Realisations by the mercy of Vaishnavas
A lecture by Srila Gour Govind Swami Maharaj revealed to me the following truths:
1. The mind is the cause of liberation and bondage
2. The mind is awake and the soul is asleep
3. The mind is what links us to this material world
4. The soul is never trapped or bound, but it chooses to remain with the awareness of the material mind - this is the only binding factor.
5. Chanting the Mahamantra is the way to disconnect from the chaotic mind
6. Once you disconnect completely from the mind, you are free!
7. Janma karma cha me divyam - evam yo vetti tattvatah
One who knows the tattva, the science of how to descend to the material plane without becoming affected by it - is the one who never comes back to material life.
It can only be revealed by Krishna, how this is possible. Padma patram ivambhasa.
8. Jiva Krishna Das ei vishwas, korbe tohar dukha naash
The full conviction that every living entity is a servant of Krishna and is controlled by Him is the key to destruction of all miseries
9. The stupid mind is always saying enjoy - enjoy the material senses - ramanito, sleep, eat, have sex. That's all. But this perverted rasa is not to be accepted as a giver of happiness. Krishna is the embodiment of all rasas. When you engage in your eternal rasa with Him, you can be happy, otherwise not. The mind has us completely convinced that we are very happy here and are enjoying to the fullest even when old age, death and disease are causing so much anxiety. Believe the mind and stay in illusion - Maya, the matrix. Lots of people are so scared of the truth that they will gladly accept falsity and reject the truth under the banner of escapism. Cowardly persons who do not want to hear the truth can remain in Maya, in illusion, for as long as they please. One must avoid such hypocrites who support untruth.
10. Chant, train the mind, bring it under your control, and you'll be out of illusion.
But Krishna is known to elude even great sages - so never consider yourself above illusion, we are very much inclined towards being eluded.
11. Give up treating others as separate entities - see how we are all part of one person. Its like you're a finger and someone else is the neck. Now you both are part of the same body - obviously your goals, aims and interests are exactly the same. So where is the question of conflict? Or treating others differently than you would treat your own self?
Give up this enviousness of other living entities and see them as a part of your own Self.
1. The mind is the cause of liberation and bondage
2. The mind is awake and the soul is asleep
3. The mind is what links us to this material world
4. The soul is never trapped or bound, but it chooses to remain with the awareness of the material mind - this is the only binding factor.
5. Chanting the Mahamantra is the way to disconnect from the chaotic mind
6. Once you disconnect completely from the mind, you are free!
7. Janma karma cha me divyam - evam yo vetti tattvatah
One who knows the tattva, the science of how to descend to the material plane without becoming affected by it - is the one who never comes back to material life.
It can only be revealed by Krishna, how this is possible. Padma patram ivambhasa.
8. Jiva Krishna Das ei vishwas, korbe tohar dukha naash
The full conviction that every living entity is a servant of Krishna and is controlled by Him is the key to destruction of all miseries
9. The stupid mind is always saying enjoy - enjoy the material senses - ramanito, sleep, eat, have sex. That's all. But this perverted rasa is not to be accepted as a giver of happiness. Krishna is the embodiment of all rasas. When you engage in your eternal rasa with Him, you can be happy, otherwise not. The mind has us completely convinced that we are very happy here and are enjoying to the fullest even when old age, death and disease are causing so much anxiety. Believe the mind and stay in illusion - Maya, the matrix. Lots of people are so scared of the truth that they will gladly accept falsity and reject the truth under the banner of escapism. Cowardly persons who do not want to hear the truth can remain in Maya, in illusion, for as long as they please. One must avoid such hypocrites who support untruth.
10. Chant, train the mind, bring it under your control, and you'll be out of illusion.
But Krishna is known to elude even great sages - so never consider yourself above illusion, we are very much inclined towards being eluded.
11. Give up treating others as separate entities - see how we are all part of one person. Its like you're a finger and someone else is the neck. Now you both are part of the same body - obviously your goals, aims and interests are exactly the same. So where is the question of conflict? Or treating others differently than you would treat your own self?
Give up this enviousness of other living entities and see them as a part of your own Self.
posted by Lotus at 11/09/2008 05:40:00 AM
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