Goal of life...

Verse 1.13.28 (Saci Suta Prji):

* SB is so wonderful. SP has given it so wonderfully, reading it even one page will greatly benefit us.
* Short pastime about a Krishna Balaram temple in Vrindavan, India. One sadhu took the BG As It Is book, went into the temple and then want back.
- He came back and told that your acharya has written the BG in such a way as though he directly got it from Arjuna and Krishna.
- Difference as to how one advances rapidly is attachment. and that is got by association with devotees.
* Theme of this chapter
- duties of a sadhu
- qualities of a sadhu
* The dhīra stage is attained after prolonged practice of the yoga system, but by the grace of Vidura one can attain the stage immediately simply by willing to adopt the means of the dhīra stage, which is the preparatory stage for sannyāsa.
* SBSST: this material world is not for a gentleman. Just use it as a restroom and get out of here.
* Our goal is to achieve perfection of the life by self realization.
* "Fake it until u make it". Idea is to realize that by faking we are requesting Krishna to give it genuinely to us.
* Seek the mercy of acharyas.
* We don't have anything with us, what can we renounce. Everything belongs to Him, whatever we have grabbed, that has to be renounced before death comes and forces us to renounce.
* solution to increasing material desires is constantly engaging in the service of the spiritual master.