Real Sadhu-Sanga
If anyone is so fortunate and his material desires are going to be finished and his cycle of birth and death is going to be destroyed, then he will obtain sadhu-sanga, real sadhu-sanga.
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Krsna Becomes Worried
If you want eternal bliss and eternal happiness, you should associate with any bona fide Vaisnava and Guru.
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Pavitra Means Purified
Krsna first of all had to face Putana. Krsna destroyed all the bad qualities of Putana. He purified her. Pavitra—pavitra means purified by two ways: the outer body and then the mind.
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The Life and Soul of Kirtana
If this life is covered with raga, ragini, and tune, then the kirtana is useless. It will cover our whole thing and the result of kirtana is gone. So try to realize this thing. If your attention is on raga, ragini, the life and soul of the kirtana will go away and if your attention is on mood, then your heart will melt. Your heart will melt and tears will come…
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Mercifully, He Left That Abode
Even a very ordinary rich person cannot do this, he cannot come to help anyone. If any people are quarreling and anyone will be lying on the road, that person will not help them. He will not do anything. But this Caitanya Mahaprabhu, being the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not only Krsna, but the combined form of Radha and Krsna, this Caitanya Mahaprabhu is more merciful…
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The Mercy of Gurudeva
Srila Gurudeva: Aranya Maharaja, a disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, He was not literate at all. Not knowing ABCD or Sanskrit or Bangla. Even he could not sign his own name. But he was so learned that he used to give classes like Srila Prabhupada Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja. Using bombastic words like advaya-jnana para-tattva. Vadanti tat tattva vidas tattvam yaj jnanam advayam (Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.11). Advaya-jnana para-tattva who is Krsna. How? How is He para-tattva advaya-jnana? I don’t think that any one of you can explain these things. If you have heard from any bona-fide Vaisnava like Pujyapada Sridhara Maharaja, Guru Maharaja or anyone of them, Puri Maharaja, then you can have some idea. Otherwise you cannot define what is advaya-jnana para-tattva. It is very difficult…
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Have You Completely Offered Yourself?
Srila Gurudeva: When can we achieve the mercy of Nityananda Prabhu? When? When Rupa and Raghunatha are merciful to us. Without the mercy of Rupa Gosvami, Raghunatha Gosvami, the Six Gosvamis and our Gurudeva, we cannot attain the mercy of Nityananda Prabhu. If there is no saranagati, if there is no surrender, we can never achieve their mercy. You should know the real meaning of saranagati and you should try to adopt the formulas and the teachings of saranagati. Purely you should try to take it and follow. If you are taking shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna, having faith that He will save me from all kinds of difficulties, then why do you busy yourself with all these material things? Why are you anxious? Why are you worried about material things?…
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Mercy to the Conditioned Souls
They may tell you, “Oh you are Lalita, I am Lalita,” but this is like mayavada and monism. Don’t go there. Don’t try to enter into these things artificially. Don’t imitate. Come in the process of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. That process is elaborately explained by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakura. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura said that in the near future, hundreds and thousands of western devotees will come with sikha and tulsi mala, and they will meet with Indian devotees, and they will chant, “Haribol, Haribol, Gaura Premanande.”
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The Lotus Feet of the Spiritual Master
If you are serving and obeying a guru like that, like Lokanatha dasa Gosvami, then sadhana-bhakti will manifest in your heart, after which bhava-bhakti, and then prema-bhakti will manifest – and after that all kinds of avidya (the ignorance of forgetting Krsna) will be destroyed. At that time you will attain the service of Krsna in Goloka Vrndavana.
First prema-bhakti comes, and then ignorance goes. Guru first gives the seed of the desire to serve Krsna; this is called sraddha. That sraddha develops, and when anarthas somewhat leave, then nistha (steadiness), ruci (taste), asakti (spontaneous attachment), bhava or rati (spiritual sentiments), and then prema (pure love) comes. With the appearance of prema, this physical body will be totally gone. Thus, prema will come, and you will be free from all ignorance.