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Sambandha, abhidheya, prayojana
- the topics for today
Sambandha jnana means
collecting trancendental knowledge.
Sanatana Goswami
when he met Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,
as we heard,
his question was - ke ami?
Who am I?
Who is God?
What is this material world?
What is the transcendental world?
What is Vaikuntha?
Why I am here?
Where I am going?
Where I am coming from?
This is ...
called sambandha jnana.
We have to study, we have to hear
from the authorised spiritual master
and the authorised Vaisnavas
and sastras
in the line of the Six Goswamis,
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Sambandha jnana we have to understand first.
We have to come to the conclusion
that we are not ...
members of this material world,
mundane world.
We are coming from the ...
transcendental plane.
So we have to give up ...
the vision of being the enjoyer
of this world.
We have to come to the conclusion
through studying,
through the chanting of the Holy Name,
through surrender
to the spiritual master,
our Lord.
We have to come to the conclusion that we are ...
transcendental personalities,
that we are soul.
Otherwise we cannot attain the platform of abhidheya.
With material,
mundane understanding
we cannot perform
transcendental service
to the Supreme Lord.
We have to pass the test,
we have to go
to study,
to practice
perform sadhana
under the guidance
of the spiritual master.
And ...
by the mercy
and sincerity.
By the sincerity of the disciple
and by the mercy
of the Lord
and the Vaishnava
and Guru
we may realize:
“I am not ...
member of this mundane world“.
It is not in your power,
it is not in your power
to attain the platform of transcendence.
It is only by the sweet will of guru
and Krishna
that we can understand
that we are eternally
As we heard many times today.
That we are spiritual souls
and that we are servants of the Supreme Lord, eternally.
This ...
understanding we cannot attain
by studying millions and millons of books.
We cannot pay it,
nor through austerities we can attain it.
It is only by the mercy of the guru
and Krishna
and Vaishnava.
When we have understood
that we are spirit soul,
that only
in our transcendental form
we can serve the Supreme Lord,
then abhidheya is attained.
We are going to serve the Supreme Lord.
And as the acarya say
and the sastra say
prayojana
automatically will come.
Prayojana
is something
we need the absolute mercy
of the Supreme and guru.
Nobody can attain
loving service
and this divine relationship
to the Supreme
out of his own strenght.
Only by the mercy
of those who are living there,
who are coming from there
we can attain the mercy
to know
what is devotion,
what is love of Krishna.
What is saranagati,
what is devotion?
Krishna is the enjoyer of everything,
is the supreme enjoyer.
He is enjoyer of the spiritual world
and He is the enjoyer also of this material world.
So what qualification we have to have
that we can satisfy Krishna, Supreme Lord?
What is our qualification?
What?
Some of us are losers,
some of us are winners,
some are foolish,
some are intelligent,
some play the role
of normal living entities,
some of animals
- whatever,
but everything is meant for Krishna's enjoyment.
If you want to attain the association
transcendental association of the Supreme Lord to satisfy Him,
you have to become a player of Krishna's lila,
of Krishna's pastime.
If Krishna wants me to be a fool,
to play a fool,
when Krishna is happy to play my position in this world,
then I am a winner,
I am a member of Krishna's family.
Then I have attained prayojana.
And I am member of this.
If I cannot tolerate my position in this world
where Krishna puts me
then I am
not able to understand
His transcendental pastimes.
So these Sambandha, Abhidheya, Prayojana
we have to understand
that at every moment
Krishna is everywhere,
whatever you see
whatever you can see
everything
is Krishna.
So you cannot escape,
you cannot stand outside,
you cannot run away.
So surrender means you agree:
“Yes, my Lord,
whatever position You put me,
I am ready
to surrender.“
Either we play the winner or the looser.
It doesn't matter.
If Krishna is happy,
then we will attain
supreme happiness, ecstasy.
We will be member of Krishna.
We will be qualified
to enter His eternal pastimes.
This is the qualification
saranagati
surrender.
Prayojana means
we have to become
members of Krishna's family.
And we have to give up
the tendency of exploiting,
the tendency
of austerity.
We have to become
dedicated to the Supreme Lord.
So exploiting tendency means
we are actually
coming like demons.
We are using
the facilities
Krishna created for His pleasure
for our enjoyment.
This means the sinful activities.
And if you want to become
renunciate,
then you want everything to become null
want to finish everything.
So we have to dedicate our life
to the Supreme for His pleasure.
This will be our aim,
our target is there.
This we have to attain
under the guidance
of our spiritual master.
He may bless us.
If we get
one drop of mercy
so that we can realize
that we are eternally Krishna's servant.
We will meet there our spiritual master
and all the great souls who are already there.
Vanca kalpa tarubhyas ca, krpa sindhubhya eva ca, patitanam pavanebhyo, vaisnavebhyo namo namah