Today we are celebrating the auspicious appearance day of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura the spiritual master of Iskcon founder Acharya His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Vedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura gave instructions to Srila Prabhupada, to go and preach Krishna Consciousness in western countries and we can see now in the whole world there are more than 600 temples of Radha and Krishna and more than 50 million people are reading Bhagwad Gita and applying in their life.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was not an ordinary person, he was very divine from his childhood and at the age of 7 he memorized whole 700 verses of Bhagwad Gita and when he grown up he became learned scholar of Vedic Scriptures, he challenged to Mayawadis and proved Lord has His form, qualities and names He is not formless.
At that time people used to turn their path by just seeing them and call them a Lion Guru. He was very much determined, from his childhood he never ate mango because from one incident when he ate mango before offering to the Lord and when his father Thakura Bhakti Vinod Thakur told, you should offer first to the Lord then eat. And since then he promised I will never eat mango in my life.
There are so many teachings, we can implement in our life to make our life more devotional;
1. Where there is discussion about Hari, that is a place of pilgrimage
2. My advice is, do not criticize others. Try to rectify yourself
3. Our supreme duty is to serve the residents of Vraja who are affected by Krishna‘s departure to Mathura
4. If we want to follow the path of true auspiciousness, we should give up the countless opinions of people and only hear the words of the Vedas
5. Preaching without practicing is nothing but a ritual of karma-kanda
6. In order to teach us how to serve Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself appears as the spiritual master
7. The Lord does not accept anything offered by those who do not chant names of the Lord everyday
8. As long as one has anarthas, one does not receive the good fortune of becoming a servant of Srimati Radharani and Lord Krishna.
9. Being cheated by those who mislead people in the name of hari-katha has become a sort of religion in this age
10. He who is constantly absorbed in discussing about Sri Hari is a saint
Let's pray to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura on this auspicious day to shower his mercy on us to relish taste in Krishna's holy name and pastimes and have a good relationship with devotees.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura ki Jai!
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