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| <div class="heading">We have to follow the injunction of the śāstra. We cannot manufacture our own ways of spiritual advancement. That is not possible. Anyone who transgresses the regulative principles recommended in the śāstra, śāstra-vidhi, yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya, giving up śāstra-vidhi, vartate kāma-kārataḥ, whimsically does something, na siddhiṁ sa avāpnoti, he never gets success. He'll never be successful. Na siddhiṁ na parāṁ gati: neither he gets salvation. Na siddhim, na sukham: neither even any material happiness. So we must accept the śāstra vidhi. | | <div class="heading">We have to follow the injunction of the śāstra. We cannot manufacture our own ways of spiritual advancement. That is not possible. Anyone who transgresses the regulative principles recommended in the śāstra, śāstra-vidhi, yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya, giving up śāstra-vidhi, vartate kāma-kārataḥ, whimsically does something, na siddhiṁ sa avāpnoti, he never gets success. He'll never be successful. Na siddhiṁ na parāṁ gati: neither he gets salvation. Na siddhim, na sukham: neither even any material happiness. So we must accept the śāstra vidhi. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.2 -- Toronto, June 18, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.6.2 -- Toronto, June 18, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the kṛte, means Satya-yuga, when people used to live for one hundred thousands of years, at that time it was possible. Just like Valmiki Muni meditated for sixty thousands of years. So actually this meditation, dhyāna, dhāraṇā, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, the yogic system, it is recommended in the śāstras, the Bhagavad-gītā also it is there, but in this age it is not possible. Even Arjuna denied. "Kṛṣṇa, You are recommending me to undergo the process of yoga, but it is not possible." Tasyāhaṁ nigrahaṁ manye vāyor iva suduṣkaram ([[Vanisource:BG 6.34|BG 6.34]]). "It is not possible." But Arjuna was a pure devotee. He was always thinking of Kṛṣṇa. He had no other business. Therefore Kṛṣṇa, to encourage Arjuna, He said that "Don't be disappointed. Because you are thinking that you are unfit to meditate upon Lord Viṣṇu, don't be disappointed. The first-class yogī... You are first-class yogī." Why? Because,</p> | | {{youtube_right|mks-j0Sn4b4|We Cannot Manufacture our own Ways of Spiritual Advancement <br/>- Prabhupāda 0774}} |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.2 -- Toronto, June 18, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.6.2 -- Toronto, June 18, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the kṛte, means Satya-yuga, when people used to live for one hundred thousands of years, at that time it was possible. Just like Valmiki Muni meditated for sixty thousands of years. So actually this meditation, dhyāna, dhāraṇā, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, the yogic system, it is recommended in the śāstras, the Bhagavad-gītā also it is there, but in this age it is not possible. Even Arjuna denied. "Kṛṣṇa, You are recommending me to undergo the process of yoga, but it is not possible." Tasyāhaṁ nigrahaṁ manye vāyor iva suduṣkaram ([[Vanisource:BG 6.34 (1972)|BG 6.34]]). "It is not possible." But Arjuna was a pure devotee. He was always thinking of Kṛṣṇa. He had no other business. Therefore Kṛṣṇa, to encourage Arjuna, He said that "Don't be disappointed. Because you are thinking that you are unfit to meditate upon Lord Viṣṇu, don't be disappointed. The first-class yogī... You are first-class yogī." Why? Because,</p> |
| :yoginām api sarveṣāṁ | | :yoginām api sarveṣāṁ |
| :mad-gatenāntarātmanā | | :mad-gatenāntarātmanā |
| :śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ | | :śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ |
| :sa me yuktatamo mataḥ | | :sa me yuktatamo mataḥ |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 6.47|BG 6.47]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 6.47 (1972)|BG 6.47]]) |
| <p>Anyone who is thinking of Kṛṣṇa always within the heart, he's first-class yogī. Therefore kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt. This is first-class yoga system. In this age, Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommended, in the śāstra also it is recommended, that harer nāma harer nāma harer nāma eva kevalam kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]).</p> | | <p>Anyone who is thinking of Kṛṣṇa always within the heart, he's first-class yogī. Therefore kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt. This is first-class yoga system. In this age, Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommended, in the śāstra also it is recommended, that harer nāma harer nāma harer nāma eva kevalam kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]).</p> |
| <p>So we have to follow the injunction of the śāstra. We cannot manufacture our own ways of spiritual advancement. That is not possible.</p> | | <p>So we have to follow the injunction of the śāstra. We cannot manufacture our own ways of spiritual advancement. That is not possible.</p> |
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| :na sa siddhim avāpnoti | | :na sa siddhim avāpnoti |
| :na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim | | :na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 16.23|BG 16.23]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 16.23 (1972)|BG 16.23]]) |
| <p>Anyone who transgresses the regulative principles recommended in the śāstra, śāstra-vidhi, yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya, giving up śāstra-vidhi, vartate kāma-kārataḥ, whimsically does something, na siddhiṁ sa avāpnoti, he never gets success. He'll never be successful. Na siddhiṁ na parāṁ gati: neither he gets salvation. Na siddhim, na sukham: neither even any material happiness. So we must accept the śāstra vidhi. Śāstra-vidhi, as in the śāstra it is said, I have already quoted, kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt.</p> | | <p>Anyone who transgresses the regulative principles recommended in the śāstra, śāstra-vidhi, yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya, giving up śāstra-vidhi, vartate kāma-kārataḥ, whimsically does something, na siddhiṁ sa avāpnoti, he never gets success. He'll never be successful. Na siddhiṁ na parāṁ gati: neither he gets salvation. Na siddhim, na sukham: neither even any material happiness. So we must accept the śāstra vidhi. Śāstra-vidhi, as in the śāstra it is said, I have already quoted, kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt.</p> |
| :kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ | | :kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ |