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Srila Prabhupada explica: Avirbhava e tirobhava. Aparecimento e desaparecimento. Tal como o nascer do sol e o por do sol... Quando o sol se poe, isso nao significa que ele acabou. Somente nao esta visivel a nossos olhos. O mesmo ocorre com o aparecimento e desaparecimento de uma encarnacao de Deus ou de um devoto puro do Senhor. What spiritual path are we trying to follow? The path of Pure Bhakti.This is the path of seeking loving connection with the Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna, under the auspices of His Divine Consort, Srimati Radharani, in a mood of loving devotion (pure bhakti), through congregational chanting of the holy names (harinam sankirtan), devotional service (bhakti yoga & seva), and the living blessings and guidance of pure and senior devotees (Sadhus and Vaishnav Thakurs) and qualified spiritual master-teachers(Guru-varga). Radhe Radhe Radhe Jai Jai Jai Sri Radhe Sri Guru Tattva Part 1 7 by Bv Suddhadvaiti Swami The Books Are Our Siksa-Gurusby Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami MaharajaIf my heart has accepted Srila Rupa Gosvami as my siksa guru, and I am accepting all his teachings, no one can challenge this. My heart accepts this. If I am accepting as my siksa-guru Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja, there are none to challenge. This is the relation between one heart and Gurudeva.We should treat all the books of the Gosvamis as our siksa-gurus. We should offer pranama to the books, and then read them. If we do this, we will realize that all siddhanta is coming automatically in our heart. This is the process of reading not reading, but serving the books.Never try to eat prasadam. Once someone asked me, Will you eat anything? I replied, I have never eaten anything in my entire life. He then asked, So, how are you alive? I said, I have served prasadam. Try to be like this. Dont chant Hare Krsna; try to serve Hare Krsna. Dont eat maha-prasada, always try to serve.When you are reading these books, dont read. Serve. Offer pranama, place the book on your forehead and heart, and pray, O Prabhu, you are personally Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami. Please be merciful to me. This is the process of reading.When you are reading the dialogue between Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Raya Ramananda on the bank of the Godavari, you can think, I am on the bank of Godavari. Raya Ramananda and Mahaprabhu are sitting here. I am also peacefully sitting with them, and hearing all their topics. O Mahaprabhu, O Raya Ramananda Prabhu, please be merciful to me. Please sprinkle your mercy upon me so that I can understand this high-class siddhanta.Without praying in this way, you will have doubts and you will not be able to realize anything. Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami never met personally with Srila Rupa Gosvami, Srila Sanatana Gosvami, Srila Gopal Bhatta Gosvami, or Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami. He only met with Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and Srila Jiva Gosvami. How, then, can he write in Caitanya-caritamrta that they are all his siksa-gurus? The answer is that everything Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami had in his
heart was from Srila Rupa Gosvami, and then he explained his hearts realizations to Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami. Krsnadasa Kaviraja received rasa-tattva from Raghunatha dasa Gosvami and all siddhanta from Srila Jiva Gosvami. From where did that siddhanta come? Srila Gopal Bhatta Gosvami collected appropriate siddhanta from all the scriptures, such as Veda, Upanisads, and Vedanta. From that he made some notes, but the information was not organised. Srila Jiva Gosvami put that information in order; thus everything is coming from them. Srila Sanatana Gosvami wrote many books, one of which is Brhad-bhagavatamrta. Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami took the essence of all the topics therein and gave it to Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami. They realized all the knowledge they received, not like us who think, Krsna is my siksa-guru, and Rupa Gosvami is siksa-guru, but I am not taking any essence from them and I dont follow them. To follow a guru actually, by heart, is the acceptance of siksa-guru.That is why Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami is able to write [in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 1.36-37]:sri-rupa, sanatana, bhatta-raghunatha sri-jiva, gopala-bhatta, dasa-raghunathaMy instructing spiritual masters are Sri Rupa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Bhatta Raghunatha, Sri Jiva Gosvami, Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami and Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami.ei chaya gurusiksa-guru ye amara tan-sabara pada-padme koti namaskaraThese six are my instructing spiritual masters, and therefore I offer millions of respectful obeisances unto their lotus feet.Los Angeles, California: June 4, 1998 http://backtobhakti.com/2011/11/the-books-are-our-siksa-gurus/
region without surrendering ourselves at the lotus feet of Sri Vyasadeva or his bona fide representative. Every moment we are being deceived by the knowledge of our direct perception. It is all the creation or concoction of the mind, which is always deceiving, changing and flickering. We cannot know anything of the transcendental region by our limited, perverted method of observation and experiment. But all of us can lend our eager ears for the aural reception of the transcendental sound transmitted from that region to this, through the unadulterated medium of sri gurudeva or Sri Vyasadeva. Therefore, gentlemen, we should surrender ourselves today at the feet of the representative of Sri Vyasadeva for the elimination of all our differences bred by our unsubmissive attitude. It is accordingly said in the Bhagavad-gita (4.34): tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevayaupadeksyanti te jnanam jnaninas tattva darsinah"Just approach the wise and bona fide spiritual master. Surrender unto him first and try to understand him by inquiries and service. Such a wise spiritual master will enlighten you with transcendental knowledge, for he has already known the Absolute Truth."To receive transcendental knowledge, we must completely surrender ourselves to the real acarya in a spirit of ardent inquiry and service. Actual performance of service to the Absolute under the guidance of the acarya is the only vehicle by which we can assimilate transcendental knowledge. Today's meeting for offering our humble services and homage to the feet of the acaryadeva will enable us to be favored with the capacity of assimilating the transcendental knowledge so kindly transmitted by him to all persons without distinction. Gentlemen, we are all more or less proud of our past Indian civilization, but we actually do not know the real nature of that civilization. We cannot be proud of our past material civilization, which his now a thousand times greater than in days gone by. It is said that we are passing through the age of darkness, the Kali-yuga. What is this darkness? The darkness cannot be due to backwardness in material knowledge. Because we now have more of it than formerly. If not we ourselves, our neighbors, at any rate, have plenty of it. Therefore, we must conclude that the darkness of the present age is not due to a lack of material advancement, but that we have lost he clue to our spiritual advancement, which is the prime necessity of human life and the criterion of the highest type of human civilization. Throwing of bombs from airplanes is no advancement of civilization from the primitive, uncivilized practice of dropping big stones on the heads of enemies from the tops of hills. Improvement of the art of killing our neighbors by means of machine guns and poisonous gases is certainly no advancement from primitive barbarism, which prided itself on its art of killing by bows and arrows. Nor does the development of a sense of pampered selfishness prove anything more than intellectual animalism. True human civilization is very different from all these states, and therefore in the Katha Upanishad (1.3.14) there is the emphatic call:
uttisthata jagarata prapya varan nibodhataksurasya dhara nisita duratyayadurgam pathas tat kavayo vadanti"Please wake up and try to understand the boon that you have in this human form of life. The path of spiritual realization is very difficult; it is sharp like a razor's edge. That is the opinion of learned transcendental scholars."Thus, while others were yet in the womb of historical oblivion, the sages of India had developed a different kind of civilization, which enabled them to know themselves. They had discovered that we are not at all material entities, but that we are all spiritual, permanent, and indestructible servants of the Absolute. But because we have, against our better judgement, chosen to completely identify ourselves with this present material existence, our sufferings have multiplied according to the inexorable law of birth and death, with its consequent diseases and anxieties. These sufferings cannot be really mitigated by any provision of material happiness, because matter and spirit are completely different elements. It is just as if you took an aquatic animal out of water and put it on the land, supplying all manner of happiness possible on land. The deadly sufferings of the animal are not capable of being revealed at all until it is taken out of its foreign environment. Spirit and matter are completely contradictory things. All of us are spiritual entities. We cannot have perfect happiness, which is our birthright, however much we may meddle with the affairs of mundane things. Perfect happiness can be ours only when we are restored to our natural state of spiritual existence. This is the distinctive message of our ancient Indian civilization, this is the message of the Gita, this is the message of the Vedas and the Puranas, and this is the message of all the real acaryas, including our present acaryadeva in the line of Lord Caitanya. Gentlemen, although it is imperfectly that we have been enabled, by his grace, to understand the sublime messages of our acaryadeva, Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivarajakacarya Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, we must admit that we have realized definitely that the divine message from his holy lips is the congenial thing for suffering humanity. All of us should hear him patiently. If we listen to the transcendental sound without unnecessary opposition, he will surely have mercy upon us. The acarya's message is to take us back to our original home, back to God. Let me repeat, therefore, that we should hear him patiently, follow him in the measure of our conviction and bow down at his lotus feet for releasing us from our present causeless unwillingness for serving the Absolute and all souls. From the Gita we learn that even after the destruction of the body, the atma, or the soul, is not destroyed; he is always the same, always new and fresh. Fire cannot burn him, water cannot dissolve him, the air cannot dry him up, and the sword cannot kill him. He is everlasting and eternal, and this is also confirmed in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.84.13): yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhihyat-tirtha buddhih
salile na karhicit janesv abhijnesu sa eva go-kharah"Anyone who accepts this bodily bag of three elements (bile, mucus, and air) as his self, who has an affinity for a intimate relationship with his wife and children, who considers his land worshipable, who takes bath in the waters of the holy places of pilgrimage but never takes advantage of those persons who are in actual knowledge -- he is not better than an ass or a cow."Unfortunately, in these days we have all been turned foolish by neglecting our real comfort and identifying the material cage with ourselves. We have concentrated all our energies for the meaningless upkeep of the material cage for its own sake, completely neglecting the captive soul within. The cage is meant for the undoing of the bird; the bird is not meant for the welfare of the cage. Let us, therefore, deeply ponder this. All our activities are now turned toward the upkeep of the cage, and the most we do is try to give some food to the mind by art and literature. But we do not know that this mind is also material in a more subtle form. This is stated in the Gita (7.4): bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh kham mano buddhir eva caahankara itiyam me bhinna prakrtir astadha"Earth, fire, water, air, sky intelligence, mind, and ego are all My separated energies."We have scarcely tried to give any food to the soul, which is distinct from the body and mind; therefore we are all committing suicide in the proper sense of the term. The message of the acaryadeva is to give us a warning to halt such wrong activities. Let us therefore bow down at his lotus feet for the unalloyed mercy and kindness he has bestowed upon us. Gentlemen do not for a moment think that my gurudeva wants to put a complete brake on the modern civilization -- an impossible feat. But let us learn from him the art of making the best use of a bad bargain, and let us understand the importance of this human life, which is fit for the highest development of true consciousness. The best use of this are human life should not be neglected. As it is said in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.9.29): labdhva su-dulabham idam bahu-sambhavante manusyanam arthadam anityam apiha dhirahturnam yateta na pated anu mrtyu yvan nihsreyasaya visayah khalu sarvatah syat"This human form of life is obtained after many, many births, and although it is not permanent, it can offer the highest benefits. Therefore a sober and intelligent man should immediately try to fulfill his mission and attain the highest profit in life before another death occurs. He should avoid sense gratification, which is available in all circumstances."Let us not misuse this human life in the vain pursuit of material enjoyment, or, in other words, for the sake of only eating, sleeping, fearing, and sensuous activities. The acaryadeva's message is conveyed by the words of Sri Rupa Goswami (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.255-256): anasaktasya visayan yatharham-upayunjatahnirbandhah krsna-sambandhe yuktam vairagyamucyateprapancikataya buddhya hari-sambandhi-vastunahmumuksabhih parityago vairagyam phalgu kathyate"One is said to be situated
in the fully renounced order of life if he lives in accordance with Krsna consciousness. He should be without attachment for sense gratification and should accept only what is necessary for the upkeep of the body. On the other hand, one who renounces things that could be used in the service of Krsna, under the pretext that such things are material, does not practice complete renunciation."The purport of these slokas can only be realized by fully developing the rational portion of our life, not the animal portion. Sitting at the feet of the acaryadeva, let us try to understand from this transcendental source of knowledge what we are, what is this universe, what is God, and what is our relationship with Him. The message of Lord Caitanya is the message for the living entities and the message of the living world. Lord Caitanya did not bother himself for the upliftment of this dead world, which is suitably named Martyaloka, the world where everything is destined to die. He appeared before us four hundred and fifty years ago to tell us something of the transcendental universe, where everything is permanent and everything is for the service of the Absolute. But recently Lord Caitanya has been misrepresented by some unscrupulous persons, and the highest philosophy of the Lord has been misinterpreted to be the cult of the lowest type of society. We are glad to announce tonight that our acaryadeva, with his usual kindness, saved us from this horrible type of degradation, and therefore we bow down at his lotus feet with all humility. Gentlemen, it has been mania of the cultured (or uncultured) society of the present day to accredit the Personality of Godhead with merely impersonal features and to stultify Him by claiming that He has not senses, no form, no activity, no head, no legs, and no enjoyment. This has also been the pleasure of the modern scholars due to their sheer lack of proper guidance and true introspection in the spiritual realm. All these empiricists think alike; all the enjoyable things should be monopolized by the human society, or by a particular class only, and the impersonal God would be a mere order-supplier for their whimsical feats. We are happy that we have been relieved of this horrible type of malady by the mercy of His Divine Grace. He is our eye-opener, our eternal father, our eternal preceptor and our eternal guide. Let us therefore bow down at his lotus feet on this auspicious day. Gentlemen, although we are like ignorant children in the knowledge of Transcendence, still, my gurudeva has kindled a small fire within us to dissipate the invincible darkness of empirical knowledge. We are now so much on the safe side that no amount of philosophical argument by the empiric schools of thought can deviate us an inch from the position of our eternal dependence on the lotus feet of His Divine Grace. Furthermore, we are prepared to challenge the most erudite scholars of the Mayavada school and prove that the Personality of Godhead and His transcendental
sports in Goloka alone constitute the sublime information of the Vedas. There are explicit indications of this in the Chandogya Upanishad (8.13.1): syamac cha vlam prapadyesa valac shyamam prapadye "For receiving the mercy of Krsna, I surrender unto Krsna."Also in the Rg Veda (1.22.20): tad visnoh paramam padam sada pasyanti surayahdiviva caksur atatam visnor yat paramam padam"The lotus feet of Lord Visnu are the supreme objective of all the demigods. These lotus feet of the Lord are as enlightening as the sun in the sky."The plain truth so vividly explained in the Gita, which is the central lesson of the Vedas, is to understood or even suspected by the most powerful scholars of the empiric schools. Herein lies the secret of Sri Vyasa Puja. When we meditate on the transcendental pastimes of the Absolute Godhead, we are proud to feel that we are His eternal servitors, and we become jubilant and dance with joy. All glory to my divine master, for it is he who has out of his unceasing flow of mercy stirred up within us such a movement of eternal existence. Let us bow down at his lotus feet.Gentlemen, had he not appeared before us to deliver us from the thralldom of this gross, worldly delusion, surely we should have remained for lives and ages in the darkness of helpless captivity. Had he not appeared before us, we would not have been able to understand the eternal truth of the sublime teaching of Lord Caitanya. Had he not appeared before us, we could not have been able to know the significance of the first sloka of the Brahma-samhita: isvarah paramah krsnasac-cid-ananda-vigrahaanadir adir govindahsarva-karana-karanam"Krsna, who is known as Govinda, is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful, spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes."Personally, I have no hope for any direct service of the coming crores of births in the sojourn of my life, but I am confident that some day or other I shall be delivered from this mire of delusion in which I am at present so deeply sunk. Therefore let me with all my earnestness pray at the lotus feet of my divine master to allow me to suffer the lot for which I am destined due to my past misdoings, but to let me have this power of recollection: that I am nothing but a tiny servant of the Almighty Absolute Godhead, realized through the unflinching mercy of my divine master. Let me therefore bow down at his lotus feet with all the humility at my command. http://bvml.org/ACBSP/httwa.html Srila Prabhupada Page
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, mestre espiritual de Prabhupada, um pouco antes de partir desse mundo disse: Eu certamemte devo ter causado problemas nas mentes de muita gente. Alguem pode inclusive pensar que sou seu inimigo porque, por servico e devocao a Verdade Absoluta, fui obrigado a falar a verdade diretamente e sem rodeios. Fiz isso exclusivamente com o intuito de tentar dar-lhes Krishna e devocao imotivada a Ele. Espero que algum dia possa ser compreendido. Srila Prabhupada fez similar declaracao em seus dias finais. A messe e grande, mas os trabalhadores sao poucos. Pedi, pois, ao Senhor da colheita que envie trabalhadores para sua colheita!. Com a citacao deste trecho do Evangelho de Mateus, o Arcebispo de Belem (PA), Dom Alberto Taveira, lembra que o Deus da a comunidade a responsabilidade de rezar para que as vocacoes sejam despertadas. Por isso, neste mes vocacional, exorta todos a intensificarem suas oracoes.Aqui nasce o primeiro apelo para o mes de agosto, dedicado as vocacoes. Se sao importantes todos os estados de vida na Igreja, desta feita nos permitimos voltar nosso olhar de modo especial a consagracao especifica de dedicacao exclusiva a Igreja e ao Reino de Deus, escreve o Arcebispo em recente artigo.Instituido em 1981, na 19a Assembleia Geral da Conferencia Nacional dosBispos do Brasil (CNBB), o mes vocacional e um convite a reflexao sobre as diversas vocacoes: sacerdotal, religiosa, matrimonial e leiga.Em seu texto, Dom Taveira destaca que o termo vocacao se refere as escolhas particulares de cada pessoa, a fim de dar a propria vida um sentido ideal, donde surgem cada estado de vida, a profissao, cada dedicacao aos outros pode ser caracterizada como vocacao, que lhe da uma dignidade superior e um valor transcendente.Mas, o Prelado ressalta que a palavra vocacao adquire um significado especifico quando se trata de uma vocacao especial, que vem de Deus diretamente, como um raio fulgurante de luz que ilumina o mais profundo da consciencia humana e se expressa numa entrega total da vida ao amor de Deus, que depois se desdobra no amor e no servico ao proximo.Diante disso, observa que ha uma necessidade de que a Igreja envie pessoas que se coloquem de maneira livre e voluntaria a disposicao para evangelizar os demais. Com que alegria meu olhar se dirige a tantos jovens, rapazes e mocas, que tem acolhido o chamado de Deus a esta radicalidade de vida!.E, questionando onde estao as vocacoes, Dom Taveira exorta os sacerdotes a convidarem a comunidade para o seguimento de Cristo. Tambem incentiva os pais a conversarem com seus filhos sobre esse tema. E, especificamente as criancas, adolescentes e jovens, lanca um apelo a ouvirem a voz de Deus. Pode ser que o ambiente da sociedade nao lhe favoreca responder positivamente, mas muito maior do que todos os ventos que correm e a voz de Deus que lhe diz ser este o seu lugar, na dedicacao total a ele e ao seu Reino, no coracao da Igreja.Durante todo o mes de agosto, cada domingo e dedicado a uma vocacao especifica. O primeiro, ao ministerio ordenador, em razao do Dia do