SBen221017 The last advice of Sri Krsna to Uddhavji 12 A genuine disciple is most rare.Sat Guru seva
Channel: BhaktiSiddhanta.org
Date: 17/10/2022

Actual Submission. The topmost idealism of yukta-vairāgya as shown by Śrīla Prabhupāda. Dharma-vid Yadu Mahārāja. Lessons from the Avadhūta. Quality over quantity. The absurdity of so-called sevā without any sādhana. The forest fire of material saṁsāra.

ŚB 11.12.24 → 

evaṁ gurūpāsanayaika-bhaktyā
vidyā-kuṭhāreṇa śitena dhīraḥ
vivṛścya jīvāśayam apramattaḥ
sampadya cātmānam atha tyajāstram

[With steady intelligence you should develop unalloyed devotional service by careful worship of the spiritual master, and with the sharpened ax of transcendental knowledge you should cut off the subtle material covering of the soul. Upon realizing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you should then give up that ax of analytic knowledge.]
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“If you enjoy something—try to realize [this point]—whatever enjoyment you have done in your life, whatever you are doing or you are supposed to do in the future, with a [rational] brain you can think: for your enjoyment, somebody has to put forth some energy. When I take prasāda, somebody is cooking. Somebody is cooking, giving energy, so I am enjoying. This way, if you calculate with a very cool brain that whatever enjoyment you have done in your life, past, present or future, for that, someone has to put forth some energy for you. Therefore, you are enjoying that person. With a very cool brain you will have to think [about this]. That’s why Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī never wanted to take any sevā from anybody. Śrīla Gaura Kiśora Dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja never wanted to take any sevā from anybody. Never. They never think themselves to be the object of service.”

“This material world is burning. Caitanya Mahāprabhu told: This material world is burning, there is a forest fire. You cannot see because you are blind. There is a forest fire! Each person is fighting with others to protect their self-interest. Always, fighting is going on. Always, different kinds of fighting and competition are going on. This is a burning samāja; this society is burning:

janeṣu dahyamāneṣu
kāma-lobha-davāgninā
na tapyase ’gninā mukto
gaṅgāmbhaḥ-stha iva dvipaḥ
(ŚB 11.7.29)

This is the same thing Yadu Mahārāja was speaking: janeṣu dahyamāneṣu, kāma-lobha-davāgninā—This material world is burning due to kāma, lobha, all burning their heart, and they’re fighting with each other—that kind of forest fire is going on, like Caitanya Mahāprabhu told us. Yadu Mahārāja is also speaking this. So, kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, all different kinds of ripu (enemies)—due to the influence of different kinds of ripu your heart is burning—and the whole world is just like a forest fire. The whole world is going on just like a forest fire.”


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“Sanātana Gosvāmī is also writing in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, that just like bell metal can be converted into gold by some chemical reaction, similarly, when someone goes to take dīkṣā from an elevated devotee, a very nice paramahaṁsa, their life also can be converted. If one dirty person is going to submit unto the lotus feet of pure devotees, by the association of those devotees, it is sure that he can be converted into a devotee. All dirtiness of the heart, everything, can go away; Sanātana Gosvāmī is writing.”

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