Hare Krsna, remenbered Gurumaharaja. Please accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet🙏❤️🌷🌻🌹
HpS/ASA - ... and obeisances to your lotus feet. we hope one day we can see them and you in your siddha deha.
All glories to Srila prabhupada!!!
All glories to You, my spiritual master!
HpS/ASA - We have only a little qualification, on Lord Caitanya's order, to become spiritual master, and "one who initiates according to the rules and regulations", diksa guru in Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON.
So, let us understand Guru Puja in that perspective, no?
Here I'm sending you the comment you asked for from the CC preface. It may not be of much use, but I'm sending it anyway.
HpS - ASA -- Many thanks.
COMMENT:
From what I can understand, the essential point of the entire preface is Surrender to Krishna.
Our beloved Srila Prabhupada begins by talking about It, what It means, and the six guidelines required to fully surrender to Krishna.
He warns us about worldly scholarship and the dangerous chaos it is causing in society.
He gives us proof by quoting verses from the BG,
encouraging us to surrender. What love for humanity on the part of the author!
He tells us a little about impersonalism and its inadequacy in helping us surrender, because without understanding that God has a form and a personality, and remaining only with His effulgence, the heart, which ardently seeks to resume its eternal relationship, will not feel any transcendental bliss that would inspire it to surrender progressively more and more, having a fiery sraddha, as Srila Prabhupada comments in NOI.
He tells us about the absolute nature of Krishna and the teachings of Lord Caitanya, which is the direct worship of Krishna. He gives us the highest example: the gopis of Vraja, who surrendered as completely surrendered souls without any desire for material or spiritual gain.
He also affirms that Lord Caitanya recommended Srimad Bhagavatam as the literature for developing love of God and that this is the highest goal of the human life.
He tells us about Meditation, a process of great interest in these times; the importance of meditating on Krishna in His transcendental form; and the proof in BG 6.47 of how a person surrendered to Him lives.
He also points out that the holy name of Krishna, the sound vibration of His name, is equal to Krishna. There is no difference between Him and His name; Therefore, to relate directly to Krishna, he teaches us the stages of chanting that naturally lead us to love for Krishna and complete surrender to Him.
He tells us about the danger of an uncontrolled mind and how to keep it under control by engaging it in various activities designed to please Krishna. These activities naturally satisfy our minds, and prevent us from becoming entangled in activities that bind us to material existence, which distance us from surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
He tells us about Krishna consciousness as an absolute science and about the ideal teacher, Lord Caitanya, and the wonderful blessings He gives us as His students.
In this book, we can see the author's concern for the misguided civilization of this world and His wonderful desire that we all take Lord Caitanya's teachings seriously. The author inspires us by telling us about our activities on the spiritual platform as the goal of our lives.
The author ends the preface by discouraging us from engaging in materialistic activities that will only frustrate us, and blesses us to understand these teachings by giving us the light of knowing that by knowing them, we will be able to act with the correct perspective, knowing our true identity.
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always trying to please him:🙏🙏🙏🌷🌹🙇♀️
Radha Japa Prati Jalpa Devi Dasi
HpS/ASA - Thank you.
We think that as you are describing it, it is not actually a Preface but an Introduction? Yet it is perfect whatever name you give us and gives the reader a chance to understand, Krsna, Bhagavad gita, through Lord Caitanya!
