Who Are the Pure Devotees?
Pure devotee starts from a madhyama. Madhyama is a pure devotee. We will say ‘pure devotee’ and then put it way off in the distance. No, pure devotional service can be performed from niṣṭhā.
Pure devotee starts from a madhyama. Madhyama is a pure devotee. We will say ‘pure devotee’ and then put it way off in the distance. No, pure devotional service can be performed from niṣṭhā.
http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year1/bg101/2011-03-29-BVPS-BG-18.66-67-Manifestations-of-forms-of-activities.mp3 This course is part of Sastra-Caksus, Year 1 and consists of 91 lectures, available on: http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/classes/bhagavad-gita-seriatim/ Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur, September 2010-April 2011 The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents. Things are only forms to achieve particular qualities. We may be perplexed – how to give up this form? – […]
There is higher levels of dealing with Kṛṣṇa than bothering with material facility, or anxieties or other thing, but if you don’t go to Him, where are you going to go? Then where is the Kṛṣṇa consciousness? So it seems, “Oh, yeah, no, it’s Māyā, so I won’t go to Kṛṣṇa for this.” Great. But then where are you going to go? Depend upon yourself? Then you are the lord? You are the doer? You are the cause?