Different forms of Yoga

and the Topmost Yoga

system
Topic 5
 What is Yoga?

 ‘Yoga’ in sanskrit means Union.

It refers to the union, in love, between the individual
consciousness and the Supreme consciousness, the
soul and the Supersoul, i.e., the soul and God.

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 Yoga: What it is not
 Mere physical exercise for
shaping the body, good
health and long life
 Emaciating renunciate in
meditation

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 Man with some extra ordinary powers

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 Varieties of Yoga

1.Karma Yoga
2.Jnana Yoga
3.Dhyana Yoga
4.Bhakti Yoga
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 Karma yoga

The process whereby one

performs his work for God
without the selfish desire for
personal gain.

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 Jnana Yoga

The process of elevation to

spiritual consciousness
through the cultivation of
philosophical knowledge.

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 Astanga yoga or Dhyana Yoga

A mechanical meditative
practice meant to control the
mind and senses and focus
one’s concentration on the
Supreme.

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 Bhakti yoga
सर्वेषां मद्ग‍तेनान्तरात्मना ।
श्रद्धावान्भजते यो मां स मे
युक्ततमो मत: ॥ ४७ ॥
The yoga of selfless, ecstatic, devotional love of
God, Krsna, as Krsna Himself confirms:
Of all yogis, he who always abides in Me, with
great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental
loving service, is most intimately united with Me
in yoga and is the highest of all
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 Human beings

Law abiders Law breakers

Karmis Jnanis Dhyanis Bhaktas

Sakam Niskam

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 Law Breakers

 No Belief in God, rebirth or karma; they say,

“this world came by chance”
 This world is all in all; there is nothing beyond
 Sense Gratification is their goal [BG 16.11-12]
 Sophisticated animals conditioned to the bodily
concept of life

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 Law Breakers

 Trying to find out better ways of Eating, sleeping, mating

and defending
 No discrimination between pious and sinful activities
 Tirelessly endeavor for little sense gratification
 “Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by
demoniac and atheistic views. In that deluded condition,
their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and
their culture of knowledge are all defeated.” [B.G. 9.12]

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 Karma Kandis – Fruitive Workers following Scriptural
Injunctions
 Those who want to follow scriptures, besides having regulated
sense gratification are called ‘Karma Kandis’
 Any thought, word, deed not connected to the Supreme Lord is
SIN. So they are not ‘sinful’.
 Instead of involving in improper ways of sense gratification and
inviting severe wrath of Yama raja,…
 Regulate sense gratification by following scriptures; worshipping
the respective demigods
 This way attain gradual detachment from sense gratification
 Meant for gradual upliftment, but they are not end in themselves
 Less intelligent people think that the purpose of Vedas is to elevate
one to the heavenly planets
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 Trai-gunya-visaya veda
nistrai-gunyo bhavrjuna
nirdvandvo nitya-sattva-stho
niryoga-ksema atmavan

“The Vedas deal mainly with the subject of the

3 modes of material nature. O Arjuna, become
transcendental to these 3 modes. Be free from
all dualities and from all anxieties for gain and
safety, and be established in the self.
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 Real religious principles are
‘nistraigunya’, above the 3
modes of nature, or
transcendental activities
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 Liberation from Material
Bondage
 This world is a place of misery as
certified by Lord Krsna Himself.
 One must work for freedom from
the cycle of birth and death.

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 Temporary Stop-gap Solutions
 Advancement in Science and Technology aims at
reducing the miseries of man and providing comfort.
 For example, a fan is used to reduce the miseries of
sweating; a motor cycle is used to avoid the miseries
of pedaling a cycle.
 If possible it wants to put an end to all miseries of
man

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  But these advancements only
provides temporary solutions to
man’s problems
 We will see these problems once
again come to the surface in some
other form

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 Once a man got a boil. A doctor gave him some
ointment to apply on it.
But after some time, he got a similar boil in another part
of his body and again went to the same doctor who
advised him to apply the medicine whenever the boil
comes…

The poor man thought, “Every time I get the boil, it lasts
for a week and I have enormous pain. Is there no way to
put an end to this problem altogether?
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 He went to another doctor who
could understand the root-
cause of the problem-impurity
in the blood. He treated the
patient’s blood and the patient
was permanently cured.
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 People do not know the
root cause of the problem –
misidentification of oneself
to matter.

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 Yaya sammohito jiva
atmanam tri-gunatmakam
paro ‘pi manuti ‘nartham
tat-krtam cabhipadyate
“Due to the external energy, the living
entity,although transcendental to the 3 modes of
nature, thinks himself as a material product and
undergoes material miseries.”

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 The real problems of life are:
Birth
Old age
Disease
Death
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 Birth

 Very painful
 For months, the fetus lies in a bow
like position bitten by hungry worms
in the abdomen of the mother and
eating it’s own stool, hair, urine
mixed with food and jolted by
sudden movements

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 Old Age

No one wants to grow old due to so

much suffering due to it
These days old people are forced to
go to old age homes and don’t get
any love
Mental problem; body does not
cooperate
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 Disease

One disease goes and next one comes –

Cancer, AIDS, etc.,
We may cure one disease for sometime,
but we cannot disease per se
pain incurred through diseases is a
common experiences of anyone and needs
no explanation

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 Death

Garuda Purana says that death

is extremely painful and one
experiences a pain equivalent to
40,000 scorpion bites.
One has to be forced out of the
body
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 “In the moment of death, one’s eyes bulge due to
pressure of air from within, and his glands become
congested with mucus. He has difficulty in breathing,
and there is a rattling sound within the throat … He dies
most pathetically.”
[S.B. 3.30.16-18]

So it is very important to have the perception of the

evil of birth, old age, disease and death. So unless one
is utterly convinced that material life is utterly
miserable, one cannot take to spiritual life.
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 3-fold miseries of material nature

In prison, food, water, clothing and

shelter are given but under punishment;
The rebellious living entities are put into
the prison house of the material world
with all facilities such as air, water etc.,
under the punishment of the 3-fold
miseries of material nature
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 Sanatana Goswami
submitted to Lord
Caitanya on behalf
of us that people
respect him as a
great scholar but he
does not know who
he is and why is he
suffering.
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 3-fold miseries
Adhyatmika
Adhibhautika
Adhidaivika
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 Adhyatmika

 Refers to the miseries caused by mind and

body
 Sometimes the living entity suffers bodily
and sometimes he is distressed mentally
 We experience this even in the womb of
the mother

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 Adhibhautika
Refers to miseries
caused by other living
entities
Even some small
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 Adhidaivika
Miseries are natural disasters that
originate with the demigods of higher
planets.
For instance, severe cold, hot weather,
thunderbolt, earthquakes, tornados,
droughts etc.,

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 Durga

 This material world is called ‘Durga’

which means fort.

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 Trident
The Trident of Durga represents
the 3-fold miseries.
Durga pierces the hearts of the
living entities with this trident, in
order to remind them that they are
presently staying in an artificial
place, which is not their original
home.
The miseries should give us an
impetus to take to spiritual life
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 Mayadevi /Durgadevi
also is a pure devotee
of Krsna and her
service is to screen
the living entities and
hand over the pure
devotees back to the
spiritual world.
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 Both the spiritual master and Mayadevi
To start
from here. are working for the same goal – to
reclaim the conditioned souls and take
them back to Godhead. The difference
is that the spiritual master gives you
knowledge and instruction to progress
in Krsna consciousness, Mayadevi gives
you slap/kick to remind you what you
are doing is not correct.
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 The law abiding beings are classified into:

Karmis
 Sakama
 Niskama
Jnanis
Bhaktas
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 The Sakama-Karmis or Fruitive
workers want to enjoy the
results of their labour and
The Niskama-Karmis renounce
the fruits of action.

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 The ladder of Yogic Process

Bhakti Yoga – Loving

devotional service to Krsna
Astanga Yoga – Meditation
on the Supersoul in the heart
Jnana Yoga – Impersonalist, Knowledge and
Austerity
Karma Yoga – Renunciation of fruits of one’s
labour

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 Elevation

When a person is firmly situated at one

stage, he then has to give up attachment
and adher to the practice of that stage in
order to elevate himself to the next
higher stage.

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 Karma Yoga

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 If You Do Fruitive Activity…

The fruitive acts gives fruits which

when experienced will create new
activities and a set of results…
This goes on without an end like a
mammoth tree sprouting with endless
branches and twigs.

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 Fruitive Activity…

By performing fruitive work in just one

lifetime, one gets entangled in the cycle of
Karma and as a result the soul enters the
8.4 million species and suffer the 3-fold
miseries.

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 If You Renounce Action…
 Trying to give up all activities is no solution
 Smrtis tell us that we inevitably commit 5 kinds of sins.

Sins committed by:-

1. Scratching
2. Rubbing
3. Starting a fire
4. Pouring water from a pot
5. Cleaning one’s house

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 “Perform your prescribed duties for doing so
is better than not working. One cannot even
maintain one’s physical body without work.”
[B.G. 3.8]

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 How to be active without Material Entanglement?

To perform all activities only as a sacrifice for the

satisfaction of Lord Visnu is true freedom from the
results of activities.
‘Naiskarmya’ – Activities performed without
expectation of any sense gratification.

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 1. ‘Mayi sarvani karmani sanyasya’
2. ‘Adhyatma cetasa’ – Aware of the constitutional
position
3. ‘Nirasi’ – Work without desire for fruit
4. ‘Nirmama’ – Give up proprietorship and
Controllership
5. ‘Vigata jvara’ – Work without Laziness
[B.G. 3.30-31]
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 Transcendentalists

2 classes

1) Personalist
The devotee who engages himself with all energy in the service of
the Supreme Lord.
2) Impersonalist
Engages in meditating the impersonal Brahman, the unmanifested.

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 Types of Worship
1) Saguna
Worship of Supreme in the form within the
temple possessing attributes represented by
material qualities
2) Nirguna
Worship of Supreme not possessing attributes

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 Arca-vigraha

The arca-vigraha is not material.

It is same as the spiritual form of the Lord.
Because we cannot see the spiritual form of
the Lord with our material eyes, the form is
represented by material qualities such as
stone, wood or oil paint etc.,

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 Troublesome path of Jnana-yogis

The jnana-yogis have to:

 Understand the unmanifested rep. of the Supreme thru Vedic literatures
 Learn the language
 Understand the non-perceptual feelings
 Analyse the differences between matter and spirit by neti-neti process
 Perform lot of mental speculation and realize the Supreme

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 A Krsna conscious person engages in
devotional service.
Accepts the guidance of the bonafide
spiritual master.
Offers regulated obeisances unto the
Deity.

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 Hears the glories of the Lord.
Eats the remnants of foodstuffs offered to
the Lord.
Thus he realizes the Supreme Personality
of Godhead very easily.

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 Jnana Yogi gets
promoted to Bhakti-
yoga through
Association of a
Devotee.
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 Keshava
Kashmiri
meeting
Lord
Caitanya
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 Bahunam janmanam ante
jnanavan mam prapadyate
vasudevah sarvam iti
sa mahatma su-durlabhah
“After many births and deaths, he who is acting in
knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be
the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great
soul is very rare.” [B.G. 7.19]

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 Dhyana Yoga or Astanga Yoga
Astanga yoga is the eight fold procedure
called Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama,
Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi.
Pratyahara is the process of driving out the
sense objects and then keep the vision of the
eyes between the two eyebrows and
concentrate on the tip of the nose with half
closed eyelids.
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 The breathing movement is restrained
within the nostrils by neutralizing the
up-moving and down-moving air
within the body.
By controlling the senses, refraining
from external sense objects, one
prepares for liberation.
This Astanga Yoga is the prelude to
Dhyana Yoga

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 Astanga Yoga

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 For a beginner in the Astanga
Yoga, the bodily exercises that
assist meditation are considered
material activities.
When he is accomplished in that
practice, he ceases these
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 The 8-fold Mystic perfections

1. Anima
2. Lagima
3. Mahima
4. Prapti
5. Isita
6. Prakamya
7. Vasita
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 Anima-siddhi

 Refers to the power by which one can

become so small that he can enter into a
stone.
 Modern day subways and tunnels also
enable us to enter into stone!

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 Laghima Siddhi
There is development of the power to
become so light that one can float in the
air or on water.
For instance, a mystic yogi can enter into
the sun planet simply by using the rays of
sunshine.
The modern scientists are flying in the air,
they are floating on the surface of the
water!
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 Mahima Siddhi

Capacity to become heavier than

the mountain or any other heavy
thing.

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 Prapti Siddhi
Acquisition
A yogi can touch the moon
with his finger
He can extend his hand
anywhere and take whatever
he likes, say a fruit from a
distant garden.
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 Isita Siddhi

By this yoga-siddhi
one can create and
destroy an entire
planet simply at will.

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 Vasita Siddhi
By this perfection, one can bring anyone
under his control.
This is a kind of hypnotism which is almost
irresistible.
Even little perfection in this can empower
one to control the people’ mind in spite of
their speaking all nonsense; They
sometimes exploit those who want to get
cheated and take their money and go
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 There is no
difference
between mystic
perfection and
materialistic
perfection.
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 Foolish people are enamored by the glimmer of modern
materialistic advancement and think that they are better off
being busy with material comforts – maintaining a nice
apartment, family and sex life. They do not know that they
can be kicked out of their material situation at any moment.

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 After attaining one or two of the above
perfections, many mystic yogis fall into the trap of
mental oscillation.
In such a state, the yogi fails to attain the highest
perfection, namely, pure devotion to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.

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 A Krsna conscious person
has no such fear of falling
down, for his attention is
already fixed in the
transcendental service of
Krsna.
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 For the devotee, the mystic
perfections seem
insignificant due to the
ever-increasing freshness of
his object of attention,
Krsna.
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 Rules of Regulations in Astanga
Yoga
1. Select a very secluded and sacred place
(8-fold meditation cannot be performed
in a fashionable city).
2. One should practice strict celibacy and
abstain from sex completely
3. One should not eat too much or sleep
too much
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 A Yogi should discipline his mental
activities by regulating eating, sleeping,
recreation and work
Completely devoid of material desires
the yogi should focus the mind on the
Supersoul
Like a lamp in a windless place does not
waver, the yogi whose mind is controlled
should remain always steady in his
meditation on Krsna - SAMADHI

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 Limitation of Astanga Yoga

 Even 5000 years ago, when circumstances in the world were different, this
yoga system was not practicable
 Arjuna who belonged to the royal family, a great warrior, an intimate friend
of Krsna, said, “My dear Krsna, it is not possible to follow this process of
yoga for the mind is restless and unsteady.”

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 It is not possible for an ordinary man to
leave home and go to a secluded place in
the mountains or jungles to practice yoga
in this Age of Kali.
Life is short and there is bitter struggle for
life
This system is generally impossible in Kali
yuga.
Those who are imitating this yoga system
in different modern societies are certainly
wasting their time.
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 Bhakti Yoga

 Connecting oneself with Krsna and

reviving our relationship as His
eternal associate.
 Includes 3 items:
(1) The Servitor
(2) The Served
(3) The Service
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Krsna is the served, living entity is the servitor
and there are 9 processes of devotional service
to the Lord and a candidate can choose to adopt
any one, two or three or all however he likes.
All services rendered to Krsna are
absolute.

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 Nine-fold path of Devotional
Service
1. Sravanam – Hearing – King Pariksit
2. Kirtanam – Recitation – Sukadeva
Goswami
3. Smaranam – Remembering – Prahlad
Maharaja
4. Arcanam – Worshipping – King Prthu
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 5. Vandanam – Offering Prayers – Akrura
6. Pada Sevanam – Serving – Lakshmiji
7. Dasyam – Carrying out orders – Hanuman
8. Sakhyam – Making friends with the Lord –
Arjuna
9. Atma Nivedanam – Surrendering
Everything – Emperor Bali
King Ambarish adopted all the above 9 items
and he attain perfect success.

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 ‘Step-By-Step Gradual
Development Process
and
Direct Process
to attain Pure Devotional Service’

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 In the 12 Chapter, BG entitled,
th

“Devotional Service” verses 8 to

12, Krsna is offering various
opportunities for conditioned
living entities to return back to
Him depending on their ability to
surrender.
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 “Just fix your mind upon Me,
the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, and engage all your
intelligence in Me. Thus you
will live in Me always, without
a doubt.”
[B.G. 12.8]
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 A devotee…

Chants Hare Krsna and fixes his mind

constantly on the lotus feet of Krsna
Offers food to Krsna and accepts the
eatables, and becomes Krsnaised by
eating those remnants
Performs all activities connected only to
Krsna
Thus a devotee always lives in Krsna.
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 “My dear Arjuna, if you cannot
fix your mind upon Me without
deviation, then follow the
regulative principles of bhakti-
yoga. In this way develop a
desire to attain Me.”
[B.G. 12.9]
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 Love of Krsna
 The constitutional position of living entity is :
‘Jivera svaroopa haya Krsnera nitya dasa’
‘living entity is an eternal servant of Krsna’.
 This love is dormant within the heart just like a
fiery coal is covered by the contamination of
ashes. It has to be revived just like red hot coal is
revived by blowing off the ashes.

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 Under the direction of an expert spiritual master,
one should follow certain principles:-
one should rise early in the morning
Take bath, enter the temple
Offer Prayers and chant Hare Krsna

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 Hear Bhagavad Gita, Srimad
Bhagavatam from pure
devotees
Cook foodstuffs, offer to the
Deity, take prasadam
and so on…
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 “If you cannot practice the
regulations of bhakti-yoga, then
just try to work for Me, because
by working for Me you will
come to the perfect stage.”
[B.G. 12.10]
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 Offering money for building
temples, publishing Krsna
conscious books etc.,

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 “If however you are unable to
work in this consciousness of
Me, then try to act giving up all
results of your work and try to
be self-situated.”
[B.G.12.11]

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 When one is not even interested, or due to social,
familial, religious considerations not able to
directly involve in the activities of Krsna
consciousness, and gives charity to some social
institution like hospitals, he gives up the hard-
earned results of his activities.

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 Opening Hospitals, Doing charity,
Planting trees…

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 “If you cannot take to this practice, then engage
yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better
than knowledge, however, is meditation, and
better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits
of action, for by such renunciation one can attain
peace of mind”
[B.G.12.12]

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 The direct method is devotional service in Krsna
consciousness.
The other method is the step by step method
involving renouncing the fruits of one’s activities,
cultivating knowledge, meditation and so on.

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 As far as Bhagavad Gita is concerned, the direct
method is stressed.
Everyone is advised to take to the direct
method and surrender unto the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Krsna.

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 Bhakti Yoga: The
Culmination of all
Yoga Systems

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 Tapasvibhyo ‘dhiko yogi
jnanibhyo ‘pi mato ‘dhikah
karmibhyas’ cadhiko yogi
tasmad yogi bhavarjuna
“A yogi is greater than the ascetic,
greater than the empiricist and greater
than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O
Arjuna, in all circumstances, be a yogi”.
[B.G.6.46]
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 STEP 4: Bhakti Yoga
Astanga Yoga + Loving Devotional Service
to the Supreme Lord, Krsna
STEP 3: Astanga Yoga/ Dhyana Yoga V
Renouncing fruits + knowledge + Control of A
mind and senses by 8-fold path + Meditation I
on Paramatma in the heart
D
STEP 2: Jnana Yoga
H
Renouncing Fruits + Speculative I DIRECT
knowledge about Brahman + Austerity + METHOD
STEP 1: Karma yoga / Niskama Karma
R
Renouncing fruits of one’s labour
A
STEP 0: Karma Kanda
G
Fruitive worker performing rituals for elevating to heavenly
planets, Regulated Sense Gratification in accordance with A
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 Staircase and lift example

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 Qualities of a Pure Devotee

1. Never disturbed in any circumstances.

Not envious of anyone. Does not act as
his enemy’s enemy – He suffers than
protesting
2. Always calm, quiet, patient, despite any
distressful circumstances; Accepts all
difficulties as Lord’s mercy upon Him

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 Qualities of a Pure Devotee
3. Always kind to everyone, even to his enemy. He
does not attach much importance to pains and
pleasures pertaining to his body because he
knows perfectly well that he is not his body
4. No false ego
5. Tolerant, satisfied with whatever comes by
Lord’s mercy; does not endeavor much to
achieve something, therefore he is always joyful
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 Qualities of a Pure Devotee

6. Perfect mystic because he is perfectly fixed

in the instructions received from the
spiritual master
7. Senses are controlled – he is determined.
8. Fully conscious that Krsna is the Supreme
Lord, so no one can disturb him.

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Destination of Different Yogis
After Death
 Dhyana Yogi

 At the end of one’s life, a Dhyana yogi, fixes his mind on the Visnu Murti
within the heart, vibrates the syllable ‘Om’ and quits his body after deciding
where he should go.
 He may enter into Goloka Vrndavan and attain his svaroopa as Trees, Grass
etc., in Santa rasa – Neutral Relationship
 If he is not a personalist, he may enter into the Brahma jyoti and exist just as
atoms exist within the sunshine

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 Jnana Yogi

 They attain Brahma jyoti

 Since there is no variety in the Brahma Jyoti, the Jnana yogi or the
impersonalist falls back to the material world because he has neglected
to serve the Supreme Lord with love and devotion
 They will want to have sense pleasure again. This is the risk they take.

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 Bhakti Yogi
Krsna’s planet is described in Brahma
Samhita (5.29):
cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa
laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam
laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-
sevyamanam
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

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 “I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the
first progenitor, who is tending the surabhi
cows that fulfill all desires, who is
surrounded by millions of purpose (wish-
fulfilling) trees and abodes built with
spiritual gems, and who is always served
with great reverence and affection by
hundreds and thousands of goddesses of
fortune”.
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 A Bhakti yogi at the time of
death enter into Krsna loka,
Krsna’s planet, and enjoy in
the association of Krsna, the
reservoir of all pleasure.
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 Because we are conscious of
Krsna, we are already living
with Krsna. Krsna becomes
easily available to a bhakti yogi.
‘Tasyaham sulabhah partha’. –
“I become very cheap for
them!”.
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 Rareness of a Pure Devotee of
Krsna
Brahmanda brahmite kona bhagyavan jiva
Guru Krsna prasade paya bhakti lata bija

“After transmigrating from one species to

another from time immemorial, a rare
living entity gets the seed of bhakti lata
from Guru and Krsna. Such a soul is very
rare.”

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 CHART TO ILLUSTRATE
THE RARITY OF A PURE
DEVOTEE

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 LIVING ENTIT IES

ET ERNA LL Y ET ERNA LL Y
LIBERAT ED C ONDITIONED

M OVING NON-M OVING

(BIRDS & BEASTS) (TREES)

THOSE THAT THOSE THAT THOSE THAT

SW IM IN W ATER FLY IN THE SKY W ALK ON LAND
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 THOSE THAT
W ALK ON LAND

400,000 SPECIES 3,000,000 SPECIES

OF HUMAN BEINGS OF BEASTS

ARYA ANARYA
CIVILISED UNCIVILISED

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RIGHTEOUS UNRIGHTEOUS
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 RIGHTEOUS

JNANIS KARMIS

LIBERATED NOT LIBERATED

DESIRE FOR KRSNA BHAKTAS DESIRE TO BECOME

MYSTIC POWERS ONE WITH GOD
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