Can anyone answer this?

[Guest guest]

Hare Krsna.

Please,accept my humble obeisances.

some more thoughts on this issue:

> Question: Is a person whose life is not centered

> around Krsna, but who

> follows the regulated principles of different orders

> of life,

> transcendentally situated?

 

This is to support the argument that only devotee in

the stict sense of the term can be above the modes:

In B.g.3.30 Krsna instructs Arjuna on the proper mood

in discharging his duties:

mayi sarvani karmani

sannyasyadhyatma cetasa

nirasir nirmamo bhutva

yudhyasva vigata jvarah

 

Krsna tells Arjuna to surrender all his work unto

Him,with full knowledge of the self,free from desires

of possessiveness,free from fear - the perfect way to

discharge one's duty.

This verse shows the transcendental nature of

devotional service:

a)nirasih,nirmama - freedom from the mode of passion

b)vigata jvarah - freedom from the mode of ignorance

c)adhyatma cetas - Knowledge of one's constitutional

position.

Serving Krsna in this way elevates one on the

transcendental level.

- sa gunan samatityaitan/brahma-bhuyaya kalpate(14.26)

One who lacks any of these characteristics in his

actions cannot be on the transcendental level,although

his participation in varnasrama will give him a

chances to ultimately raise on the platform of

devotional service.

Most probably Srila Prabhupada in his purport was

referring particularly to Arjuna's situation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I am very sorry Prabhu I didn't read your answer all the way through because

of the time factor. You see the thing is that I am doing a BG study where

the verse and purport are given:

 

TRANSLATION:

The transcendental qualities are conducive to liberation, whereas the

demoniac qualities make for bondage. Do not worry, O son of Pandu, for you

are born with the divine qualities.

 

PURPORT:

Lord Krsna encouraged Arjuna by telling him that he was not born with

demoniac qualities. His involvement in the fight was not demoniac, because

he was considering the pros and cons. He was considering whether respectable

persons such as Bhisma and Drona should be killed or not, so he was not

acting under the influence of anger, false prestige or harshness. Therefore

he was not of the quality of the demons. For a ksatriya, a military man,

shooting arrows at the enemy is considered transcendental, and refraining

from such a duty is demoniac. Therefore there was no cause for Arjuna to

lament. Anyone who performs the regulative principles of the different

orders of life is transcendentally situated.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bg 16.5

 

 

And then there is the following question.

 

 

Question: Is a person whose life is not centered around Kåñëa, but who

follows the regulated principles of different orders of life,

transcendentally situated?

 

 

 

So the way it is put leads one to the understanding that simply by following

prescribed duties of varnasrama one is transcendentally situated although

his life may not be directly centered around Krishna.

 

 

Your servant,

Mahat-tattva dasa