Guest guest Posted March 14, 2002 Report Share Posted March 14, 2002 Dear List Here i am posting about Vedic teachings. Some people want to worship Lakshmi Devi, the Goddess of Fortune but without her consort Visnu (God), because those materialistic people do not want to deal with God and only want to exploit wealth. In a similar way, there are some so called vedic astrologers that only want the vedic astrological secrets without dealing with the vedic knowledge. This is madness, because the Vedas are organic in nature and therefore its structure functions are as a whole and not as a separated unit. The best example of an organic entity is the human body. In a human body, the head thinks, the heart feels, the estomagh digests and the legs walk or support the body, but all the parts work nicely in an organic way. So, here i am quoting from the vedas, from the Srimad Bhagavatam, translated by Srila Prabhupada. Lord Brahma, the architect of this universe "first created the nescient engagements like self deception, the sense of death, anger after frustration, the sense of false ownership, and illusory bodily conception or forgetfulness of one's real identity" 3.12.2 "The mode of ignorance influences a living entity to the habit of lust and hankering", from the purport to SB 2.9.10 "The mind is the root cause of lust, anger, pride, greed, lamentation, illusion and fear. Combined these constitute bondage to fruitive activity. What learned man would put faith in the mind? S.B. 5.6.5 "By making plans with determination, one should give up lusty desires for sense gratification. Similarly, by giving up envy one should conquer anger, by discussing the disadvantages of accumulating wealth one should give up greed, and by discussing the truth one should give up fear." S.B. 7.15.22 "By discussing spiritual knowledge one can conquer lamentation and illusion, by serving a great devotee one can come prideless, by keeping silent one can avoid obstacles on the path of mystic yoga, and simple by stopping sense gratification one can conquer envy." S.B. 7.15.23 One time in the 80's there was a so called guru full of pride, and eventually he fell from his position. We can question the above quotation and ask, why that so called guru was full of pride when externally he served a great pure devotee. My answer to myself is that externally he may have been a good servant of a pure devotee but internally he was not a sincere servant. Lets pray to be sincere servants of the truth. "In the conditioned stage, one's conceptions of life are sometimes polluted by passion and ignorance, which are exhibited by attachment, hostility, greed, lamentation, illusion, fear, madness, false prestige, insults, fault finding, deception, envy, intolerance, passion, bewilderment, hunger and sleep. All of these are enemies. Sometimes one's conceptions are also polluted by goodness." S.B. 7.15.43-44 Best wishes Natabara Das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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