Guest guest Posted July 25, 2002 Report Share Posted July 25, 2002 Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada. om namo bhagavate vasudevaya om namo bhagavate vasudevaya om namo bhagavate vasudevaya Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.7.46 "Dear Lord, O personified Vedic knowledge, in the past millennium, long, long ago, when You appeared as the great boar incarnation, You picked up the world from the water, as an elephant picks up a lotus flower from a lake. When You vibrated transcendental sound in that gigantic form of a boar, the sound was accepted as a sacrificial hymn, and great sages like Sanaka meditated upon it and offered prayers for Your glorification." Srila Prabhupada teaches us : "A significant word in this verse is trayi-gatra, which means that the transcendental form of the Lord is the Vedas. Anyone who engages in the worship of the Deity, or form of the Lord in the temple, is understood to be studying all the Vedas twenty-four hours a day. Simply by decorating the Deities of the Lord, Radha and Krsna, in the temple, one very minutely studies the injunctions of the Vedas. Even a neophyte devotee who simply engages in the worship of the Deity is understood to be in direct touch with the purport of Vedic knowledge. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (15.15), vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah ; the purport of the Vedas is to understand Him, Krsna. One who worships and serves Krsna directly has understood the truth of the Vedas." ******************************* Bhagavad-gita 15.15 The Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna declares to us : "I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas as I to be known; indeed I am the compiler of the Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas." Srila Prabhupada teaches us (partial purport): The Supreme Lord is situated as Paramatma in everyone's heart, and it is from Him that all activities are initiated. The living entity forgets everything of his past life, but he has to act according to the direction of the Supreme Lord, who is witness to all his works. Therefore he begins his work according to his past deeds. Required knowledge is supplied to him, and remembrance is given to him, and he forgets, also, about his past life. Thus, the Lord is not only all-pervading; He is localized in every individual heart... The Supreme Lord is so full that for the deliverance of the conditioned soul He is the supplier and digester of foodstuff, the witness of his activities, the giver of knowledge in the form of Vedas and as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, the teacher of Bhagavad-gita. He is worshipable by the conditioned soul. Thus God is all-good; God is all-merciful... Although he (the conditioned soul) forgets, the Lord gives him the intelligence to renew his work again, initiated by the Supreme Lord. So not only does a living entity enjoy or suffer in this world according to the dictation from the Supreme Lord situated locally in the heart, but he receives the opportunity to understand the Vedas from Him. If one is serious to understand the Vedic knowledge, then Krsna gives the required intelligence. Why does He present the Vedic knowledge for understanding? Because a living entity individually needs to understand Krsna... The ultimate goal is the Supreme Personality of Godhead..." **************************************** Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare ***************************************** Prabhus, I would like to relate a recent experience with a close relative who is a Christian. This dear person was recently visiting here as a stopover on the way to relocating due to loss of job and home. In typical fashion, this person took my adult child aside to once again attempt 'conversion'. In the conversation, my relative said, "God wants abundant life for you! God wants that you have everything.." and so on... after having lost everything. All loss was blamed on 'the devil.' I have never understood this idea, for one need only look around and within and this philosophy simply does not hold up under scrutiny. No matter how we try to arrange it, we will be awarded the happiness and distress due us by past activities.. nothing more.. nothing less.. and as the Lord tells us in Bhagavad-gita, we must learn to tolerate both without being disturbed. We can not make this material energy do as we like. We can not even make these bodies of our bend to our will. So what is our hope? As Srila Prabhupada tells us above "... a living entity individually needs to understand Krsna... The ultimate goal is the Supreme Personality of Godhead....." So, there it is... Thank you, Your Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, for telling us like-it-is.. "As It Is"... Please help us.. your servant..... ******************************************************************************** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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