Know Thyself - Welcome @ Kristo's blog

Know Thyself - Welcome @ Kristo's blog
David - I adore the community of saints / Gelukpa's

vrijdag 31 mei 2024

Wisdom of today.

We've looked at how living foods support the child's unfolding aliveness by nourishing the body-mind and emotional IQ; now we'll discuss living foods and the child's social development. First of all, let's clarify by what is meant here by social development. What we are referring to, in the context of the culture of life and liberation, is supporting the child in the unfolding of their Divine expression as a confident, strong, positive, thoughtful, cooperative, respectful, honorable, responsible, compassionate, spiritual, loving, whole and helpful member of our interdependent global family, positively supporting the overal evolution of humanity.

We are talking about raising the next generation of healers, builders, leaders, problem-solvers, and holy ones who, because they are in touch with who they are as children of the Divine, may potentially usher in the next Golden Age or Messianic Times. These are children who naturally shine their light. This ideal is worlds away from teaching the child to seek to be like everyone else in order to fit in.

Source : 

Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children by Gabriel Cousens and Leah Lynn.

Betoging ‘samen tegen antisemitisme’ op 2 juni in Antwerpen. (Dutch)

https://joodsactueel.be/2024/05/27/betoging-samen-tegen-antisemitisme-op-2-juni-in-antwerpen/ 

World Peace Meditation May 26 Replay.

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#worldpeacemeditation

Source : https://treeoflife.mn.co/posts/57623432

Initiates of the Flame (1922) by Manly P. Hall.

Latest from La Quinta Columna on the fake vaccine.

https://davidicke.com/2024/05/31/latest-from-la-quinta-columna-on-the-fake-vaccine/ 

The Vigilant Fox news : Another COVID ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Becomes True.

Another COVID ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Becomes True It turns out the deaths from COVID vaccinated patients were actually labeled as unvaccinated. “That’s why ‘unvaccinated’ deaths spiked immediately after the vaccine rollout,” explained Dr. Toby Rogers. “That’s how they hid COVID vaccine deaths and kept the rollout going.” Roger’s tweet mentioned a Substack post from Thursday titled “Where Are The Numbers” by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil. These professors, in their own words, “challenge the global Covid-19 narrative, exposing the use and abuse of statistics.” That’s an eloquent way of saying the results were SKEWED to sell a narrative.

Source : https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1796248117559386574

The Lost Years Of Jesus | Mysterious Saint Isa In India | By Richard Bock | 1960s documentary.

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT ! THE MYSTERY SPEAKER REVEALED AT THE GSIC 2424 IN DENVER CO. !

Elena Danaan : STAR NATION NEWS #32~ May 27 2024 #disclosure #galacticfederation #aliens #UFO.

https://youtu.be/4SzKnc1L_Is 

THE HIDDEN HISTORY and THE SNAKE / REPTO WORLD ORDER = THE NAZI WORLD ORDER -> NWO

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Official Music Video).

Operation Mockingbird: The Manipulation of the Media by the Deep State - William Shaap before the American Congress in 1999.

woensdag 29 mei 2024

Illumodine - European Enlightenment Hour May 29 Replay

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#EuropeanEnlightenmentHour

Source : https://treeoflife.mn.co/posts/57883976 

Wisdom of today.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare


These sixteen names will destroy the contaminations of Kali-yuga.

One cannot see any better method in all the Vedas.


Kali-santarana Upanisad


Those who chant these sixteen glorious names completely surpass maya.

Others do not. Even the nitya-siddhas chant this supremely secret mantra at all times.


Caitanya Upanisad

Srila Prabhupada Japa 16 Rounds 1728x Hare Krishna Maha Mantra.

World Peace Meditation May 26 Replay.

 Click here to watch the replay.

#worldpeacemeditation

Source : https://treeoflife.mn.co/posts/57623432

Wisdom of today.

The use of drugs and alcohol (not including moderate use of ceremonial wine or grape juice), which alter consciousness and are often part of the left-hand path are antithetical to the Torah Way. The warning in the previous parashah to keep away from these things "so that they shall not die as a result of their impurities", is an invitation to do teshuva and change one's ways.

I have not heard of anyone in any enlightenment tradition who has become truly enlightened on the left-hand path. On the contrary, those who have tried have either were damaged or died (blocked from liberation, or literally died) along the way.

Dr Gabriel Cousens, Torah As a Guide to Enlightenment.

maandag 27 mei 2024

Lost Arts Radio with Dr Gabriel Cousens.

https://dlive.tv/lostartsradio 

Harinama Chintamani Devi Dasi : Once This Planet Was Ruled by Saintly Kings.

SCRIPTED: New human vaccines are already developed and stockpiled for a pandemic flu that doesn’t even exist yet.

https://naturalnews.com/2024-05-26-new-human-vaccines-already-developed-and-stockpiled-pandemic-flu-that-doesnt-exist-yet.html 

Wisdom of today : Outside the Ultimate Tyranny.

Modern technology is one of the biggest weapons of frequency control. You have been sold devices for entertainment and convenience, and they are all involved with frequency control. We recommend strongly that you get rid of your television sets. They are the primary tool used to manipulate your consciousness on a day-to-day basis.

This experiment is so finely tuned that you respond subliminally to disease via the television. So there is an entire generation that is killing itself by watching television - and supporting the medical society while they are doing it.

Sometimes liberating information is broadcast - perhaps even a New Age show. However, you may watch such a television show about how uplifted and unlimited you can be, while subliminally you are being hit with a frequency that keeps you from original thinking. This subliminal keeps you immobilized and holds you in a "survive, arrive, be-on-time, be-silent, go-to-work" society.

Television also promotes inactivity and a sedentary, obese life. Look around you.

Wake up, humans!

Most of the subliminals on television are done through technology that was developed in conjunction with off-planetary beings. The use of subliminals to upset human consciousness has become a worldwide program.

If you think about the houses that have two, three, and four televisions in them, you must agree that this has been a very successful marketing program. Some people who know about the subliminals on television feel that they are immune to them. However, the effects of television are so permeating that no matter how clear you say you are going to be, you cannot counterbalance what the technology is presently doing to your vibrational frequency.

We have said that there are entities who feed off your emotional bodies. Think about what a clever tool television is for them. All over the world, billions of humans are emitting emotional juices into the atmosphere based upon what they are watching on the tube.

They don't have to have too many wars anymore to get you all riled up - they can simply make movies!

People who need to watch television are not tapping into the wealth of information within their minds and immediately accessible all around them. As a matter of fact, if you really want to evolve, do not read your newspapers, do not listen to the radio, and do not watch television.

If you are able to be media free for periods of time, and you disengage yourself from the frequency of chaos and anxiety and stress and hustle - bustle and temptations of all kinds that you don't need, you begin to get clear. You begin to listen to what is going on inside of yourself and to live in the world and not necessarily be lost in it. You become clear. We cannot emphasize this enough!

Electronics also jam your frequency. Even when they are not specifically designed to jam your frequency, sometimes there is incompatibility between the electronic frequency of something and yourself. Plus, as we said, many of them are designed to create static so that you will always stay at a certain vibratory rate, turning you into safe, harmless, inactive, productive cattle.

What about computers?

The second most predominant piece of hardware in the United States is the computer. How many of you go to work on computers and end up getting headaches, particularly when you work for large corporations and are hooked up to their mainframe? Large companies are into aspects of mind control; they use your minds to generate energy to achieve something for themselves. Personal computers are not as potent and powerful.

Some new inventions are going to surface in the nineties very underground inventions, because they will never be given patents to be promoted in the marketplace. There will be a whole underground economy based upon barter, in which certain inventions will be traded between people. There will be technologies that can counteract much of the frequency control: these technologies can change the quality of your air and water, and they can eliminate and seal off your home so that you are an integral of energy and nothing can bombard you.

There are technologies that do phenomenal things. Do you understand how technology has been used against you? It has not been used for you. Television is not necessarily bad in itself, but it has been put to ill purpose. There is nothing wrong with technology.

It is how technology is being used that is the bottom line. That is the difference.

The education system is another area where you are controlled. Most of what you are taught is malarkey. You work hard, take loans out, and pay money to learn something that is antiquated before you even set foot in the door, particularly in the realms of scientific, mathematical, psychological, and medical exploration.

What do you do when you live in a society that rewards you for degrees? You begin by saying, "I believe that I formulate my world. I believe that I do not need these credentials to define my existence. I can be unique unto myself, sovereign unto myself." Come up with a method or way to explore the world without degrees.

Education is actually the pursuit of knowledge, and knowledge can come from a walk in the desert. It does not have to come from flipping pages in a book. It is not harmful to explore a little bit of schooling, but don't buy into the idea that what you are being taught is correct.

You are controlled and separated by issues that strike at the core of your emotions. The abortion/pro-life issue is not a global issue, it is a national issue. Sometimes it does look as if innocent victims are trampled or stampeded by events that seemingly have nothing to do with them. Of course, that is what you have been taught - that you are powerless and can only be saved by the mood of the gods, which has never been the case. Those who find their lives taken by accident or violence select it.

The pro-life/abortion issue has been purposely orchestrated in the United States by different factions within the government to create a lack of harmony. Divide and conquer, and you own the people. Allow the people choice, freedom, and the ability to continuously improve their lives, and you cannot own them. Whenever people oppose people, those in control benefit, even down to the issue over abortion.

How do they benefit? They keep women from uniting with each other and men from uniting with each other here in the United States. They keep people in fear. They convince you, by continuously putting these issues before you, that a woman has no control over the birthing process in her body.

You don't need abortion: you never need to get pregnant in the first place if you don't desire it. How? By will.

A woman can say to herself,

"I am not prepared at this time for a child."

Or, alternately,

"I am in receptivity of a child."

When you own yourself, you will not need permission from the government about what you can do with your own body.

Source : https://bibliotecapleyades.net/pleyades/esp_pleyades_14.htm

Brighteon Broadcast News, May 24, 2024 – WOKE medical schools, spontaneously exploding Boeing airliners and other insanities of a wrecked society.


Source : https://brighteon.com/260d24d2-da0c-4dd4-984e-ac683829e90f

A devotee in the family is good karma for the entire family.

If one's son becomes a Vaisnava in the family, he can deliver fourteen generations, up and down. That is the verdict. Not only verdict, this is the version in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.


Wisdom of today : don't be attached to wealth or fame.

In The Last Composition, Swami Vishnu Tirth, our Parameshtiguru (Swamiji’s teacher’s teacher) lays out how to relate to material things for Swami Shivom Tirth (our Paramguru ie Swamiji’s teacher) and all of us. Vasana is a mental tendency, such as pride, desire, fear. My limited understanding is that they are essentially a chain of samskaras that influence our everyday perception and behavior.


I [Swami Shivom Tirth] said - If one does not possess any wealth, fame, riches and rights etc. but at the same time is conscious and aware of their absence and keen to acquire all this, then is this keenness also equally vicious?

Maharajshri [Swami Vishnu Tirth] - Wealth, splendour, authority etc. are not vicious or painful on their own but it is the attachment, desire and the greed for them which is. It is the wealthy guy who feels the paucity of funds the most and is always engaged in earning more and more wealth. Politicians are normally greedy for fame and, power. Artists, players and the wrestlers are worried about their popularity. They always desire to be one up from the other. It does not mean that art, intellect etc are roadblocks in Sadhan. Rather they are helpful on the path of spirituality. However, when one gets attached to these and envisages them as the source of acquiring fame and money that they become impediments in spiritual progress. Both the disciples of the old Swamiji saw his cottage as property and a desire to acquire it possessed their mind.
It is the vasana which is at the root of all grief and adversity. Vasana makes the living beings cry, dance, and distracts them from their main aim. Freedom from these inclinations and vices is the indispensable ladder to spirituality.

Srila Prabhupada Japa Chanting 16 rounds (slow chant).

World Peace Meditation May 26 Replay.

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#worldpeacemeditation

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zondag 26 mei 2024

4/24/2024 World War Zeee with Maria Zeee.


Source : https://brighteon.com/54a171de-5675-40d2-9376-b2578c1d3d49

https://zeeemedia.com/interview/wwzeee-with-maria-zeee-ft-mark-steele-new-revelations-smart-city-weapons-to-kill/

DUMBS - IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN - ADRENOCHROME HARVESTING OF BABIES & CHILDREN #PleaseProtectChildren

There are over 320 BioLabs. WORLDWIDE

The sleepers are beginning to wake up with the realization that the world is not what it seems to be. DUMBS - Deep Underground Military Bases but from the Dark Factions.
For generations, kids have been trafficked by what’s called the “CABAL”.
The Deep State players include world leaders, politicians, Hollywood and the wealthy Elites.

Call to humanity and worldleaders to protect the innocent civilians in Palestine and Gaza.

† The  ʺGuardian Wallʺ or the  ʺWall of Protection.ʺ It is taught that the accumulated efforts of long generations of Yogis, Saints and Adepts, especially of the Nirmanakayas—have created, so to say, a wall of protection around mankind, which wall shields mankind invisibly from still worse evils.

https://theosophytrust.org/Online_Books/Voice_of_the_Silence_V1.4.pdf

I am going to make a small donation on monday for Gaza to protect the innocent civilians as Zakat.

https://muslimcharity.org.uk/zakat-calculator/

“And establish prayer, pay zakat and bow with those who bow.” (QS. Al-Baqarah: 43)

https://dompetdhuafa.org/en/al-quran-verses-about-zakat-coupled-with-prayer-commands/

The near-death experience of Peter Anthony.

zaterdag 25 mei 2024

Wisdom of today.

“Think for a moment, now give up your sleep and wake up, and at least earn some good deeds. Your son, wife, relatives, friends, wealth and possessions will not go with you. Only the true form of the Absolute- Self and the righteous actions that have been performed with a sense of duty will accompany you."


‘How subtle is the subject of spirituality! Many great scholars have faded to understand the essence due to their pride. It is not a child’s play to grasp the essence of the scriptures. It is like finding a diamond in a heap of garbage. Only if a saint showers his grace can the meanings become clear. All the teachings of the saints and scriptures are based on the state of the chitta. If something is appropriate in a particular situation, die same thing is inappropriate in another. Sometimes dutiful action is appropriate and on certain occasions abstention. I did the mistake of not being able to pay attention to the state of my chitta and lied to Gurudev. Swamiji Maharaj is so compassionate that not only did he forgive me with a generous heart, but also bestowed me with such a great blessing. Now my only duty is to follow his instruction.

Kalikishore had a feeling that Swamiji Maharaj was saying, “Great beings are created only through dire circumstances. If scarcity gives rise to difficulties, then it is these difficulties that add luster to life. Absence of adversity makes a person aimless, lazy and indulgent. Scarcity is the greatest wealth. A lotus blooms only in the swamp, so have patience. All this is the manifestation o f your destiny. Let your destiny get erased. Do not forsake your duties and continue your sadhan. Your worldly life is also a form o f your sadhan. “All the great beings have risen above this level and attained sainthood. All of them had to struggle with penury, difficulties, problems and adversities. Everyone has had to endure a lot. The depletion of destiny is undoubtedly the establishment of detachment, and destiny can be wiped out only by enduring it with a sense o f duty. For this very reason I inspired you to jump into this blazing fire. Only this blazing fire can reduce your destiny to ashes. T h a t is the way of saints. Nobody can become a saint without burning destiny to ashes. Only then are the inner layers removed and the path to inner progress illuminated.”

Swami Shivom Tirth.

Wisdom of today from The Nectar of Instruction by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The Wisdom of Srila Rupa Goswami.

One should mentally honor the devotee who chants the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, one should offer humble obeisances to the devotee who has undergone spiritual initiation [dīkṣā] and is engaged in worshiping the Deity, and one should associate with and faithfully serve that Pure devotee who is advanced in undeviated devotional service and whose heart is completely devoid of the propensity to criticize others.

In order to intelligently apply the sixfold loving reciprocations mentioned in the previous verse, one must select proper persons with careful discrimination. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī therefore advises that we should meet with the Vaiṣṇavas in an appropriate way, according to their particular status. In this verse he tells us how to deal with three types of devotees—the kaniṣṭha-adhikārīmadhyama-adhikārī and uttama-adhikārī. The kaniṣṭha-adhikārī is a neophyte who has received the hari-nāma initiation from the spiritual master and is trying to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. One should respect such a person within his mind as a kaniṣṭha-vaiṣṇava. A madhyama-adhikārī has received spiritual initiation from the spiritual master and has been fully engaged by him in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. The madhyama-adhikārī should be considered to be situated midway in devotional service. The uttama-adhikārī, or highest devotee, is one who is very advanced in devotional service. An uttama-adhikārī is not interested in blaspheming others, his heart is completely clean, and he has attained the realized state of unalloyed Kṛṣṇa consciousness. According to Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, the association and service of such a mahā-bhāgavata, or perfect Vaiṣṇava, are most desirable.
One should not remain a kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, one who is situated on the lowest platform of devotional service and is interested only in worshiping the Deity in the temple. Such a devotee is described in the Eleventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.2.47):
“A person who is very faithfully engaged in the worship of the Deity in the temple, but who does not know how to behave toward devotees or people in general is called a prākṛta-bhakta, or kaniṣṭha-adhikāri.
One therefore has to raise himself from the position of kaniṣṭha-adhikārī to the platform of madhyama-adhikārī. The madhyama-adhikārī is described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.2.46) in this way:
“The madhyama-adhikārī is a devotee who worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the highest object of love, makes friends with the Lord’s devotees, is merciful to the ignorant and avoids those who are envious by nature.”
This is the way to cultivate devotional service properly; therefore in this verse Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has advised us how to treat various devotees. We can see from practical experience that there are different types of Vaiṣṇavas. The prākṛta-sahajiyās generally chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, yet they are attached to women, money and intoxication. Although such persons may chant the holy name of the Lord, they are not yet properly purified. Such people should be respected within one’s mind, but their association should be avoided. Those who are innocent but simply carried away by bad association should be shown favor if they are eager to receive proper instructions from pure devotees, but those neophyte devotees who are actually initiated by the bona fide spiritual master and are seriously engaged in carrying out the orders of the spiritual master should be offered respectful obeisances.
In this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement a chance is given to everyone without discrimination of caste, creed or color. Everyone is invited to join this movement, sit with us, take prasāda and hear about Kṛṣṇa. When we see that someone is actually interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and wants to be initiated, we accept him as a disciple for the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. When a neophyte devotee is actually initiated and engaged in devotional service by the orders of the spiritual master, he should be accepted immediately as a bona fide Vaiṣṇava, and obeisances should be offered unto him. Out of many such Vaiṣṇavas, one may be found to be very seriously engaged in the service of the Lord and strictly following all the regulative principles, chanting the prescribed number of rounds on japa beads and always thinking of how to expand the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Such a Vaiṣṇava should be accepted as an uttama-adhikārī, a highly advanced devotee, and his association should always be sought.
The process by which a devotee becomes attached to Kṛṣṇa is described in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 4.192):
“At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders to the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as He Himself.”
Dīkṣā, or spiritual initiation, is explained in the Bhakti-sandarbha (868) by Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī:
“By dīkṣā one gradually becomes disinterested in material enjoyment and gradually becomes interested in spiritual life.”
We have seen many practical examples of this, especially in Europe and America. Many students who come to us from rich and respectable families quickly lose all interest in material enjoyment and become very eager to enter into spiritual life. Although they come from very wealthy families, many of them accept living conditions that are not very comfortable. Indeed, for Kṛṣṇa’s sake they are prepared to accept any living condition as long as they can live in the temple and associate with the Vaiṣṇavas. When one becomes so disinterested in material enjoyment, he becomes fit for initiation by the spiritual master. For the advancement of spiritual life Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (6.1.13) prescribes: tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena ca damena ca. When a person is serious about accepting dīkṣā, he must be prepared to practice austerity, celibacy and control of the mind and body. If one is so prepared and is desirous of receiving spiritual enlightenment (divyaṁ jñānam), he is fit for being initiated. Divyaṁ jñānam is technically called tad-vijñāna, or knowledge about the Supreme. Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet: [MU 1.2.12] when one is interested in the transcendental subject matter of the Absolute Truth, he should be initiated. Such a person should approach a spiritual master in order to take dīkṣā. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.3.21) also prescribes: tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam. “When one is actually interested in the transcendental science of the Absolute Truth, he should approach a spiritual master.”
One should not accept a spiritual master without following his instructions. Nor should one accept a spiritual master just to make a fashionable show of spiritual life. One must be jijñāsu, very much inquisitive to learn from the bona fide spiritual master. The inquiries one makes should strictly pertain to transcendental science (jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam). The word uttamam refers to that which is above material knowledge. Tama means “the darkness of this material world,” and ut means “transcendental.” Generally people are very interested in inquiring about mundane subject matters, but when one has lost such interest and is simply interested in transcendental subject matters, he is quite fit for being initiated. When one is actually initiated by the bona fide spiritual master and when he seriously engages in the service of the Lord, he should be accepted as a madhyama-adhikārī.
The chanting of the holy names of Kṛṣṇa is so sublime that if one chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra offenselessly, carefully avoiding the ten offenses, he can certainly be gradually elevated to the point of understanding that there is no difference between the holy name of the Lord and the Lord Himself. One who has reached such an understanding should be very much respected by neophyte devotees. One should know for certain that without chanting the holy name of the Lord offenselessly, one cannot be a proper candidate for advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.69) it is said:
yāhāra komala śraddhāse ‘kaniṣṭha’ jana
krame krame teṅho bhakta ha-ibe ‘uttama’
“One whose faith is soft and pliable is called a neophyte, but by gradually following the process, he will rise to the platform of a first-class devotee.” Everyone begins his devotional life from the neophyte stage, but if one properly finishes chanting the prescribed number of rounds of harināma, he is elevated step by step to the highest platform, uttama-adhikārī. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement prescribes sixteen rounds daily because people in the Western countries cannot concentrate for long periods while chanting on beads. Therefore the minimum number of rounds is prescribed. However, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura used to say that unless one chants at least sixty-four rounds of japa (one hundred thousand names), he is considered fallen (patita). According to his calculation, practically every one of us is fallen, but because we are trying to serve the Supreme Lord with all seriousness and without duplicity, we can expect the mercy of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is famous as patita-pāvana, the deliverer of the fallen.
When Śrīla Satyarāja Khān, a great devotee of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, asked the Lord how a Vaiṣṇava could be recognized, the Lord replied:
prabhu kahe,——“yāṅra mukhe śuni eka-bāra
kṛṣṇa-nāmasei pūjya,——śreṣṭha sabākāra”
“If one hears a person say even once the word ‘Kṛṣṇa,’ that person should be accepted as the best man out of the common group.” (Cc. Madhya 15.106) Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued:
“ataeva yāṅra mukhe eka kṛṣṇa-nāma
sei ta ’vaiṣṇava, kariha tāṅhāra sammāna”
“One who is interested in chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa or who by practice likes to chant Kṛṣṇa’s names should be accepted as a Vaiṣṇava and offered respects as such, at least within one’s mind.” (Cc. Madhya 15.111) One of our friends, a famous English musician, has become attracted to chanting the holy names of Kṛṣṇa, and even in his records he has several times mentioned the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. At his home he offers respect to pictures of Kṛṣṇa and also to the preachers of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In all regards, he has a very high estimation for Kṛṣṇa’s name and Kṛṣṇa’s activities; therefore we offer respects to him without reservation, for we are actually seeing that this gentleman is advancing gradually in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Such a person should always be shown respect. The conclusion is that anyone who is trying to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness by regularly chanting the holy name should always be respected by Vaiṣṇavas. On the other hand, we have witnessed that some of our contemporaries who are supposed to be great preachers have gradually fallen into the material conception of life because they have failed to chant the holy name of the Lord.
While giving instructions to Sanātana Gosvāmī, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu divided devotional service into three categories.
“A person whose conclusive knowledge of the śāstras is not very strong but who has developed firm faith in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and who is also undeterred in the execution of his prescribed devotional service should be considered a madhyama-adhikārī. Such a person is very fortunate.” (Cc. Madhya 22.67) A madhyama-adhikārī is a śraddhāvān, a staunchly faithful person, and he is actually a candidate for further advancement in devotional service. Therefore in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.64) it is said:
śraddhāvān jana haya bhakti-adhikārī
‘uttama’, ‘madhyama’, ‘kaniṣṭha’——śraddhā-anusārī
“One becomes qualified as a devotee on the elementary platform, the intermediate platform and the highest platform of devotional service according to the development of his śraddhā [faith].” Again in Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 22.62) it is said:
“ ‘By rendering transcendental service to Kṛṣṇa, one automatically performs all subsidiary activities.’ This confident, firm faith, favorable to the discharge of devotional service, is called śraddhā.” Śraddhā, faith in Kṛṣṇa, is the beginning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Faith means strong faith. The words of Bhagavad-gītā are authoritative instructions for faithful men, and whatever Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā is to be accepted as it is, without interpretation. This was the way Arjuna accepted Bhagavad-gītā. After hearing Bhagavad-gītā, Arjuna told Kṛṣṇasarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye yan māṁ vadasi keśava. “O Kṛṣṇa, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me.” (Bg. 10.14)
This is the correct way of understanding Bhagavad-gītā, and this is called śraddhā. It is not that one accepts a portion of Bhagavad-gītā according to his own whimsical interpretations and then rejects another portion. This is not śraddhā. Śraddhā means accepting the instructions of Bhagavad-gītā in their totality, especially the last instruction: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja. “Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me.” (Bg. 18.66) When one becomes completely faithful in regard to this instruction, one’s strong faith becomes the basis for advancing in spiritual life.
When one fully engages in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, he gradually realizes his own spiritual identity. Unless one faithfully chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, Kṛṣṇa does not reveal Himself: sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ. (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.234) We cannot realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead by any artificial means. We must engage faithfully in the service of the Lord. Such service begins with the tongue (sevonmukhe hi jihvādau), which means that we should always chant the holy names of the Lord and accept kṛṣṇa-prasāda. We should not chant or accept anything else. When this process is faithfully followed, the Supreme Lord reveals Himself to the devotee.
When a person realizes himself to be an eternal servitor of Kṛṣṇa, he loses interest in everything but Kṛṣṇa’s service. Always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, devising means by which to spread the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, he understands that his only business is in spreading the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement all over the world. Such a person is to be recognized as an uttama-adhikārī, and his association should be immediately accepted according to the six processes (dadāti pratigṛhṇāti, etc.). Indeed, the advanced uttama-adhikārī Vaiṣṇava devotee should be accepted as a spiritual master. Everything one possesses should be offered to him, for it is enjoined that one should deliver whatever he has to the spiritual master. The brahmacārī in particular is supposed to beg alms from others and offer them to the spiritual master. However, one should not imitate the behavior of an advanced devotee or mahā-bhāgavata without being self-realized, for by such imitation one will eventually become degraded.
In this verse Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī advises the devotee to be intelligent enough to distinguish between the kaniṣṭha-adhikārīmadhyama-adhikārī and uttama-adhikārī. The devotee should also know his own position and should not try to imitate a devotee situated on a higher platform. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has given some practical hints to the effect that an uttama-adhikārī Vaiṣṇava can be recognized by his ability to convert many fallen souls to Vaiṣṇavism. One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikārī. A neophyte Vaiṣṇava or a Vaiṣṇava situated on the intermediate platform can also accept disciples, but such disciples must be on the same platform, and it should be understood that they cannot advance very well toward the ultimate goal of life under his insufficient guidance. Therefore a disciple should be careful to accept an uttama-adhikārī as a spiritual master.

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