There is a stage of devotion when the necessary, knowledge comes from within, automatically, revealed from the heart.
Sometimes jñāna, that knowledge necessary, can come from within. There is a stage of devotion when the necessary knowledge comes from within, automatically, revealed from the heart. There is a stage of bhakti where things occur in this way, through revelation you can know what is what. Without studying, by internal supply, caitya-guru, sometimes knowledge about devotion may come to us, generally by hearing from the lips of the devotees.
The Kṛṣṇa, the Vṛndāvana, that is not in want of knowledge. That is not want of grandeur and awe, what is found in Vaikuntha. It is there, but when this ānanda takes the better part of cit, caitan, then it is said that ‘don’t try much through knowledge.’ Sat, cit, ānanda, cit, caitan, to know. By knowing we cannot have anything and everything, by the faculty of knowing and understanding. But the real thing comes automatically to us by service. And that is also a sort of knowledge, department of knowledge, and that is automatic.
—Srila Sridhara Maharaja, 82.11.03.B
Srimati Lila Sundari Devi received Hari Nama initiation from Srila Govinda Maharaja about thirty three years ago (1988) by me as his rtvik.… Read More...
