Science Of Self Realization, Chapter 8: […] The six Gosvamis were dear not only to the other devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu but to the non-devotees as well. A pure devotee’s position is that he has no enemy because he is not envious.
A pure devotee is always open to everyone, and he does not discriminate that this person can be allowed to chant Hare Krishna and that person should not be allowed. On the material platform, which is a platform of dualism, there are differences between high and low, man and woman, and this or that, but on the spiritual platform there are no such distinctions.
The pure devotee, seeing everything with an equal mind, is therefore non-envious. Because he is non-envious, he is worshipable. Indeed, it may even be said that a person is worshipable simply if he is non-envious, for it is only possible to be non-envious on the spiritual platform. This is also the verdict of the Bhagavad-gita (5.18-19):
vidya-vinaya-sampanne
brahmane gavi hastini
suni caiva svapake ca
panditah sama-darsinah
ihaiva tair jitah sargo
yesam samye sthitam manah
nirdosam hi samam brahma
tasmad brahmani te sthitah
“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater. Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the conditions of birth and death. They are flawless like Brahman, and thus they are already situated in Brahman.”
Such a position can be obtained by one who has acquired the mercy of Lord Caitanya. Upon obtaining His mercy, a person can deliver suffering humanity from material contamination. Because the six Gosvamis were such devotees, we offer our respectful obeisances unto them with the mantra: vande rupa-sanatanau raghu-yugau sri-jiva-gopalakau.
The six Gosvamis were expert in scrutinizingly studying all the scriptures with the aim to establish real religion in the world. They left many books to guide us, the most famous of which is Sri Rupa Gosvami’s Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (The Nectar of Devotion), which gives the neophyte devotee initial direction.
The Gosvamis always worked very hard, day and night, and their business was simply writing books, chanting, and dancing. Indeed, they were practically released from the bodily necessities of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending themselves out of fear. There was no question of mating at all, nor was there any question of fearing or defending, for they were totally absorbed in Krishna.
At most they used to sleep one and a half hours daily, and they ate practically nothing. Whenever they felt hungry, they would simply go to a householder’s home and beg one or two pieces of bread.”
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Pamho, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Thank you prabhus for helping people to understand how far we are compared to these great devotees of the Lord.
Of course we get enlightenment just by hearing about them what to say about to meditate on their wonderful qualities? I myself offer my prayers daily to the six Goswamis because they are yaha bhagavata pada vaisnavera sthane ekanta asraya kara caitanya carane C.C. Antya 5.131.
Srila Prabhupada is a pure devotee of SRIMATI RADHARANI that’s been predicted before HIS birth by yogis and devotees who used to visit the house of HIS father.
Just by meditating on Prabhupada intelligent people can get the vision that we belong to SRI SRI RADHA KRISHNA LILA and we have nothing to do with all these fake lilas sarvopadhi designations of this temporary world.
SRI GAURANGA MAHAPRABHU says in CAITANYA MANGALA: A human birth is rare in this world. To practice devotional service is even more rare. But the rarest, most valuable thing of all, is to get the association of a pure devotee of Lord Sri Krishna.
Therefore everyone must take shelter in Prabhupada to become free from envy and be loved by everyone through Krishna conscious universal friendship.
Prabhupada is in the same family of the six Gosvamis of Vrindavana and such a great MAHA BHAGAVATA devotee like Prabhupada is really worshipable – HE will stay on our altars for the next 9500 years.
The six Goswamis never fell down because they are not self-made acharyas who even today make blind people like me to see mukham karoti vacalam pangum langhayate girim yat kripa tam aham vande sri guru dina tarine paramananda he madhava sri caitanya isvaram.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the giver of this mercy that turns the dumb into eloquent speakers.
Prabhupada enables the lame to cross mountains therefore eternally I offer my obeisances to such a great devotee of SRIMATI RADHARANI. Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!
Hari bol!
ys seva das