PERFECT YOGI - THE TORTOISE ANALOGY

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Introduction

yada samharate cayam

kurmo 'nganiva sarvasah

indriyanindriyarthebhyas

tasya prajna pratisthita

Bg 2.58

One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness.

Test of a yogi

The test of a yogi, devotee, or self-realized soul is that he is able to control the senses according to his plan. Most people, however, are servants of the senses and are thus directed by the dictation of the senses. That is the answer to the question as to how the yogi is situated. 

The senses are compared to venomous serpents. They want to act very loosely and without restriction. The yogi, or the devotee, must be very strong to control the serpents -- like a snake charmer. He never allows them to act independently. There are many injunctions in the revealed scriptures; some of them are do-not's, and some of them are do's. Unless one is able to follow the do's and the do-not's, restricting oneself from sense enjoyment, it is not possible to be firmly fixed in Krishna consciousness. The best example, set herein, is the tortoise. The tortoise can at any moment wind up its senses and exhibit them again at any time for particular purposes. Similarly, the senses of the Krishna conscious persons are used only for some particular purpose in the service of the Lord and are withdrawn otherwise. Arjuna is being taught here to use his senses for the service of the Lord, instead of for his own satisfaction. 

Conclusion

Keeping the senses always in the service of the Lord is the example set by the analogy of the tortoise, who keeps the senses within.

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GOD IS A PERSON & WE ARE ALL ETERNALLY INDIVIDUALS

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Introduction
 na tv evaham jatu nasam

na tvam neme janadhipah

na caiva na bhavisyamah

sarve vayam atah param

Bg 2.12

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be – Lord Krishna

God is an individual - a person
The Mayavadi theory that after liberation the individual soul, separated by the covering of maya, or illusion, will merge into the impersonal Brahman and lose its individual existence is not supported herein by Lord Krsna, the supreme authority. Nor is the theory that we only think of individuality in the conditioned state supported herein. Krsna clearly says herein that in the future also the individuality of the Lord and others, as it is confirmed in the Upanisads, will continue eternally. This statement of Krsna's is authoritative because Krsna cannot be subject to illusion. If individuality were not a fact, then Krsna would not have stressed it so much-even for the future. The Mayavadi may argue that the individuality spoken of by Krsna (in Bg 2.12) is not spiritual, but material. Even accepting the argument that the individuality is material, then how can one distinguish Krsna's individuality? Krsna affirms His individuality in the past and confirms His individuality in the future also. He has confirmed His individuality in many ways, and impersonal Brahman has been declared to be subordinate to Him. Krsna has maintained spiritual individuality all along; if He is accepted as an ordinary conditioned soul in individual consciousness, then His Bhagavad-gita has no value as authoritative scripture.

Conclusion

If individuality refers to the empirical universe, then there is no need of teaching by the Lord. The plurality of the individual soul and of the Lord is an eternal fact, and it is confirmed by the Vedas as above mentioned.

 
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THE PERFECT THEISTIC SCIENCE

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Introduction
Bhagavad-gita is the widely read theistic science summarized in the Gita-mahatmya (Glorification of the Gita). There it says that one should read Bhagavad-gita very scrutinizingly with the help of a person who is a devotee of Sri Krsna and try to understand it without personally motivated interpretations.

Specific Standard of Bhagavad Gita

The example of clear understanding is there in the Bhagavad-gita itself, in the way the teaching is understood by Arjuna, who heard the Gita directly from the Lord. If someone is fortunate enough to understand Bhagavad-gita in that line of disciplic succession, without motivated interpretation, then he surpasses all studies of Vedic wisdom, and all scriptures of the world. One will find in the Bhagavad-gita all that is contained in other scriptures, but the reader will also find things which are not to be found elsewhere. That is the specific standard of the Gita.

Conclusion

The topics discussed by Dhrtarastra and Sanjaya, as described in the Mahabharata, form the basic principle for this great philosophy. It is understood that this philosophy evolved on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, which is a sacred place of pilgrimage from the immemorial time of the Vedic age. It was spoken by the Lord when He was present personally on this planet for the guidance of mankind. Bhagavad Gita is the perfect theistic science because it is directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krsna.

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THE IDEAL WORLD – A WISH FOR A WORLD OF ‘ONE’NESS

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Introduction
ekam sastram devaki-putra-gitam

eko devo devaki-putra eva

eko mantras tasya namani yani

karmapy ekam tasya devasya seva

(Gita-mahatmya 7)

In this present day, people are very much eager to have one scripture, one God, one religion, and one occupation. Therefore, ekam sastram devaki-putra-gitam: let there be one scripture only, one common scripture for the whole world-Bhagavad-gita.

Eko devo devaki-putra eva: let there be one God for the whole world-Sri Krsna.

Eko mantras tasya namani: and one hymn, one mantra, one prayer -- the chanting of His name: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

Karmapy ekam tasya devasya seva: and let there be one work only -- the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.


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HOW TO GIVE UP FALSE EGO & BE ELEVATED IN KNOWLEDGE

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- 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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