Bits and Pieces

"The revealed scriptures say, "Persons having qualities such as compassion, non-envy, and universal tolerance are described as sadhus (saints) since they strictly follow the vaishnava religion. From this statement one should not think that only blaspheming such sadhus is an offence because in the Padma Purana it is mentioned, "Even a person with all bad qualities, who lacks of proper behaviour, who is wicked, fallen and deceitful is liberated if he takes shelter of the lotus feet of Govinda. It goes without saying that in this verse, according to the kaimuttika-nyaya, such a ill-behaved person who is devoted to the Lord, is also recognised as a sadhu.

You may enter Vrindavana dhama but as long as you don`t always consider all the creatures who live there as having eternal transcendental forms of concentrated
bliss and transcendental knowledge, you will never attain the ultimate goal of life, viz. Prema-bhakti.

One who, like the Vrajavasi, does not consider Krishna to be the primary personality of Godhead and worships Him in the moods perfectly exemplified by them, will attain Him in Vraja as the son of its King. However, one who considers Him to be the primary personality of Godhead and worships Him only through the path of Vaidhi-Bhakti will become His associate in Vaikuntha (Aishvarya Goloka).

So the transmission of the Shri Krishna-diksha mantra(s) from the physical mouth of a guru in flesh into the physical right ear of a disciple in flesh is the real nature of diksha and once it is taken in such a correct way the disciple should not take any other diksha guru, even if the guru didn't inform him of his guru pranali with siddha pranali and of his siddha deha in Shri-Shri Radha-Krishna lila.

"The treasure I desire as a practitioner I will get when I attain my siddha deha (spiritual body); it's just a question of being ripe or unripe. The ripe stage is the stage of prema bhakti (beatific love divine) and the unripe stage is the stage of practise. That is the essential truth about devotional principles."

Shrila Jiva Goswami has delineated five different levels of meditation which develop, respective to the following five stages of Bhakti : 1) nishtha, 2) Ruchi, 3) Asakti, 4) Bhava and 5) Prema

"If one cannot live in Vraja physically, one must at least live there mentally."