. Only we will have to rely on him, so here in this case our full and final Saranagati is the vital factor like the baby cat and the rest all responsibility lying on Sat Gurudeva.
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