The Mystic Power of Narada Muni

Çré Kamada Ekadäsé Issue no:109 16th April 2019 The Mystic Power Of Narada Muni

The Mystic Power Of Narada Muni Incompatible saìga Srila Sukadeva Goswami Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Past Life Of Chitraketus Son Is The Living Entity The Puruña ? His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The Clutches Of Maya Srila Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami Circulaton 28, 680 Issue no 108, Page — 2 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä The Mystic Power Of Narada Muni transferred to the possession of other Srila Sukadeva Goswami human being. As soon as the animal goes away, the former proprietor no longer Sri Sukadeva Goswami said: My dear has a sense of ownership. As long as the King Pariksit, the great sage Narada, by animal is in his possession he certainly his mystic power, brought the dead son has an affinity for it, but as soon as the before all the lamenting relatives and animal is sold, that affinity is lost. addressed him as follows.O living entity, Even though one living entity becomes all good fortune unto you. Just see your connected with another because of a father and mother. All your friends and relationship based on the perishable relatives are overwhelmed with grief body, the living entity himself is eternal. because of your passing away. You have Factually speaking, it is the body that is died untimely, and thus the balance of your born or lost, not the living entity. One lifetime remains. Therefore you may re- should not accept that the living entity enter your body and enjoy the remainder takes birth or dies. The living being of your life, surrounded by your friends actually has no real relationship with his and relatives. Accept the royal throne and so-called fathers and mothers. As long as all the opulence given by your father. he appears as the son of a certain father By the mystic power of Narada Muni, and mother because of his past fruitive the living entity re-entered his dead body activities, he has a connection with the for a short time and spoke in response to body given by that father and mother. Narada Muni’s request. He said: According Thus he falsely accepts himself as their to the results of my fruitive activities, I, the son and acts affectionately. After he dies, living being, transmigrate from one body however, the relationship is finished. to another, sometimes going to the species Under these circumstances, one should of the demigods, sometimes to the species not be foolishly obsessed with jubilation of lower animals, sometimes among the and lamentation. vegetables, and sometimes to the human The living entity is eternal and species. Therefore, in which birth were imperishable because in truth he has no these my mother and father? No one is beginning and no end. He never takes actually my mother and father. How can I birth or dies. He is the basic principle of all accept these two people here as my sole types of bodies, yet he does not belong to parents? the bodily category. The living being is so In this material world, which moves sublime that he is one in quality with the like a river whose currents carry away the Supreme Lord. Nonetheless, because he living entities, people become friends, is extremely small, he is prone to be put relatives and enemies in due course of into illusion by the external energy, and time. They also act neutrally, they mediate, thus he creates various bodies for himself they despise one another, and they act in according to his different desires. For this many other relationships. Nonetheless, living entity, no one is dear, nor is anyone despite these various transactions, no actually unfavourable. He makes no one is actually permanently related. distinction between that which is his own Just as gold and other commodities are and that which belongs to anyone else. He continually transferred from one place to is one without a second; in other words, another in due course of purchase and he is not affected by friends and enemies, sale, so the living entity, as a result of his well-wishers or mischief-mongers. He is fruitive activities, wanders throughout only an observer, a witness, of the different the entire universe, being injected into qualities exhibited by men. various bodies in different species of life The Supreme Lord, the creator of cause by one kind of father after another. A few and effect, does not accept the happiness living entities are born in the human form, and distress that result from fruitive and others are born as animals. Although actions. He is completely independent both are living entities, their relationships of having to accept a material body, and are impermanent. An animal may remain because He has no material body, He is in the custody of a human being for some always neutral. The living entities, being time, and then the same animal may be part and parcel of the Lord, possess His

Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.ibmedu.org nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 108, Page—3 qualities in a minute quantity. Therefore therefore the reservoir of all knowledge. one should not be affected by lamentation. I offer my respectful obeisance unto You. Sri Sukadeva Goswami continued: When Revelling in Your own spiritual bliss, You the conditioned soul [jiva] in the form of are always transcendental to the waves of Maharaja Chitraketu’s son had spoken in material nature. Therefore, my Lord, this way and then left, Chitraketu and the I offer my respectful obeisance unto You. other relatives of the dead son were all Youe Lordship is the supreme controller astonished. Thus their shackles of false of the senses, and Your expansions of affection for the dead boy were cut. In this form are unlimited. You are the greatest, way, they gave up their lamentation. After and therefore I offer my respectful the relatives had discharged their duties by obeisance unto You. The words and mind performing the proper funeral ceremonies of the conditioned soul cannot approach and burning the dead child’s body, they the Supreme Personality of Godhead, gave up the affection that leads to illusion, for material names and forms are not lamentation, fear and pain. Such affection applicable to Him, who is entirely spiritual, is undoubtedly difficult to give up, but they beyond the conception of gross and subtle gave it up very easily. forms. The impersonal Brahman is another Queen Krtyadyuti’s co-wives, who had of His forms. May He, by His pleasure, poisoned the child, were very ashamed of protect all of us. their action, and they lost all bodily lustre. As pots made entirely of earth are While lamenting, O King, they remembered situated on earth after being created and the instructions of Angira and gave up their are later transformed into earth again when ambition to bear children. Following the directions of the brähmaëas, they went broken, this cosmic manifestation is caused to the bank of the Yamuna, where they by the Supreme Brahman, situated in the bathed and atoned for their sinful activities. Supreme Brahman, and later annihilated King Chitraketu, thus enlightened by the and merges with the same Supreme instructions of the brähmaëas Angira and Brahman. Therefore, since the Supreme Narada, became fully awake in spiritual Lord is the cause of Brahman, let us offer knowledge. As an elephant becomes free Him our respectful obeisance. from a muddy reservoir of water, King The Supreme Brahman emanates from Chitraketu came out of the dark well of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and family life. The King bathed in the water of expands like the sky. Although untouched the Yamuna, and according to prescribed by anything material, it exists within duties, he offered oblations of water to the and without. Nonetheless, the mind, forefathers and demigods. Very gravely intelligence, senses and living force can controlling his senses and mind, he then neither touch Him nor know Him. I offer offered his respects and obeisance to the unto Him my respectful obeisance. As iron sons of Lord Brahma [Angira and Narada]. has the power to burn when made red- Thereafter, being very much pleased with hot by the association of fire, so the body, Chitraketu, who was a self-controlled senses, living force, mind and intelligence, devotee and surrendered soul, Narada, although merely lumps of matter, can the most powerful sage, spoke to him the function when infused with a particle of following transcendental instructions. consciousness by the Supreme Personality [Narada gave Chitraketu the following of Godhead. As iron cannot burn unless mantra.] O Lord, O Supreme Personality of heated by fire, the bodily senses cannot act Godhead, who are addressed by the syllable unless favoured by the Supreme Brahman. oàkära (praëava), I offer my respectful O transcendental Lord, who are situated obeisance unto You. O Lord Vasudeva, I in the topmost planet of the spiritual world, meditate upon You. O Lord Pradyumna, Your two lotus feet are always massaged by Lord Aniruddha and Lord Sankarsana, a multitude of the best devotees with their I offer You my respectful obeisance. O lotus-bud like hands. You are the Supreme reservoir of spiritual potency, O supreme Personality of Godhead, complete with bliss, I offer my respectful obeisance unto all six plenitudes. You are the supreme You, who are self-sufficient and perfectly person mentioned in the Puruña-sükta peaceful. O ultimate truth, one without prayers. You are the most perfect, self- a second, You are realized as Brahman, realized master of all mystic power. Let me Paramatma and Bhagavan and are offer my respectful obeisance unto You. www.ibmedu.org Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya Issue no 108, Page — 4 Top left 4 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Sri Sukadeva Goswami continued: saàhitä and the Närada-païcarätra Narada, having become the spiritual and who is the spiritual master of all. He master of Chitraketu, instructed him all offered his prayers as follows. about this prayer because Chitraketu was Chitraketu said: O unconquerable Lord, fully surrendered. O King Pariksit, Narada although You cannot be conquered by then left with the great sage Angira for the anyone, You are certainly conquered by topmost planet, known as Brahmaloka. Your devotees who have control of their Fasting and drinking only water, Chitraketu mind and senses. They can keep You under chanted with great care and attention the their control because You are causelessly mantra given by Narada Muni for one merciful to pure devotees who desire no week continuously. O King Pariksit, after material gain from You. Indeed, You give only one week of repeatedly practicing the Yourself to them, and yet You also have mantra received from his spiritual master, full control over Your devotees. My dear Chitraketu achieved the position as ruler Lord, this cosmic manifestation and its of the planet of the Vidyadharas as a by- creation, maintenance and annihilation product of his spiritual advancement and are all but a manifestation of Your personal acquired knowledge. Thereafter, by the opulence. Since Lord Brahma and the influence of the mantra that Chitraketu other creators are nothing but small was chanting, within a very few days his portions of a portion of You, their partial mind became increasingly enlightened in power to create does not make them spiritual progress, and he attained shelter God. Their consciousness of themselves at the lotus feet of Sri Anantadeva. as separate Lords is therefore merely false Upon reaching the shelter of Lord Sesha, prestige. It is not a valid understanding. the Supreme Personality of Godhead, You exist in the beginning, middle and Chitraketu saw that He was as white as end of everything, from the most minute the white fibres of a lotus flower. He was particle of the cosmic manifestation - the dressed in bluish garments and adorned atom - to the gigantic universes and total with a brilliantly glittering helmet, and material energy. Nonetheless, You are was adorned with armlets, a waist belt eternal, having no beginning, middle or and bangles. His face was smiling, and His end. Yet You are perceived to exist in these eyes were reddish. He was surrounded by three phases, and thus You are known as such exalted liberated persons as Sanat- eternal and permanent. When the cosmic kumara. As soon as Maharaja Chitraketu manifestation does not exist, You exist as saw the Supreme Lord, he was cleansed the original unmanifest potency. Every of all material contamination and situated universe is covered by seven layers earth, in his original Krishna consciousness, water, fire, air, sky, the total energy and due to being completely purified. He false ego, each ten times greater than the became silent and grave, and because of previous one. There are innumerable experiencing love for the Lord, tears fell universes besides this one, and although from his eyes, and his hairs stood on end. they are unimaginably large, they move With great devotion and love, he offered about like atoms in You. Therefore You his respectful obeisance unto the original are called unlimited [ananta]. Personality of Godhead. O Lord, O Supreme, unintelligent With tears of love and affection, persons who thirst for sense enjoyment Chitraketu repeatedly moistened the and who worship various demigods are resting place of the Supreme Lord’s lotus no better than animals in the human feet. Because his voice was choked in form of life. Because of their animalistic ecstasy, for a considerable time he was propensities, they fail to worship Your unable to utter any sound to offer the Lordship, and instead they worship the Lord suitable prayers. Thereafter, by insignificant demigods, who are but small controlling his mind with his intelligence sparks of Your glory. With the destruction and thus restricting his senses from of the entire universe, including the demi- external engagements, he recovered gods, the benedictions received from the and spoke suitable words to express demigods also vanish, just like the nobility his feelings. Maharaja Chitraketu began when a king is no longer in power. O offering prayers to the Lord, who is the Supreme Lord, if persons obsessed with personification of the holy scriptures material desires for sense gratification [the Sätvata-saàhitäs like the Brahma- through material opulence worship You, Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.ibmedu.org nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 108, Page—5 who are the source of all knowledge and the holy name of Your Lordship one time, are transcendental to material qualities, even caëòälas, men of the lowest class, they are not subject to material re-birth, just are freed from all material contamination. as sterilized or fried seeds do not produce Under the circumstances, who will not plants. Living entities are subjected to be freed from material contamination by the repetition of birth and death because directly seeing You? Therefore, my dear they are conditioned by material nature, Lord, my simply seeing You now has but since You are transcendental, one wiped away all the contamination of my who is inclined to associate with You in sinful activities and their results in the form transcendence escapes the conditions of of material attachment and wanton material material nature. desires, which formerly always filled my O unconquerable one, when You spoke mind and the core of my heart. Whatever about bhägavata-dharma, which is the is predicted by the great sage Narada Muni uncontaminated religious system for cannot be otherwise. In other words, I achieving the shelter of Your lotus feet, have obtained Your audience as a result of that was Your victory. Persons who have being trained and blessed by Narada Muni. no material desires, like the Kumaras, who O unlimited Supreme Personality of are self-satisfied sages, worship You to be Godhead, whatever a living entity does in liberated from material contamination. In this material world is well known to You other words, they accept the process of because You are the Supersoul. In the bhägavata-dharma to achieve shelter at presence of the sun there is nothing to Your lotus feet. Being full of contradictions, be revealed by the light of a glow worm. all forms of religion but bhägavata-dharma Similarly, because You know everything, work under conceptions of fruitive results in Your presence there is nothing for me and distinctions of “you and I” and “yours to make known. My dear Lord, You are the and mine.” The followers of Çrémad- creator, maintainer and annihilator of this Bhägavatam have no such consciousness. cosmic manifestation, but persons who They are all Krishna conscious, thinking are too materialistic and who always see that they are Krishna’s and Krishna is separateness from you do not have the theirs. There are other, low-class religious vision to see You. They cannot understand systems, which are contemplated for the Your real position, and therefore they killing of enemies or the gain of mystic conclude that the cosmic manifestation is power, but such religious systems, being independent of Your opulence. My Lord, full of passion and envy, are impure and You are the supreme pure, and You are full temporary. Because they are full of envy, in all six plenitudes. Therefore I offer my they are an aspect of irreligion. How can respectful obeisance unto You. My dear a religious system that pro- duces envy of Lord, it is after You endeavour that Lord one’s self and of others actually be beneficial Brahma, Indra and the other directors of the for anyone? What is auspicious about cosmic manifestation become engagaged following such a system? What is actually in their respective activities. It is after You to be gained? By causing pain to one’s own perceive the material energy, My Lord, self due to self-envy and by causing pain that the senses begin to perceive. The to others, one arouses Your anger and thus Supreme Personality of Godhead holds all certainly practices irreligion. My dear Lord, the universes on His heads like seeds of one’s occupational duty is instructed in mustard. I offer my respectful obeisance Çrémad-Bhägavatam and Bhagavad-gétä unto You, that Supreme Personality, who according to Your point of view, which has thousands of hoods. never deviates from the highest goal of life. — Çrémad-Bhägavatam » Canto 6: Prescribed Duties for Those who follow their occupational duties Mankind » Chapter 16: King Chitraketu Meets the Supreme Lord » under Your supervision, being equal to all Verses 1-49. living entities, moving and non- moving, and not considering high and low, are Past Life Of Chitraketus Son called Aryans. Such Aryans worship You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. His Divine Grace My Lord, it is not impossible for one A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to be immediately freed from all material As it turns out Chitraketu's son was contamination by seeing You. Not to speak actually his enemy in a past life and had of seeing You personally, merely by hearing now appeared as his son just to give him www.ibmedu.org Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya Issue no 108, Page — 6 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä severe pain. Indeed, the untimely death of In the transmigration of the soul through the son caused severe lamentation for the different bodies, everyone, in every form father. One may put forward the argument, of life—be it human, animal, tree or "If the King's son was his enemy, how could demigod—gets a father and mother. This is the King have so much affection for him?" not very difficult. The difficulty is to obtain In answer, the example is given that when a bona fide spiritual master and Krishna. someone's wealth falls into the hands of his Therefore the duty of a human being is enemy, the money becomes the enemy's to avail the opportunity to come in touch friend. Then the enemy can use it for his with Krishna's representative, the bona own purposes. Indeed, he can even use it fide spiritual master. Under the guidance to harm its previous owner. Therefore the of the spiritual master, the spiritual father, money belongs neither to the one party nor one can return home, back to Godhead. to the other. The money is always money, — Çrémad-Bhägavatam » Canto 6: Prescribed Duties for but in different situations it can be used as Mankind » Chapter 16: King Chitraketu Meets the Supreme Lord » an enemy or a friend. Verses 6, Purport. As explained in Bhagavad-gétä, it is not by any father or mother that the living entity is Incompatible saìga given birth. The living entity is a completely Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura separate identity from the so-called father and mother. By the laws of nature, the A spiritual practitioner should always living entity is forced to enter the semen of remember this instruction of the Lord. a father and be injected into the womb of If a practitioner engages in prohibited the mother. He is not in control of selecting association, then gradually his material what kind of father he will accept. Prakåteù attachment increases. The more this kriyamäëäni: [ Gétä 3.27] the laws of nature attachment increases, the more his firm force him to go to different fathers and faith in the supreme goal diminishes. The mothers, just like a consumer commodity purport is that the living entity is spiritual; that is purchased and sold. Therefore the but due to being conditioned by maya and so-called relationship of father and son is falsely proud due to ignorance, the living but a transitory arrangement of prakåti, entity has forgotten his constitutional or nature. It has no lasting meaning, and position. In his pure state the living entity therefore it is called illusion. does not associate with maya, rather he The same living entity sometimes takes remains fully spiritual. In the spiritual shelter of an animal father and mother and world all the association of the living sometimes a human father and mother. entity is spiritual, therefore the pure Sometimes he accepts a father and mother association of the living entities in that among the birds, and sometimes he accepts state is desirable. The saìga [association] a demigod father and mother. Sri Caitanya in the conditioned state of a living entity is Mahaprabhu therefore says: polluted. That saìga, being polluted with nescience in the form of association with brahmäëòa bhramite kona bhägyavän jéva non-devotees and women and attachment guru-kåñëa-prasäde päya bhakti-latä-béja for family and assets, is unfavourable for [Cc. Madhya 19.151] one's advancement. The spiritual saìga of the living entities is compatible, whereas Harassed life after life by the laws of material saìga is incompatible. To get free nature, the living entity wanders throughout from this incompatible saìga is the cause the entire universe in different planets and of the living entity's liberation. different species of life. Somehow or other, First we will consider the association if he is fortunate enough, he comes in touch of non-devotees. Who is a non-devotee? with a devotee who reforms his entire life. Those who are not accepting of their Then the living entity goes back home, subordination to the Lord are called non- back to Godhead. Therefore it is said: devotees. The jïänés never subordinate themselves to the Lord. They think that janame janame saba pitä-mätä päya, they can become one with the Lord on kåñëa guru nahe mile bhaja hari ei the strength of their knowledge. They think, "Jïäna is the highest goal; the Lord cannot keep one who attains Jïäna under Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.ibmedu.org nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 108, Page—7 His control; the Lord became Supreme is adverse to the service of the Lord. Karmis by the strength of this Jïäna, and I too do not exclusively search for the mercy of will become Supreme." Therefore all the Krishna. Although they respect Krishna, endeavours of the jïänés are to become their main purpose is to attain some kind independent of the Lord. They believe that of personal happiness. Karma is nothing the Lord's power does not act on one who but selfish activities, therefore karmis are achieves liberation in the form of merging also called non-devotees. Yogis sometimes with the Lord, which is attained by Jïäna. search for liberation, the fruit of Jïäna, This is the vainattempt of the jïänés! The and sometimes they search for vibhüti, jïänés and mundane scholars do not opulence, the fruit of karma. Hence, they depend on the mercy of the Lord. They too are called non-devotees. Due to lack of try to achieve everything on the strength full surrender, worshipers of the demigods of their knowledge and reasoning,and are also called non-devotees. Those who thus they do not care for the Lord's mercy. are attached to discussing dry logic are also Therefore jïänés are a prime example adverse to the Lord. And what to speak of of non-devotees. Although some jïänés those who conclude that the Lord is only accept devotional service as their process a figment of the imagination. Those who of sädhana, at the time of perfection are attached to sense gratification and thus they discard it. In all their activities there have no opportunity to remember the Lord are no symptoms of an eternal serving are also counted among the non-devotees. mood or voluntary subordination to the If one associates with these non-devotees, Lord. Such are the symptoms of the jïäné- then in a very short time one's intelligence sampradäya, the school of philosophical is polluted and one's heart is overcome speculators. They only get a glimpse of real by their propensities. If anyone desires knowledge. Real knowledge is but a minor to attain pure devotional service, then he aspect of pure devotional service. Only should carefully give up the association of pure devotees, by the mercy of the Lord, non-devotees. can attain that. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu The second consideration is association instructs Srila Sanatana Goswami in the Çré of women. Association with women is Caitanya-caritämåta (Madhya 22.29) as detrimental to spiritual progress. In the follows: Caitanya-caritämåta (Madhya 22.87) Sri Chaitanya instructs Srila Sanatana jïäné jévan-mukta-daçä Goswami as follows: päinu kari’ mäne vastutaù buddhi ’çuddha’ asat-saìga-tyäga,—ei vaiñëava-äcära nahe kåñëa-bhakti vine ’stré-saìgé’—eka asädhu, ’kåñëäbhakta’ ära "There are many philosophical speculators "A Vaishnava should always avoid the [jïänés] belonging to the Mayavada school association of ordinary people. Common who consider themselves liberated and people are very much materially attached, call themselves Narayana. But their especially to women. Vaishnavas should intelligence is not purified unless they also avoid the company of those who are engage in Krishna's devotional service." not devotees of Lord Krishna." Therefore those who are attached to philosophical speculation are counted There are two types of Vaishnavas- amongst the non-devotees. There is a fruit the householders and the renunciates. called mukti, (liberation] and that is the Renunciates are forbidden from speaking supreme goal of their spiritual practices with any woman. By the instruction to (sädhana]. It is not the purpose of their give up the association with women, they life to attain the Lord's mercy through His have been forbidden from conversing service. People who have faith in fruitive with women. As stated by Sri Caitanya rituals are also not devotees. Therefore Mahaprabhu in the Caitanya-caritämåta they are also non-devotees. If anyone (Antya 2.120): performs karma in order to achieve the mercy of Krishna, then that karma is kñudra-jéva saba markaöa-vairägya kariyä called bhakti. That karma which yields indriya caräïä bule ’prakåti’ sambhäñiyä mundane results or mundane knowledge www.ibmedu.org Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya Issue no 108, Page — 8 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä "There are many persons with little in serve as Krishna’s lovers, whereas those their possession who accept the renounced who serve the Lord as servants of the Lord’s order of life like monkeys. They go here friends attain male bodies. In the eternally and there engaging in sense gratification pure spiritual body there is no difference and speaking intimately with women." between male and female. The maleness Regarding Vaishnavas, the Caitanya- or femaleness of the body simply reflects a caritämåta (Antya 12.42) says: devotee’s internal mood. —Amåta Väëé: Nectar of Instructions of Immoratality His Divine pürvavat prabhu kailä sabära milana Grace Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Öhäkura Prabhupäda Compiled stré-saba düra ha-ite kailä prabhura daraçana by Çrépäda Bhakti Mayukha Bhägavat Mahäraja Adapted and Published by Éçvara däsa. Translated from Bengali by Bhumipati "Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu received them däsa all, just as He had in previous years. The women, however, saw the Lord from a The Clutches Of Maya distance." Srila Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami This is the prescription in regard to householder Vaishnavas. Householders “Forgetting Krishna, the living entity has should not associate with others' wives been attracted by the external feature from or prostitutes. They should not indulge in time immemorial. Therefore the illusory any association other than with their own energy [maya] gives him all kinds of misery wives according to religious scriptures. in his material existence. One should give up the self-indulgent In the material condition, the living entity mentality of being excessively fond is sometimes raised to higher planetary of one's wife. The instructions of the systems and material prosperity and scriptures regarding the smärtas is given sometimes drowned in a hellish situation. in the Caitanya-caritämåta (Ädi 15.27) as His state is exactly like that of a criminal follows: whom a king punishes by submerging him na gåhaà gåham ity ähur in water and then raising him again from gåhiëé gåham ucyate the water. If the conditioned soul becomes tayä hi sahitaù sarvän Krishna conscious by the mercy of saintly persons who voluntarily preach scriptural puruñärthän samaçnute injunctions and help him to become Krishna conscious, the conditioned soul is "Merely a house is not a home, for it is a liberated from the clutches of maya, who wife who gives a home its meaning. If one gives him up.” lives at home with his wife, together they can fulfill all the interests of human life." — Çré Caitanya-caritämåta (Madhya 20.117-118, 120). — Çré Bhaktyäloka - The Six Faults and Qualities of Bhakti. !! Sri Sri Nitai Gaurchandra Jayati !! Translated by Bhumipati Das. ISKCON Bhagavata Mahavidyalaya is a branch of Is The Living Entity The Puruña ? International Society for Krishna Consciousness Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Founder-Äcärya: His Divine Grace A.C. BhaktiVedanta Swami Prabhupāda

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