Monday, September 23, 2013

Radhanath Swami on Realizing the Scriptures

We have the highest, most intimate and confidential of all knowledge in the Vedas in the Srimad Bhāgavatam, which is how we are not this body. We should give up the bodily concept of life. Of course, we read the beautiful pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna also. But when we come to this highest knowledge of body and soul, we want to skip through this because we already have heard it so many times. We want new tastes, new nectar, we want the juice of newer and newer subject matter of the scriptures. We feel we already know this and have heard it many times, now we want to hear something else. But the problem is we do not know. Therefore we must be continuously reminded, otherwise everything else we learn will be misunderstood utterly. Intellectualization of scriptural study is not very impressive to a sadhu. Realization is impressive to a sadhu. And realization is manifested though humility and devotion. And that is the most important principle.

11 comments:

  1. That's a powerful dose by Radhanath Swami!

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  2. Thank you very much HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj! Our scriptures talk about absolute Truth.

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  3. Thanks for your instructions Swamiji....

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  4. Thank you very much !!!

    This is very true about realizations through humility and devotion...

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  5. Very nice point on Realisation

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  6. Thanks for sharing the right mood to read the scriptures.

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  7. True! We need to be reminded over and over again!

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  8. The scriptures are a powerhouse of knowledge. We should realize that and take the essence from their teachings to perfect our lives.

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  9. Practice makes a man perfect! Absolutely true statement.

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  10. Scriptures are the words of God.Therefore should be taken up in a spirit of devotion.For example Bhagvad-Gita is to deliver mankind from the nescience of material existence.From Bhagvad-Gita we understand that the complete Whole is comprised of the Supreme controller,the controlled living entities,the cosmic manifestation,eternal time and karma or activities.By realizing scriptures under bonafide guidance of Spiritual Master or his representatives one can make his/her life perfect and go back,back to Godhead.

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  11. We are so fortunate to have access to the scriptures, but we do not have the time to read it!

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