In one lifetime, it is possible–SP

April 12, 2015 in Articles, Damaghosa Dasa by Damaghosa dasa

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 It is not that we are  all  liberated  persons. We have got so many attachments to  family, wife, country. But along with it, if we try to increase our attachment for  Kṛṣṇaautomatically there will be detachment. Automatically. Without endeavoring separately.  Vāsudeve bhagavati bhaktiyogaḥprayojitaḥ [SB  1.2.7.  Vāsudeva,  Kṛṣṇa. If we become engaged in bhaktiyoga  
 
So this is  bhaktimārga. If we follow these principles of  bhaktimārga we do not require to endeavor separately how to become detached. The detachment automatically follows.  Vāsudeve bhagavatibhaktiyogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayati āśu vairāgyam [SB  1.2.7Vairāgyammeans detachment. The  bhaktiyoga is known also as  vairāgya.Vairāgya. Sārvabhauma  Bhaṭṭācārya wrote verses about this  vairāgya.
 
Here is Śrī  Kṛṣṇa  Caitanya  Mahāprabhu who is  Kṛṣṇa Himself. He has come to teach us  vairāgyavidyā. It is little difficult. It is very difficult for ordinary  persons to understand this  vairāgyavidyā. Their business is how to increase attachment for this body, and  Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is how to increase detachment for this material life. Therefore it is called vairāgyavidyāVairāgyavidyā can be very easily achieved, just like it is recommended,  vāsudevebhagavati bhaktiyogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayati āśu vairāgyam [SB  1.2.7] ,very soon, very soon. 
Janayati āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca. Two things required in human life. One thing is  jñānamjñānaṁvijñānamāstikyaṁ brahmakarma svabhāvajam. This  jñānam means, beginning of  jñāna means “I am not this body. I am spirit soul.” That is  jñāna. And as soon as one is situated in that platform of  jñānam, it is easy. People are engaged everywhere for the benefit of this body. 
But if one understands, he come to the platform  jñānam, then naturally he becomes detached, that “I am not this body. Why I am working so hard for this body? 
 Jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam [SB  1.2.7].Automatically… Two things are required.  Caitanya  Mahāprabhu has many places, He has stressed on this, and by His life He is teaching jñānam and vairāgyam. One side  jñānam, in His teaching to  RūpaGosvāmī, teaching to Sanātana Gosvāmī, teaching to, talking with Sārvabhauma  Bhaṭṭācārya, Prakāśānanda  Sarasvatī, talking with Rāmānanda  Rāya. We have given all these things in our  Teachings of Lord Caitanya. So that is  jñānam. And by His example in His own life, taking  sannyāsa, He is teaching vairāgyaJñāna and  vairāgya,these two things are required.
 
So not  all of a sudden we can be situated on the platform of jñānam and vairāgyam, but if we practice, it is possible. It is possible. Not that it is impossible. That is recommended:

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