THERE IS NO NEED FOR ARTIFICIAL RENUNCIATION

Dedicated to my spiritual master His Divine Grace Abhaya Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami 'Srila Prabhupada'

Introduction:

sadrsam cestate svasyah

prakrter jnanavan api

prakrtim yanti bhutani

nigrahah kim karisyati

Bg 3.33

Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish?

Correct way of performing duty :

Unless one is situated on the transcendental platform of Krsna consciousness, he cannot get free from the influence of the modes of material nature, as it is confirmed by the Lord in the Seventh Chapter (7.14). Therefore, even for the most highly educated person on the mundane plane, it is impossible to get out of the entanglement of maya simply by theoretical knowledge, or by separating the soul from the body. There are many so-called spiritualists who outwardly pose as advanced in the science but inwardly or privately are completely under particular modes of nature which they are unable to surpass. Academically, one may be very learned, but because of his long association with material nature, he is in bondage. Krsna consciousness helps one to get out of the material entanglement, even though one may be engaged in his prescribed duties in terms of material existence. Therefore, without being fully in Krsna consciousness, one should not give up his occupational duties. No one should suddenly give up his prescribed duties and become a so-called yogi or transcendentalist artificially. 

 

Conclusion :

It is better to be situated in one's position and to try to attain Krsna consciousness under superior training. Thus one may be freed from the clutches of Krsna's maya. 

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BUDDHI YOGA

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Introduction

Buddhi-yoga is clearly explained (in Chapter Ten, verse ten) as being direct communion with the Lord, who is sitting as Paramatma in everyone's heart. But such communion does not take place without devotional service. One who is therefore situated in devotional or transcendental loving service to the Lord, or, in other words, in Krishna consciousness, attains to this stage of buddhi-yoga by the special grace of the Lord. 

 Buddhi Yoga & Sankhya Yoga

The Lord says, therefore, that only to those who are always engaged in devotional service out of transcendental love does He award the pure knowledge of devotion in love. In that way the devotee can reach Him easily in the ever-blissful kingdom of God.

Thus the buddhi-yoga mentioned in this verse is the devotional service of the Lord, and the word Sankhya mentioned herein has nothing to do with the atheistic sankhya-yoga enunciated by the imposter Kapila. One should not, therefore, misunderstand that the sankhya-yoga mentioned herein has any connection with the atheistic Sankhya. Nor did that philosophy have any influence during that time; nor would Lord Krishna care to mention such godless philosophical speculations. 

Real Sankhya philosophy is described by Lord Kapila in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, but even that Sankhya has nothing to do with the current topics. Here, Sankhya means analytical description of the body and the soul. Lord Krishna made an analytical description of the soul just to bring Arjuna to the point of buddhi-yoga, or bhakti-yoga. Therefore, Lord Krishna's Sankhya and Lord Kapila's Sankhya, as described in the Bhagavatam, are one and the same. They are all bhakti-yoga. Lord Krishna Said, therefore, that only the less intelligent class of men make a distinction between sankhya-yoga and bhakti-yoga (sankhya-yogau prthag balah pravadanti na panditah).

Of course, atheistic sankhya-yoga has nothing to do with bhakti-yoga, yet the unintelligent claim that the atheistic sankhya-yoga is referred to in the Bhagavad-gita.

 
One should therefore understand that buddhi-yoga means to work in Krishna consciousness, in the full bliss and knowledge of devotional service. One who works for the satisfaction of the Lord only, however difficult such work may be, is working under the principles of buddhi-yoga and finds himself always in transcendental bliss. By such transcendental engagement, one achieves all transcendental understanding automatically, by the grace of the Lord, and thus his liberation is complete in itself, without his making extraneous endeavors to acquire knowledge. 

 Conclusion

There is much difference between work in Krishna consciousness and work for fruitive results, especially in the matter of sense gratification for achieving results in terms of family or material happiness. Buddhi-yoga is therefore the transcendental quality of the work that we perform.  Bg 2.39

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VEDIC KNOWLEDGE DOESN’T NEED TO BE RESEARCHED AS IT IS ALREADY PERFECT

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Introduction - The Infallible Knowledge
All Vedic knowledge is infallible, and Hindus accept Vedic knowledge to be complete and infallible inspite of the seemin contradictions. For example, cow dung is the stool of an animal, and according to smrti, or Vedic injunction, if one touches the stool of an animal he has to take a bath to purify himself. But in the Vedic scriptures cow dung is considered to be a purifying agent. One might consider this to be contradictory, but it is accepted because it is Vedic injunction, and indeed by accepting this, one will not commit a mistake; subsequently it has been proved by modern science that cow dung contains all antiseptic properties.

So Vedic knowledge is complete because it is above all doubts and mistakes, and Bhagavad-gita is the essence of all Vedic knowledge.

Perfect Knowledge
Vedic knowledge is not a question of research. Our research work is imperfect because we are researching things with imperfect senses. We have to accept perfect knowledge which comes down, as is stated in Bhagavad-gita, by the parampara (disciplic succession). We have to receive knowledge from the proper source in disciplic succession beginning with the supreme spiritual master, the Lord Himself, and handed down to a succession of spiritual masters. Arjuna, the student who took lessons from Lord Sri Krsna, accepts everything that He says without contradicting Him.

Defects of a mundaner
One is not allowed to accept one portion of Bhagavad-gita and not another. No. We must accept Bhagavad-gita without interpretation, without deletion and without our own whimsical participation in the matter. The Gita should be taken as the most perfect presentation of Vedic knowledge.

Vedic knowledge is received from transcendental sources, and the first words were spoken by the Lord Himself. The words spoken by the Lord are called apauruseya, meaning that they are different from words spoken by a person of the mundane world who is infected with four defects. A mundaner (1) is sure to commit mistakes, (2) is invariably illusioned, (3) has the tendency to cheat others and (4) is limited by imperfect senses. With these four imperfections, one cannot deliver perfect information of all-pervading knowledge.Vedic knowledge is not imparted by such defective living entities

Conclusion
Vedic Knowledge was imparted unto the heart of Brahma, the first created living being, By the Lord Himself who is all perfect. And Brahma in his turn disseminated this knowledge to his sons and disciples, as he originally received it from the Lord. Such a perfect knowledge doesn't need to be researched.

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HOW TO GIVE UP FALSE EGO & BE ELEVATED IN KNOWLEDGE

Dedicated to my spiritual master His Divine Grace Abhaya Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami 'Srila Prabhupada'

- Accept a highly elevated paramahamsa, a spiritually advanced spiritual master.
- Place your faith and love in Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Detest sense gratification
- Tolerate the duality of pleasure and pain, which are like the seasonal changes of summer and winter.
- Try to realize the miserable condition of living entities, who are miserable even in the higher planetary    systems.
- Philosophically inquire about the truth.
- Undergo all kinds of austerities and penances for the sake of devotional service.
- Give up the endeavor for sense enjoyment
- Engage in the service of the Lord.
- Listen to discussions about the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Always associate with devotees.
- Chant about and glorify the Supreme Lord.
- Look upon everyone equally on the spiritual platform.
- Give up enmity and subdue anger and lamentation.
- Abandon identifying the self with the body and the home
- Practice reading the revealed scriptures.
- Live in a secluded place and practice the process by which you can completely control your life air, mind and senses.
- Have full faith in the revealed scriptures, the Vedic literatures
- Always observe celibacy.
- Perform your prescribed duties
- Avoid unnecessary talks.
- Always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, acquire knowledge from the right source.

Thus practicing bhakti-yoga, you will patiently and enthusiastically be elevated in knowledge and will be able to give up the false ego.

Lord Rsabhadeva advising his sons on the path of liberation.

As translated by Srila Prabhupada in SB Canto 5;chapter 5;text 10-13

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