httpv://youtu.be/Xb3S_vsrDfw
video: janugra
Prabhupada, Montreal, July 29, 1968 — This is the definition of bhakti. What is that bhakti? Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. One has to become free from all designations.
So long we are in the material conditional life, we have got various designations — “I am Indian,” “I am American,” “I am Hindu,” “I am Muslim,” “I am Christian,” “I am this,” “I am that,” so many designations, “I am nationalist,” “I am Communist,” “I am socialist,” so many designations.
So sarva-dharman parityajya [Bg. 18.66], means you have to give up the designations. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. Now I am thinking, “I am nationalist,” “I am Communist,” “I am American,” “I am Indian.” So I have to give up these designations. And what I have to think? There must be thinking. I am not stopping my thinking what I am. That is indicated in the Vedas. Aham brahmasmi.
That aham, my identity, is not lost, but at the present moment I am thinking that “I am this, I am that,” but you have to think, you have to identify with Brahman, the Supreme Brahman. And when you identify with the Supreme Brahman, that is your liberated stage. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma [Bg. 18.54] When you identify yourself with Brahman, then at once you become free from all these designative activities, prasannatma: “Oh, I have no more any duty in this material world.” In this way, when you make further progress,
brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati samah sarvesu bhutesu mad-bhaktim labhate param [Bg. 18.54]
So when one, after being freed from all designation, when one is actually engaged in the activities of Brahman, that is called bhakti, or devotional service. So initiation means to be engaged in that Brahman activities.
Speak Your Mind