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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 class="heading">The first step is that you must associate with devotees and then take to bhajana-kriyā. Then see, examine yourself that whether you are free from all the anarthas, all the unwanted things. If all the unwanted things are vanquished, then you'll have firm faith. | | <div class="heading">The first step is that you must associate with devotees and then take to bhajana-kriyā. Then see, examine yourself that whether you are free from all the anarthas, all the unwanted things. If all the unwanted things are vanquished, then you'll have firm faith. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.12 -- Vrndavana, October 23, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.12 -- Vrndavana, October 23, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So these are the different steps of śraddhā. Actually, devotional service means increasing your faith more and more. And these are the steps. The first step is that you must associate with devotees and then take to bhajana-kriyā. Then see, examine yourself that whether you are free from all the anarthas, all the unwanted things. If all the unwanted things are vanquished, then you'll have firm faith. Bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī. Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā, naṣṭa-prāyeṣu abhadreṣu... Naṣṭa ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.18|SB 1.2.18]]). Not that I am completely free from all sinful activities, but prāyeṣu, say, fifty percent, sixty percent is gone. At that time, naṣṭa-prāyeṣu abhadreṣu... How it has come to take place? Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā. Nityam... We have to daily. Not that Bhāgavata-saptāha, and finish, and whole year you can do all nonsense. Not like that. Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā.</p> | | |
| <p>I don't find any Bhāgavata-saptāha any authorized book. I don't find. There are so many big, big stalwart commentators of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, beginning from Śrīdhara Svāmī. Nobody has recommended this Bhāgavata-saptāha. But it has come to existence by the professional man. But actually nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā. How you can finish Bhāgavatam in seven days? You cannot finish even one word. My Guru Mahārāja explained Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the first verse, janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]), in Dacca, for three months. Actually, it is so profound. Janmādy asya yataḥ. This very quote contains all the Vedānta philosophy. How you can finish Bhāgavatam within seven days? It is a farce. Actually, Bhāgavata should be relished. Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā.</p>
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| :naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu | | <mp3player>https://vanipedia.s3.amazonaws.com/clip/721023SB-VRNDAVAN_clip6.mp3</mp3player> |
| :nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.12 -- Vrndavana, October 23, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.12 -- Vrndavana, October 23, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| :bhagavaty uttama-śloke | | So these are the different steps of ''śraddhā''. Actually, devotional service means increasing your faith more and more. And these are the steps. The first step is that you must associate with devotees and then take to ''bhajana-kriyā''. Then see, examine yourself that whether you are free from all the ''anarthas'', all the unwanted things. If all the unwanted things are vanquished, then you'll have firm faith. ''Bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī. |
| :bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī | | '' |
| :([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.18|SB 1.2.18]]) | | ''Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā, naṣṭa-prāyeṣu abhadreṣu'' . . . ([[vanisource:SB 1.2.18|SB 1.2.18]]) ''Naṣṭa''. Not that I am completely free from all sinful activities, but ''prāyeṣu'', say, fifty percent, sixty percent is gone. At that time, ''naṣṭa-prāyeṣu abhadreṣu'' . . . how it has come to take place? ''Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā. Nityam.'' We have to daily. Not that ''Bhāgavata-saptāha'', and finish, and whole year you can do all nonsense. Not like that. ''Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā.'' I don't find any ''Bhāgavata-saptāha'' any authorized book. I don't find. There are so many big, big stalwart commentators of ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', beginning from Śrīdhara Svāmī. Nobody has recommended this ''Bhāgavata-saptāha''. But it has come to existence by the professional man. |
| <p>As soon as prāya, seventy-five, sixty percent of your unwanted things are given up, and then your naiṣṭhikī, firm, steady devotional attitude develops. Bhagavaty uttama-śloke bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī.</p>
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| :tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ | | But actually ''nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā''. How you can finish ''Bhāgavatam'' in seven days? You cannot finish even one word. My Guru Mahārāja explained ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', the first verse, ''janmādy asya yataḥ'' ([[vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]), in ''Dacca'', for three months. Actually it is so profound. ''Janmādy asya yataḥ''. This very quote contains all the ''Vedānta'' philosophy. So how you can finish ''Bhāgavatam'' within seven days? It is a farce. Actually, ''Bhāgavata'' should be relished. ''Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā.'' |
| :kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye | | |
| :ceta etair anāviddhaṁ | | :''naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu'' |
| :sthitaṁ sattve prasīdati | | :''nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā'' |
| :([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.19|SB 1.2.19]]) | | :''bhagavaty uttama-śloke'' |
| <p> You cannot have a steady position unless you come to the platform of goodness. Sthitaṁ sattve. Sattva means sattva-guṇa, goodness. And rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa means kāma and lobha, lust and greediness. This is the symptoms. And when you come to the platform of goodness, then you are satisfied that "I don't want all these things. Now I want Brahman." Brahma jānāti iti brāhmaṇaḥ.</p>
| | :''bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī'' |
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| | :([[vanisource:SB 1.2.18|SB 1.2.18]]) |
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| | As soon as ''prāya'', seventy-five per . . . eighty percent of your unwanted things are given up, and then your ''naiṣṭhikī'', firm, steady devotional attitude develops. ''Bhagavaty uttama-śloke bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī.'' |
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| | :''tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ'' |
| | :''kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye'' |
| | :''ceta etair anāviddhaṁ'' |
| | :''sthitaṁ sattve prasīdati'' |
| | :([[vanisource:SB 1.2.19|SB 1.2.19]]) |
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| | You cannot have a steady position unless you come to the platform of goodness. ''Sthitaṁ sattve. Sattva'' means ''sattva-guṇa'', goodness. And ''rajo-guṇa'' and ''tamo-guṇa'' means ''kāma'' and ''lobha'', lust and greediness. This is the symptoms. And when you come to the platform of goodness, then you are satisfied that "I don't want all these things. Now I want Brahman." ''Brahmā jānāti iti brāhmaṇaḥ.'' |
