sudhaya 0 Report post Posted April 9, 2004 Hare Krsna Lust /images/graemlins/confused.gif Anger /images/graemlins/mad.gif Greed /images/graemlins/tongue.gif all as bad as each other. can't think which one is worse. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted April 9, 2004 Vaishnava aparada. Thoughts to ponder: How to get rid of existing Vaishnava aparada? How to protect oneself from future Vaishnava aparada? Is it aparada if you don't know that it is an aparada? Would like you to answer these things first please /images/graemlins/frown.gif Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sudhaya 0 Report post Posted April 9, 2004 If I am wrong in this please somebody correct me. Lord Nityananda is the servant of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He wants everybody to get the mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, so He doesn't look at the offences of devotees, He forgives easily, so we get the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and get love of KRSNA. Hope I wasn't being sentimental, hope thats ok. Being Mercifull Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted April 9, 2004 Hare Krsna Lust Anger Greed all as bad as each other. can't think which one is worse. Lust is considered the root of material attachment since it inevitably leads to the others and so digs us in ever deeper. Anger comes out of frustrated lust and greed is the attempt to satisfy what can only be temporarily satiated. Interestingly, the prerequisite for raganuga bhakti is also lust [lobha], so the difference can be seen in whether lust is applied materially or spiritually. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted April 9, 2004 "Lord Nityananda is the servant of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He wants everybody to get the mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, so He doesn't look at the offences of devotees, He forgives easily, so we get the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and get love of KRSNA." Without the the mercy of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, His Divine Grace would not be available to the same extent. He is Sri Guru so all gurus are His representatives. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu as Sri Krsna in the mood of Srimati Radharani is the complete expression of Her supreme love and devotion, mahabhava, which has no equal. She is the sole source of devotion, the very best of Krsna. Access to Her most confidential service is the unique gift offered unconditionally to all through Sri Guru and Gauranga. Srila Prabhupada appears in a sampradaya linking to Rupa Goswami who is Rupa Manjari, reporting directly to Lalita Devi, the close friend and associate of Radhika. Not all vaishnavas are Rupanugas, nor do they wish to be. Everyone is serving Krsna in all respects, as He states in Bhagavad-gita, but the only one that can wholly satisfy Him is His beloved Radhika. To intimately assist in Their divine love affair, rather than establish a separate relationship with Krsna to the exclusion of Her, is the highest goal of devotees within this particular line. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sudhaya 0 Report post Posted April 9, 2004 "Everyone is serving Krsna in all respects, as He states in Bhagavad-gita, but the only one that can wholly satisfy Him is His beloved Radhika. To intimately assist in Their divine love affair, rather than establish a separate relationship with Krsna to the exclusion of Her, is the highest goal of devotees within this particular line." I don't understand the above, I left Raganuga-Bhakti {trying to understand} long time ago, If its not in a SP book, then I'm not ready for it yet lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bhaktivilasa 0 Report post Posted April 9, 2004 "Hare Krsna Lust /images/graemlins/confused.gif Anger /images/graemlins/mad.gif Greed /images/graemlins/tongue.gif all as bad as each other. can't think which one is worse." Answer in good old bhagavad gita (3.36- 3.41): "Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrsni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force? The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world. As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the living entity is similarly covered by different degrees of this lust. Thus the wise living entity's pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire. The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him. Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bharatas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin (lust) by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sudhaya 0 Report post Posted April 9, 2004 Good ol Gita, litttle book big knowledge. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
