BRS 1.1.

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kleça-ghné çubhadä mokña-

laghutäkåt sudurlabhä
sändränanda-viçeñätmä
çré-kåñëäkarñaëé ca sä
Pure devotional service brings immediate relief from all
kinds of material distress. It is the beginning of all
auspiciousness. It minimizes the value of liberation. It is
rarely achieved, it automatically puts one in
transcendental pleasure and it is the only means to
attract Kåñëa.
• kleça-ghné
reduces or nullifies all kinds of suffering
• çubhadä
all auspicious
• mokña-laghutäkåt
derides the happiness from impersonal liberation
• sudurlabhä
rarely attained
• sändränanda-viçeñätmä
incalculably condensed bliss
• çré-kåñëäkarñiëé
attracts Sri Krsna
 kleça-ghné
reduces or nullifies all kinds of suffering
Papam (sinful action)

Aprarabdha
unmanifest reaction

Kutam Prarabdha
(stock, seeds) manifest reaction
sinful disposition

Phala
Bijam fruits
sinful desire
 aprärabdha-phalaà päpaà
küöaà béjaà phalonmukham
krameëaiva praléyeta
viñëu-bhakti-ratätmanäm
• "There are different stages of dormant
reactions to sinful activities to be observed in a
sinful life. Sinful reactions may be just waiting
to take effect [phalonmukha], reactions may be
still further dormant [küöa], or the reactions
may be in a seedlike state [béja]. In any case,
all types of sinful reactions are vanquished one
after another if a person engages in the
devotional service of Lord Viñëu.“ Padma
Purana
 Prarabdha
(Monier Williams)
• mfn. commenced , begun , undertaken
MBh. K‚v. &c.
• one who has commenced or begun (also -
vat mfn. ) Amar. R‚jat. Kath‚s.
• n. an undertaking , enterprise K‚v. Pancat.
• -karman (Nilak.)
 tais täny aghäni püyante
tapo-däna-vratädibhiù
nädharmajaà tad-dhådayaà
tad apéçäìghri-sevayä
• Although one may neutralize the reactions
of sinful life through austerity, charity,
vows and other such methods, these pious
activities cannot uproot the material
desires in one's heart. However, if one
serves the lotus feet of the Personality of
Godhead, he is immediately freed from all
such contaminations.SB6.2.17
 çubhadä
all-auspicious
• jagat-préëanädi-dvaya-pradatvam
– possessing love for all entities and becoming the
object of affection for all living entities
• sad-gunadi-pradatvam
– bestows all good qalities
• sukha-pradatvam
– bestows happiness

BRS 1.1.28-30
 sukha-pradatvam
bestows happiness
Superior Happiness
• Çréla Prabhupäda explains, “Çréla Rüpa Gosvämé has
analyzed the different sources of happiness. He has divided
happiness into three categories, which are (1) happiness
derived from material enjoyment, (2) happiness derived by
identifying oneself with the Supreme Brahman and (3)
happiness derived from Kåñëa consciousness (page 10).”
• Of these, the happiness of devotional service is
superior. There are two reasons: (1) it is eternal whereas the
others are temporary, and (2) it includes and excels the
pleasures found in other types of happiness.
• Only the Happiness of Devotional Service is Eternal
• Neither liberation, mystic perfection, nor sense gratification
can bring eternal happiness
 Srila Prabhupada on the life of an
ISKCON devotee
• These Krsna conscious boys and girls – in sixty centres
they are living in the best houses. They are eating the
best food. They are in the best consciousness. They
have got the best hope. Everything best. Their feature of
body is best. What material happiness do you want more
than this? They have got wife, children, happiness, home
– everything full. So material happiness is nothing to a
Krsna conscious person. Material happiness will roll at
his feet, saying, “Please take me.” There is no need for
asking for it. Simply be steady and ask Krsna, “Please
engage me in Your service!” Then your satisfaction will
automatically come. Don’t bother for material happiness
• [SP lecture, New York, 19/07/1971]
 mokña-laghutäkåt
derides the happiness from liberation
• In the Närada-païcarätra it is also said that any person who has
developed even a small amount of devotional service doesn't
care a fig for any kind of happiness derived from religiousness,
economic development, sense gratification or the five kinds of
liberation. Any kind of happiness derived from religiousness,
economic development, liberation or sense gratification cannot
even dare to enter into the heart of a pure devotee. It is stated
that as the personal attendants and maidservants of a queen
follow the queen with all respect and obeisances, similarly the
joys of religiousness, economic development, sense
gratification and liberation follow the devotional service of the
Lord. In other words, a pure devotee does not lack any kind of
happiness derived from any source. He does not want anything
but service to Kåñëa, but even if he should have another desire,
the Lord fulfills this without the devotee's asking. NOD pg.14
 sudurlabhä
rarely attained
• Rupa Gosvami quotes • çraddhä –initial faith
Tantra sastra and Visvanatha • sädhu- saìga-devotee
Chakravarty Thakura association.
explains: Untill one has
undergone all the stages • bhajana-kriyä-regulated
from çraddhä to asakti, process
bhava will not be • anartha-nivåtti-annihilating
attainable,bhava will not be impurities
attainable. Even if asakti is • niñöhä-fixed determination
attained, Krsna does nor • ruci -taste
award bhava easily.
• BR.Sridhar Maharaja:If one • asakti -attachment
tries to jump over one stage, • bhäva-ecstacy
then that stage will be • prema-love
hollow. BRS 1.4.15-16
 sändränanda-viçeñätmä
incalculably condensed bliss
• The bliss of brahman
realization accumulated by
samadhi lasting for half of
Brahma’s life cannot
compare to one drop of the
ocean of happiness of bhakti
BRS 1.1.38
• Srila Prabhupada:Çréla
Rüpa Gosvämé says that if
brahmänanda, or the
happiness of becoming one
with the Supreme, is
multiplied by one
trillionfold, it still cannot
compare to an atomic
fraction of the happiness
derived from the ocean of
devotional service.
NOD pg.15
 çré-kåñëäkarñaëé
attracts Sri Krsna
• God is great , but devotional service is greater than
God because it attracts Him. NOD ch.1, pg.17
• Närada Muni continued: My dear Mahäräja
Yudhiñöhira, all of you [the Päëòavas] are
extremely fortunate, for the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, Kåñëa, lives in your palace just like a
human being. Great saintly persons know this very
well, and therefore they constantly visit this house.
SB.7.10.48
 Characteristics of Pure Devotional
Service
Sadhana Bhava Prema
1st – 2nd 1st – 4th All 6

• kleça-ghné
reduces or nullifies all kinds of suffering
• çubhadä
all auspicious
• mokña-laghutäkåt
derides the happiness from impersonal liberation
• sudurlabhä
rarely attained
• sändränanda-viçeñätmä
incalculably condensed bliss
• çré-kåñëäkarñiëé
attracts Sri Krsna NOD. Ch2. pg.19