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Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

*below is the process for Krsna consciousness (devotional service) in relation to the above article. Yesterday's article was the days realization, so I wished to share it with my online friends, in the mood of service. I am convinced after that realization that God is a person.

SRI BHAJAN RAHASYA by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
2 / DVITIYA-YAAMA-SAADHANA Text 14 (anartha nivrtti in sadhu sangha)

The characteristics of bhakti-yoga are described in Shrimad-
Bhaagavatam (1.2.12 and 1.2.7):

tac chraddadhaanaa munayo
jnaana-vairaagya-yuktayaa
pashyanty aatmani caatmaanam
bhaktyaa shruta-grihitayaa
vaasudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogah prayojitah
janayaty aashu vairaagyam
jnaanam ca yad ahaitukam

A faithful person, after hearing Shrimad-Bhaagavatam, automatically acquires bhakti endowed with knowledge and renunciation. By such bhakti he realises Bhagavaan’s svarupa in his heart and he realises his relationship with Him. Thus he obtains service to the Lord. When the relationship between the Lord and the living entity is established, bhakti-yoga for Bhagavaan Vaasudeva appears.

shraddhaa kari’ naama bhaje saadhu-kripaa paanaa
itare viraaga nitya-svarupa bujhiyaa
ihaakei bali bhakti-yoga anuttama
bhakti-yoge sarva-siddhi yadi dhare krama

Bhajana-rahasya-vritti (BVNM)
Saadhana of the non-dual Absolute Truth (advaya-jnaana-paratattva) is of three kinds: jnaana, yoga and bhakti. The jnaanis realise Bhagavaan as Brahman on the strength of their cultivation of knowledge. They see tat-padaartha, Bhagavaan,  within their souls (aatmaas), they see their own souls in Ishvara and they also see tam-padaartha, all living entities, in Him. The yogis realise the non-dual object as Paramaatmaa. All attempts made by the jivas to attain renunciation  through the cultivation of dry knowledge are useless. Renunciation (vairaagya) is an inherent result of bhakti and is easily attained through the practice of bhakti-yoga. The bhakti-saadhaka relishes the direct sweetness of the non-dual object on the strength of his devotion. The process of bhakti is to hear  krishna-kathaa from the lotus mouth of the spiritual master. Knowledge endowed  with a sense of one’s relationship with Krishna appears through the process of  bhakti by the means of hearing and chanting. The aacaaryas have ascertained  that the mood of service appears by hearing from authorities. The  impersonalists do not follow this path of hearing, which is the descending path. Rather, they endeavour to take shelter of the doctrine of the ascending path. Their attempts are compared to trying to reach the sky by climbing on falling raindrops. When the living entity is absorbed in service to the object of bhajana and not in any other object, pure bhakti and proper renunciation (yukta-vairaagya) will arise.

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