Saddhana Bhakti
CC Madhya 22.104: "My dear Sanātana, please now hear about the regulative principles for the execution of devotional service. By this process, one can attain the highest perfection of love of Godhead, which is the most desirable treasure.
CC Madhya 22.105: "'When transcendental devotional service, by which love for Krsna is attained, is executed by the senses, it is called sādhana-bhakti, or the regulative discharge of devotional service. Such devotion eternally exists within the heart of every living entity. The awakening of this eternal devotion is the potentiality of devotional service in practice.'
CC Madhya 22.106: "The spiritual activities of hearing, chanting, remembering and so forth are the natural characteristics of devotional service. The marginal characteristic is that it awakens pure love for Krsna.
CC Madhya 22.107: "Pure love for Krsna is eternally established in the hearts of the living entities. It is not something to be gained from another source. When the heart is purified by hearing and chanting, this love naturally awakens.
CC Madhya 22.108: "There are two processes of practical devotional service. One is regulative devotional service, and the other is spontaneous devotional service
CC Madhya 22.131: "'One should taste the meaning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the association of pure devotees, and one should associate with the devotees who are more advanced than oneself and who are endowed with a similar type of affection for the Lord.
Raganuga Bhakti
CC Madhya 22.152: "Thus devotional service which consists of rāga [deep attachment] is called rāgātmikā, spontaneous loving service. If a devotee covets such a position, he is considered to be most fortunate.
CC Madhya 22.153: "If one follows in the footsteps of the inhabitants of Vrndāvana out of such transcendental covetousness, he does not care for the injunctions or reasonings of śāstra. That is the way of spontaneous love.
Purport
.....An advanced devotee situated on the platform of spontaneity is already very expert in śāstric instruction, logic and argument........
CC Madhya 22.154: "'Devotional service in spontaneous love is vividly expressed and manifested by the inhabitants of Vrndāvana. Devotional service that accords with their devotional service is called rāgānugā bhakti, or devotional service following in the wake of spontaneous loving service.'
CC Madhya 22.155: "'When an advanced, realized devotee hears about the affairs of the devotees of Vrndāvana — in the mellows of śānta, dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya and mādhurya — he becomes inclined in one of these ways, and his intelligence becomes attracted. Indeed, he begins to covet that particular type of devotion. When such covetousness is awakened, one's intelligence no longer depends on the instructions of śāstra [revealed scripture] or on logic and argument.'
CC Madhya 22.156-157: "There are two processes by which one may execute this rāgānugā bhakti — external and internal. When self-realized, the advanced devotee externally remains like a neophyte and executes all the śāstric injunctions, especially those concerning hearing and chanting. But within his mind, in his original, purified, self-realized position, he serves Krsna in Vrndāvana in his particular way. He serves Krsna twenty-four hours a day, all day and night.
Pode existir algo mais maravilhoso do que vibrar o Maha Mantra Hare Krsna, do que absorver-se nos passatempos de Sri Krsna, na filosofia da Consciência de Krsna como foi explicada pelo próprio Senhor Krsna no Bhagavad Gita e sobre o Senhor Krsna no Srimad Bhagavatam?
Sri Krsna e tudo relacionado com Ele é Sat Cit Ananda Vigraha, pleno de eternidade, pleno de conhecimento e pleno de bem-aventurança.
Quanto néctar existe no Maha Mantra Hare Krsna, quanto néctar existe nos passatempos de Sri Krsna, quanto néctar existe na filosofia da Consciência de Krsna.
O Maha Mantra Hare Krsna é pleno de eternidade, pleno de conhecimento e pleno de bem-aventurança.
Os passatempos de Sri Krsna são plenos de eternidade, plenos de conhecimento e plenos de bem-aventurança.
A filosofia da Consciência de Krsna é plena de eternidade, plena de conhecimento e plena de bem-aventurança.
Vosso servo
Prahladesh Dasa
