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What is the meaning of Vrata?
To observe Purushottam Vrata means to develop such a pure mind, which 24 hours continuously can get in touch with Guru-Vaiṣṇava-Bhagavan. Then and only then we can realise that our vrata is successful.
We think that Guru-Vaiṣṇava-Bhagavan and their kṛpa is very cheap
Śrīla Gurudeva is antaryāmī, we can never make fool of him, rather he can make fool of us by watching our interest for collecting lābha, pūjā, pratiṣṭhā .
Bonded souls — they are bound to have some material conception about pure Guru-Vaiṣṇava, this is their chronic disease
We cannot say that my Gurudeva has no knowledge about English or mathematics, or Sanskrit, this kind of conception is totally wrong. Rather we should think that it is there, but I am unable to see. If we think that Śrīla Gaura Kishore das Baba has no knowledge about English and mathematics, then our darśana is incomplete.
We should not be miser (kṛpaṇa) to seek our absolute interest
“‘My dear Vaiṣṇava, seeing a person like you is the perfection of one’s eyesight, touching your lotus feet is the perfection of the sense of touch, and glorifying your good qualities is the tongue’s real activity, for in the material world it is very difficult to find a pure devotee of the Lord.’ ”
Those mātājis they cannot act as ācārya to give dikṣā or sannyāsa but can give śikṣā if at all they are tattva –vettvi-viduṣi realized souls (Part 3)
According to the following Vedic śāstra females are prohibited from being dikṣā gurus or forming disciplic successions. So to concoct and fabricate that females can accept sannyāsa and females can give sannyāsa and accept sannyāsa is totally condemned and bogus insulting all four Vaiṣṇava sampradāyas.
To run Gauḍīya Maṭha by the kṛpā of our previous Gauḍīya guru-varga and to run a society is not the same
Those who want to proclaim that I am the disciple of such and such Sad Guru-Vaiṣṇava; be sure that they want just to use the name and fame of that Vaiṣṇava for their own enjoyment. Most of us want to utilize Gurupadma for our own sevā to get lābha, pūjā, pratiṣṭhā etc. Many of them coming to Gauḍīya Maṭha with the motive to enjoy taking prasādaṁ three or four times in a day very easily without any trouble and stay there very safely without any problem. Some of them coming with the motive to get honour and position in Gauḍīya Maṭha because of their material qualification.
The One Absolute
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya told us that we should first acquire self-determination, without which we will mistake the mind for the soul. Mind is quite different from soul. The mind conducts all the activities of the physical plane. It receives impressions from Nature through the medium of the senses and through the functions of our body, that is, through the mind’s interfacing with external objects, which are made of matter.
Without Guru-Vaiṣṇava we are blind!
So, all over the world we should circulate this guru tattva if you want to satisfy Prabhupāda. Don’t be busy with rāgānugā-bhajan right now. If there is no strong foundation of guru-Vaiṣṇava tattva then all our so-called rāgānugā-bhajan is one kind of drama. Nothing else. Even one cannot start hari-bhajan without realizing guru-Vaiṣṇava tattva—this is the siddhanta vichar of Śrīla Prabhupāda.
The Only Ideal Couple
Your task is to clearly and precisely comprehend what the substance is, and then briefly describe this substance so the reader for all time has a guideline to help him understand what the occurrence of these lila-s actually means, so that he immediately and instinctively rejects the nonsense that translators and poets offer him in the form of ”Indian Love Poetry” and similar attempts to drag the Divine through the dirt or glorify the dirt of the world
To whom you dedicate yourself is far more important than how much you dedicate yourself
Proficiency in performing activities is not a symptom of devotion to the guru, or guru-bhakti. Bhakti means to remain subordinate and submissive to the Lord’s loving servants, the Vaiṣṇavas.