Bhakti yoga, chanting: the only rescue!

Verse 1.9.23 (Uma Mataji):
* This verse mains talks about Bhakti yoga and tells how we can remember the Lord when we are leaving this body.
* Death is an inevitable truth that all of us have to face.
* We need to perform akarma, so the person is not bounded by any activity. How we can perform this, is bhakti yoga.
* Yoga is to relink the individual consciousness with the Supreme consciousness. If this connection is forgotten, then we lose our identity.
* General Bhismadeva is referring to Bhakti yoga and that is why at the time of his death, the Lord is directly present before Him.
* We need to understand who God is, what is our relationship with Him, then pure love of God can be realized. And do so, the 9 processes of devotional service must be followed. Eg: Ambarish Maharaj perfected his life with all these processes.
* Krishna is the only friend who can help us at the time of death.
* Always we need to think of the Lord within our heart and that is the best yogi.
* In this age, the only recommended method is chanting the Holy name. Pure DS attracts even the Lord.
* We should have determination and faith to progress in DS. And this full faith is surrender unto the Supreme Lord and for this chanting should be the center of our life.
* Mind is a mad monkey, very difficult to control it. We should genuinely strive to chant the Holy name. Minute to minute, it is our choices which decide whether we stay in KC or not. If chanting is not well, hypocrisy also comes in. Time is running out for everybody, we should understand the need to chant well.
* You get lot of mercy by preaching this message. Preach to ur relatives too.

Verse 1.9.22 (Siva Pr):
* We all know that this body is a property of the SPG, who is the creator, maintainer and destroyer of everything. And how do we serve Him?
* The 9 processes of devotional service.
* In this translation, SP clearly says that we need to take shelter of a Guru and learn from him. So who is a Guru?
* Om ajnana..., one who brings us out of ignorance through the light of knowledge. So who saves us from all kinds of sufferings. And there are 3 kinds of sufferings: adyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika klesha.
* So we need to surrender to the Guru, serve him and through his mercy get out of this cycle of birth and death. "Tasmad Guru..."
* By the mercy of Guru, we will get the shelter and mercy of Lord Krishna. "Yasya prasadad bhagavad prasado..."
* And who will desire a Guru, one must be very serious of this subject matter, searching for God.
* Serving Krishna, following the directions of guru, then how will Krishna reciprocate. Just as we see here, Lord Krishna might become visible to us before we leave, or we might get back to Goloka Vrindavan, or we might meet our siksa gurus there. So it all wonderful.

Verse 1.9.21 (Yugal Kishore Pr):
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