Guest guest Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please refer to below message and would like to seek clarification as mentioned below. Thank you in advance. Hari bol! your servant Sudhir Caitanya dasa > [This message was in HTML format] > We recently heard in a recorded lecture by H.H. Gour Govinda Maharaja that > a Vaisnava is known by his simple heart. As Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Thakur > used to say: saralata hi vaisnavata. > > This means that if in the course of developing simplicity of heart, the > devotee somehow falls to hell, that devotee need not worry, for Guru will > save him from that position. > > If however, the devotee acheives, by acts of duplicity, deceitfulness and > manipulation, Brahmaloka, the topmost abode in the universe, he should > worry, because Guru will not save him at all. Question: What does this simplicity mean? How can one fall down to hell while practicing simplicity? Or how can one achieve the Brahmaloka, which is inhabited by all highly pious people, if one does deceit? Is this comparison just for the sake of promoting simplicity or is there any other meaning beyond this? What does it mean "developing simplicty"? Isn't the transcendental qualities manifest automatically in a pure devotee when he loses all designations? I have also read that anything that you learn is all tainted by the 3 modes and they are not the real qualities of the jiva. Although they appear to be somewhat the same (atleast the mode of goodness ones). But the actual transcendental qualities of the jiva appears only when one is "sarvopadi vinirmuktam", designationless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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