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Verse
BG 13.8-12
Lectures on BG 3.8-12
Lecture on BG 13.8-12 -- Bombay, September 30, 1973
Lecture on BG 13.8-12 -- Bombay, October 2, 1973
Lecture on BG 13.8-12 -- Bombay, October 3, 1973
Lecture on BG 13.8-12 -- Bombay, October 5, 1973
Translation
Categories
Humility
Prideless
Tolerance
Simplicity
Cleanliness
Self-control
Renunciation
Sense Objects
Sense Gratification
False Ego
Birth, Death, Old Age and Disease
Detachment
Material Entanglement
Happiness and Distress
Detachment
Mass of People
Self-realization
Philosophical
Knowledge
Ignorance
Purport
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB 5.18.12
SB 1.2.11
Themes
Chant Hare Krsna
Prasadam
Discussion
Understanding Bhagavad-gita
Hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam
Deity Worship
"Devotional service to Kṛṣṇa without deviation means engaging oneself in the nine processes of devotional service—chanting, hearing, worshiping, offering respect, etc.—as described in the last verse of the Ninth Chapter.":
Nine Processes of Devotional Service
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG 9.34
Pages
"One should learn to tolerate, as advised in Bhagavad-gita":
BG_02.14_matra-sparsas_tu_kaunteya..._cited
SB 01.02.11 - comparison
CC Adi-lila 02-011 - SB 01.02.11
CC Adi-lila 02.063 - SB 01.02.11
One should approach a bona fide guru to inquire about the highest benefit of life. Such a guru is described as follows: sabde pare ca nisatam. Such a guru does not manufacture gold or juggle words
All Vedic literatures advise us to approach a bona fide spiritual master to get free from the perplexities of life, which happen without our desire
Steadiness
Trained in the guru-kula to adhere to a life of renunciation and sense control by practicing brahmacarya
When one is bound by affection for one's wife, one is attached to sexual desires that are very difficult to overcome. Therefore, according to Vedic civilization, one must voluntarily leave his so-called home and go to the forest
I accepted my father's advice, and by his blessings only, I was never attached to my wife or home, which resulted in my complete liberation from worldly attachment and my devoting myself fully in Krishna Consciousness
Although Raghunatha dasa was a family man, he had no attachment for his estate and wife. Seeing his tendency to leave home, his father and uncle engaged special bodyguards to watch over him
If one sits at home and is served by his beloved wife and children, he certainly becomes weaker and weaker due to sense gratification
If wife is there, then some money must be coming, that means work, land or factory, children, home, friends, community, nation, like that there is increasing complication of illusion of thinking: This is mine, that is mine
But the matters which are described in the Ninth Chapter deal with unalloyed, pure devotion. Therefore this is called the most confidential
Only a rare person who has adopted complete, unalloyed devotional service to Krsna can uproot the weeds of sinful actions with no possibility that they will revive
The process of knowledge terminates in unalloyed devotional service to the Lord
Unalloyed devotional service
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati on sitting and chanting in a solitary place
At the present moment we see that some of the members of the ISKCON are tending to leave their preaching activities in order to sit in a solitary place. This is not a very good sign
Nirjana-bhajana - cultivating Krsna consciousness in a solitary place - is not possible for the neophyte, for he will be disturbed by the bodily necessities (eating, sleeping, mating and defending)
Only after maturing in devotion can he sit down in a solitary place to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself did
We have practical experience of being advised by the so-called babajis in Vrndavana that there is no need to preach and that it is better to live in Vrndavana in a solitary place and chant the holy name
When disciples are grown up and are able to preach, the spiritual master should retire and sit down in a solitary place to write and execute nirjana-bhajana
Vrindaban is the only solitary transcendental abode within this universe where Krishna Consciousness automatically reveals
The Mayavada philosophers, on account of their negligence to serve Krishna, may sometimes come to this understanding of aham brahma asmi, but they again fall down to the material platform on account of such negligence
