To increase love of God means there is also process, how to increase
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Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 3
To increase love of God means there is also process, how to increase. The process is given by Rūpa Gosvāmī
SB 3.25.36 -- Bombay, December 5, 1974, Purport: Prītis tad-vasati sthale, nāma-gāne sadā ruciḥ, avyartha-kālatvam [Cc. Madhya 23.18-19]. Their business is to increase love of God. To increase love of God means there is also process, how to increase. The process is given by Rūpa Gosvāmī:
- ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgo 'tha bhajana-kriyā
- tato 'nartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt tato niṣṭhā rucis tataḥ
- athāsaktis tato bhāvas tataḥ premābhyudañcati
- sādhakānām ayaṁ premṇaḥ prādurbhāve bhavet kramaḥ
- [Cc. Madhya 23.14-15]
These are the gradual steps. Śraddhā. Śraddhā means faith. Faith is the beginning. Without faith, you cannot make..., there is no question of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Faith means that faith is created after reading Bhagavad-gītā. If you read Bhagavad-gītā carefully and if you actually understand Bhagavad-gītā as it is, then the faith will be created. Without reading Bhagavad-gītā, there is no question of faith in Kṛṣṇa. So what is that faith? That Kṛṣṇa says that sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja: [Bg. 18.66] "You give up all other engagements. You just surrender to Me, and I shall give you protection." So if we have got faith, if we believe in the words of Kṛṣṇa, that is called faith. If we don't believe in the words of Kṛṣṇa, if we study as a literary thesis and then throw it away, that is not faith.
| Compiled by | Siddha Rupa +, and Beta matea + |
| Date of first entry | 3 January 2008 + |
| Date of last entry | 20 July 2008 + |
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Categories: Increase | Loving God | Means | Process
