Guest guest Posted May 7, 1998 Report Share Posted May 7, 1998 Camp: S. African Airways flight from Johannesburg to Mumbai, India. Someone asked about an example for a sadhana siddha devotee. I can't find the question any more but here is some references from Srila Prabhupada's teachings: > Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says: evam prahladasyamsena > sadhana-siddhatvam nitya-siddhatvam ca naradadivaj jneyam. There are two > classes of devotees--the sadhana-siddha and the nitya-siddha. Prahlada > Maharaja is a mixed siddha; that is, he is perfect partly because of > executing devotional service and partly because of eternal perfection. > Thus he is compared to such devotees as NARADA. Formerly, NARADA MUNI was > the son of a maidservant, and therefore in his next birth he attained > perfection (sadhana-siddhi) because of having executed devotional service. > Yet he is also a nitya-siddha because he never forgets the Supreme > Personality of Godhead. > SB.C 7.Ch 10.Tx 13 > ******************************** > > There is no difference between the two in the ultimate issue, and so the > conclusion is that everyone can become a sadhana-siddha, a devotee of the > Lord, simply by association with the pure devotees. The concrete example > is our great spiritual master Sri Narada Muni. > In his previous life he was simply a boy of a maidservant, but through > association with great devotees he became a devotee of the Lord in his own > standard, unique in the history of devotional service." > > Srila Prabhupada's lectures 1972 > ********************************** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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