Can anyone answer this?

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

>follows the regulated principles of different orders of life,

>transcendentally situated?

 

No. The answer is in the purport of 16.1-3. The 26 qualities are explained

as daivi prakriti, Godly nature. If a person has these qualities, or if

does not have these qualities, tries to aquire these qualities by practice,

to please Krishna or His representative (vapu or vani), then only one is

said to be transcendentally situated. To the extant one has and uses these

qualities in Krishna's service, to that extant one is transcendentally

situated.

 

The Kauravas also fought valiantly, but they are not trancendentally

situated. The word tejah in Bg 16.1-3 is applied only to Pandavas and not

to Kauravas. The Pandavas were transcendentally situated, as they were

trying their best to follow the instructions of Krishna. Jatayu is another

example. In Jatayu's case, he did something *beyond the call of his duty*,

he fought with Ravana to save Sita. So he was transcendentally situated,

even though he failed in his mission.

 

The sum and substance of Bg is whether a Ksatriya fights or goes begging, it

does not matter. One simply has to do what Krishna wants or his

representative wants. *Incidentally* Krishna asked, Arjuna a ksatriya to

fight, and by following that instruction he became glorious. If Krishna

asked Arjuna to go begging, then if Arjuna said "No Krishna, I am a Kstriya,

so I will fight", then he will be wrong. He will not be transcendentally

situated.

 

Similarly, if the bonafide Spiritual master wants a disciple, to shave his

head and join the temple, then he must comply. And if the spiritual master

wants the disciples to leave the temple and find job to maintain temple then

one must follow that instruction. One cannot say I am a brahmana so I will

do only deity worship and svadhyaya, and I will not go and find a job

outside.

 

To be transcendentally situated means to do what Krishna and His

representative wants.

 

Your humble servant,

Bhadra Govinda Dasa.