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Srimad-Bhagavatam
The senses in the material world are surcharged with material ignorance. In every way, the authorities have recommended purification of the senses from the material conception
SB 2.7.47, Purport: The senses in the material world are surcharged with material ignorance. In every way, the authorities have recommended purification of the senses from the material conception. In the material world the senses are manipulated for individual and personal satisfaction, whereas in the spiritual world the senses are properly used for the purpose for which they were originally meant, namely the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord. Such sensual activities are natural, and therefore sense gratification there is uninterrupted and unbroken by material contamination because the senses are spiritually purified. And such satisfaction of the senses is equally shared by the transcendental reciprocators. Since the activities are unlimited and constantly increasing, there is no scope for material attempts or artificial arrangements. Such happiness of transcendental quality is called brahma-saukhyam, which will be clearly described in the Fifth Canto.
SB Canto 3
The path of liberation, as recommended by all authorities, is to serve the mahātmā transcendentalists
SB 3.7.20, Purport: The path of liberation, as recommended by all authorities, is to serve the mahātmā transcendentalists. As far as Bhagavad-gītā is concerned, the mahātmās are the pure devotees who are on the path to Vaikuṇṭha, the kingdom of God, and who always chant and hear the glories of the Lord rather than talk of dry, profitless philosophy. This system of association has been recommended since time immemorial, but in this age of quarrel and hypocrisy it is especially recommended by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Even if one has no assets of favorable austerity, if he nevertheless takes shelter of the mahātmās, who are engaged in chanting and hearing the glories of the Lord, he is sure to make progress on the path back home, back to Godhead.
SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13
His goal is paraṁ padam, or Vaikuṇṭha, the place where there are no material miseries, not the place where there is danger at every step." (SB 10.14.58) This process is recommended here by authorities like Lord Brahmä and Lord Çiva (svayambhür näradaù çambhuù [SB 6.3.20]), and therefore we must take to this process in order to transcend nescience
SB 10.2.30, Purport: A yogī is fully absorbed in thoughts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for he has no other business than to think of the Lord always within the heart. It is also said:
- samāśritā ye pada-pallava-plavaṁ
- mahat-padaṁ puṇya-yaśo murāreḥ
- bhavāmbudhir vatsa-padaṁ paraṁ padaṁ
- padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ na teṣām
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
So hearing by the ear and chanting by the tongue is the supreme method recommended by all authorities
Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- Vrndavana, October 19, 1972: By these blunt senses we cannot understand what is Kṛṣṇa. Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ. But if you engage yourself in His transcendental loving service, beginning with the tongue, sevonmukhe hi jihvādau... So hearing by the ear and chanting by the tongue is the supreme method recommended by all authorities. This is śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam.
- śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ
- smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam
- arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ
- sakhyam ātma-nivedanam
- [SB 7.5.23]
Initiation Lectures
How the impersonal philosophy can stand? Every individual entity is a person; therefore origin must be a person, ādi-puruṣam. And it is recommended by the authority, Brahmā
Initiation and Brahma-samhita Lecture -- New York, July 26, 1971:
Prabhupäda: Govinda means who gives pleasure to the cows, who gives pleasure to the senses. He's Govinda. Go means..., another meaning is earth. So He gives pleasure. Kåñëa is all pleasure potency. And ädi-puruña. Ädi-puruñam, original person. (sound) What is that? (pause) Ädi-puruña, original person. Janmädy asya yataù [SB 1.1.1]. (aside:) Why don't you sit down? Sit down. Ädi, original; puruña, person. The origin... Unless the origin of everything is a person, how so many persons are coming? Every one of us, all living entities, either man or animal or demigod, even trees, plants, they're all persons. Everyone, individual person. So if every living entity is a person, how the original of, origin of everything can be imperson? The origin must be person. Therefore ädi-puruñam. The origin, original, or origin of everything, janmädy asya yataù, Absolute Truth, is that from whom or from which everything is emanating. So everything is a person, individual. So origin must be person. Ädi-puruñam. Therefore Brahmä..., this Brahma-saàhitä is made by Brahmä. He's the original creature within this universe. He's recommending that "My origin is also a person." Ädi-puruñaà tam ahaà bhajämi: "I worship that original person." Therefore the origin of everything, the Absolute, the summum bonum, cannot be impersonal. What is the reason? Where is the experience that from imperson a person comes? There is no such instance within our experience. From person, a person comes. My father is a person, so I am a person. His father is a person; therefore my father is a person. Go on searching, you'll find the original person. Try to understand this philosophy. The whole world is impersonal. They do not know anything, of course, but they have got an impersonal philosophy. How the impersonal philosophy can stand? Every individual entity is a person; therefore origin must be a person, ädi-puruñam. And it is recommended by the authority, Brahmä.
General Lectures
One has to develop his mind being always attached to Kṛṣṇa. Āsakta. Āsakta means attachment. This āsakti is also not attained very easily, but there is a process. If we follow the process, as recommended by the authorities, then there is way. And one who is serious to understand God, or Kṛṣṇa, they must follow the methods prescribed by the mahājanas.
Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, April 6, 1971: Therefore Kṛṣṇa, in the Seventh Chapter, He is teaching how to understand Kṛṣṇa, how to realize Him. That realization, He says,
- mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha
- yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ
- asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ
- yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu
- [Bg. 7.1]
Page Title: | Recommended by the authorities |
Compiler: | Siddha Rupa, Visnu Murti |
Created: | 25March08, |
No. of Quotes: | 6 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=3, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=3, Con=0, Let=0 |