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Kirsna consciousness is the cause of Krishna consciousness!

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Krsna consciousness is the cause of Krishna consciousness!

And we have to get help from the sadhus who have got Krishna consciousness within them. Just as, from one candle another candle may be lit. A candle cannot produce light from within, but it is to be lit from another candle – it is something like that.

We are to awaken our buried Krishna consciousness, which is covered by ‘anyabhilasa-karmma-jnana’1; so, that light, that association, will come to help the sleeping Krishna consciousness within us, and our consciousness will arise from it’s sleep and show itself, as it is.

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Suspicion and hesitation are the worst enemies

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Divine Words of His Divine Grace Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev Goswami

Suspicion and the hesitation are the worst enemies. We may be near to the truth, but because of our previous karma, our suspicious nature deceive us..
According to the result of our karma we shall be placed in a particular environment, and we must start our spiritual life from wherever we are placed; we must begin our work of conquering all those samskaras that comprise the mental encasement we are living in.

(Samskars is defined as: the faculty of memory, mental impression on the mind of acts done in a former state of existence.)

Truth will come according to our saranagati

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Divine Words of His Divine Grace

And one thing we must always keep in mind is that we can’t investigate all of the subtle, higher knowledge as a subjective researcher. Rather, according to the degree of our saranagati, our surrender, the Truth will come down to make Himself known to us. We must always remember this, otherwise some spirit of imitation will be created in us. Knowledge of the higher domain is not under the jurisdiction of the intellect, and to think so is very dangerous. Intellectualism is dangerous; it will cause us to think that we have “caught the Infinite”. It will be negligence to the infinite characteristic, the infinite aspect of the Lord. He is Adhoksaja, beyond the grasp of academic research.

Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar deva Goswami
(From Golden Stair Case)

How can we detect pratistha within ourselves?

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Divine Words of the Guardian of Devotion

Devotee: How can we detect pratistha within ourselves?

Srila Guru Maharaj: That comes with the development of internal perfection and our continuous thankfulness to Gurudeva. It is necessary to understand and feel that everything comes from above: “I have nothing. I have no position and therefore my present situation always depends on the mercy of my Gurudeva. It may be withdrawn from me at any moment. Whatever I may have is not a fixed thing in me. It is not as a matter of right but is only extended grace in me. The moment it is withdrawn I am nowhere. It is all Krsna’s svarupa-sakti. I am tatastha-sakti and have no capital. I am working on the capital of my Master. I have no capital of my own.” We must be able to remain on such a plane of thinking and realize that, “Without His help, without His grace, I am in darkness. My fate is dark. As long as He extends His grace in me I can see. If the light is withdrawn, the eye is helpless.” We are to realize the position that it is not our birth-right.

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Loving search

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Loving search for the lost servants

Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

Although He is full in all respects, still the Lord feels pangs of separation for every one of us. He appears again and again to reclaim us; to take us back home, back to Godhead. As we are engaged in the Search for Sri Krishna, He is also engaged in an urgent campaign: a Loving Search for His Lost Servants.

Great intensity is expressed here in a simple way. It is a mad search, an urgent campaign. With great earnestness Krishna comes to deliver His lost servants. Krishna comes to take us home. In Brihad Bhagavatamrita, it is written that once as Krishna and the cows were returning from the Vrindavan forest at the end of the day, a boy had just attained spiritual emancipation and entered Vrindavan as a cowherd boy (sakhya rasa). Seeing His long lost servant, Krishna embraced him and both of them fainted in ecstasy.

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True Freedom

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The difference between worldly and spiritual freedom.

By Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

I lived through two world wars. During the first great war while I was studying in college, a man asked an astrologer whether India would become free after the war. The astrologer said that India would not become free after the war but that after the present war there would be a pause in fighting followed by another larger world war and some years after that second world war India would become free. And that is what happened. I am a witness to it. The first world war ended and India could not immediately attain freedom, but another larger world war came that ended in 1945 and India attained freedom in 1947.

We consider that British rule, however, was better than our present situation because the condition of the present government is anarchical. Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur recommended British rule very much because during the British period everyone had the right to go on with their own religion very safely; there was no interference in religious feelings, sentiments, preaching, or anything. So, Bhakti Vinod Thakur liked British rule. What liberty have we got with the independence of India? I was in the camp of Gandhi for his first movement. There were three movements led by Gandhi, the first movement non-cooperation, the second civil disobedience, and the third do or die.

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The position of subordination to the Absolute Truth

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Divine Words of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

The only standard of life for a gentleman is to understand and accept the position of subordination to the Absolute Truth.
To admit what is proper and real, and on that basis makes one life advanced is not meanness.
To understand one’s proper position and to understand one’s duty and discharge it that is a gentleman’s life.

Harmonizing Instructions

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From Golden Staircase, Chapter Two, The Eye to see Sri Guru

Harmonizing Instructions of the Upper House.

Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

And one thing we must always keep in mind is that we can’t investigate all of the subtle, higher knowledge as a subjective researcher. Rather, according to the degree of our saranagati, our surrender, the Truth will come down to make Himself known to us. We must always remember this, otherwise, some spirit of imitation will be created in us. Knowledge of the higher domain is not under the jurisdiction of the intellect, and to think so is very dangerous. Intellectualism is dangerous; it will cause us to think that we have “caught the Infinite”. It will be negligence to the infinite characteristic, the infinite aspect of the Lord. He is Adhoksaja, beyond the grasp of academic research.

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Srimad Rupa-pada-rajah Prarthana Dasakam

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Aspiring for the Dust of Srimad Rupa Goswami’s Lotus Feet

Composed by Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

Srimad Rupa-pada-rajah Prarthana Dasakam

srimach-chaitanyapadau chara-kamalayugau netra-bhrngau madhu dyau
gaude tau payayantau vraja-vipina-gatau vyajayuktau samutkau
bhatau sabhratrkasya svajana-gana-pater yasya saubhagya-bhumnah
sa sri-rupah kada mam nija-pada-rajasa bhusitam samvidhatte [1]

Srila Rupa Goswami is the mine of the most precious treasure, the leader of the associates of Lord Chaitanya (the Divine Succession being known as the Rupanuga Sampradaya, ‘the followers of Sri Rupa’). In the company of his brothers, he was resplendent in (the province of) Gauda, causing the fervent twin bumblebees in the form of the lotus eyes of Sri Chaitanyadev to drink nectar, as the Lord’s lotus feet moved on the pretext of visiting Vrindavan. When will that Srimad Rupa Prabhu grace me with the dust of his holy feet?

pita-sri-gaura-padambuja-madhu-madironmatta-hrd-bhrnga-rajo
rajyaisvaryam jahau yo jana-nivaha-hitadatta-chitto nijagryam
vijnapya svanujena vraja-gamana-ratam chanvagat gaurachandram
sa sri-rupah kada mam nija-pada-rajasa bhusitam samvidhatte [2]

At Sri Ramakeli Dham, the king of bees—the heart of Sri Rupa—became intoxicated drinking the honey-wine of the lotus feet of Sri Gaurachandra, and sacrificed its life (in Hari-kirtana) for the benefit of all the people of the world, summarily abandoning a life of kingly opulence. After informing his elder brother Sri Sanatana, Sri Rupa and his younger brother Sri Vallabha followed the footsteps of Sri Caitanyadev, whose heart was absorbed in going (from Nilachala) to Sri Vrindavan. When will that Sri Rupa Prabhu grace me with the dust of his holy lotus feet?

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Formality of purity or impurity

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From the chapter “The Real Judgement of Love” in Heart and Halo:

Srila B.R Sridhar Dev Goswami Maharaj

Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Maharaj

There is one story I heard from my godbrother Vaikanasa Maharaj, who was a brahmana scholar of Orissa, about an incident which occurred in recent history, in connection with the Jagannatha Temple at Puri, where it was customary that no khechuranna (kitri) used to be offered to the Lord.

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