SB 4.22.25: The devotee should gradually increase the culture of devotional service by constant hearing of the transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. These pastimes are like ornamental decorations on the ears of devotees. By rendering devotional service and transcending the material qualities, one can easily be fixed in transcendence in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT BY SRILA PRABHUPADA
This verse is especially mentioned to substantiate the devotional process of hearing the subject matter. A devotee does not like to hear anything other than subjects dealing with spiritual activities, or the pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We can increase our propensity for devotional service by hearing Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam from realized souls.
The more we hear from realized souls, the more we make advancement in our devotional life. The more we advance in devotional life, the more we become detached from the material world. The more we become detached from the material world, as advised by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the more we increase in attachment for the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Therefore, a devotee who actually wants to make progress in devotional service and go back home, back to Godhead, must lose interest in sense enjoyment and associating with persons who are after money and sense gratification. This is the advice of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu:
niskincanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya
param param jigamisor bhava-sagarasya
sandarsanam visayinam atha yositam ca
ha hanta hanta visa-bhaksanato ’py asadhu(Cc. Madhya 11.8)
The word brahmani used in this verse is commented upon by the impersonalists or professional reciters of Bhagavatam, who are mainly advocates of the caste system by demoniac birthright. They say that brahmani means the impersonal Brahman. But they cannot conclude this with reference to the context of the words bhaktya and gunabhidhanena.
According to the impersonalists, there are no transcendental qualities in the impersonal Brahman; therefore we should understand that brahmani means “in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as admitted by Arjuna in Bhagavad-gita; therefore wherever the word brahma is used, it must refer to Krishna, not to the impersonal Brahman effulgence. Brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate (Bhag. 1.2.11).
Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan can all be taken in total as Brahman, but when there is reference to the word bhakti or remembrance of the transcendental qualities, this indicates the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not the impersonal Brahman. Full Chapter
pamho agtACBSP,
anyone should get the desire to become a liberated soul by listen from mukta purusa that’s the real way but we don’t need to be liberated souls to distribute sastra to everyone after all liberate or not liberated everyone is just a tool in the divine hands of the supreme personality of godhead,
of course to serve HIM from a liberated platform is better but we never given up the way which can make us free by serving a liberated soul through the BRHAT MRDANGA and comments on the instruction of a liberated soul because anyone can become a liberated soul by serving the instructions of a pure devotee through differents spiritual activities,the sweet is sweet by all the parts of the sweet in the same way the divine service is sweet it doesn’t matter from which side we do it the taste and the quality is the same,
actually whoever serve SRI SRI GURU&GAURANGA is already a liberated soul it’s just a question of time everything is stored in that not ordinary and transcendental body of SRI ASAMAURDVAM including our way back home by keeping serving a mukta purusa, to be a liberated soul means also to realize the sat cit ananda vigraha the eternal svarupa form full of bliss and knowledge through a costant and unmotivated service to make a sadhana bhakta fully satisfied yeyatma suprasidati,
the deva also want to take birth in the pious planet called bhumi-loka the planet earth because from here is more easy to get the real mukti in raga bhakti platform,here everything is polluted therefore is more difficulty to enjoy life while in the heaven there is plenty of senses gratification and it’s more difficulty to get bhakti or mukti we should realize sat first our eternal nature to avoid to get more trapped through the bad of the past and the good of the future i mean to become a tri kala jna one must be free from the dualities of the material world to realize sat the power of the eternity situated beyond the factor time which already destroyed so many great civilizations,
a liberated soul is a tri kala jna as HDG ACBSP one must be situated beyond the factor time otherwise how can he see the past present and the future?one must be free also from the bodily concept of life because the factor time act only on physical matter and not spiritually i mean the soul is timeless that’s why is called eternal the nectar of immortality exist is not fantasy but is in the paravyoma spiritual sky and a mukta purusa is a resident of the spiritual sky he don’t care about the fake mirage of immortality of the material world and he don’t suffer to see his last karma to be paid in the material world because he see that like someone who is contemplating a film during the dream,
a acharya sakti avesa avatara in power directily by SRI KRSNA is more advanced then a liberated soul and the demigods,actually a acharya is the sum total of all the demigods and is the perfection to achive for all the saguna forms actually a acharya is compare to the external paramatma who drive the sincere devotees through bhakti paresanu bhavo viraktir anyatra ca the pure attachment for krsna in bhakti with all the enemies destroyed
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Pamho agtacbsp first of all the DIVINE SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM is not for the smarta brahmana who exploit the SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM materially neither for false guru and false disciple i mean i never got cheated by the guru hoax my first and second initiation is from HDG ACBSP and I say thank you to SRI SYAMASUNDARAM to connect me with a pure devotee as SRILA PRABHUPADA because as we can see many people get cheated by the guru hoax,so this SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM is not for cheaters neither for so called rotten astrologers of kali yuga because is dharmah projjhita kaitavo tra paramo nirmatsaranam satam SB 1.1.2. Is free from cheating therefore is not for envious people. This SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM is for sincere devotees who are free from cheating because as we know that’s the nature of the material world by giving fake things for real the guru hoax is the perfect example of this cheating they are worse then smarta brahmana anyway agtacbsp ys haribol