Who are Vaisnavas?

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Jai Sriman Narayana

 

 

The Supreme Personality of Godhead glorifies

the

Vaisnavas saying, (The whole world is under the

care of the

Vaisnavas. All the demigods are taking care of

Vaisnavas. I

(the Supreme Personality of Godhead) am under the

care of

Vaisnavas, therefore Vaisnavas are the topmost

persons in this

world.

 

Those who are preaching the transcendental message

given by the

Supreme Lord and follow it as a way of life and

worship their own

spiritual master are the real Vaisnavas.

 

Those who observe Ekadasi with full devotion and sing

My holy

names are Vaisnavas.

 

Those who put tilaka marks on their forehead with the

mud taken

from the root of Tulasi or those who put tilaka out

of the paste

of Tulasi wood are said to be Vaisnavas.

 

In those person's house, if Salagram Sila is found,

and Srimad

Bhagavatam scripture is found, they are said to

be Vaisnavas

 

Whoever's head is washed with the water which is

derived by

washing My two lotus feet and those who eat food

offered to Me are

said to be Vaisnavas. Those who distribute food

grains and water

to needy people who are suffering from hunger and

thirst, and who

follow the yogic path of devotional service are said

to be

Vaisnavas.

 

One who brushes his teeth in the mid day or

afternoon, neither

the forefathers, the demigods or the sages accept it

his worship.

 

One should worship the Supreme Lord, the husband of

the goddess

of fortune by sitting upon a seat made with cotton,

kusa grass

seat, or silk seat only.

 

One who always offers the Supreme Lord a garland

made out of

Tulasi leaves, He becomes very pleased upon that

person because

the fragrance of Tulasi is very pleasing.

 

O brahmanas, any person who offers incense which is

full of

fragrance to Lord Sri Visnu, goes to the abode of

Lord Sri Visnu

after becoming free from millions of sins

 

 

Anybody who offers a ghee lamp to Lord Sri Visnu or

he offers a

lamp made of sesame oil, Lord Sri Kesava, in a

moment, removes all

of his sins. Anyone who offers a camphor lamp to Him

and betal

leaf (made up with spice, etc.), the Supreme Lord,

Who holds a

disk in his hand, O best of the brahmanas, Jaimini,

he achieves

liberation.

 

One who pays long obeisances, while lying on the

ground to Lord

Sri Kesava seven times, all the sins from his body

turn into

asava immediately.

 

O Jaimini (a great sage), any body who smells the

Tulasi leaf

which has emanated from Lord Sri Visnu, whatever sins

he has in his

body are all destroyed.

 

Even a sinful man who daily drinks the

medicine-like water

which washes the two lotus feet of Lord Sri Visnu,

removes the

disease of his sins.

 

I am telling you very truthfully that by worshipping

Lord SRi Hari

with lotus flowers, one achieves the Supreme abode.

 

Anybody who makes sounds in the temple of Lord Sri

Hari at the

time of worship (aratik) with a great drum and small

drum, with a

bell metal plate and kartala cymbals, with a flute,

they become

free from all sins and Lord Sri Maha-Visnu

awards unlimited

merits to him.

 

When Ekadasi arrives, at that time, all of the sins

from the three

worlds reside in grains in the form of a sinful

person.

 

In millions and millions of universes, whatever places

of

pilgrimage are available on the Earthly planet, they

certainly

all come and take shelter in a Tulasi leaf.

 

Anybody who eats a Tulasi leaf, all of his sins

are removed

and he becomes meritorious. Whatever sins he has

within his

body are removed at once. ANyone who wears a Tulasi

wood

necklace, no sins can reside in his body. This is

exactly true, I

say to you.

 

Any intelligent person who wears twelve marks on his

body daily

with tilaka, he knows what is dharma and what is

adharma. He

knows what is religious principles and what is

irreligious

principles. One who knows the differnce between

religious and

irreligious principles is said to be a Vaisnava.

 

One should not eat other's left overs and one should

not wear the

clothes previously worn by others. One should not

talk to

avaisnavas (atheists) and one should not praise

others.

 

There is no benefit for the performer of

austerity, sacrifice

or charity if he does not worship Lord Govinda.

 

 

One who sees the Deity form of Lord Hari gets the

merit of

visiting all of the places of pilgrimage. One who

chants the

Visnu mantra (Harinama Mahamantra) gets the results

of chanting

all other mantras.

 

One should not take bath nude and touch fire.

Without using it

on his head, one should not put oil all over his body.

 

All the sins of human beings reside within food

grains. Hoever

eats anyones food, actually eats his sins.

 

Those people who are devoted to the twice borns and

who are

strictly keeping away from another's wife, who are

very much

attached to fasting on Ekadasi, who sings the holy

name of Lord

Hari, who wear the Tulasi garland necklace and those

who drink

the water emanated from the lotus feet of Lord Hari on

their head

they should be understood as Vaisnavas.

 

Those who are attached to studying Vedic

literatures, those

who protect Tulasi forests, those who fast on

Radhastami day,

those who offer a lamp to Lord Sri Krsna with good

faith, those

who do not criticize others are understood to be

Vaisnavas.

 

ANy woman who fasts on the day of Lord Hari (Ekadasis

or the

birthday of the Lord) with her husband, she obtains a

son in this

life and remains the chaste wife of her husband life

after life.

 

Whatever results one achieves by performing 1,000

Ekadasi fasts,

one hundred times great resuts can be attained by

fasting on

Radhastami and Janmastami days.

 

 

Anybody who has a Tulasi wood necklace around his

neck, even if

he is an unclean person or performs many bad

activities, he is

taken with full respect to the abode of Lord Sri Hari.

 

Ramanuja Dasan

 

 

 

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/sri rAmAnujasya caraNau Saranam prapadhyE.

 

 

/namstE Shri Keerthy.

 

Your posting on /vaishNavAs is very interesting. You did not say, from where it

is taken. Could you please give a reference?

 

Thanks.

 

/naH svIkurvaka asmAt krupAm.

 

Visu