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| {{terms|"to understand the Absolute Truth, there are four recognized sampradayas: the Brahma-sampradaya, the Rudra-sampradaya, the Kumara-sampradaya, and the Sri-sampradaya"}} | | {{terms|"to understand the Absolute Truth, there are four recognized ''sampradāyas'', the Brahma-sampradāya, the Rudra-sampradāya, the Kumāra-sampradāya and the Śrī-sampradāya"}} |
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| <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> | | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB32610BombayDecember221974_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="474" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974"> | | <div id="LectureonSB32610BombayDecember221974_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="474" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974"> |
| <div class="heading">Paramparā is very important thing. Therefore, unless we take to the paramparā system, which is, in another word, it is called sampradāya... Sampradāya. | | <div class="heading">Paramparā is very important thing. Therefore, unless we take to the paramparā system, which is, in another word, it is called sampradāya... Sampradāya. So to understand the Absolute Truth, there are four recognized sampradāyas: the Brahma-sampradāya, the Rudra-sampradāya, the Kumāra-sampradāya, and the Śrī-sampradāya. |
| So to understand the Absolute Truth, there are four recognized sampradāyas: the Brahma-sampradāya, the Rudra-sampradāya, the Kumāra-sampradāya, and the Śrī-sampradāya. | |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devahūti is the mother of Kapiladeva, but she is taken instruction from his (her) son. His (her) son is... Kapiladeva is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So it doesn't matter whether God appears as my son or guru or father. God is there always. So we have to take knowledge from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is perfect knowledge. Because He is the origin of everything. Govindam ādi-puruṣam. Ādi-puru... The original person. So if we take lessons from the original person, that is perfect knowledge. Otherwise it is imperfect knowledge. So that... Somebody was asking about the paramparā. So that paramparā is very necessary, to know the knowledge by the paramparā system. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2|BG 4.2]]). Paramparā is very important thing. Therefore, unless we take to the paramparā system, which is, in another word, it is called sampradāya... Sampradāya.</p> | | |
| <p>So to understand the Absolute Truth, there are four recognized sampradāyas: the Brahma-sampradāya, the Rudra-sampradāya, the Kumāra-sampradāya, and the Śrī-sampradāya. Śrī-sampradāya mean one sampradāya is coming from directly from the goddess of fortune, Lakṣmī. That is called Śrī-sampradāya. And one sampradāya is coming from Lord Brahmā. Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye. The ādi-kavi is Lord Brahmā. He learned from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Tene brahma hṛdā. The Supreme Personality of Godhead instructed Lord Brahmā from within the heart: tene brahma hṛdā. Hṛdā means within the heart. So in this way, instruction is received from Lord Brahmā, from Lord Śiva, from Lakṣmījī the goddess of fortune, and the Kumāras, Sanat-kumāra, Sanaka, Sanātana, Sananda Kumāra. They have got a sampradāya. So we have to approach the sampradāya. Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). Abhigacchet: "must approach the sampradāya," either of the sampradāya. Sampradāya-vihīnā ye mantrās te niṣphalā matāḥ: "If you don't take your instruction, mantra, from the sampradāya, then it is useless." It has no meaning, because they do not know. Therefore we have to take sampradāya, accept sampradāya.</p>
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| | Devahūti is the mother of Kapiladeva, but she is taken instruction from his (her) son. His (her) son is . . . Kapiladeva is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So it doesn't matter whether God appears as my son or ''guru'' or father. God is there always. So we have to take knowledge from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is perfect knowledge. Because He is the origin of everything. ''Govindam ādi-puruṣam. Ādi-puru'' . . . the original person. So if we take lessons from the original person, that is perfect knowledge. Otherwise, it is imperfect knowledge. So that . . . somebody was asking about the ''paramparā''. So that ''paramparā ''is very necessary, to know the knowledge by the ''paramparā ''system. ''Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]]). ''Paramparā'' is very important thing. Therefore, unless we take to the ''paramparā'' system, which is, in another word, it is called ''sampradāya . . . sampradāya''. |
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| | So to understand the Absolute Truth, there are four recognized ''sampradāyas'', the Brahma-sampradāya, the Rudra-sampradāya, the Kumāra-sampradāya and the Śrī-sampradāya. Śrī-sampradāya mean one ''sampradāya'' is coming from directly from the goddess of fortune, Lakṣmī. That is called Śrī-sampradāya. And one ''sampradāya'' is coming from Lord Brahmā. ''Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye''. The ''ādi-kavi'' is Lord Brahmā. He learned from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ''Tene brahma hṛdā''. The Supreme Personality of Godhead instructed Lord Brahmā from within the heart: ''tene brahma hṛdā. Hṛdā'' means within the heart. So in this way, instruction is received from Lord Brahmā, from Lord Śiva, from Lakṣmījī the goddess of fortune, and the Kumāras, Sanat-kumāra, Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanat-kumāra. They have got a ''sampradāya''. So we have to approach the ''sampradāya. Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet'' (MU 1.2.12). ''Abhigacchet'': "must approach the ''sampradāya''," either of the ''sampradāya. Sampradāya-vihīnā ye mantrās te niṣphalā matāḥ'': "If you don't take your instruction, mantra, from the ''sampradāya'', then it is useless." It has no meaning, because they do not know. Therefore we have to take ''sampradāya'', accept ''sampradāya''. |
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