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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QUALITIES OF A KARMATMAKA MIND, A MAHATMA & A KRISHNA CONSCIOUS PERSON

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

QUALITIES OF A KARMATMAKA MINDIf a person is engaged in any kind of karma, his mind is called karmätmaka, colored with fruitive activity. Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions. Such a person
- Does not inquire about the spiritual values of life
- Is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance
- Their mind is impure
- Consciousness is unclear
- Is absorbed in fruitive activity,
                             & due to these reasons he has to accept a material body.

QUALITIES OF A MAHATMA
The mahätmäs
- Are equipoised.
- Do not see any difference between one living entity and another.
- Are very peaceful
- Are fully engaged in devotional service.
- Are devoid of anger.
- Work for the benefit of everyone.
- Do not behave in any abominable way.

QUALITIES OF A KRISHNA CONSCIOUS PERSON
- Do not like to do anything that is not related to Krishna.
- Are not interested in mingling with people who r busy maintaining their bodies (eating, sleeping, mating,     defending.
- Are not attached to their homes, although they may be householders.
                * Nor are they attached to wives, children, friends or wealth.
                * At the same time, they are not indifferent to the execution of their duties.
- Are interested in collecting only enough money to keep the body and soul together.

As told by Lord Rsabadeva to his sons in SB Canto 5 Chapter 5
Translated by Srila Prabhupada


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