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Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Dandvat Pranams 🙇🏻
Prabhu I have a question 😅, Since I don't have a Siksha Guru (But Śrīla Prabhupada is Siksha Guru and Association of Devotees Online) nor am I initiated, I don't know I am even qualified to ask this question
Prabhu How do I develop my rasa?
I know one should not openly reveal his rasa, but I have a question 😅
Prabhu I want to seriously develop my rasas with Kṛṣṇa and especially Srimati Radharani and to develop in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and get qualified to read the rasik Gauḍīya scriptures and do something before I die that will make Śrīla Prabhupada proud.
I am currently possessing Sakhya rasa for Lord Kṛṣṇa and Dasya + maternal love for Srimati Radharani.
My Dear Devotee,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
When you become a pure devotee you will understand your rasa, that particular way that are related with Krishna either in neutrality, as a servant, as a friend, as a parent, or as a lover. This stage of perfection is called svarūpa-siddhi. But this is not attained until you are perfect in devotional service.
So first deserve, then desire. In the neophyte stage it is premature to think you have a particular rasa. Such imagining will be detrimental for your spiritual progress. Here are the stages you must go through unti you can enter into your rasa:
Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.4.15-16)
ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-
saṅgo 'tha bhajana-kriyā
tato 'nartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt
tato niṣṭhā rucis tataḥ
athāsaktis tato bhāvas
tataḥ premābhyudañcati
sādhakānām ayaṁ premṇaḥ
prādurbhāve bhavet kramaḥ
"In the beginning one must have a preliminary desire for self-realization. This will bring one to the stage of trying to associate with persons who are spiritually elevated. In the next stage one becomes initiated by an elevated spiritual master, and under his instruction the neophyte devotee begins the process of devotional service. By execution of devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master, one becomes free from all material attachment, attains steadiness in self-realization, and acquires a taste for hearing about the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. This taste leads one further forward to attachment for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which is matured in bhāva, or the preliminary stage of transcendental love of God. Real love for God is called prema, the highest perfectional stage of life."
ISKCON Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, ordered his disciples to become gurus and deliver the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari has taken this order very seriously and is thus accepting disciples all over the world and has dedicated himself fully to the mission of making the entire world Krishna conscious as soon as possible. He requests your help in this most urgent world deliverance mission to save the suffering humanity from gliding down to the animal kingdom in their next births.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari email: sd@worldleader.com
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Mahabhagavat Das
Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom
Question: How to Develop My Rasa?
Hare Kṛṣṇa Prabhu,Dandvat Pranams 🙇🏻
Prabhu I have a question 😅, Since I don't have a Siksha Guru (But Śrīla Prabhupada is Siksha Guru and Association of Devotees Online) nor am I initiated, I don't know I am even qualified to ask this question
Prabhu How do I develop my rasa?
I know one should not openly reveal his rasa, but I have a question 😅
Prabhu I want to seriously develop my rasas with Kṛṣṇa and especially Srimati Radharani and to develop in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and get qualified to read the rasik Gauḍīya scriptures and do something before I die that will make Śrīla Prabhupada proud.
I am currently possessing Sakhya rasa for Lord Kṛṣṇa and Dasya + maternal love for Srimati Radharani.
Answer: First Deserve Then Desire
From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USAMy Dear Devotee,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
When you become a pure devotee you will understand your rasa, that particular way that are related with Krishna either in neutrality, as a servant, as a friend, as a parent, or as a lover. This stage of perfection is called svarūpa-siddhi. But this is not attained until you are perfect in devotional service.
So first deserve, then desire. In the neophyte stage it is premature to think you have a particular rasa. Such imagining will be detrimental for your spiritual progress. Here are the stages you must go through unti you can enter into your rasa:
Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.4.15-16)
ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-
saṅgo 'tha bhajana-kriyā
tato 'nartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt
tato niṣṭhā rucis tataḥ
athāsaktis tato bhāvas
tataḥ premābhyudañcati
sādhakānām ayaṁ premṇaḥ
prādurbhāve bhavet kramaḥ
"In the beginning one must have a preliminary desire for self-realization. This will bring one to the stage of trying to associate with persons who are spiritually elevated. In the next stage one becomes initiated by an elevated spiritual master, and under his instruction the neophyte devotee begins the process of devotional service. By execution of devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master, one becomes free from all material attachment, attains steadiness in self-realization, and acquires a taste for hearing about the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. This taste leads one further forward to attachment for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which is matured in bhāva, or the preliminary stage of transcendental love of God. Real love for God is called prema, the highest perfectional stage of life."
I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
The Most Urgent World Deliverance Mission
ISKCON Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, ordered his disciples to become gurus and deliver the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari has taken this order very seriously and is thus accepting disciples all over the world and has dedicated himself fully to the mission of making the entire world Krishna conscious as soon as possible. He requests your help in this most urgent world deliverance mission to save the suffering humanity from gliding down to the animal kingdom in their next births.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari email: sd@worldleader.com
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