Devotees of God, Javier Figuerola Srila Prabhupada says in his books that a devotee of God is a person who strongly believes that by following the rules and regulations of devotional life someday become devotee. There are three levels of devotees, the novice, intermediate and higher. The difference between these three devotees is faith, faith means to have complete conviction that by chanting the holy name of Krishna automatically perform all the duties and complete all pious activities and are experts in quoting Scripture, the neophyte has a Flexible faith and are not skilled in the Scriptures, the intermediate has great faith but also is an expert in quoting Scripture and the top has full faith and is very skilled in the Scriptures. The neophyte singing the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H is pronounced like j jota), committing the ten offenses, the symptom that a devotee sings and commits offenses is that even has the desire to enjoy matter, intermediate devotee sings in the explanatory stage, and is a good candidate for a senior devotee and the superior devotee chants Hare Krishna without offenses, in pure stage and live forever with God, just as a fish can not live without water the superior devotee can not live without God or Krishna. Unfortunately there are devotees who have received all the mercy of his spiritual master and instead of being grateful offend his spiritual master disobeying his instructions and the results of these offenses is that they become atheists. Now, one can ask the question Why Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead? The answer is, because He is set to accurate and detailed descriptions of the Supreme Being, the Divine, in other words, Krishna is God because He is all-attractive. Beyond the supreme principle of attraction, there is another meaning of the word God. How can anyone be supremely attractive? First of all, if someone is very rich, if you have great wealth, then becomes an attractive person for people in general. In a similar way if someone is very powerful, it also becomes an attractive person; and if someone is very famous, very beautiful, or wise, or is detached from all kinds of possessions, also becomes an attractive person. Thus, for practical experience we can observe that one is attractive due to: 1) wealth, 2) power, 3) fame, 4) beauty, 5) wisdom, and 6) renunciation. One who simultaneously possesses all these six opulences and that possesses unlimited degree, is understood to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Parasara Muni, a great Vedic authority describes these opulences of God. We have seen many rich, powerful, famous, beautiful, learned and scholarly persons; We have seen many people who belong to the order of renounced life and are unattached to material possessions, but we have never seen anyone like Krishna in the history of mankind, it was simultaneous and unlimitedly rich, powerful, famous, bello , wise and unattached. Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is an historical person who appeared on this planet five thousand years ago and behaved as a human being; but their activities were not parallel, from the moment of its appearance at the time of his disappearance. Each of the activities is unique in world history, and therefore who knows what we mean by the word God, accept Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one is equal to God, no one is greater than Him That is the meaning of the familiar proverb God is great.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:07:48 +0000
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