Guest guest Posted November 8, 2000 Report Share Posted November 8, 2000 > > Perhaps you have not been following the earlier parts of this > > discussion. The Manu Samhita is telling the karmis what is their > > prescribed duty. Someone who is regularly chanting Hare Krishna mantra > > and has accepted the parampara of Caitanya Mahaprabhu has a different > > set of prescribed duties. > > So basically your point is "Manu Samhita is not appicable for devotees." > Now it's a time to break this paradigm. Could anyone, please, post > here a quote from SB 2.10.4? I don't have a Vedabase or SB in English, > so I cannot guarantee the exact translation. Srila Prabhupada says > there that the holy scriptures, where laws and rules of Manu are > collected, are called sad-dharma; and devotees, who are building their > lives > ~~~~~~~~ > in accordance with these injunctions are situated under Lord's shelter. > Sad-dharma is neccessary to follow to return back to the Lord and thus > to become His pure devotee. >From the folio. "The directive scriptures made by the Manus in different ages and millenniums are called sad-dharma, good guidance for the human beings, who should take advantage of all the revealed scriptures for their own interest, to make life’s successful termination. The creation is not false, but it is a temporary manifestation just to give a chance for the conditioned souls to go back to Godhead. The desire to go back to Godhead and functions performed in that direction form the right path of work. When such a regulative path is accepted, the Lord gives all protection to His devotees by His causeless mercy, while the nondevotees risk their own activities to bind themselves in a chain of fruitive reactions. The word sad-dharma is significant in this connection. Sad-dharma, or duty performed for going back to Godhead and thus becoming His unalloyed devotee, is the only pious activity; all others may pretend to be pious, but actually they are not. It is for this reason only that the Lord advises in the Bhagavad-gita that one give up all so-called religious activities and completely engage in the devotional service of the Lord to become free from all anxieties due to the dangerous life of material existence. To work situated in sad-dharma is the right direction of life." Y.s. Svarupa das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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