We respect astrology, vaastu, etc but we dont put our faith in them .................... Nectarean Mellows *Question by HG RadhaGopinath Prabhu*: Hare Krsna Maharaj. Maharaj, you talked about how material education or material knowledge can be taken and utilized without taking shelter and thanks to Prabhupada we have now faith in the Vedic scriptures but there are also some sub-religious principles, like Ayurveda, shastra for health, astrological jyotish shastra for future predictions, vaastu shastra for some situation at home, etc. And because of having faith in the scriptures as this is also coming from the Vedic scriptures , there is a tendency to develop faith and it leaves strong scar on the heart of devotees and even to the extent of their faith in the Krsna consciousness being disturbed and we dont know as waves of time moves various different sub religious scriptures keep coming and going. Now how to make sure that while understanding that they are also Vedic scriptures, not be influenced and maintain fixed ... what should be the line of the demarcation so that we can always fix our consciousness at the lotus feet of the Lord? *Answer by HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj: * trai-gunya-vishaya veda ,nistrai-gunyo bhavarjuna, nirdvandvo nitya-sattva-stho, niryoga-kshema atmavan Krsna answers your question.. Its in Bhagavad Gita, the Vedic literatures mainly deal with the three modes of material nature. Give them up Arjuna! Be transcendental to all of them. Surrender to Me. Sarva Dharman................ma sucah, The Vedas teach all different types of Dharma, Krsna says give them all up, abandon all varieties of dharma and just surrender to Me. We have just what Lord Caitanya said , dont look in the northern , southern or western direction , they are all places that Vedas teach us to go! Karma Kandaa , Go there, Go there, Go there !! and the wasp will bite you , Haribol.. Ofcourse the Karma Kanda division does not talk about the wasps biting you, they will tell you about , you can have a nice beautiful wife or a handsome wealthy husband, you can have power and control over so many servants and when you die you can enter into the heavenly abode of Indra or may be Candra or may be even Surya but in the end whethere you have a beautiful wife , handsome noble husband or whether you live in a beautiful state or Indra Loka up to Brahmaloka, the bees wil sting you and you will suffer miserably. Haribol! So that’s what happens when you follow that division of the Vedas. And the astanga portion of the Vedas , you will be haunted by ghost, and the Jnana Kanda division of the Vedas, you will be devoured by snakes. So Krsna is telling us very clearly in Gita, in Bhagvatam, Vedavyas wrote all these Vedic Literatures you are talking about and he was miserable . he was sitting at Bhadrika ashram at the banks of Sarasvati thinking I failed, why why why am i felling so much anguish in my heart and the Narad Muni appeared and said because you have cheated all these people. You have given them so much cheating religion. Until you teach people real unalloyed devotion to the Lord then people will not find real satisfaction within their hearts.So we can utilize various systems of Vedic knowledge , but never depend on them. We can use them in Krsnas service, our dependency is on Krsna. We are depending on the mercy of Krsna , it is only the mercy of Krsna that can awaken your original consciousness. Your original consciousness will not be awakened even if you arrange your house perfectly according to Vastu Shastra. Your original consciousness cannot even be slightly stimulated by the topmost astrologer in all of the Bharat Varsha . We can use these things but we are not depending on them. We are depending on Krsna, we are depending on mercy.I was explaining the other night that who is the real astrologer who actually knows what he or she is really talking about ? Would you like to know?I will share the information: A real astrologer who actually knows something about the truth, if a devotee goes to them, he will say , here is your horoscope. This happened to me! I was brought in 1971 , where a very very profoundly famous astrologer who is also a sadhu. he said to me , If you like , I can tell you what your astrological predictions are, something of your past, what to be careful of but before i start , I have to be honest, nothing I say necessarily applies to you because you are a devotee. This is regular course of Karmic nature but when you are a devotee , you have surrendered to Krsna, you are ultimately under Krsnas control, His protection.Therefore devotees never ever underestimate or compromise the highest reality that our shelter is Krsnas mercy, not the karmic situations of the past. Palmistry is a Vedic science, is it not ? A palmist looked at my palm once and said Actually , I can tell what your lines say but really if you surrender to Krsna they have no relevance because you are depending on Krsnas mercy. Prabhupada said clap your hand in front of the deities (everyone claps), and all your lines will change. Whats Prabhupada saying , he is saying your destiny is changing, these are just lines but your actual destiny is changing, your future , your prospects in life are changing, when you clap your hands in front of the deities, now no palmist is going to see that! They are going to see what you are seeing, look its like that (laughs). So this is a great Danger , when neophyte devotees who are very unfortunate and you can quote me on that if you like, they hear from this various types of persons and they put more faith on what the astrologer or what the Vaastu Shastris or the doctor or the scientists they put more faith in these than they do in the Guru or the Sadhus and the scriptures.Their life is simply controlled by the Karma kanda mentality. Where does sarva-dharman parityajya, mam ekam saranam vraja has to do with that mentality ?Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur was the greatest astrologer and when he started preaching Krsna consciousness , he gave it up. Because he understood that the real gift to the world is not to teach them what their Karmic situation is , the real gift is to tell them how to get out of it by taking shelter of Krsna by loudly chanting His Holy names. Astrology is a real science as if all of these other types of sciences in the Vedas and therefore *we respect them but we dont put our faith in them*. We dont depend on them or their teachers, we get indications, signals from them and that can be used in Krsnas service but if those indications and signals divert your faith away from Krsna to all of these things, Rupa Goswami says accept what is favourable for your pure devotional service and reject what is unfavourable , that applies to everything. so if we can use these things in Krsnas service so we should them in Krsnas service, they give us certain background information that may be useful but we are not depending on them. we are crying out for mercy. If you are chanting the Holy name thinking that this astrological constellation influence will have a better effect of me, then you have missed the point. We are chanting the Holy name , Krsna get me out of this, take me out of all these astrological configurations *H. H. Radhanath Swami Maharaj*
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:59:34 +0000
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