Category:Establishing Devotional Service to God
Theme Analysis
Devotional service is not a sentimental fabrication but is firmly established on the authority of the Vedic scriptures. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that true bhakti is based on the sruti, smrti, and pancaratra. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His followers, particularly the Six Gosvāmīs, scrutinized the sastras to defeat philosophical speculation and fruitive activities, thereby establishing the "cult of bhakti." This process involves reawakening the soul's eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord in one of the five primary rasas (mellows). The goal of the acarya is to drag the conditioned soul from false material engagements and establish them in the scientific process of hearing, chanting, and serving Kṛṣṇa.
- Scriptural Basis: Devotional service must be established on the principles of the Vedas, Puranas, and Pancaratra; otherwise, it is a disturbance.
- The Work of the Gosvāmīs: They scrutinized the scriptures to establish the science of devotion and defeat opposing philosophies.
- Eternal Relationships: Bhakti-yoga establishes the living entity in their specific rasa, such as dasya, sakhya, or vatsalya.
- Educational Foundation: Children should be taught bhagavata-dharma to establish them in service before they are captured by maya.
- Defeating Speculation: Pure devotion rejects speculative knowledge (jñāna) and establishes the soul in the innate nature of serving the Lord.
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Pages in category "Establishing Devotional Service to God"
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- After one is established in devotional service, the positive actions are (1) hearing, (2) chanting, (3) remembering, (4) worshiping, (5) praying, (6) serving, (7) accepting servitorship, (8) becoming a friend and (9) surrendering fully
- All of these adherents of various scriptures were ready to present the conclusions of their respective scriptures, but Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu broke all their opinions to pieces and established His own cult of bhakti based on the Vedas, Vedanta
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- Devotees are not interested in speculative knowledge. Therefore, the Sankhya enunciated by Kapila Muni is meant to establish one firmly in devotional service
- Devotees are not interested in speculative knowledge; the Sankhya enunciated by Kapila Muni is meant to establish one firmly in devotional service
- Devotion to Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is the essence of all knowledge, and wherever such knowledge is manifested is called Mathura. Also, when one establishes bhakti-yoga, excluding all other methods, one's situation is called Mathura
- Devotional service is established on the principles of sruti, smrti, purana or pancaratra authorities, the make-show of devotional service should at once be rejected
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- If a special devotee is meant for preaching but does not give up his family life or material opulences to take to the service of the Lord, the Lord surely takes away his material opulences and establishes him in devotional service
- In bhakti-yoga there is a relationship established between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the devotee. Such a relationship is established in the transcendental mellows known as dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya
- In that perfect stage of svarupa, the living being is established in five phases of loving service, one of which is the stage of madhurya-rasa, or the humor of conjugal love
- In these meetings of the Vaisnavas, Advaita Acarya used to recite the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, decrying the paths of philosophical speculation and fruitive activity and establishing the superexcellence of devotional service
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- The clear conception of life, how to serve God, Krsna, that is called bhagavata-dharma. This should be taught to the children. Otherwise it will be very difficult to drag him from this false engagement and again establish him to the Krsna's service
- The Lord dispatched Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami to Vrndavana to excavate and renovate the holy places and from there establish the cult of bhakti. Therefore Vrndavana was given to Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami as their place of residence
- These are his (a spiritual master's) two qualifications: he must have heard the Vedic knowledge through the disciplic succession, and he must be established in service to the Supreme Lord
- They (the Six Gosvamis) were very, very expert in studying sastra very scrutinizingly. Why they studied so much? Because they wanted to establish sad-dharma, real type of religion, bhakti. They are quoting, therefore, from so many, nana-sastra
- Transcendental relations between the Personality of Godhead and the living entities are eternally established in five different affectionate humors, which are known as santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya