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The most hidden instruction

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Lord Krishna saying:

sarva-guhyatamam bhuyah, srnu me paramam vacah
isto ‘si me drdham iti, tato vaksyami te hitamu

bhuyah – Again; srnu – hear; me – My; sarva-guhyatamam – most hidden of all hidden; paramam – supreme; vacah – teachings.

(tvam) – You; asi – are; me – My; drdham – extremely; istah – dear one. iti tatah – For that reason; vaksyami – I am speaking; te – to you; hitam – for your highest benefit.

Now again hear My supreme teaching, the most hidden of all hidden treasures.
You are extremely dear to Me, and really, this is why I am explaining this for your true benefit.

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What is home?

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What is home?

It is where we find that we are in the midst of our well-wishers. If we do not care for our own benefit, then there are so many who will take care of us – in fact, the whole environment will take care of us – and that is home. That is the domain of the Absolute, and we can enter into His service, the highest position, and thereby see the affection love, harmony, and beauty that exist there. All these qualities are similar and they constitute the nature of the Prime Cause and Good, and we are to go there.

Misusing our free-will we have been somehow led astray but now we are being called:
“Come home, back to God and back to home, the highest position, the land of love.”

This is, in general and in short, the sum total which I have presented to you – this is the Kṛṣṇa conception in Bhagavad-gītā and in Śrīmad Bhagavatam, and it is the conception that has been given by Śrī Chaitanyadeva. This Śrī Chaitanya Sarasvat Matha and the whole of the Gaudīya Mission is preaching only for that.

“Go to the Centre, use your life for total dedication to the Centre, and the Centre is all above justice.

It is all-merciful, affectionate, loving, and beautiful.”

Back to God, back to home.

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

 

Bring us into harmony

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

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 the fulfillment 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!

Tears offerings

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Srila Gadadhar Pandit Pranati

nīlāmbhodhi-taṭe sadā sva-virahā-kṣepanvitaṁ bāndhavaṁ
śrīmad-bhāgavatī kathā madirayā sañjīvayan bhāti yaḥ
śrīmad-bhāgavataṁ sadā sva-nayanāśru-pāyanaiḥ pūjayan
gosvāmi-prabaro gadādhara-vibhūr-bhūyāt mad-ekā-gatiḥ

“On the shore of the broad blue ocean, Gadādhara Paṇḍita used to read Śrīmad- Bhāgavatam to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who was suffering from the great internal pain of separation from Himself (Kṛṣṇa). Gadādhara Paṇḍita supplied the wine of Kṛṣṇa-līlā to intoxicate his afflicted friend and give Him relief. As he read, tears would fall from his eyes like flower offerings onto the pages of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. May the pleasure of that brilliant personality, Gadādhara Paṇḍita, the best of the Goswāmīs, be my only object in writing this book.”

Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Goswami

About Srila Gadadhara Pandita Goswami

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Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Goswami

The advent day of Gadadhara Pandita is on amavasya, on the new moon, the night of the dark moon. Mahaprabhu came in the full moon, purnima, and He drew the entirety of internal wealth from Gadadhara Pandita. Mahaprabhu made him quite empty. He sent Gadadhara Pandita on a black night in the hot summer season. In Mahaprabhu’s case, He descended on the night of the full moon during a very good season. Krsna descended in the middle of the lunar period. Radharani also appeared in the middle. When They combined as One, They appeared under the full moon. But Gadadhara Pandita appeared under the blackest night.

Gadadhara Pandita appeared and disappeared during the summer season, under the new moon. Mahaprabhu took the fullest advantage from Gadadhara, and sent him to the most negative position. Gadadhara Pandita gave himself voluntarily to Him. His very heart was drawn by Mahaprabhu, bhava-kanti. And he, just like a shadow, gave the entirety of his wealth to Mahaprabhu. Gadadhara Pandita was a shadow, running after Him as if his heart had been stolen. This Person stole all his wealth, and he was fully dependent on Him. Like a shadow, he is moving after Him.

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Confirmation from our hearts

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We receive confirmation from our heart’s approval, our inner approval. We must trace it to there because that took me to my Guru. Guru is all in all, but who took me to my Guru? It was my inner sentiment, my inner guide. It did not like anything else in the environment but instead selected that advice.

Many others do not care to come here, and many may ridicule this life, but what made ‘me’ come here? I cannot deprecate that internal approval, consciousness and sincerity. Therefore, that is an important factor and ultimately we have to depend on that internal consciousness the most. When collecting advice from the Scriptures and when seeking or relying on advice from a sadhu, the only thing that takes me there is my internal approval, my inner friend. If it were not for that I would not have come. Indeed, so many others do not come. So who has taken ‘me’ to this plane?

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Draupadi’s Prayer

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Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣak Śrīdhar Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj illustrates how Śrī Kṛṣṇa of Vṛndāvan is the fundamental shelter of all.

Dhṛtarāṣṭra is the representation of mind, and Vidura that of the conscience. Dhṛtarāṣṭra represents the mind only: the mind’s inclination more so towards enjoyment: wife, children, and so on.
Bhīṣma represents a sense of duty, which may be vitiated.
Vidura holds the highest position.

The sense of duty may be misdirected, as we see in the case of the endeavor to disrobe Draupadī.

Bhīṣma did not oppose this. He is a sober man and a devotee, but his conscience was cowed down by his sense of duty. Of course, he explained this:

“Yudhiṣṭhir understands more about the conception of duty than I do, and when he did not give any opposition, then I could not.”

That was Bhīṣma’s explanation.

“What is the real direction of the Veda in this condition? The purport of Veda is known more so by Yudhiṣṭhir than myself. So, when he tolerated, I could not say anything.”

But Vidura did not care for this. He simply thought, in general, about the goodness of the dynasty in the future and boldly approached Dhṛtarāṣṭra:

“Under your care, taking advantage of your guardianship, what are these brutes doing? They are bringing danger to your dynasty by such actions. Are you dishonoring the Pāṇḍavas or are you dishonoring your own self? Draupadī is part of your family, so should you not help her in such a distressed state?”

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Zone of Nectar

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We are in such an area. What is to be done? Try to get out. Try your best to get out of this mortal area. The saints inform us, “Come home dear friend, let us go home. Why are you suffering so much trouble unnecessarily in a foreign land? The spiritual world is real; this material world is unreal: springing and vanishing, coming and going, it is a farce! From the world of farce, we must come to reality. Here in this material world, there will be not only one war, but wars after wars, wars after wars.

There is a zone of nectar, and we are actually children of that nectar that does not die (srnvantu visve amrtasya putrah).

Somehow, we are misguided here, but really we are children of that soil which is eternal, where there is no birth or death. With a wide and broad heart, we have to approach there. This is declared by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and the Bhagavad-gita, the Upanisads, and the Srimad-Bhagavatam all confirm the same thing. That is our very sweet, sweet home, and we must try our best to go back to God, back to home, and take others with us.

World War III: LET IT BE

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Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar MaharajStudent: Many people are worried about nuclear war. They think it may come very soon.

Sridhar Maharaj: That is a point on a line, a line on a plane, a plane in a solid. So many times wars are coming and going; so many times the sun, the Earth, and the solar systems disappear, and again spring up. We are in the midst of such thought in eternity. This nuclear war is a tiny point; what of that? Individuals are dying at every moment; the Earth will die, the whole human section will disappear. Let it be.

We must try to live in eternity; not any particular span of time or space. We must prepare ourselves for our eternal benefit, not for any temporary remedy. The sun, the moon, and all the planets appear and vanish: they die, and then again, they are created. Within such an eternity we have to live. Religion covers that aspect of our existence. We are told to view things from this standpoint: not only this body, but the human race, the animals, the trees, the entire Earth, and even the sun, will all vanish, and again spring up. Creation, dissolution, creation, dissolution—it will continue forever in the domain of misconception. At the same time, there is another world which is eternal; we are requested to enter there, to make our home in that plane which neither enters into the jaws of death nor suffers any change.

 
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Nothing can obscure our spiritual progress except our own false ego.

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Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Maharaj

  • Nothing can obscure our spiritual progress except our own false ego. I am my own worst enemy.
  • Devotion to the Absolute means sacrifice – “die to live.”
  • If we have an idea of the infinite broadness and depth of the Absolute, how can we value anything here?
  • To identify with the interest of our family, society, or country is extended selfishness.
  • When everything is measured from the standpoint of selfishness and not the universal interest – that is the cause of all our troubles.
  • We must learn to critique ourselves and appreciate the environment.
  • The infinite comes down to welcome, to fully embrace the finite – that is Vrndavana.
  • In Vrndavana, not a corner is left neglected. Every grain of sand, every blade of grass, is well represented there with personality.
  • Existence without consciousness is to exist with no purpose. But when existence is endowed with consciousness, it can search for its own good; ecstasy.
  • Our relationship with the subjective is that of reverence and devotion to the higher entity, and not that of exploitation or enjoyment.

(DIVINE WORDS Of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar deva Goswami)