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 Kṛṣṇa, automatically there will be detachment. Automatically. Without endeavoring separately. Vāsudeve bhagavat i bhakti–yogaḥprayojitaḥ [SB 1.2.7] . Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa. If we become engaged in bhakti–yoga…
So this is bhakti–mārga. If we follow these principles of bhakti–mārga we do not require to endeavor separately how to become detached. The detachment automatically follows. Vāsudeve bhagavatibh akti–yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayati āśu vairāgyam [SB 1.2.7] . V airāgyammeans detachment. The bhakti–yoga is known also as vairāgya.Vairāgya. Sārvabh auma Bhaṭṭācārya wrote verses about this vairāgya.
Here is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprab hu who is Kṛṣṇa Himself. He has come to teach us vairāgya–vidyā. It is little difficult. It is very difficult for ordinary persons to understand this vairāgya–vidyā. 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 vairāgya–vidyā. Vairāgy a–vidyā can be very easily achieved, just like it is recommended, vāsudevebhagavat i bhakti–yogaḥ prayojitaḥ jana yati āśu vairāgyam [SB 1.2.7] ,very soon, very soon.
Janayati āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca. Two things required in human life. One thing is jñānam, jñānaṁ–vijñānamāst ikyaṁ brahma–karma sva–bhāva–j am. 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 Mahāprabh u 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 vairāgya. Jñāna and vairāgya,these two things are required.