Questions

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Dear devotees, PAMHO. AGTSP.

 

Here are some nice quotes from Svarupa Prabhu. Thanks to Svarupa Prabhu for

this.

 

ys vgd

 

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Letter COM:2336457 (37 lines) [W1]

Svarupa (das) HKS (Cintamani Intl., Oslo - N)

21-May-99 19:39

Vidvan Gauranga (das) JPS (Mayapur - IN) [14476]

Questions

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PAMHO. AGTSP.

 

Quotes about questions.

 

"Although your spiritual master may be self-realized and experienced in the

Absolute Truth, still, you have to question. You have to understand from him

all critical points by your intelligent questions."

 

(Lecture Bg. 4.34-38, New York, August 17, 1966)

 

"But faith should not be blind. Blind faith is useless. Now we have already

discussed that one should go to the spiritual master with surrender and

question and service—three things. First of all, for acquiring knowledge we

have to find out the suitable personality, and if we are fortunate enough to

find out such suitable personality, then first thing is to surrender. And

that, after that surrender, there are questions. One must be very

intelligent to put questions to the spiritual master. Without questions you

cannot make progress. So blind faith is never required, neither questions

should be in a mood of challenge. That should not. Questions or answers

should be just to understand. And that should be accompanied with service.

This is the mood. Whole Vedic process... Nobody can deny in the Vedic

process that there is no need of spiritual master. There is. So sraddhavan.

Therefore the faithful, the faithful can acquire knowledge.

 

(Lecture Bg. 4.39-5.3, New York, August 24, 1966)

 

"You must find out a suitable person where you can question and get the

proper answer, a spiritual master. That means surrender. Then question.

Question is not a challenge. Question is to understand. Which I could not

follow, I may ask repeatedly to understand. So two sides: seva, service; and

surrender. And in the middle, pariprasna. So pariprasna is required.

Otherwise how one can understand? So questions are required."

 

(Lecture, London, September 14, 1969)

 

Ys

Svarupa das

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