Re: Cowherd Boys Friendship towards Krsna

Dear devotees,

       Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! My pranams!

       I would like to share with you something that Hadai Nityananda Dasa prabhu shared with me in a talk. Once I did have the curiosity to ask him about high stuff in devotion, "What / who is this ... that?" He told me, "See. Simply becoming a theoretical scholar is no use. Devotion is not about digesting a big volume of facts and books. Simply by studying theory no one can understand all that. If one wants to see it, one should be qualified to go to the spiritual world. We do not want high spiritual matters to be brought down and stripped to mere theory. One should delve into the practice. These things have to be given their due respect. They are sooo much beyond mind and words."

          Swamiji has pointed out clearly that these things are very intimate and totally beyond the realm of theory. The higher aspects of devotion cannot be learned simply by reading books and digesting facts. It is beyond mind and words.

           Theoretically trying to understand through words what is beyond words may not be possible. The intimate realizations of pure devotees -- what will they mean to someone who has not realized them? People will just think its some illogical rambling and it certainly won't fit their present understanding. People will only simply ask, "How do you know its right or not?" How can we make a person understand colour by words when they have been blind all life and have never seen any light? How can one give any logical proof to things that have no logic and simply must be accepted? Ultimately one has to accept that the spiritual world is manasa vaacha agochara -- beyond mind and words.

          Even the forum has its limits and can only help a person upto a point. The rest has to be carried on by YOU and ME. Reading books is only mere scratching the surface and has to be accompanied by realization. One has to do sadhana and make oneself qualified to live in the spiritual world if one wants to realize the Lord.

           Let us dive deep into the practice. These matters are beyond our experience. I have seen this myself. Indeed this is the reason why even the advanced devotees here do not share their realizations, because they cannot be shared just like that.

Daaso'smi,
Srinath

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