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Serpent

Hello I have been into worshiping the Lord Krishna for almost a year now.

In my worship I only worship Lord Krishna and the Goddess Radha his wife.

I don't worship any other God besides those two because I figure since Lord Krishna is the Lord of everything and all other Gods are faces of him, what is the point?

So in the end I only worship Lord Krishna and the Goddess Radha.

Am I wrong in my belief? Should I look deeper?

Comments?

radha damodara · Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 7

that's perfect.
Read Prabhupada's books

Serpent · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:40 am Post subject: Re: Haribol!

radha damodara wrote: that's perfect.
Read Prabhupada's books

Where are these books? My wealth is limited. :(

tirthadas · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 13 Location: USA

Serpent wrote: radha damodara wrote: that's perfect.
Read Prabhupada's books

Wherehttp://books.krishna.org/ are these books? My wealth is limited. :(

http://books.krishna.org/

Online and free!

Serpent · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:38 am Post subject: Re: Haribol!

tirthadas wrote: Serpent wrote: radha damodara wrote: that's perfect.
Read Prabhupada's books

Wherehttp://books.krishna.org/ are these books? My wealth is limited. :(

http://books.krishna.org/

Online and free!

ThankYou. :D

yogesh_25 · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Mumbai

Dear Prabhuji ,
Hare Krishna !!
It is very nice that you worship deities of Lord SriKrishna & shrimati Radharani daily but you have to add your spiritual master also in this. Without spiritual master , your worship & sadhana will remain incomplete. Lord Krishna says that those who try to serve my devotees are my real servants. Also our vedic scriptures tells that "yasya deve para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau" means the devotion for God & Spiritual master should be considered as same.

tirthadas · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 13 Location: USA

yogesh_25 wrote: Dear Prabhuji ,
Hare Krishna !!
It is very nice that you worship deities of Lord SriKrishna & shrimati Radharani daily but you have to add your spiritual master also in this. Without spiritual master , your worship & sadhana will remain incomplete. Lord Krishna says that those who try to serve my devotees are my real servants. Also our vedic scriptures tells that "yasya deve para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau" means the devotion for God & Spiritual master should be considered as same.

Now that he has Srila Prabhupada's books, he has a spiritual master.

varadaraja sharma · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 53

Radhe Krishna,

dear saha vaishnava bhakthas, I too worship Radha Krishna Yugalam.

As for worship, as said in Bhagavatham,

"Shravanam keerthanam vishnoho smaranam padasevanam
Archanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atmanivedanam"

I feel, we can try to do service to lord in all the possible ways

Shravanam : To hear scriptures explaining the anantha kalyana gunas of lord - like Shrimad Bhagavatham, Bhagavath Gita, Radha Rasa sudanidhi, Hari Bhakthi vilasam, Ujwala Nilamani, Gopala Champu, Vidagda Madhavam, Bakthi Rasamrutha Sindhu, the beautiful Sanathana keerthanas on Radha Krishna yugalam
Keerthanam : To recite above scriptures
Smaranam : To hear or to recite - u can't wth out remembering him
padasevanam : I feel this kainkarya is for great souls like mahalakshmi, Hanuman
Archanam : Vishnu sahasranamam and even to recite many sthuthis from shrimad Bhagavatham like "Kunthi Sthuthi, Bheeshma sthuthi, Shuka sthuthi, Varaha sthuthi, Dhruva sthuthi, Brahma sthuthi, Prahlada sthuthi,Raasa Panchadhyayi, Pancha geetham, Shruthi geetham, Bikshu geetham, Bhagavatha saaram would be like performing archana to the lord
Vandanam : to keep in high regard every soul who even once recite the name of Hari - A person even if once recite the name of the lord is considered as vaishnava - (that too "saankethyam paarihasyam va sthobam helanameva va) and to prostrate in front of the temples where god blesses his devotees in Archaroopam.
Dasyam : to do kainkarya to god and his devotees
Sakhyam : to worship god like a friend like arjuna, as also to be friendly with those souls who worship god
Atmanivedanam : the superior most and the most difficult of all - to selflessly surrender to god lke Prahlada and gopis of vraja did

I am trying to do almost all except the last but i humbly feel the association of saha krishna bhakthas would elevate me to do the last one also by the blessing of my guru and lord.

Radhe Krishna

Serpent

tirthadas wrote: yogesh_25 wrote: Dear Prabhuji ,
Hare Krishna !!
It is very nice that you worship deities of Lord SriKrishna & shrimati Radharani daily but you have to add your spiritual master also in this. Without spiritual master , your worship & sadhana will remain incomplete. Lord Krishna says that those who try to serve my devotees are my real servants. Also our vedic scriptures tells that "yasya deve para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau" means the devotion for God & Spiritual master should be considered as same.

Now that he has Srila Prabhupada's books, he has a spiritual master.

Very true. Also even if I had no guru I would say Lord Krishna is my guru and Lord so says he of the Gita.

mathuranathadas · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: books as guru

Dandavatpranams All Glories to Sri Sri Radha Govinda.No doubt reading the books of their Divine Graces A.C.Baktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,Baktisidanta Sariswati Prabupada and right through to Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhupada can help us so much.Though I have heard from the lotus mouths of the Vaisnavas that if we study those books under the guidance of a self realised soul we may more easilly avoid apparent understandings [appara vichar as opposed to tatva vichar],and secondary meanings.We may harbour misconcepions for many years ,fighting over the meanings of purports ,then a tava darshi who can see our doubts ,misconceptions and anartas can clear them.Disciple ,i have heard , means to be under strict disiplin.Will the books twist our ear and slap us babba?Even in this world if you only study medical books on your own and then try to practice as a doctor you will be arested as a quack,you have to study under fully qualified persons.Even if we were to become a servent in the presidents house we would have to be very carefully personally trained in all details what to speak of serving Radha and Krishna.

varadaraja sharma · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 53

Radhe Krishna,

Mathuranatha dasji, well said.

"Guror anugrahenaiva puman poorna prashantaye" - meaning a person becomes a complete personality after and only after going through the guidance of guru. Even shri krishna demonstrated this by being under sandipani albeit for a period of 64 days.

To worship Radha Krishna Yugalam as guided by guru would be the best way of worship.

Radhe krishna