Thursday, March 17, 2011

Qualification to know the Lord!

SB 2.6.35 (KP Prji):

* The only way for us to get out of the conditioned life is through knowledge
* That knowledge is also talked about my Krishna in the BG.
* So how can one know the SPG.
 - Given in the BG: bhaktya maam abhijanti...
 - brahma bhuta prasannatma...
* Krishna says, only when you understand Me, you will be free from bondage. And you can understand Me only by Devotional Service
* In sayujya mukti, one cannot understand the Lord
* We can know the Lord only by the process of Devotional Service. With humbling knowledge, which comes with DS, we can understand the Lord to some extent
* Brahmaji himself is saying he cannot the understand the Lord completely
* By self realization one can understand, but bhakti which is realization of the SPG, then it is very humbling but fulfilling
* ...
* Narada muni thought Brhamaji to be all in all. But Brahmaji is giving explanation that it is the SPG who is the ultimate creator of everything and is happy in describing Him to Naradamuni
* By austerities, position or anything else, one cannot understand the SPG. Only by DS one can know the SPG.
* To certain extent, one can know the absolute truth, only by self-surrendering to the absolute truth
* He is durlabam (not obtainable) to the vedantists, but is adurlabam (available) to the bhakti-vedantists
* This is what is being expressed by Lord Brahma here

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