The 18 principles for cultivating knowledge

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1. One should himself become a perfect gentleman and learn to give proper

respect to others.

2. One should not pose himself as a religionist simply for name and fame.

3. One should not become a source of anxiety to others by the actions of his

body, by the thoughts of his mind, or by his words.

4. One should learn forbearance even in the face of provocation from others.

5. One should, learn to avoid duplicity in his dealings with others.

6. One should search out a bona fide spiritual master who can lead him

gradually to the stage of spiritual realization, and one must submit himself to

such a spiritual master, render him service, and ask relevant questions.

7. In order to approach the platform of self -realization, one must follow

the regulative principles enjoined in the revealed scriptures.

8. One must be fixed in the tenets of the revealed scriptures.

9. One should completely refrain from practices that are detrimental to the

interest of self-realization.

10. One should not accept more than he requires for the maintenance of the

body.

11. One should not falsely identify himself with the gross material body or

consider those who are related to his body to be his own.

12. One should always remember that as long as he has a material body he must

face the miseries of repeated birth, old age, disease, and death. There is no

use in making plans to get rid of these miseries of the material body. The best

course is to find out the means by which one may regain his spiritual identity.

13. One should not be attached to more than the necessities of life required

for spiritual advancement.

14. One should not be more attached to wife, children, and home than the

revealed scriptures ordain.

15. One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables

created by the mind.

16. One should become an unalloyed devotee of the Personality of Godhead, Sri

Krishna, and serve Him with rapt attention.

17. One should develop a liking for residence in a secluded place with a calm

and quiet atmosphere favorable for spiritual culture, and one should avoid

congested places where nondevotees congregate.

18. One should become a scientist or philosopher and conduct research into

spiritual knowledge, recognizing that spiritual knowledge is permanent whereas

material knowledge ends with the death of the body.

(Sri Isopanishad, Mantra Ten, Purport)

 

 

 

CHANT HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE

HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE AND BE HAPPY

Your humble servant

radhabhava gaur das

 

 

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