Reintroducing The Disciplic Succession

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Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura Maharaja re-introduced the disciplic succession coming from Lord Caitanya. Although people in India are very specialy empowered for spiritual live, still, things deteriorated within 200 years.

 

 

So this Bhaktivinoda Thākura’s birthday, we should adore, we should worship, because in the modern age he reintroduced the disciplic succession. From Caitanya Mahāprabhu… Five hundred years ago, Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught this philosophy, but within two hundred years… Because this material world is so made that whatever you introduce, in due course of time it will deteriorate. You make a nice house, but after one hundred years, two hundred years, or nowadays, even after fifty years, it becomes dilapidated. That is the nature’s law, kāla. Time will destroy everything.

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His Divine Grace

Śrīla Sac-cid-ānanda Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s

Appearance Day, Lecture

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

London, September 23, 1969

 

 

 

When Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura came home from office at 5 pm he would take prasadam and go to bed around 7 pm. Somebody ever tried to follow such sadhana?

 

 

So, this Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura was gṛhastha, very responsible officer, magistrate. And he was so exalted that he would come from his office generally at five o’clock, then take his supper and immediately go to bed. Immediately. Say at seven o’clock in the evening he goes to bed, and he wakes up at twelve o’clock. So suppose he goes to bed at seven o’clock in the evening and wakes up at twelve o’clock at night; it is sufficient sleep, five hours. One should not sleep more than five to six hours. Minimize as far as possible. The Gosvāmīs used to sleep not more than one and a half hour, or two hours. Sleeping is not very important thing.

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His Divine Grace

Śrīla Sac-cid-ānanda Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s

Appearance Day, Lecture

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

London, September 23, 1969