Guru parampara

[anadi]

 

Only people driven by material interestse, are twisting the words of the Lord given through guru-parampara.

 

 

 

What is the meaning of bhagavat parampara?

 

The bhagavat parampara is the line of transmiting the transcendental sound which is not different from the the transcendental object.

 

Who can utter the transcendental name?

Only a pure devotee.

Is there any evidence?

Yes it is:The four features of the sound.

Para-vak is the transcendent sound. Para means highest or farthest, and in this connection it indicates that sound which is beyond the perception of the senses.

Para-vak is also known as "rava-shabda" - an unvibratory condition of sound beyond the reach of mind and intelligence (avyakta), only to be realized by great souls, parama-jnanis. On the stage of para-vak there is no distinction between the object and the sound. The sound contains within it all the qualities of the object. In terms of the universal cosmology, vaikhari, madhyama and pashyanti correspond respectively to bhuh, bhuvah, and svah. The para-shabda ultimately corresponds to the Lord's tri-padda-vibhuti.

 

Within the pashyanti-vak exists the nature's iccha-shakti, or the power of will.

Within the madhyama-vak exists the nature's jnana-shakti , or the power of knowledge.

And within the vaikhari-vak exists the nature's kriya-shakti, or power of action.

 

The bhagavat parampara is the line transmiting the transcendental sound .

Is there any evidence?

Madya lila 17.48-49

 

keha yadi tanra mukhe sune krsna-nama

tanra mukhe ana sune tanra mukhe ana

 

sabe 'krsna' 'hari' bali' nace, kande, hase

paramparaya 'vaisnava' ha-ila sarva dese

 

When someone heard the chanting of the holy name from the mouth of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu , and

someone else heard this chanting from that second person, and

someone again heard this chanting from the third person,

everyone in all countries became a Vaisnava through such disciplic succession.

Thus everyone chanted the holy name of Krsna and Hari, and they danced, cried and smiled.

What is the meaning? Shall we speculate on it?

No. We should accept the authoritative purport.

Purport by SB Svami Prabhupada

The transcendental power or potency of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra is herein explained. First, the holy name is vibrated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When someone hears from Him directly, he is purified. When another person hears from that person, he also is purified. In this way the purification process is advanced among pure devotees.Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and no one can claim His potency. Nonetheless, if one is a pure devotee, hundreds and thousands of men can be purified BY HIS VIBRATION.

 

Many heard the transcendental sound from the pure devotees of the Lord, but where is their purification?

Where is the yAvatI zaktiH (imense power) of nAmnaH'sya hareh (of the holy Name of the Lord)?

Destroyed by inumberable offeneses against the pure devotees.

Srila Narotama dAsa ThAkura says in his Ei BAra KrunA Kara

hari stAne aparAdha tAre harinAma

tomA sthAne aparAdhe nahika eDAna

 

Oh vaiSNava GosAi, offenses committed at lotus feet of Sri Hari are absolved by harinAma. But for offenses against you there is absolutely no means of deliverance!

 

The purification process is not a passive process. Is there any garanty for the process?

Yes.

sAdhu saNge kRSNa bhaktye SraddhA yadi haya

bhakti phala prema haya saMsAra yAya kzaya

 

When a devotee obtains faith in the association of softhearted and pure vaiSNavas he very quickly obtains prema and the saMsAra is distroyed.