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Topmost yoga system is bhagavad-bhakti, and bhagavad-bhakti-yoga begins, ādau gurv-āśrayaḥ. First of all surrender to guru.
tad viddhi praṇipātenaparipraśnena sevayā (BG 4.34)
The official initiation has no meaning. Unless one who has fully surrendered to guru, there is no question of initiation. Divya jñāna hṛde prokāśito. Divya-jñāna means “Transcendental knowledge.” So to play tricks with guru, to become diplomat and intriguer, these rascaldom will not help bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. You can get some other things, some material profit, but spiritual life will be spoiled.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for spiritual enlightenment, not for how to get money, how to earn money. This is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches:
na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁkavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye(CC Antya 20.29, Śikṣāṣṭaka 4)
Na dhanaṁ. The materialists, they, what they want? They want money. They want many followers and many subordinates, or nice, beautiful wife. This is materialist. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu refuses. Na dhanaṁ: “No, no. I don’t want money.” This is teaching. Na dhanaṁna na janaṁ: “I don’t want to rule over somebody.” No. Na . . . na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ kavitāṁ—a poetic imagination of nice, beautiful wife. “These things I do not want.” What is? Then, bhagavad-bhakti-yoga:
mama janmani janmanīśvarebhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi(CC Antya 20.29, Śikṣāṣṭaka 4)
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Srila Prabhupada says – So to play tricks with guru, to become diplomat
and intriguer, these rascaldom will not help bhagavad-bhakti-yoga.
tad viddhi praṇipātenaparipraśnena sevayā (BG 4.34)
The official initiation has no meaning. Unless one who has fully surrendered to guru, there is no question of initiation. Divya jñāna hṛde prokāśito. Divya-jñāna means “Transcendental knowledge.” So to play tricks with guru, to become diplomat and intriguer, these rascaldom will not help bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. You can get some other things, some material profit, but spiritual life will be spoiled.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for spiritual enlightenment, not for how to get money, how to earn money. This is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches:
na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁkavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye(CC Antya 20.29, Śikṣāṣṭaka 4)
Na dhanaṁ. The materialists, they, what they want? They want money. They want many followers and many subordinates, or nice, beautiful wife. This is materialist. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu refuses. Na dhanaṁ: “No, no. I don’t want money.” This is teaching. Na dhanaṁna na janaṁ: “I don’t want to rule over somebody.” No. Na . . . na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ kavitāṁ—a poetic imagination of nice, beautiful wife. “These things I do not want.” What is? Then, bhagavad-bhakti-yoga:
mama janmani janmanīśvarebhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi(CC Antya 20.29, Śikṣāṣṭaka 4)
[Srila Prabhupada Lecture on SB 1.2.20,New York – July 24, 1974]
Key points:
- Topmost yoga system is bhagavad-bhakti, and bhagavad-bhakti-yoga begins, ādau gurv-āśrayaḥ.
- First of all surrender to guru.
- tad viddhi praṇipātenaparipraśnena sevayā(BG 4.34)
- The official initiation has no meaning. Unless one who has fully surrendered to guru, there is no question of initiation.
- So to play tricks with guru, to become diplomat and intriguer, these rascaldom will not help bhagavad-bhakti-yoga.
- You can get some other things, some material profit, but spiritual life will be spoiled.
- So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for spiritual enlightenment, not for how to get money, how to earn money.
- This is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches:
- na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁkavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye(CC Antya 20.29, Śikṣāṣṭaka 4)
- The materialists, they, what they want? They want money. They want many followers and many subordinates, or nice, beautiful wife. This is materialist. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu refuses. Na dhanaṁ: “No, no. I don’t want money.” This is teaching. Na dhanaṁna na janaṁ: “I don’t want to rule over somebody.”
- This is teaching. Na dhanaṁna na janaṁ: “I don’t want to rule over somebody.” No. Na . . . na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ kavitāṁ—a poetic imagination of nice, beautiful wife.