Opportunity to touch the Body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead

From the Eighth Canto, Fourth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Gajendra Returns to the Spiritual World.” Text 6

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Śukadeva Gosvāmī says:

“Because Gajendra, King of the elephants, had been touched directly by the hands of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he was immediately freed of all material ignorance and bondage. Thus he received the salvation of sārūpya-mukti, in which he achieved the same bodily features as the Lord, being dressed in yellow garments and possessing four hands.”

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If one is favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead by having his gross body touched by the Lord, his body turns into a spiritual body, and he can go back home, back to Godhead. Gajendra assumed a spiritual body when his body was touched by the Lord. Similarly, Dhruva Mahārāja assumed his spiritual body in this way. Arcanā-paddhati,daily worship of the Deity, provides an opportunity to touch the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus it enables one to be fortunate enough to get a spiritual body and go back to Godhead. Not only by touching the body of the Supreme Lord, but simply by hearing about His pastimes, chanting His glories, touching His feet and offering worship—in other words, by serving the Lord somehow or other—one is purified of material contamination. This is the result of touching the Supreme Lord.

One who is a pure devotee (anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu]

anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ
jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam
ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-
śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā

“One should render transcendental loving service to the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa favorably and without desire for material profit or gain through fruitive activities or philosophical speculation. That is called pure devotional service.” Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.1.111.1.11])”

who acts according to the śāstra and the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, certainly becomes purified. Like Gajendra, he assumes a spiritual body and returns home, back to Godhead.

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  1. Pamho agtacbsp, lava matra sadhu sange sarva sastra haya cc madhya 22.54 the touch of the association with a pure devotee as HDG ACBSP is delivering all the kalo sudra sambhavan society to SRI KRSNA BHAGAVAT BUT IT IS FOR THE SINCERE SADHAKA FOLLOWERS OF THE SANATANA DHARMA BECAUSE MANY CITIZENS OF THIS ROTTEN AND DEFORMED SOCIETY OF UNCIVILISED KALI CHELA DIDN’T GET ANY ENLIGHTENMENT ,GANJENDRA DHRUVA BEEN VERY LUCKY TO BE TOUCH BY THE HAND OF KRSNA THAT IS OUR SPIRITUAL DREAM AND IT WILL BECOME TRUE BY FOLLOWING SRILA PRABHUPADA INSTRUCTIONS WE ARE ALWAYS IN TOUCH WITH SSGG BUT IT TAKE TIME TO BECOME CONSCIOUS OF SSGG, ANYWAY AT LEAST WE DONT WASTE TIME LIKE THEY DO IN F-ISKCON,AGTACBSP YS HARIBOL

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