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Hari Katha
According to the preacher’s intensity and purity of realization, their preaching of hari-katha may be of many types. The mahā-bhagavata, madhyama-bhagavata, kaniṣṭha-bhagavata may talk about Hari, but there is a great difference in the deepness of their conception and commitment.
The Glories of Sri Purushottama Month by Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura
The most worshipable paramartha-sastra acclaims adhimasa as the most outstanding month for transcendental activities. Since life in this world is temporary, it is not proper to spend any part of one’s life meaninglessly. It is imperative for the jiva to remain continuously engaged in hari-bhajana at every moment. Thus, the adhimasa, which comes every third year, may also become useful for hari-bhajana. This is indeed the deep meaning of paramartha-sastras. Even though karmis perceive this month to be devoid of all auspicious activities, for the deliverance of all the jivas, paramartha sastra, on the other hand, has ascertained that period as the most conducive for hari-bhajana. Paramartha sastra says, “He jiva! During this adhimasa why should you remain lazy in hari-bhajana? Srimad Golokanatha Himself has ascertained that this month is the best of all. It is superior even to the greatly pious months of Karttika, Magha and Vaisakha. In this month, you should perform arcana of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna with special rules, or moods, for bhajana. You will thereby attain all types of perfection.”
Our challenging mood or audacity can throw us away into the ocean of Maya forever
Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahaṁsa Guru said that— “You have already left the way of praṇipāt –paripraśna to avoid connection with the absolute truth and you have accepted the way of tarka path (logic) to get lost forever in the ocean of Maya. What we can do for you!”
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.