Vaishnavism
Vaishnavism
ÑReal & ApparentÑ
Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada
VAISHNAVISM
—REAL AND APPARENT—
Foreword in the First Edition by Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada (3rd August, 1926) This brochure contains the essence of true Vaishnavism as revealed in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Geeta, the Bhagavata etc., and their teachings put into practice by Shri Chaitanya Deva. Four things may stand in the way of realising the truth laid herein - the cloaks of (high, or low) birth and station, (proficiency or deficiency in) worldly knowledge, and (beautiful or ugly, male or female) form. The Over-soul within Whom all individual souls are contained and to Whom all souls knowingly or unknowingly submit, confutes our tricks-and talents. The words for every soul who speaks from that life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own art. When the walls of time and space are taken away we lie on one side to the boundless deeps of spiritual nature and attributes of the Supreme Lord, find that there is another youth and another age than that which is measured from the year of our worldly birth and realise that the scale of the soul is one and the scale of the senses and, understanding - the agents of the material mind - is another. The soul in man is not the mind directing the organs of sense and action but the animation of the mind and these organs and the background of our existence. The angle of vision between these individual souls and the Over-soul is one and the same everywhere, whereas there is a distinctive variety and multiplicity of the angles of vision between the material minds and the world of the senses. These lines will probably create a desire to know in all details the essential nature of the Eternal or Absolute Truth and prompt an honest and sincere enquiry in all who will go through them. His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Paribrajakacharya Shri Shrimat Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
ÑReal & ApparentÑ
Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada
VAISHNAVISM
—REAL AND APPARENT—
Foreword in the First Edition by Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada (3rd August, 1926) This brochure contains the essence of true Vaishnavism as revealed in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Geeta, the Bhagavata etc., and their teachings put into practice by Shri Chaitanya Deva. Four things may stand in the way of realising the truth laid herein - the cloaks of (high, or low) birth and station, (proficiency or deficiency in) worldly knowledge, and (beautiful or ugly, male or female) form. The Over-soul within Whom all individual souls are contained and to Whom all souls knowingly or unknowingly submit, confutes our tricks-and talents. The words for every soul who speaks from that life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own art. When the walls of time and space are taken away we lie on one side to the boundless deeps of spiritual nature and attributes of the Supreme Lord, find that there is another youth and another age than that which is measured from the year of our worldly birth and realise that the scale of the soul is one and the scale of the senses and, understanding - the agents of the material mind - is another. The soul in man is not the mind directing the organs of sense and action but the animation of the mind and these organs and the background of our existence. The angle of vision between these individual souls and the Over-soul is one and the same everywhere, whereas there is a distinctive variety and multiplicity of the angles of vision between the material minds and the world of the senses. These lines will probably create a desire to know in all details the essential nature of the Eternal or Absolute Truth and prompt an honest and sincere enquiry in all who will go through them. His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Paribrajakacharya Shri Shrimat Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati