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| [[Category:Unsuccessful]] | | [[Category:Unsuccessful]] |
| [[Category:yogi]] | | [[Category:Yogi]] |
| [[Category:After]]
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| [[Category:Enjoyment]] | | [[Category:Enjoyment]] |
| [[Category:Planets]] | | [[Category:Planets]] |
| [[Category:Pious]] | | [[Category:Pious]] |
| [[Category:Living Entities]] | | [[Category:Living Entities]] |
| [[Category:Born]] | | [[Category:Born In...]] |
| [[Category:Family Of...]] | | [[Category:Family Of...]] |
| [[Category:Righteousness]] | | [[Category:Righteous]] |
| [[Category:people]] | | [[Category:People]] |
| [[Category:Into]] | | [[Category:Rich]] |
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| [[Category:Aristocracy]] | | [[Category:Aristocracy]] |
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| <div class="heading">The unsuccessful yogī, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy. | | <div class="heading">The unsuccessful yogī, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy. |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.41|BG 6.41, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The unsuccessful yogī, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 6.41 (1972)|BG 6.41, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The unsuccessful yogī, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div class="purport text"><p>The unsuccessful yogīs are divided into two classes: one is fallen after very little progress, and one is fallen after long practice of yoga. The yogī who falls after a short period of practice goes to the higher planets, where pious living entities are allowed to enter. After prolonged life there, one is sent back again to this planet, to take birth in the family of a righteous brāhmaṇa vaiṣṇava or of aristocratic merchants.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>The unsuccessful yogīs are divided into two classes: one is fallen after very little progress, and one is fallen after long practice of yoga. The yogī who falls after a short period of practice goes to the higher planets, where pious living entities are allowed to enter. After prolonged life there, one is sent back again to this planet, to take birth in the family of a righteous brāhmaṇa vaiṣṇava or of aristocratic merchants.</p> |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="SB42964_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1287" link="SB 4.29.64" link_text="SB 4.29.64"> | | <div id="SB42964_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1287" link="SB 4.29.64" link_text="SB 4.29.64"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.29.64|SB 4.29.64, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes we dream of coming to a place we have never known or experienced in this lifetime, but this is proof that in a past life we experienced this. The impression is kept within the mind and sometimes becomes manifest either in dream or in thought. The conclusion is that the mind is the storehouse of various thoughts and experiences undergone during our past lives. Thus there is a chain of continuation from one life to another, from previous lives to this life, and from this life to future lives. This is also sometimes proved by saying that a man is a born poet, a born scientist or a born devotee. If, like Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, we think of Kṛṣṇa constantly in this life (sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 9.4.18|SB 9.4.18]])), we will certainly be transferred to the kingdom of God at the time of death. Even if our attempt to be Kṛṣṇa conscious is not complete, our Kṛṣṇa consciousness will continue in the next life. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (6.41):</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.29.64|SB 4.29.64, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes we dream of coming to a place we have never known or experienced in this lifetime, but this is proof that in a past life we experienced this. The impression is kept within the mind and sometimes becomes manifest either in dream or in thought. The conclusion is that the mind is the storehouse of various thoughts and experiences undergone during our past lives. Thus there is a chain of continuation from one life to another, from previous lives to this life, and from this life to future lives. This is also sometimes proved by saying that a man is a born poet, a born scientist or a born devotee. If, like Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, we think of Kṛṣṇa constantly in this life (sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 9.4.18-20|SB 9.4.18]])), we will certainly be transferred to the kingdom of God at the time of death. Even if our attempt to be Kṛṣṇa conscious is not complete, our Kṛṣṇa consciousness will continue in the next life. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (6.41):</p> |
| :prāpya puṇya-kṛtāṁ lokān | | :prāpya puṇya-kṛtāṁ lokān |
| :uṣitvā śāśvatīḥ samāḥ | | :uṣitvā śāśvatīḥ samāḥ |
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| :śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe | | :śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe |
| :yoga-bhraṣṭo 'bhijāyate | | :yoga-bhraṣṭo 'bhijāyate |
| <p>"The unsuccessful yogī, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy." ([[Vanisource:BG 6.41|BG 6.41]]) Some devotees, having failed to complete the process of devotional service, are promoted to the heavenly planets, to which the pious are elevated, and after enjoying there they may be directly promoted to the place where the Lord's pastimes are going on. When Lord Kṛṣṇa was to appear, the denizens of the heavenly planets were invited to see the pastimes of the Lord, and thus it is stated here that the members of the Yadu and Vṛṣṇi dynasties and the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana were demigods or almost as good as demigods. Even those who externally helped the activities of Kaṁsa belonged to the higher planetary systems.</p> | | <p>"The unsuccessful yogī, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy." ([[Vanisource:BG 6.41 (1972)|BG 6.41]]) Some devotees, having failed to complete the process of devotional service, are promoted to the heavenly planets, to which the pious are elevated, and after enjoying there they may be directly promoted to the place where the Lord's pastimes are going on. When Lord Kṛṣṇa was to appear, the denizens of the heavenly planets were invited to see the pastimes of the Lord, and thus it is stated here that the members of the Yadu and Vṛṣṇi dynasties and the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana were demigods or almost as good as demigods. Even those who externally helped the activities of Kaṁsa belonged to the higher planetary systems.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
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| :etaddhi durlabhataraṁ | | :etaddhi durlabhataraṁ |
| :loke janma yad īdṛśam | | :loke janma yad īdṛśam |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 6.42|BG 6.42]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 6.42 (1972)|BG 6.42]]) |
| <p>"Or he takes his birth in a family of transcendentalists who are surely great in wisdom. Verily, such a birth is rare in this world."</p> | | <p>"Or he takes his birth in a family of transcendentalists who are surely great in wisdom. Verily, such a birth is rare in this world."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p> |
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| :śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe | | :śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe |
| :yoga-bhraṣṭo' bhijāyate | | :yoga-bhraṣṭo' bhijāyate |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 6.41|BG 6.41]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 6.41 (1972)|BG 6.41]]) |
| <p>"Translation: The unsuccessful yogi, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy."</p> | | <p>"Translation: The unsuccessful yogi, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Even one is failure. And one who is successful? Then? Janma karma...</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Even one is failure. And one who is successful? Then? Janma karma...</p> |
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| :tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma | | :tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma |
| :naiti mām eti so 'rjuna | | :naiti mām eti so 'rjuna |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]) |
| <p>"Anyone who understands the transcendental nature of My birth and activities does not again return to this material world, but comes to My supreme abode."</p> | | <p>"Anyone who understands the transcendental nature of My birth and activities does not again return to this material world, but comes to My supreme abode."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: This is for the successful, and that is for the unsuccessful.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: This is for the successful, and that is for the unsuccessful.</p> |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 25, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 25, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hari-śauri: Is that a guarantee for going home, if someone leaves their body in the dhāma?</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 25, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 25, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hari-śauri: Is that a guarantee for going home, if someone leaves their body in the dhāma?</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: At least, he gets high standard of life for many years. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. Find out in Bhagavad-gītā.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: At least, he gets high standard of life for many years. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. Find out in Bhagavad-gītā.</p> |
| <p>Hari-śauri: (pause) Prāpya puṇya-kṛtāṁ lokān ([[Vanisource:BG 6.41|BG 6.41]])?</p> | | <p>Hari-śauri: (pause) Prāpya puṇya-kṛtāṁ lokān ([[Vanisource:BG 6.41 (1972)|BG 6.41]])?</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p> |
| <p>Hari-śauri:</p> | | <p>Hari-śauri:</p> |
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| :śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe | | :śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe |
| :yoga-bhraṣṭo 'bhijāyate | | :yoga-bhraṣṭo 'bhijāyate |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 6.41|BG 6.41]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 6.41 (1972)|BG 6.41]]) |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Read the whole verse.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Read the whole verse.</p> |
| <p>Hari-śauri: The English?</p> | | <p>Hari-śauri: The English?</p> |
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| :etad dhi durlabhataraṁ | | :etad dhi durlabhataraṁ |
| :loke janma yad īdṛśam | | :loke janma yad īdṛśam |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 6.42|BG 6.42]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 6.42 (1972)|BG 6.42]]) |
| <p>"Or he takes his birth in a family of transcendentalists, who are surely great in wisdom. Verily, such a birth is rare in this world."</p> | | <p>"Or he takes his birth in a family of transcendentalists, who are surely great in wisdom. Verily, such a birth is rare in this world."</p> |
| :tatra taṁ buddhi-saṁyogaṁ | | :tatra taṁ buddhi-saṁyogaṁ |
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| :yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ | | :yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ |
| :saṁsiddhau kuru-nandana | | :saṁsiddhau kuru-nandana |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 6.43|BG 6.43]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 6.43 (1972)|BG 6.43]]) |
| <p>"On taking such a birth, he again revives the divine consciousness of his previous life, and he tries to make further progress in order to achieve complete success, O son of Kuru." (break) ...telegram came today. It didn't give the exact time, but it came from Bhuvaneśvara.</p> | | <p>"On taking such a birth, he again revives the divine consciousness of his previous life, and he tries to make further progress in order to achieve complete success, O son of Kuru." (break) ...telegram came today. It didn't give the exact time, but it came from Bhuvaneśvara.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: He was there?</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: He was there?</p> |