You must have complete knowledge, jnanam and vairagya, detachment. Jnana means detachment. If one is attached to the material activities, he is not a jnani, because he is in the bodily concept of life. Therefore he is not jnani. Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke [SB 10.84.13], sa eva go-kharah: “If one is in the bodily concept of life, he is no better than the cows and asses.” This is the verdict of the sastra. So you cannot understand the Absolute Truth on the platform of bodily concept of life. You must get yourself on the transcendental platform, and bhakti is the transcendental platform for the activities of the spirit soul.
brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati samah sarvesu bhutesu mad-bhaktim labhate param [Bg. 18.54]
You can attain bhakti when you are already Brahman realized person, or perfect brahmana. Brahma janatiti brahmanah.
So when you have realized, when you are a brahmana, when you have complete knowledge of Brahman, that is the beginning of bhakti life. Not that by bhakti one comes to the Brahman realization platform. One who has got complete understanding of Brahman, he can make progress to the bhakti platform.
brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati samah sarvesu bhutesu mad-bhaktim labhate param [Bg. 18.54]
After all these qualifications, making oneself brahma-bhuta and prasannatma, no more lamentation, no more hankering, always joyful, jubilant, blissful… This is the symptom for Brahman realization. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati, samah sarvesu bhutesu [Bg. 18.54] Then he can see on equal level to all living entities. Samah sar… Then he can enter mad-bhaktim labhate param.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.11
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Tirupati, April 26, 1974
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HERA PANCAMI RATHA YATRA KI JAI, SRI SVARUPA DAMODARA GOSVAMI SRI SIVANANDA SENA TIROBHAVA MAHOTSAVA KI JAI
In the beginning there was just bhakti, bhakti was with god bhakti is god, SRI NARADA MUNI also explained the path of bhakti nicely in the narada bhakti sutra. Of course bhakti is fully independent like SRI KRSNA IS ABHIJNAH SVARAT, HE IS completely independent because there is not other cause beyond HIM, therefore HE IS conscious directly and indirectly of all the manifestations of the universes. A good sadhaka need to apply all these things in the daily sadhana bhakti yoga until one reaches the platform of brahma nistham because everything is already situated in the param brahman since time immemorial just us are missing and need to be reconnect there again by following the right way to become a real brahmana by keeping meditating on the vani seva of SRILA PRABHUPADA who is a pukka brahma nistham since HIS previous lives.
We also can become free and full of bhakti by keeping using body mind and spirit in the service of SRILA PRABHUPADA, the anarthas prajalpas etc.. are not eternal by fortune like the karma is flickring therefore it is useless to make the bodily concept of life stronger by refusing to serve guru sadhu and sastra. Almost everyone is trapped in the material world in some form created by the own bodily concept of life born from the refusal of serving Krsna through the factor time not engaged in Krsna service. Unless we use all the fraction of a second in the service of SR SRI GURU GAURANGA we get trapped. Of course the spiritual world is free from the influences of the factor time therefore there is not danger of getting trapped but here is not the same i mean we are in the material world here which means time the manifestation of the first element therefore everything is within the factor time and when the time is over everything will be over too by starting a new journey towards the path of pure bhakti which is waiting for us since ages.
It’s true that we got nothing to do with the business of the three gunas but by associating with them we get trapped, but the beginning of bhakti is so powerful by chanting Hare Krsna Maha Mantra regulary that anyone can awake this devotional sentiment hidden within our hearts by becoming greedy to achieve perfection through the brahma nistham platform as our SRILA GURUDEVA is teaching us because HE loves us, it’s not like the dirty business of all the guru hoaxers who are not able even to save themselves from the samsara kala cakro. Bhakti means love also and unless one get this stage one can’t save nobody including himself.
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