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| <div id="BG1135_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="165" link="BG 11.35" link_text="BG 11.35"> | | <div id="BG1135_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="165" link="BG 11.35" link_text="BG 11.35"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 11.35|BG 11.35, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sañjaya said to Dhṛtarāṣṭra: O King, after hearing these words from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the trembling Arjuna offered obeisances with folded hands again and again. He fearfully spoke to Lord Kṛṣṇa in a faltering voice, as follows.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 11.35 (1972)|BG 11.35, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sañjaya said to Dhṛtarāṣṭra: O King, after hearing these words from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the trembling Arjuna offered obeisances with folded hands again and again. He fearfully spoke to Lord Kṛṣṇa in a faltering voice, as follows.</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>As we have already explained, because of the situation created by the universal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Arjuna became bewildered in wonder; thus he began to offer his respectful obeisances to Kṛṣṇa again and again, and with faltering voice he began to pray, not as a friend, but as a devotee in wonder.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>As we have already explained, because of the situation created by the universal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Arjuna became bewildered in wonder; thus he began to offer his respectful obeisances to Kṛṣṇa again and again, and with faltering voice he began to pray, not as a friend, but as a devotee in wonder.</p> |
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| <div id="CCAdi781_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1027" link="CC Adi 7.81" link_text="CC Adi 7.81"> | | <div id="CCAdi781_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1027" link="CC Adi 7.81" link_text="CC Adi 7.81"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.81|CC Adi 7.81, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is the aspiration of a devotee that while he chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra his eyes will fill with tears, his voice falter and his heart throb. These are good signs in chanting the holy name of the Lord. In ecstasy, one should feel the entire world to be vacant without the presence of Govinda. This is a sign of separation from Govinda.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.81|CC Adi 7.81, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is the aspiration of a devotee that while he chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra his eyes will fill with tears, his voice falter and his heart throb. These are good signs in chanting the holy name of the Lord. In ecstasy, one should feel the entire world to be vacant without the presence of Govinda. This is a sign of separation from Govinda.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAdi78990_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1035" link="CC Adi 7.89-90" link_text="CC Adi 7.89-90"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.89-90|CC Adi 7.89-90, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Perspiration, trembling, standing on end of one"s bodily hairs, tears, faltering voice, fading complexion, madness, melancholy, patience, pride, joy and humility—these are various natural symptoms of ecstatic love of Godhead, which causes a devotee to dance and float in an ocean of transcendental bliss while chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAdi827_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1143" link="CC Adi 8.27" link_text="CC Adi 8.27"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 8.27|CC Adi 8.27, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When one's transcendental loving service to the Lord is actually awakened, it generates transformations in the body such as perspiration, trembling, throbbing of the heart, faltering of the voice and tears in the eyes.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAdi10135136_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1387" link="CC Adi 10.135-136" link_text="CC Adi 10.135-136"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.135-136|CC Adi 10.135-136, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Do you think I have become deranged? I am still seeing the same dream! And the most wonderful thing is that as soon as I came near Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He embraced me with His long arms.” As Śikhi Māhiti spoke to his brother and sister in this way, his voice faltered and there were tears in his eyes. Thus the brothers and sister went to the temple of Jagannātha, and there they saw Lord Caitanya in the Jagamohana kīrtana hall, looking at the beauty of the Śrī Jagannātha Deity just as in Śikhi Māhiti's dream. The Lord was so magnanimous that He immediately embraced Śikhi Māhiti, exclaiming, "You are the elder brother of Murāri!" Being thus embraced, Śikhi Māhiti felt ecstatic transcendental bliss. Thus he and his brother and sister always engaged in rendering service to the Lord. Murāri Māhiti, the younger brother of Śikhi Māhiti, is described in the Madhya-līlā, Chapter Ten, verse 44.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya272_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="358" link="CC Madhya 2.72" link_text="CC Madhya 2.72"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.72|CC Madhya 2.72, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When these emotions are experienced, the complexion turns pale and the body becomes lean and thin. Aśru is explained in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu as a combination of joy, anger and moroseness that causes water to flow from the eyes without effort. When there is joy and there are tears in the eyes, the temperature of the tears is cold, but when there is anger, the tears are hot. In both cases, the eyes are restless, the eyeballs are red and there is itching. These are all symptoms of aśru. When there is a combination of moroseness, astonishment, anger, joy and fear, there is a choking in the voice. This choking is called gadgada. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu refers to gadgada-ruddhayā girā, or "a faltering voice." In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, pulaka is described as joy, encouragement and fear. When these combine, the hairs on the body stand on end, and this bodily state is called pulaka.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya3123_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="504" link="CC Madhya 3.123" link_text="CC Madhya 3.123"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.123|CC Madhya 3.123, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Tears fell from His eyes, and His whole body trembled. His bodily hairs stood on end, He perspired heavily, and His words faltered. Sometimes He stood, and sometimes He fell. And sometimes He cried.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya3162_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="541" link="CC Madhya 3.162" link_text="CC Madhya 3.162"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 3.162|CC Madhya 3.162, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the Lord performed kīrtana, He manifested all kinds of transcendental symptoms. He appeared stunned and trembling, His hair stood on end, and His voice faltered. There were tears and devastation.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya824_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1431" link="CC Madhya 8.24" link_text="CC Madhya 8.24"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.24|CC Madhya 8.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When they embraced each other, ecstatic symptoms—paralysis, perspiration, tears, shivering, paleness and standing up of the bodily hairs—appeared. The word "Kṛṣṇa" came from their mouths falteringly.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya8166_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1571" link="CC Madhya 8.166" link_text="CC Madhya 8.166"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.166|CC Madhya 8.166, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">“Her beauty is more and more enhanced, being decorated with the red kuṅkuma of beauty itself and the blackish musk of conjugal love. Thus Her body is decorated with different colors. Her ornaments embody the natural symptoms of ecstasy—trembling, tears, jubilation, stunning, perspiration, faltering of the voice, bodily redness, madness and dullness. In this way Her entire body is bedecked with these nine different jewels. Over and above this, the beauty of Her body is enhanced by Her transcendental qualities, which constitute the flower garland hanging on Her body. The ecstasy of love for Kṛṣṇa is known as dhīrā and adhīrā, sober and restless. Such ecstasy constitutes the covering of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s body, and it is adorned by camphor. Her transcendental anger toward Kṛṣṇa is embodied as the arrangement of the hair on Her head, and the tilaka of Her great fortune shines on Her beautiful forehead. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s earrings are the holy names of Kṛṣṇa, as well as the hearing of His name and fame.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya15164_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3359" link="CC Madhya 15.164" link_text="CC Madhya 15.164"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.164|CC Madhya 15.164, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard Vāsudeva Datta's statement, His heart became very soft. Tears flowed from His eyes, and He began to tremble. In a faltering voice He spoke as follows.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya15279_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3473" link="CC Madhya 15.279" link_text="CC Madhya 15.279"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.279|CC Madhya 15.279, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While Amogha danced in ecstatic love, he manifested all the ecstatic symptoms—trembling, tears, jubilation, trance, perspiration and a faltering voice. Seeing these waves of ecstatic emotion, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu began to laugh.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya19105_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4344" link="CC Madhya 19.105" link_text="CC Madhya 19.105"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.105|CC Madhya 19.105, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then said, "You have certainly given first-class conclusions." After saying this, He began to recite the full verse in a faltering voice.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya2052_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4544" link="CC Madhya 20.52" link_text="CC Madhya 20.52"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.52|CC Madhya 20.52, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As soon as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu touched Sanātana Gosvāmī, Sanātana was also overwhelmed with ecstatic love. In a faltering voice, he said, "O my Lord, do not touch me."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya2568_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5740" link="CC Madhya 25.68" link_text="CC Madhya 25.68"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.68|CC Madhya 25.68, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Ecstatic spiritual transformations began to take place in the Lord's body. His body trembled, and His voice faltered. He perspired, turned pale and wept a constant flow of tears, which wet all the people standing there. The eruptions on the Lord's body appeared like kadamba flowers.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAntya1073_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1879" link="CC Antya 10.73" link_text="CC Antya 10.73"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 10.73|CC Antya 10.73, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">He bled and perspired from every pore of His body. His voice faltered. Unable to say the line properly, He uttered only "jaja gaga pari mumu."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAntya13127_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2353" link="CC Antya 13.127" link_text="CC Antya 13.127"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 13.127|CC Antya 13.127, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">By the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he experienced the symptoms of ecstatic love—tears, trembling and faltering of the voice. His eyes filled with tears and his throat became choked, and thus he could not recite Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</p> |
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| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAntya1473_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2437" link="CC Antya 14.73" link_text="CC Antya 14.73"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.73|CC Antya 14.73, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"In the house of Kāśī Miśra, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would sometimes be greatly aggrieved, feeling separation from Kṛṣṇa. The joints of His transcendental body would slacken, and His arms and legs would become elongated. Rolling on the ground, the Lord would cry out in distress in a faltering voice and weep very sorrowfully. The appearance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, awakening in my heart, maddens me."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAntya1499_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2463" link="CC Antya 14.99" link_text="CC Antya 14.99"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.99|CC Antya 14.99, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The eight ecstatic symptoms are the state of being stunned, perspiration, standing of the bodily hairs on end, faltering of the voice, trembling, fading of the body's color, tears and devastation.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAntya1569_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2557" link="CC Antya 15.69" link_text="CC Antya 15.69"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 15.69|CC Antya 15.69, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In a faltering voice, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again said, "Alas, go on reciting, Rāma Rāya." Thus Rāmānanda Rāya began to recite a verse. While listening to this verse, the Lord was sometimes very jubilant and sometimes overcome by lamentation. Afterwards the Lord personally explained the verse.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAntya1729_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2767" link="CC Antya 17.29" link_text="CC Antya 17.29"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 17.29|CC Antya 17.29, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In great ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said to Svarūpa Dāmodara in a faltering voice, "My ears are dying of thirst. Please recite something to quench this thirst. Let Me hear it."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAntya1850_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2861" link="CC Antya 18.50" link_text="CC Antya 18.50"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 18.50|CC Antya 18.50, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“I shivered in fear and shed tears. My voice faltered, and all the hairs on my body stood up.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCAntya2036_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3082" link="CC Antya 20.36" link_text="CC Antya 20.36"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.36|CC Antya 20.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"My dear Lord, when will My eyes be beautified by filling with tears that constantly glide down as I chant Your holy name? When will My voice falter and all the hairs on My body stand erect in transcendental happiness as I chant Your holy name?"</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> |
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| | <div id="Nectar_of_Devotion" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Devotion"><h3>Nectar of Devotion</h3> |
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| | <div id="NOD27_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="205" link="NOD 27" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 27"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 27|Nectar of Devotion 27]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A gopī once said to Kṛṣṇa, "My dear son of Nanda Mahārāja, by the sound of Your flute Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī has become full of lamentation and fear, and thus, with a faltering voice, She is crying like a kurarī bird."</p> |
| | <p>It is described that by hearing the vibration of Kṛṣṇa's flute, Lord Śiva becomes very puzzled and begins to cry so loudly into space that the demons become vanquished and the devotees become overwhelmed with joy.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD28_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="213" link="NOD 28" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 28"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 28|Nectar of Devotion 28]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There are eight symptoms of existential ecstatic love: becoming stunned, perspiring, standing of the hairs on the body, faltering of the voice, trembling of the body, changing of bodily colors, shedding of tears and devastation.</p> |
| | <p>The scientific explanation of these eight symptoms is given by Rūpa Gosvāmī as follows. When the vital force of life is in contact with the earth, one is stunned. When the same force comes into contact with water, there is the shedding of tears. When the same force comes into contact with fire, there is perspiration. When the force comes into contact with the sky, there is complete devastation. And when that force comes into contact with the air, there is trembling, failing of the voice and standing of the hairs on the body.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD28_2" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="217" link="NOD 28" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 28"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 28|Nectar of Devotion 28]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When Kṛṣṇa was going to Mathurā on the chariot driven by Akrūra, Yaśodā and all the gopīs came to try to forbid Him to pass and to block His way. At that time Rādhārāṇī was so perturbed that in a faltering voice She requested mother Yaśodā to please stop Akrūra.</p> |
| | <p>Faltering of the voice resulting from wonder was exhibited by Brahmā. It is said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Tenth Canto, Thirteenth Chapter, verse 64, that after bowing down before Lord Kṛṣṇa, when Brahmā began to rise he prayed to the Lord in a faltering voice.</p> |
| | <p>In the Tenth Canto, Twenty-ninth Chapter, verse 30, another example of faltering of the voice was exhibited by the gopīs when they came to Kṛṣṇa, desiring to dance with Him. Kṛṣṇa asked them to go back to their husbands and homes. The gopīs apparently became very angry and began to talk to Kṛṣṇa with faltering voices.</p> |
| | <p>In the Tenth Canto, Thirty-ninth Chapter, verses 56 and 57, of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, a faltering voice due to jubilation was exhibited by Akrūra when he was shown all of the Vaikuṇṭha planets resting within the River Yamunā. When Akrūra understood that Kṛṣṇa was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he bowed his head to Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet and with folded hands began to pray in a faltering voice.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD28_3" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="217" link="NOD 28" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 28"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 28|Nectar of Devotion 28]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Tenth Canto, Thirty-ninth Chapter, verses 56 and 57, of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, a faltering voice due to jubilation was exhibited by Akrūra when he was shown all of the Vaikuṇṭha planets resting within the River Yamunā. When Akrūra understood that Kṛṣṇa was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he bowed his head to Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet and with folded hands began to pray in a faltering voice.</p> |
| | <p>There are also examples of faltering of the voice caused by fearfulness. One of Kṛṣṇa's friends praised Him thus: "My dear friend, Your flute was given to Your servant Patrī, and when I asked him to return it he began speaking in a faltering voice, and his complexion became yellow."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD28_4" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="222" link="NOD 28" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 28"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 28|Nectar of Devotion 28]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These transcendental ecstatic symptoms gradually develop, and in the course of such development they are sometimes called smoky, sometimes called blazing, and sometimes called shining. These three degrees are experienced for many, many years, and they extend to different parts of the body. Unlike the shedding of tears and faltering of the voice, the condition of being stunned is spread all over the body. The shedding of tears and faltering of the voice are simply localized symptoms.</p> |
| | <p>The shedding of tears, however, sometimes makes the eyes become swollen and whitish, and sometimes the lenses of the eyes become differently focused. Faltering of the voice may sometimes cause choking in the throat and extreme anxiety. As the different symptoms of these ecstatic manifestations are localized, they are accompanied by different local reactions; e.g., when the throat is choked up because of a faltering voice, there may be a sound like "ghura." Such sounds choke the voice, and with extreme mental anxiety they may be manifest in different ways.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD28_5" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="222" link="NOD 28" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 28"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 28|Nectar of Devotion 28]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When the ecstatic symptoms cannot be checked and they simultaneously appear in four or five different categories, this stage of ecstatic love is called shining. The example is cited, in this connection, that when the sage Nārada saw Lord Kṛṣṇa standing before him, his body became so stunned that he stopped playing on his vīṇā. Because of his faltering voice, he could not offer any prayers to Kṛṣṇa, and his eyes filled with tears. Thus, Nārada's ability to see Kṛṣṇa was also obstructed.</p> |
| | <p>When similar symptoms were manifest in the body of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, some of Her friends criticized Her: "Dear friend, You are blaming the aroma of the flowers for the tears in Your eyes. You are rebuking the air for the standing of the hairs on Your body. And You are cursing Your walking in the forest for Your thighs' being stunned. But Your faltering voice reveals the cause to be different: it is just Your attachment for Kṛṣṇa!"</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD29_6" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="225" link="NOD 29" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 29"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 29|Nectar of Devotion 29]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One aged devotee of Kṛṣṇa addressed Him in this way: "My dear Kṛṣṇa, O killer of the demon Agha, my body is now invalid due to old age. I cannot speak very fluently, my voice is faltering, my mind is not strong, and I am often attacked by forgetfulness. But, my dear Lord, You are just like the moonlight, and my only real regret is that for want of any taste for Your pleasant shining I did not advance myself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness." This statement is an instance of lamentation due to one's being unable to achieve his desired goal.</p> |
| | <p>One devotee said, "This night I was dreaming of collecting various flowers from the garden, and I was thinking of making a garland to offer to Kṛṣṇa. But I am so unfortunate that all of a sudden my dream was over, and I could not achieve my desired goal!" This statement is an instance of lamentation resulting from nonfulfillment of one's duties.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD33_7" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="269" link="NOD 33" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 33"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 33|Nectar of Devotion 33]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One devotee has described his feelings about the charity exhibited by King Mayūradhvaja: "I am faltering even to speak about the activities of Mahārāja Mayūradhvaja, to whom I offer my respectful obeisances." Mayūradhvaja was very intelligent, and he could understand why Kṛṣṇa came to him once, in the garb of a brāhmaṇa. Kṛṣṇa demanded from him half of his body, to be sawed off by his wife and son, and King Mayūradhvaja agreed to this proposal. On account of his intense feeling of devotional service, King Mayūradhvaja was always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, and when he understood that Kṛṣṇa had come in the garb of a brāhmaṇa, he did not hesitate to part with half of his body. This sacrifice of Mahārāja Mayūradhvaja for Kṛṣṇa's sake is unique in the world, and we should offer our all-respectful obeisances to him. He had full knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the garb of a brāhmaṇa, and he is known as the perfect dāna-vīra, or renouncer.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD37_8" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="282" link="NOD 37" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 37"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 37|Nectar of Devotion 37]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tenth Canto, Eighty-fifth Chapter, verse 38, Śukadeva Gosvāmī tells Mahārāja Parīkṣit that after surrendering everything unto the lotus feet of Vāmanadeva, Bali Mahārāja immediately caught hold of the lotus feet of the Lord and pressed them to his heart. Being overwhelmed with joy, he manifested all the symptoms of ecstatic love, with tears in his eyes and a faltering voice.</p> |
| | <p>In such expressions of ecstatic love there are many other subsidiary symptoms, such as jubilation, withering, silence, disappointment, moroseness, reverence, thoughtfulness, remembrance, doubtfulness, confidence, eagerness, indifference, restlessness, impudence, shyness, inertness, illusion, madness, ghastliness, contemplation, dreaming, disease and signs of death. When a devotee meets Kṛṣṇa, there are symptoms of jubilation, pride and perseverance, and when he is feeling great separation from Kṛṣṇa, the symptoms of ghastliness, disease and signs of death become prominent.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD39_9" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="284" link="NOD 39" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 39"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 39|Nectar of Devotion 39]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"My dear friends, as soon as pure devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa hear of the transcendental pastimes of the Lord, who is the eternal reservoir of pastimes, or hear about His transcendental qualities, they become overpowered with jubilation. Ecstatic symptoms are manifested in their bodies. They shed tears, talk falteringly, glorify the Lord in a loud voice and chant and dance in ecstasy. These ecstasies are always there, but sometimes they overcome all limits, and the symptoms become manifest to all."</p> |
| | <p>In the process of surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead there are six items: to accept everything favorable for devotional service, to reject everything unfavorable for devotional service, to believe that Kṛṣṇa will always give protection, to identify oneself with Kṛṣṇa's devotees, always to feel inability without the help of Kṛṣṇa and always to think oneself inferior to Kṛṣṇa, even though one may have full capacity to perform something on his own.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="NOD44_10" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="289" link="NOD 44" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 44"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 44|Nectar of Devotion 44]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When the Yamunā and the moonshine come in contact on the bank of the river, the water tastes just like nectar, and drinking it gives great satisfaction. It is as cooling as piles of snow. Similarly, in the Padyāvalī, one constant companion of Rādhārāṇī says, "My dear moon-faced Rādhārāṇī, Your whole body appears very content, yet there are signs of tears in Your eyes. Your speech is faltering, and Your chest is also heaving. By all these signs I can understand that You must have heard the blowing of Kṛṣṇa's flute, and as a result of this, Your heart is now melting."</p> |
| | <p>In the same Padyāvalī there is the following description, which is taken as a sign of frustration in conjugal love. Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī said, "Dear Mr. Cupid, please do not excite Me by throwing your arrows at My body. Dear Mr. Air, please do not arouse Me with the fragrance of flowers. I am now bereft of Kṛṣṇa's loving attitude, and so, under the circumstances, what is the use of My sustaining this useless body? There is no need for such a body by any living entity." This is a sign of frustration in ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Krsna_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="KB29_0" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="33" link="KB 29" link_text="Krsna Book 29"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 29|Krsna Book 29]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">They are His eternal associates. As it is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā, they are expansions of the pleasure potency of Kṛṣṇa, and as His potency they are nondifferent from Him. Although they were depressed by the words of Kṛṣṇa, they did not like to use harsh words against Him. Yet they wanted to rebuke Kṛṣṇa for His unkind words, and therefore they began to speak in faltering voices. They did not like to use harsh words against Kṛṣṇa because He was their dearmost, their heart and soul. The gopīs had only Kṛṣṇa within their hearts. They were completely surrendered and dedicated souls. Naturally, when they heard such unkind words, they tried to reply, but in the attempt torrents of tears fell from their eyes. Finally they managed to speak.</p> |
| | <p>"Kṛṣṇa," they said, “You are very cruel! You should not talk like that. We are full-fledged surrendered souls. Please accept us, and don’t talk in that cruel way. Of course, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead and can do whatever You like, but it is not worthy of Your position to treat us in such a cruel way. We have come to You, leaving everything behind, just to take shelter of Your lotus feet.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="KB39_1" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="43" link="KB 39" link_text="Krsna Book 39"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 39|Krsna Book 39]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All in all, He was very beautiful to look at. Akrūra also saw His Lordship surrounded by intimate associates like the four Kumāras—Sanaka, Sanātana, Sananda and Sanat-kumāra—and other associates like Sunanda and Nanda, as well as demigods like Brahmā and Lord Śiva. The nine great learned sages were there, and also devotees like Prahlāda and Nārada and the eight Vasus. All were engaged in offering prayers to the Lord with clean hearts and pure words. After seeing the transcendental Personality of Godhead, Akrūra immediately became overwhelmed with joy and great devotion, and all over his body there was transcendental shivering. Although for the moment he was bewildered, he retained his clear consciousness and bowed down his head before the Lord. With folded hands and faltering voice, he began to offer prayers to the Lord.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="KB65_2" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="69" link="KB 65" link_text="Krsna Book 65"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 65|Krsna Book 65]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">They were not even interested in enjoying a life of opulence, but were satisfied in living a simple life in the village as cowherds. They were always absorbed in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa and did not desire any personal benefits, and they were all so much in love with Him that in His absence their voices faltered when they began to inquire from Balarāmajī.</p> |
| | <p>First Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodāmāyī inquired, "My dear Balarāma, are our friends like Vasudeva and others in the family doing well? Now You and Kṛṣṇa are grown-up married men with children. In the happiness of family life, do You sometimes remember Your poor father and mother, Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodādevī? It is very good news that the most sinful King Kaṁsa has been killed by You and that our friends like Vasudeva and the others who had been harassed have now been relieved. It is also very good news that You and Kṛṣṇa defeated Jarāsandha and Kālayavana, who is now dead, and that You are now living in a fortified residence in Dvārakā."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonSB77283235MombassaSeptember111971_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="777" link="Lecture on SB 7.7.28, 32-35 -- Mombassa, September 11, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.7.28, 32-35 -- Mombassa, September 11, 1971"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.7.28, 32-35 -- Mombassa, September 11, 1971|Lecture on SB 7.7.28, 32-35 -- Mombassa, September 11, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These are the symptoms. Niśamya karmāṇi guṇān atulyān, vīryāṇi līlā-tanubhiḥ kṛtāni. Vīryān līlā, Kṛṣṇa is killing so many demons, Kṛṣṇa is dancing with gopīs, Kṛṣṇa is playing with His cowherd boys, Kṛṣṇa is going there, this is līlā, smaraṇam. The Kṛṣṇa book reading means remembering all these activities of Kṛṣṇa. Simply go on reading Kṛṣṇa book, repeat it, you are in the perfect stage of transcendental position. Simply read our Nectar of Devotion. Līlā, atulyān. Niśamya karmāṇi guṇān atulyān, vīryāṇi līlā-tanubhiḥ kṛtāni, yadātiharṣotpulakāśru-gadgadam. Pulakasru, in ecstasy. Pulaka is trembling and faltering voice and tears coming down, perspiring, these are (called) aṣṭa-sāttvika-vikāra ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 14.99|CC Antya 14.99]]). Protkaṇṭha udgāyati rauti nṛtyati.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonSB773235SanFranciscoMarch171967incompletelecture_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="780" link="Lecture on SB 7.7.32-35 -- San Francisco, March 17, 1967, (incomplete lecture)" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.7.32-35 -- San Francisco, March 17, 1967, (incomplete lecture)"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.7.32-35 -- San Francisco, March 17, 1967, (incomplete lecture)|Lecture on SB 7.7.32-35 -- San Francisco, March 17, 1967, (incomplete lecture)]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So there are many instances. Caitanya Mahāprabhu showed this manifestation in His life. We shall discuss. We are discussing now in the morning class.</p> |
| | <p>So Prahlāda Mahārāja says, yadā atiharṣotpulakāśru-gadgadam. He became so glad that he is faltering in speaking. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, when He was dancing in Jagannātha Purī during car festival and was singing, He could not utter "Jagannātha." He was uttering, "Jaga-aga-aaa-aaa..." Like that. He was faltering, faltering. These signs are that. They become at once transferred to the spiritual atmosphere and platform. These are very higher stage. Yadā graha-grasta iva kvacid dhasaty ākrandate dhyāyati vandate janam. Just like one man is haunted by ghost. He shows different caricatures. Sometimes he laughs; sometimes he cries; sometimes he is falldown; sometimes he touches your feet. These are the symptoms.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonSB797MayapurFebruary141976_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="793" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 14, 1976"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 14, 1976]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dayānanda: (chants verse, etc.) "Translation: Prahlāda Mahārāja thus fixed up in his mind with full attention, the mind and sight, everything was placed in complete trance. Thus, on account of love, he began to offer his prayer in faltering voice."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda:</p> |
| | :astauṣīd dharim ekāgra- |
| | :manasā susamāhitaḥ |
| | :prema-gadgadayā vācā |
| | :tan-nyasta-hṛdayekṣanaḥ |
| | :([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.7|SB 7.9.7]]) |
| | <p>So, this is gradual progress of spiritual mind, and this state is called prema, prema-gadgadayā. So, we have to make progress as it is exemplified by Prahlāda Mahārāja. Ādau gurv-āśrayam sad-dharma-pṛcchā sādhu-mārga-anugamanam. (aside:) Stop that. The first business is ādau, in the beginning, gurv-āśrayam. Gurv-āśrayam means to take shelter of a bona fide spiritual master, ādau gurv-āśrayam, and this takes place when there is śraddhā. Just like in this meeting, persons who have got little faith, they can sit down and hear. This is called śraddhā. And the higher stage of śraddhā is to completely accept the instruction of Kṛṣṇa. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta that is highest state of śraddhā. In the lower stage, little faith, "So here is something going on about Kṛṣṇa, let us sit down and hear it."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonSB797MayapurFebruary271977_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="794" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 27, 1977" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 27, 1977"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 27, 1977|Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 27, 1977]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.) "Translation: Prahlāda Mahārāja fixed his mind and sight upon Lord Nṛsiṁha-deva with full attention in complete trance. With a fixed mind, he began to offer prayers in love with a faltering voice."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda:</p> |
| | :astauṣīd dharim ekāgra- |
| | :manasā susamāhitaḥ |
| | :prema-gadgadayā vācā |
| | :tan-nyasta-hṛdayekṣanaḥ |
| | :([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.7|SB 7.9.7]]) |
| | <p>So this is the process. This process you cannot expect immediately, but if you practice general process, very easily done, as it is recommended in the Bhagavad-gītā, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru... ([[Vanisource:BG 18.65 (1972)|BG 18.65]]). You cannot get the position of Prahlāda Mahārāja immediately. That is not possible. The process is, first of all, sādhana-bhakti. This Prahlāda Mahārāja's position is different. He is mahā-bhāgavata. In many places we have seen already. He is nitya-siddha. There are two kinds of devotees, three: nitya-siddha, sādhana-siddha, kṛpa-siddha. These things are described in The Nectar of Devotion. Nitya-siddha means they are eternally associate of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They are called nitya-siddha.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureSeattleOctober41968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="21" link="Lecture -- Seattle, October 4, 1968" link_text="Lecture -- Seattle, October 4, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Seattle, October 4, 1968|Lecture -- Seattle, October 4, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"Oh, I have no more hankering. I have got everything complete, in full satisfaction." Yaṁ labdhvā cāparaṁ lābhaṁ manyate nādhikaṁ tataḥ yasmin sthite. And if one is situated in that transcendental position, then what happens? Guruṇāpi duḥkhena na vicālyate (Bg. 6.20-23). If there is very severe test of distress, he's not, I mean to say, faltering.</p> |
| | <p>There are many instances in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Just like in the Bhagavad-gītā the Pāṇḍavas were placed in so many distressed condition, but they were never faltering. They never asked Kṛṣṇa, "My dear Kṛṣṇa, You are my friend. You are our friend, the Pāṇḍavas. Why we are undergoing so much severe test of difficulties?" No. They never. Because they were confident that "In spite of all these difficulties, we shall come out victorious because Kṛṣṇa is there. Because Kṛṣṇa is there." This confidence. This is called śaraṇāgati, surrender. There are six points of surrender unto Kṛṣṇa. One point of surrender is to believe that "Kṛṣṇa will protect me." Just like a small child has got full faith in his mother: "My mother is there. There is no danger." Confident.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="PandalLectureDelhiNovember201971_1" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="98" link="Pandal Lecture -- Delhi, November 20, 1971" link_text="Pandal Lecture -- Delhi, November 20, 1971"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Pandal Lecture -- Delhi, November 20, 1971|Pandal Lecture -- Delhi, November 20, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is śraddha. This is actually śraddha, faith, not faltering, "I do not know whether Kṛṣṇa will be able to save me. Why shall I surrender to Him? Let me surrender to so many demigods." Kṛṣṇa says those who are thinking like that, they are hrta-jnanah. Kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ yajante anya-devatāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.20 (1972)|BG 7.20]]). Antavat tu phalaṁ teṣāṁ tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām ([[Vanisource:BG 7.23 (1972)|BG 7.23]]).</p> |
| | <p>So our request is that the guardians who are present here in this meeting, they should organize a special school to give lesson to their students, to their boys, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, bhāgavata-dharma. There is vast knowledge behind this. They will be enlightened. Their life will be successful. So in this city of Delhi, it is a great city and very important city. There are very important men here. They should kindly consider this proposal that there must be a very organized school to understand this bhāgavata-dharma, just to teach their boys, and their life will be successful. It is the duty of the father and mother to see that "My son, this is the last attempt of coming into this material world." Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="GeneralLecturelocationdateunknown_2" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="185" link="General Lecture -- (location & date unknown)" link_text="General Lecture -- (location & date unknown)"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:General Lecture -- (location & date unknown)|General Lecture -- (location & date unknown)]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the liberated stage, if you shall be satisfied simply being brahma-bhūtaḥ, self-realized, understanding yourself as Brahman, that is not sufficient. You have to make further progress. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati, samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu ([[Vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]). When one has acquired these qualities, that he is no more, I mean to say, faltering in the matter of hankering and lamentation, and he is now on the transcendental stage of seeing every living entity on the equal level—samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu—at that stage one can enter into the devotional service. Mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām ([[Vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]). So bhakti is above the liberated stage of life. And bhakti, when, if one is fortunate enough to come to that stage, above the liberated stage, then bhaktyā mām abhijānāti ([[Vanisource:BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]), then through that para bhakti, pure devotional service, one can understand Kṛṣṇa in reality, tattvataḥ. And in another place He said, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]]) "Out of many millions of persons, somebody is interested for self-realization." Kaścid yatati siddhaye. Siddhi. Siddhi. Siddhi-labha means perfection of human form of life.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3> |
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| | <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononJohnStuartMill_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="8" link="Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill|Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: What is that verse? Nayanaṁ galad-aśru-dhārayā? Pulakair nicitaṁ vapuḥ. Gadgada-girā. Kadā tava-nāma-grahaṇe bhaviṣyati. There is dissatisfaction, that "When My heart will be throbbing? When torrents of rain will come out from My eyes? When My speech will be faltering? When that day will come?" That means this ordinary way He's not satisfied. That is the ecstatic summit: one becomes like a madman, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. So He is expecting, "When that stage will come?" This stage comes when one is in the summit of chanting, this stage, aṣṭa-śakti-vidhā, eight kinds of transformation. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu is putting forward that "When that stage will come?" Dissatisfaction. This is dissatisfaction. He says, "I have not a pinch of devotion to Kṛṣṇa." Even after crying, even coming to that stage of crying, He says, "No, it is not the stage. I am crying just to make a show that I am a great devotee. I do not love Kṛṣṇa. The evidence is that I am still living. Without Kṛṣṇa and still I'm living. That is My imperfection.</p> |
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| | <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> |
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| | <div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
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| | <div id="MorningWalkApril51974Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="55" link="Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes.</p> |
| | <p>Dr. Patel: Sañjaya uvāca... (break)</p> |
| | <p>Girirāja: "Sañjaya said to Dhṛtarāṣṭra: O King, after hearing these words from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Arjuna trembled, fearfully offered obeisances with folded hands and began, falteringly, to speak as follows."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: So without seeing viśva-rūpa, simply by abiding by the orders of Kṛṣṇa, if we act, then there is no question of trembling.</p> |
| | <p>Dr. Patel: So we must not try to see the viśva-rūpa, to tremble.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p> |
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| | <div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
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| | <div id="RoomConversationJanuary81977Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="16" link="Room Conversation -- January 8, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 8, 1977, Bombay"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 8, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation -- January 8, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: The path is open.</p> |
| | <p>Guest (1): Yes. But sometimes we falter in the path.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam... ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]), ahaṁ tvāṁ sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi. It is open for you. It is open secret.</p> |
| | <p>Guest (1): We make mistakes.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: That is another thing. But path... Mahat sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.2|SB 5.5.2]]). Everything is there. That is the difficulty. Although everything is there...</p> |
| | <p>Guest (1): But I'm sure that with your protection, Prabhupāda, I'll reach the goal which I have contemplated.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is giving protection. Ahaṁ tvāṁ sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi. But still we are not agreeable. Kṛṣṇa says that "I shall give you protection from all reaction of sinful life." But we are not taking that protection. You simply surrender. It is only process.</p> |
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| | <div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> |
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| | <div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3> |
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| | <div id="LettertoCidanandaBhaktivedantaManor25November1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="391" link="Letter to Cidananda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 25 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Cidananda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 25 November, 1973"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Cidananda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 25 November, 1973|Letter to Cidananda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 25 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter and your kind words to me. Thank you very much.</p> |
| | <p>I should be returning to Los Angeles the last week of November and I should be more than happy to see you there. Please always try to remember me by my teachings and we shall always be together. Just like I have written in the first publications of Srimad-Bhagavatam, "The spiritual Master lives forever by His divine instruction and the disciple lives with him.", because I have always served my Guru Maharaja and followed His teachings I am now even never separated from Him. Sometimes Maya may come and try to interfere but we must not falter, we must always follow the chalked out path layed down by the great acharya's and in the end you will see.</p> |
| | <p>I hope this letter finds you healthy and in blissful serving mood.</p> |
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| | <div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3> |
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| | <div id="LettertoBhurijanaVrindaban17August1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="324" link="Letter to Bhurijana -- Vrindaban 17 August, 1974" link_text="Letter to Bhurijana -- Vrindaban 17 August, 1974"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhurijana -- Vrindaban 17 August, 1974|Letter to Bhurijana -- Vrindaban 17 August, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So I get great pleasure when I see my own disciples from America going to far off places leaving their rich nation with all facilities and their families, to preach. The secret of success in spiritual life is to satisfy one's spiritual master. This is the essence. You have captured this. So now go on in this way and do not falter. Follow the regulative principles and devotional practices I have given you. This will keep you fit. Be patient and determined, and ask everyone you meet to please chant Hare Krsna. I shall be very glad if you send me regular reports of your attempt.</p> |
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