Hreem Shakti Center

24/01/2017

24/01/2017

SA TV ASMIN PARAMA-PREMA-RUPA
sa-it; tu-and; asmin-for Him; (the supreme lord); parama-highest; prema-love; rupa-having as its form.
Translation
Devotional service manifests as the most elevated, pure love for GOD.
PURPORT
As stated before,after attaining the highest stage of self-realization,one becomes situated in devotional service to the Lord. The perfection of devotional service is to attain love of GOD. love of GOD involves the Supreme personality of Godhead, the devotee, and the process of devotional service. Self-realization, the BRAHMA-BHUTA STAG, is the beginning of spiritual life; it is not the perfectional stage. If a person understands that he is not the his body and that he has nothing to do with this material world, he becomes free from material entanglement. But that realization is not the perfectional stage. The perfectional stage begins with activity in the self-realization position, and that activity is based on the understanding that a living entity is eternally the subordinate servitor of the supreme Lord. Otherwise, there is no meaning to self-realization. If one is puffed up with the idea that he is the Supreme Brahman, or that he has become one with NARAYANA, or that he has merged into the BRAHMAJYOTI effulgence, then he has not grasped the perfection of life.

16/01/2017

athato bhsktim vyakhyasyamah
Devotional service to the Supreme personality of Godhead is explained in the Bhagavad gita, where the Lord says that a self-realized person is always in the transcendental state known as Brahma-bhuta, which is characterized by joyful. In other words, he is free from the material contamination of lamentation and hankering. As long as we are in material existence, we lament for the losses in our life and hanker for that which we do not have. A self-realized lamentation and hankering.
A self-realized person also sees all living entities equally. For him, there is no distinction between the higher and lower species of life. It is also stated that a learned man does not distinguish between a wise Brahmana and a dog because he sees the soul within the body, not the external bodily features. Such a perfected, self-realized person become eligible to understand Bhakti, or devotional service to the Lord.
Bhakti is so sublime that only through Bhakti can one understand the constitutional position of the lord. That is cleary stated in the Bhagavad-gita (18.55): Bhaktya mam abhijanati. "One can understand the supreme Lord through deotional service, and by no other Process." There are different process of understand the Absolute Truth, but if a person wants to understand the supreme Lord as He is,he has to take the process of bhakti yoga. There are other mystic processes, such as Karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, and dhyana-yoga, but it is not possible to understand the supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, except through His devotional service. This is confirmed in the Fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita (4.3), where we learn that Krsna spoke the Bhagavad-gita to arjuna simply because he was the lord's devotee and friend. The Bhagavad-gita teaches the process of bhakti-yoga, and therefore Lord Krsna explained it to Arjuna because he was a great devotee. as far as spiritual life is concerned, becoming a devotee of the Lord is the high-est perfection.
People are generally misled by the spell of the illusory energy of material nature. There are innumerable living entities within the material nature, and only some of them are human beings. According to the vedic literature, there are 8400000 species of life. In the Padma Purana it is said that there are 900000 species of life in the water, 2000000 species of plants, 1100000 species of insects and reptiles 1000000 species of birds, 3000000 species of beats, and only 400000 species of human beings. so the humans are the least numerous species of all.