Hari-jana-kanda part 3

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Those who blasphme Vaisnavas can never become devoted to Lord Hari. Due to

their sinful activities, those who are not devotees of Krsna cannot become

Visnu-janas. The Vaisnavas should always associate with their own

compatriots and should pass their time hearing and chanting topics of the

Lord and His devotees. Otherwise, as a result of bad association, they will

forget their constitutional position as Hari-janas and become greately proud

of being rich, learned, brahminical, and so on. (...)When one ceases to

perform fruitive activities, mundane pride leaves him aside. (...) The first

obstacle for being able to identify oneself as a Vaisnava is stri-sanga,

association of women. (...)Giving up the association of Hari-janas and

becoming overly attached to the wife under one's protection is the symptom

of bad association. But remaining in the grhasta asrama in order to increase

Krsna's family cannot be called stri-sanga. The second kind of stri-sanga is

unregulated association with women, which is irreligious and which creates

disturbances in the varnasrama society, because those who indulge in such

association are engaged in sinful activities, abominable activities, or

inactivity, and as a result they go to hell. (...)If varnasrama and other

fruitive activities enjoined in the sastras become prominent in one's life,

then one cannot become akincana, or fully dependent on the Lord; rather

these activities provoke offenses against the chanting of the holy name of

the Lord in the form of conceptions of 'I' and 'mine".(...)

 

When one develops faith in the topics of Lord Hari, he can give up

self-identification as the doer and his desire to lord over material nature.

He then understands that all forms of material sense gratification are

simply impediments on the path towards his goal of life. Yet even after

understanding this, he is unable to give up his long-standing inclination

for sense gratification due to bad habits and weak faith.

 

If one who is situated in such an unfortunate state desires to increase his

faith in the topics of Hari and serve Hari with strong attachement, then the

firm conviction that "If I consider myself the doer, I will simply meet with

miseries in this world" will to a great extend protect one from material

attachement.(...)

 

Pure unalloyed Vaisnavas are actually very rare, Those who can say, "Such

ideal Vaisnava character is most desirable", are also seldom found in this

world. (...) Therefore it is most important that the supreme ideal position

of the Hari-janas should be somewhat realized in the heart of every living

entity.