Guest guest Posted December 19, 1998 Report Share Posted December 19, 1998 Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. In an initiation lecture given in 1968, Srila Prabhupada explained, "So by following the regulative principles one becomes freed from all these sinful activities. He does not any more indulge in illicit sex life, he does not indulge in nonvegetarian diet, he does not indulge in intoxication and he does not indulge in gambling. That is called anartha-nivrtti. Unless one is above these four kinds of anartha, or sinful activities, one cannot be fixed up. When one is free from these four kinds of sinful activities, then he becomes fixed up. Nistha, fixed up, and then ruci. Ruci means he increases the taste. Then asakti. Asakti means attachment." Obviously what Srila Prabhupada has said is final. What I was wondering is that if one is said to be on the nistha platform under the qualification as described above (ie. he follows the four regs.), then what can we say about one in that position who may still be afflicted with lust, anger, greed, madness, envy, pride etc.? I find it hard to see that one may be manifesting those qualities (me, for instance) and be considered to have nistha, ruci or even asakti, the preliminary stage of bhava. Your servant, Vraja Kumara das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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