Ten Progressive Stages Of KC Practice, Association With Sadhus Essential

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Pradyumna: [reads Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Pūrba-vibhāga, 2nd laharī, Texts 74, 75, 76, 77 to Prabhupāda.] guroḥ sevā sādhu-vartmānuvartanam sad-dharma-pṛcchā bhogādi-tyāgaḥ kṛṣṇasya hetave nivāso dvārakādau ca gaṅgāderapi sannidhau, vyāvahāreṣu sarveṣu yāvadarthānuvartitā, hari-vāsara sammāno,dhā tryaśvatthādi-gauravam, eṣām atra daśāṅgānāṁ bhavet prārambharūpatā. Prabhupāda: Yes. daśāṅgā. You first accept these ten different methods. So explain that. Pradyumna: Guru-pādāśrayaḥ: "First one must take shelter of the lotus feet of a spiritual master." Tasmāt kṛṣṇa-dīkṣādi-śikṣaṇam. Tasmāt, "from him," kṛṣṇa-dīkṣādi-śikṣaṇam, "one should take kṛṣṇa-dīkṣā, initiation, and śikṣā." Prabhupāda: Dīkṣā means divya-jñānaṁ kṣayāpayati iti dīkṣā.

Which explains the divya-jñāna, transcendental, that is dīkṣā. Di, divya, dīkṣāṇām. Dīkṣā. So divya-jñāna, transcendental knowledge...

If you don't accept spiritual master, how you'll get transcen... You'll be taught here and there, here and there, and waste time. Waste time for the teacher and waste your valuable time. Therefore you have to be guided by an expert spiritual master.

Pradyumna: Kṛṣṇa-dīkṣādi-śikṣaṇam. Prabhupāda: Śikṣaṇam. We have to learn. If you don't learn, how you'll make progress? Then? Pradyumna: Viśrambheṇa guroḥ sevā: "One should serve the guru, viśrambha..." Prabhupāda: With great respect, with reverence and respect.

Then? Pradyumna: Sādhu-vartmānuvartanam. Prabhupāda: And you must see that what you are doing, that is according to the principle which all other sādhus and devotees do. They have tilaka, and you say, "I have no tilaka." That is not sādhu-mārgānu. Sādhu-mārgānugamanam. They have kaṇṭhi.

You say, "I can avoid it." That is not sādhu-mārgānugamanam. So from very beginning, if you disobey, then how you'll make progress? Then? Pradyumna: Sad-dharma-pṛcchā. Prabhupāda: Sad-dharma-pṛcchā. You have to inquire from guru how to make progress.

That is sad-dharma. Asad-dharma and sad-dharma. Sad gamaya, asato mā: "Don't remain in darkness. Make progress." Oṁ tat sat.

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