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Divine quotes – part 2

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Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Maharaj1. The spiritual realm is inconceivable, but still, we are to try to understand things according to our capacity, faith, and realization. Above all, we have to accommodate within our minds, that sweetness is sweet, and truth is truth – however strong it may be.

2. We want affinity in intimacy with Gurudeva, and it is he who has the connection with the Centre – with the Substance. If I can maintain a bona fide relationship with Gurudeva, then automatically I shall get Him.

3. Only faith is not treacherous: it will remain with the soul – within – giving hope, prospect and sustenance. Home comfort.

4. Krsna is the Autocrat but He is sweet. And you will also get sweetness, fulfillment and love by following in the footsteps of that Autocrat. Beauty is the Autocrat; Sweetness is the Autocrat; Love is the Autocrat – and that is beyond All-Law.

5. “Om” means a big “Yes”. Whatever you are searching for, it exists. What your inner heart hankers after, that exists and is existing. Whatever apparently you see, you must go to the inner substance – the Super-subject. The Lord of your search is there.

6. Sincere search is necessary for the aspiring devotee so that his Krsna conception may not be only a sham – a hypocritical endeavor. And you will get help in that direction from the real devotees.

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Srila Sridhar Pandit

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From Heart and Halo: The Real Judgment of Love, pages 44-45

Love is wonderfully above everything, surpassing all. Mahaprabhu asked us to accept the path of love, which means giving one’s heart, one’s self. It is so powerful, nothing else can attract
Krishna. He is very greedy to eat this love, this prema. He lives on prema. He is the Lord of love.
That love has its inner existence; it is the inner existence of all of us. He is Love personified, and there is a tinge within us also; and like ‘birds of a feather’, love likes love.
Once Mahaprabhu, at the time when He had conquered and captured the Kazi, was leading the sankirtan party and was feeling very tired. He came to Sridhar Pandit, the poor brahmana who
used to sell plantains in the market to somehow meagerly earn his livelihood.

Sridhar Pandit had a well and nearby an iron pot which he used for drawing water. Mahaprabhu began to drink water from the well with that pot, which had been left outside. All the devotees
objected, “What are You doing? This pot is always kept outside and is very dirty. We are bringing a clean pot for Your drinking water!”

Mahaprabhu ignored them and continued drinking water from that iron pot. He commented, “This is the pot of My devotee Sridhar; it is purer than anything.”

In Bhagavad-gita the Lord says:

api chet suduracharo, bhajate mam ananya-bhak
sadhur eva sa mantavyah, samyag vyavasito hi sah
(Bhagavad-gita 9.30)

“If a person is an unalloyed devotee who worships Me exclusively, having abandoned all other pursuits based on exploitation and renunciation, even if he commits some abominable action, he
is to be considered saintly. He is cent-per-cent pure, because his endeavors are completely on My behalf and his determination is fixed in that resolve.”

This is because one who has really surrendered to Krishna is accepted by Him as His own, and such a surrendered soul should never be considered impure, a transgressor.

By His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

Slow and steady wins the race.

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Ecstasy can exist by itself. Neither existence nor consciousness are complete in themselves. Consciousness alone hankers for ecstasy. And existence without consciousness is to exist with no purpose. Both existence and consciousness are subservient to ecstasy.

To come to the plane of ecstasy, we shall have to dive deep into reality. We must not be satisfied with the formal, superficial.

Our attitude should be one of humility, and if we think that we are being done wrong, still we should be patient, and under no circumstances should we work for our own position; that should be our aim.

Slow and steady wins the race. Our march towards the infinite is a long journey, not to be finished within a few hours, a few days, or a few years.

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Love your environment

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Love your environment. Sincerely try to love one another and you will find yourself in Vrindaban, Chintamani Dham, the land of Krishna, under His guidance.

Just try to find your sweet self within that domain. There you will live in sweetness where all movement is like dancing and speech is a song, the water is nectar and the trees are kalpataru – whatever you like they are giving to you. Your innermost self is entitled to live in that divine civilization.

— Ideal Reality

Divine Words of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar Deva Goswami

When service is added to consciousness

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A sweet structure begins from the point when service is added to consciousness. Service can construct a beautiful capital, a beautiful country.

It is there, and you have only to feel it, enter, and take up your appointed service.

You will think: “This is my home! This appointment feels very friendly to me. Now I have come home.”

Divine Words of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar deva Goswami

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The Lord is always there

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The Lord is always there, even in the worst period of our lives. He is waiting, waiting to help us. We must only look up for His grace, with sincerity with all sincerity. He is everywhere, waiting:

“My boy, look at Me. Don’t make much of the external environment. I am here, very near to you. You have cast your focus aside, you have cast your consciousness outside. Make it internal and you will find Me here. Make it above. You are looking down to secure servants and comforts, but if you look up, for existence higher than you, you will find Me in that plane. Look up! Don’t look down, searching for servants.”

Divine Words of Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara deva Goswami Maharaj

I want no less than that highest thing

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We should feel within, “I want no less than that highest thing, that Advaya-jnana, that Autocrat. That Goodness Autocrat, the Supermost Commander of Everything. I want Him and nothing less, and I shall live and move, and feel in myself that whatever I shall do, at every second, I am meant for that. I am meant for my ideal. I have no time to waste, or to hesitate for anything. If every moment I move in every way with the ideal in my heart, I shall always make some progress towards it. If I can just stay in touch with my ideal, that will guide and inspire me. In any and every action, whatever I shall do or undo, eat, rest, etc., my ideal will be overhead. And that will gradually take me out of all these entanglements and enticements, and one day or other I shall be able to reach it. ”

Divine Words of Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar deva Goswami
(Sermons of the Guardian of Devotion Volume II)

Every heart is a temple of the Lord

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Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to direct us to our real interest within:

“You do not know your own heart. You are a foreigner to your own heart and its demand.
There is a wealth within your heart – try to find it: eliminate the foreign things, and you will find your heart to be a temple of Krishna. With the help of a
proper guide, search your own heart and you will find Krishna there. This is not a foreign thing to you.

Every heart is a temple of the Lord. It is your property, it is your home. Back to God, back to home.”

Divine Words of Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar deva Goswami
–sermons, vol 1

Mercy is higher than justice

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We will receive help from the revealed Scriptures, and from the many saints and agents who are also coming from that plane to bring us into harmony.
The religion of highest harmony has been given by Mahāprabhu Śrī Chaitanyadeva who explained devotion on the basis of Śrīmad Bhagavatam, the book which is understood to be the real conclusion of all the revealed scriptures.

In this way, He explained that energy or power is not the highest thing, but knowledge is above it. Knowledge can control power and give a beneficial result, but further, knowledge itself also holds a lower position: above it is love and affection, and that is the highest. Neither knowledge nor power, but only affection can give us fulfilment of life.

Mercy is higher than justice. Justice only exists where there is the necessity of laws, rules, etc., but in the realm of the Absolute Autocrat, who is the Absolute Good, there can be no question of any apprehension about Him. He is Absolute Good, an Absolute Good is an Absolute Love and Affection, and that is home!

DIVINE WORDS of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar deva Goswami

Intense devotion

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prabala bhaktir ajitendriyan api visaya-bhogad-uddharati –
badhyamano ‘pi mad-bhakto, visayair ajitendriyah
prayah pragalbhaya bhaktya, visayair nabhibhuyate

SB.11.14.18

Intense devotion delivers even persons of uncontrolled senses from worldly enjoyment –

“A person adopting the path of devotion may suffer the obstacle of his mind loitering somewhat in thoughts of mundanity, due to former habits of sensual dalliance. As he cultivates devotion, his service aptitude develops. And the more his boldness to serve increases, the more that materialistic devotee is gradually able to curb his attraction for the mundane. The only cause of failure for such aspirants is their lack of sincerity.”

Srila B.R Sridhar Dev Goswami Maharaj