WAKING FROM THE DREAM
We find this verse in Srimad Bhagavatam:
avismrtih krsna-padaravindayoh
ksinoty abhadrani ca sam tanoti
sattvasya-suddhim paramatma-bhaktim
jnanam ca vijnana-viraga-yuktam
(Srimad Bhagavatam 12.12.55)
(“For one who remembers the lotus feet of
Krishna, all inauspiciousness soon disappears,
and one’s good fortune expands. In
other words, one becomes free from all material
contamination, one attains liberation from
repeated birth and death, and one’s real spiritual
life begins. As one’s heart becomes gradually
purified, one’s devotion for the Lord
within the heart awakens, and one realized
the Paramatma. Thus one gradually develops knowledge (jnana), realization
(vijnana), and renunciation (vairagya).”)
Krishna consciousness, remembrance of the divine feet of Krishna – krsnapadaravindayoh
– will dissipate and destroy the abhadra, what is undesirable,
what is not good in us. That which is nasty, which is impure within us, will be
destroyed by the continuance of Krishna consciousness. In any stage of its
development, even in its lower stage, its slightest, ‘negligent’ connection can
destroy our undesirable connection with the things of lower nature. And, it will
promote goodness within us: sattvasya-suddhim, the substantial character of our
existence, will be improved; our soul-existence, that will be purified. Our standpoint,
our understanding, our aspiration – everything, will be purified. And,
paramatma-bhaktim: we shall attain devotion, attachment to the super-subjective
realm; and our knowledge, our conception about that – jnanam ca – will
improve. And that knowledge – the conception about Him – will develop to
vijnana, a proper conception, and will effect in us viraga-yuktam, apathy to this
mundane world.
At any cost, we are to maintain our Krishna consciousness. The advice is: try to
maintain Krishna consciousness, it is the medicine. And there is no other medicine
which can produce Krishna consciousness, which can cure our disease and
discover Krishna consciousness within us.
avismrtih krsna-padaravindayoh
ksinoty abhadrani ca sam tanoti
sattvasya-suddhim paramatma-bhaktim
jnanam ca vijnana-viraga-yuktam
(Srimad Bhagavatam 12.12.55)
(“For one who remembers the lotus feet of
Krishna, all inauspiciousness soon disappears,
and one’s good fortune expands. In
other words, one becomes free from all material
contamination, one attains liberation from
repeated birth and death, and one’s real spiritual
life begins. As one’s heart becomes gradually
purified, one’s devotion for the Lord
within the heart awakens, and one realized
the Paramatma. Thus one gradually develops knowledge (jnana), realization
(vijnana), and renunciation (vairagya).”)
Krishna consciousness, remembrance of the divine feet of Krishna – krsnapadaravindayoh
– will dissipate and destroy the abhadra, what is undesirable,
what is not good in us. That which is nasty, which is impure within us, will be
destroyed by the continuance of Krishna consciousness. In any stage of its
development, even in its lower stage, its slightest, ‘negligent’ connection can
destroy our undesirable connection with the things of lower nature. And, it will
promote goodness within us: sattvasya-suddhim, the substantial character of our
existence, will be improved; our soul-existence, that will be purified. Our standpoint,
our understanding, our aspiration – everything, will be purified. And,
paramatma-bhaktim: we shall attain devotion, attachment to the super-subjective
realm; and our knowledge, our conception about that – jnanam ca – will
improve. And that knowledge – the conception about Him – will develop to
vijnana, a proper conception, and will effect in us viraga-yuktam, apathy to this
mundane world.
At any cost, we are to maintain our Krishna consciousness. The advice is: try to
maintain Krishna consciousness, it is the medicine. And there is no other medicine
which can produce Krishna consciousness, which can cure our disease and
discover Krishna consciousness within us.
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