THE GUARDIAN OF DEVOTION (2)

(4) Vaishnava Siddhanta:
Serving the Vaishnavas

(By Sripad Bhakti Madhur Ban Maharaj)

With saranagati—surrender to the Lord as one’s guardian—we finally come to know who is who, and who to really love and serve. Full surrender of body, mind and words establishes us in our real position and then our God consciousness becomes Krishna consciousness. This is the Vaishnava conception, which is able to gradually cure us of our diseased material condition. Once we are healthy then we are really in a higher plane of living, the plane which is beyond the jurisdiction of all misconceptions. The plane of devotion is where there is full dedication of the whole to the center, who is the only proprietor of everyone and everything in existence. But serving His servant, and his servant, and again his servant is the real teaching of Sri Krishna Chaitanya who is none other than Sri Sri Radha and Krishna combined. He is dearest to the Lord who follows this divine path of love devoid of any self interest. And this is our most fortunate position, our sanatana dharma, which can bring real satisfaction to the heart.

CONTENTS

(1) The Appearance of Sri Gaurasundar
(2) Perfect Conclusions of the Scriptures
(3) Universal Conception of Guru
(4) Vaishnava Siddhanta: Serving the Vaishnavas
(5) Exploitation, Renunciation, Dedication
(6) Faith in the Absolute
(7) The Spiritual Master and the Disciple
(8) Saranagati
(9) The Central Importance of Sadhu-Sanga
(10) The Magnanimous Nature of Sri Nityananda Prabhu
(11) The Worship of Sri Murti
(12) The Significance of Mahaprasad

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