Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.11 Lecture

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1. Hasti Gopala dasa says:

   10. January 2023 at 8:27 pm

   Very well presented.

   Where are the new Bhaktas both ladies and gentlemen? An online discussion with them would also be wonderful. The perception throughout society is that this Krsna Consciousness movement only has pundits in their elder years. It would be great if new devotees would be in on this discussion regarding the 1972 edition of Srila Prabhupada’s Gita. That is the Book Of Hope for the world. We must first learn and teach Prabhupadas Gita. Without it as a foundation the prospective devotees and society as a whole cannot move forward. This site has the Bhagavad-gītā Reading and Study Room in which Srila Prabhupada’s personally approved Gita Teaching Guide is presented. Yasodanandan prabhu was kind enough to send me an old original copy years ago.

   Another devotee and I downloaded it through scanning. Then for many months we cleaned it up not changing one word. When done I sent it out to Yasodanadan prabhu and Damagosh prabhu to share with others. There was never a response and they have been in silence ever since. As have all of my senior Godbrothers and sisters. As far as I know they do not use it to teach Bhagavad Gita to the masses. Now a caring Bramana devotee would at least have the courage to share with me their concerns about the service that I did for Srila Prabhupada in a polite and instructive way, but they did not.

   There are no changed books for us, there are only the originals. So, my humble request is that Yasodanandan prabhu, Damagosh prabhu, Visvakarma prabhu Jiva Goswami prabhu and Ananda Maya prabhu start teaching the Gita from cover-to-cover following Srila Prabhupada’s Gita Guide below. It does not help the people of the world to learn this great philosophy by jumping around to favored slokas and books without any continuity. Srila Prabhupada never did that.

   Srila Prabhupada is not just The Spiritual Master he is The Master Disciple. Now even if Srila Prabhupadas Guide is not used, I would love to attend some Gita classes by these prabhus at least once a week on this site. What say ye? The word would spread around the world and the world would benefit greatly.

   Links below.

   Srila Prabhupāda – The Master Disciple
   By Sri Hasti Gopala Dasa, Toronto, Canada.

   Srila Prabhupada is the master disciple. He’s showing us by his example how to be a first-class disciple. That example is continuing, and the revelations will continue as we read his original books throughout the rest of our lives. The perfection of life is to follow strictly the bona fide spiritual master and make his orders, the life and soul of our disciplic position. By repeating without change his eternal message of how to love God Krishna, will be the perfection of life. He has told us this many times and he has masterfully followed it himself in the most perfect manner. Indeed, he continues to do so.

   So as much as we follow purely, we will become leaders but that following means to become as much as sincerely possible a master disciple.
   The carpentry master has within himself the apprentice. The master may draw on the experience and knowledge of his apprenticeship, but the apprentice cannot draw on the experience and knowledge of being a master carpenter. First, we must become first class disciples of Srila Prabhupada…everyone. Then automatically leading others towards the same path of bhakti yoga will take its natural course.

   There is no question of becoming a bona fide spiritual master without first becoming a bona fide master disciple.

   Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
   How does a genuine disciple think?

   For the genuine devotee of a spiritual master, the genuine disciple, the spiritual master is his entire life, his ideal. His vow is to serve the spiritual master, and though he adores both Krishna and the spiritual master equally, he gives special preference to his spiritual master.

   A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
   All my disciples will take the legacy. If you want, you can also take it. Sacrifice everything. I, one, may soon pass away. But they are hundreds, and this movement will increase.

   It is not that I give an order, ‘Here is the next leader.’ Anyone who follows the previous leadership is the leader…. All of my disciples are leaders, as much as they follow purely.” (Room Conversation, London, August 14, 1971. )

   Prabhupada: Yesam tu anta-gatam papam. One who has finished sinful activities; he can be engaged in God consciousness. One who is engaged in sinful activities, he cannot. Devil citing scripture.

   A devil cannot cite scripture. Angel can cite scripture. And according to our acharyas, Sanatana Goswami, he says that “Don’t hear scriptures from the devil.” Avaisnava-mukhodgirnam putam hari-kathamrtam sravanam naiva kartavyam” If a devil’s preaching about God, don’t hear. If you say, “God is pure, so let me hear about God. It doesn’t matter whether he is devil or angel. It doesn’t matter.” No. The argument is sarpocchistam payo yatha. Just like milk is very nourishing food, but if it is touched by the lips, by the tongue of a serpent, it becomes poison. Sarpocchistam payo yatha. You cannot bring the milk which is touched by the serpent’s tongue.

   So, we should receive knowledge of God, message of God, from a person who is not a devil. Then it will be effective. Otherwise, it will act as poison. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s principle is apani acari prabhu jiveri siksaya. He first of all behaves himself, and then he preaches. So if the preacher is sinful, how he can deliver other sinful men by his so-called preaching. That is not possible. He must be pure, he must be sinless. Then his preaching will be effective. But in all conditions, if we, with faith and love we chant the holy name of God, we shall become gradually purified. There is no, I mean to say, cause of anxiety. Anyone who will chant this holy name, he’ll be purified.

   Ys
   Hasti Gopala Dasa

   Originally posted on March 3rs 2011.
   Special thanks to Tomohara Prabhu and Damagosh Prabhu for their contributions to this little article.

   http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/books/pdf/The%20Gita%20Study%20Guide.pdf

   https://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=50257

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2. Acsd says:

   11. January 2023 at 11:00 pm

   Pamho agtacbsp, unless we become conscious of the unborn by realizing that HE is the greatest mystery we still living in the bad dream in this material world and although one born naked and will depart naked one still trying to become wealthy without knowing that the divine Srimad bhagavatam is the real wealth to know the greatest mystery of the UNBORN because we forgot that we are unborn too.all our spiritual power got lost by forgetting the unborn through the three guna maiya ,is real for sudra . agtacbsp ys haribol

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