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Offering for the Worship of Sri Sri Vyasadeva
The worship of Sri Vyasadeva is identical with the worship of the Word of God. The Word of God is identical with God Himself. God Himself can alone give us the Word of God. In the form of Sri Vyasadeva, in the form of the Acharyya, it is God Himself who gives Himself away to those jivas who cherish eternal aversion against the Lord. Submission to Sri Gurudeva is submission to the Word of God, submission to Sri Vyasadeva who is no other than the Lord Himself in the form of the Acharyya.
What is Rasa?
As soon as one experiences joy while reading or listening to rasa-texts one has gone astray, onto the path of sin, of God-lessness, and exploits the Shastrams. The bhakta hasn’t got any time to feel joy; his service of God is his joy and he is unsatiable in his service, because the power of service is infinite, is nirguna, God’s Own power.
The Nature of Gopi-Seva
It is perfectly clear that there are only a few, very few, who are capable of understanding even a fragment of these things. Therefore, apart from moments when Mahaprabhu was not aware of the world, He never uttered a word of these things or sang of them before all groups of bhakta-s, only within the most intimate circle of the bhakta-s who belong to the gopi-lila in the fifth rasa of Krishna’s lila.
Real Darśana of Śrī Jagannātha-deva
In Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s transcendental vision, darśana of Śrī Jagannātha is as follows: “pratimā naha tumi, sākṣāt vrajendra-nandana—You are not an idol; You are, before my very eyes, the son of the king of Vraja.” In the context of explaining this statement, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Prabhupāda has conveyed the following: “Śrī Jagannātha-deva is adhokṣaja-tattva, the Absolute Truth that exists beyond the grasp of our material senses. He is not an object to gratify anyone’s senses. We cannot behold Him by the power of our own wish and knowledge.
My Advice
We are not the operators of the instrument, but only the instruments. We must always bear this in mind. The triple staff Bhikshus are the living mridangas (clay drums) of Sree Chaitanya. We must constantly give forth our music beneath the lotus feet of Sree Guru. We should practise the function of the peripatetic preacher (paribrajaka) of carrying aloft the victorious banner of the Commands of Divine Sree Gaursundar by constant submission to Sree Guru and the Vaishnavas, fixing our eye on the polar star of the heard transcendental voice.
THE GAUDIYA CREED
We have been talking plainly and systematically on the plight of the religions in the hands of their pseudo-followers, in the pages of this Journal, for the last 30 years. We deprecate no religion, our remarks only apply to the principle of evil which is masquerading in the garb of religion. The pseudo-religionists have always attempted to prevent plain speaking specially on the subject of religion. They are the greatest enemies of religion. Intolerance of evil in the garb of religion must not be confounded with the intolerance of religion itself.
Slow and Steady
amāninā mānadena kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ We should take resort to kīrtan always, but Mahāprabhu recommends that our attitude should be such: tṛṇād api sunīcha, taror api sahiṣṇu, amānī mānada. It is generally upwards, all towards high. Our attitude will be humble,...
God-realization
To err is human. However learned and intelligent a man may be, he is prone to error and evil. The greatest philosopher should always remember that human nature is apt to make various errors at every moment, especially when we try to judge that which is spiritual and eternal using our empiric knowledge.
“Pleasing Śrīla Gurudeva Gives Me Life”
"Many of the disciples of our Śrīla Gurudeva, jagad-guruparamārādhyatama Śrī Śrīla Prabhupāda, gave their bodies, minds, words and wealth to assist in fulfilling his heart’s deepest ambitions. Although he was immensely pleased by their service, or anuśīlana, it is...
The Lotus feet of Sri Guru
If in order to carry out the command of the Vaishnava guru I have to be arrogant, to be brutish, to suffer eternal perdition, I am prepared to welcome such eternal damnation and even sign a pact to that effect. I will not listen to the words of other malicious persons in lieu of the command of the gurudeva