Цитаты: вознесение молитв (ванданам) (Шрила Прабхупада)
6. Ванданам. Вознесение молитв — это часть поклонения Божествам, однако можно рассматривать его и как самостоятельный метод преданного служения, наряду со слушанием, повторением и другими методами. Приведем лишь некоторые замечания, касающиеся практики вознесения молитв. Трансцендентные достоинства и богатства Господа бесчисленны, и человек, на которого произвели глубокое впечатление качества, проявляемые Господом в Его различных деяниях, начинает возносить Ему молитвы. Так он достигает успеха на духовном пути. Применяя этот метод, тоже нужно избегать оскорблений Господа, в частности: а)не кланяться на одну руку, б)не кланяться Божествам, не сняв обувь и верхнюю одежду, в)не поворачиваться к Божествам спиной, г)не кланяться Божествам слева и д)не кланяться Божествам, находясь очень близко к Ним. https://gitabase.com/rus/sb/7/5/23-24
Личные молитвы
Верховный Господь сказал: Возлюбленные полубоги, Я очень доволен вашими молитвами, исполненными глубокой мудрости. Эта мудрость приносит освобождение и потому позволяет всегда помнить о Моем возвышенном положении, на которое не распространяются законы материальной жизни. Вознося Мне молитвы, пронизанные знанием (мад-упастха̄на-видйайа̄), преданный полностью очищается от скверны. Воистину, такие молитвы — источник преданного служения Мне.
Комментарий: Одно из имен Верховного Господа — Уттамашлока, что значит «тот, кому возносят самые поэтичные молитвы». Бхакти заключается в том, чтобы воспевать Господа Вишну и слушать повествования о Нем (ш́раван̣ам̇ кӣртанам̇ вишн̣ох̣). Имперсоналисты не способны очиститься, поскольку не возносят личных молитв Верховному Господу. Даже если они иногда и молятся, их молитвы не обращены к Высшей Личности. Имперсоналисты порой демонстрируют ущербность своих знаний, называя Господа безымянным. Они молятся, обращаясь к Богу не напрямую: «Ты есть это, Ты есть то», и при этом сами они не знают, кому молятся. Молитвы преданных, напротив, всегда обращены к личности. Преданный молится: говиндам а̄ди-пурушам̇ там ахам̇ бхаджа̄ми — «Я поклоняюсь Говинде, Кришне». Именно такой и должна быть молитва. Тот, кто всегда возносит такие личностные молитвы Верховной Личности Бога, со временем сможет стать чистым преданным и вернуться домой, к Богу.
Personal praying
ŚB 6.9.47
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O beloved demigods, you have offered your prayers to Me with great knowledge, and I am certainly most pleased with you. A person is liberated by such knowledge, and thus he remembers My exalted position, which is above the conditions of material life. Such a devotee is fully purified by offering prayers in full knowledge (mat-upasthāna-vidyayā). This is the source of devotional service to Me.
Purport. Another name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is Uttamaśloka, which means that He is offered prayers with selected verses. Bhakti means śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ, chanting and hearing about Lord Viṣṇu. Impersonalists cannot be purified, for they do not offer personal prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even though they sometimes offer prayers, the prayers are not directed toward the Supreme Person. Impersonalists sometimes show their incomplete knowledge by addressing the Lord as being nameless. They always offer prayers indirectly, saying, “You are this, You are that,” but they do not know to whom they are praying. A devotee, however, always offers personal prayers. A devotee says, govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi: “I offer my respectful obeisances unto Govinda, unto Kṛṣṇa.” That is the way to offer prayers. If one continues to offer such personal prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is eligible to become a pure devotee and return home, back to Godhead.https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/6/9/47/
Lecture [partially recorded]. March 22, 1969, Hawaii
om ajnana-timirandhasya
jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena
tasmai sri-gurave namah
tapta-kancana-gaurangi radhe vrndavanesvari
vrsabhanu-sute devi pranamami hari-priye
sri-caitanya-mano-'bhistam
sthapitam yena bhu-tale
svayam rupah kada mahyam
dadati sva-padantikam
vande 'ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaisnavams ca
sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam tam sa-jivam
sadvaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam krsna-caitanya-devam
sri-radha-krsna-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams ca
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktisiddhanta-sarasvatiti namine
sri-varsabhanavi-devi-dayitaya krpabdhaye
krsna-sambandha-vijnana-dayine prabhave namah
sri-krsna-caitanya
prabhu-nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara
srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda
hare krsna hare krsna
krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama
rama rama hare hare
jayatam suratau pangor
mama manda-mater gati
mat-sarvasva-padambhojau
radha-madana-mohanau
divyad-vrndaranya-kalpa-drumadhah-
srimad-ratnagara-simhasana-sthau
sri-sri-radha-srila-govinda-devau
presthalibhih sevyamanau smarami
sriman rasa-rasarambhi
vamsivata-tata-sthitah
karsan venu-svanair gopir
gopi-nathahsriye 'stu nah
he krsna karuna-sindho
dina-bandho jagat-pate
gopesa gopika-kanta
radha-kanta namo 'stu te
tapta-kancana-gaurangi
radhe vrndavanesvari
vrsabhanu-sute devi
pranamami hari-priye
vancha-kalpa-tarubhyas ca
krpa-sindhubhya eva ca
patitanam pavanebhyo
vaisnavebhyo namo namah
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So Prahlada Maharaja is considering that, "Although I am a child, I have no education, my parentage is not at all bona fide; still, devotional service is unconditional. Devotional service does not depend on any material qualification. Therefore I shall try to offer my prayers to the Supreme Lord according to my capacity." Bhava-grahi janardana.
Prayers of the devotees to the Lord does not depend on how far you are educated or..n
[squeaking sound] [aside: What is that sound?]
[break] "..scan pick me up and fix me up on Your lotus feet."
This very much expression of feeling is sufficient, as Lord Caitanya taught us. Everyone can express this feeling. Ayi nanda-tanuja patitam kinkaram mam [Cc Antya 20.32, Siksastaka 5].
Bhagavad-gita 5.17–25. February 8, 1969, Los Angeles
So therefore it is upon me, what we want. So we have to simply pray to Krsna, as Lord Caitanya has taught us, ayi nanda-tanuja patitam kinkaram mam visame bhavambudhau [Cc Antya 20.32, Siksastaka 5]:
"This material atmosphere is a big ocean of nescience. Somehow or other I am put into this, fallen. Please pick me up. Please pick me up and make the..., one dust of Your lotus feet." That should be the only prayer: "Please pick me up." Then He will pick up. And tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya [Bg 4.9]. Immediately after leaving your body, you will go to Krsna. Yes.
Uttamasloka, Christians and the Muhammadans, talking about Him pleasingly
Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.35. December 4, 1974, Bombay
So here it is said that sardham vacam sprhaniyam vadanti. So we should pray in such a way Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, sprhaniyam. Don't think He is dead stone. That is the conclusion of the atheist class of men. No, dead, no. You talk in such a way that He will be pleased upon you. He will be pleased. He is pleased, He is satisfied in Himself, but He wants to see that you are also talking about Him pleasingly. That's all. Therefore He comes. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam. You talk unpleasingly or pleasingly, it doesn't matter to Krsna. But if you talk pleasingly, then you become benefited. You become benefited. So therefore there are stotra. Therefore Krsna's another name is Uttamasloka. Uttamasloka means He is worshiped, God is worshiped, by the best selected words, not patchy words. No. All selected words. So you will find in so many prayers, not only in our Vedic scripture and other scripture also, in Bible, in Koran, the prayer. Prayer is also devotion. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam, arcanam vandanam dasyam [SB 7.5.23]. Vandanam, this vandanam. The Christians and the Muhammadans, they offer vandanam. Although they do not worship the Deity, but they offer prayers to the Lord. That is also good. That is also bhakti.
Arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-ni... There are nine different processes. So you accept all of them or some of them or at least one. Then your life is successful. Sprhayanti. Very selected words. You surrender to Him, but don't talk things which does not please Him. You don't say that "God is formless. God has no eyes, no leg, no head." These things are there.
Prahlada example
Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.9. March 7, 1972, Calcutta
But a Vaisnava... Just like it was in case of Prahlada Maharaja. Prahlada Maharaja did not ask anything for his personal benefit, but he was so kind, he asked some benediction from the Lord for his father. This is Vaisnava. He was so much tortured by his father, but still he remembered that "After all, he is my father. So I pray something for my father." He did not ask anything for himself. He prayed at last, "My dear Lord, my father is a..., was a great offender at Your lotus feet. If You will kindly excuse him." So Nrsimhadeva said, "My dear Prahlada, not only your father -- your father's father, his father, his father, all are delivered because you are in the family."
Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.12. August 18, 1968, Montreal
So the prayer... For offering prayer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you do not require any high qualification. It doesn't matter. You can offer your prayer from any standard of life. Not that you have to become a very learned man, very scholarly man, and you have to present your prayers in a very nicely selected words so that poetry, rhetoric, prosody, everything is there, metaphor. Nothing required. Simply you have to express your feelings.
So what is that real feeling? One must be aware of his position; then one can express his feeling. Feeling... Feeling should be very sincere and automatic. And what is our position? That has been taught by Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches us how to pray. He says in His prayer, na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagad-isa kamaye [Cc Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4]. ...
Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu particularly uses this word. He's not manufacturing that word. This jagadisa, this word, is there in the Vedic language in many verses. Jaya jagadisa hare. Kesava dhrta-buddha-sarira jaya jagadisa hare [Sri Dasavatara-stotra 9]. ...
And the Bhagavata says, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam [SB 1.3.28]. Bhagavata gives list of all incarnations of God, and at the last he concludes that in this list the name "Krsna," He is the Supreme Personality. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. And all other manifestations, they are incarnation. Ete ca amsa-kalah. All these different names of God, they are either parts or part of the parts. The part of parts is called kala, and part is called amsa.
We are also amsa, but we are very fragmental amsa. We are not as big as Visnu. We are very fragmental. We are also amsa. So amsa kala. So all others, they are either amsa or kala, but Krsna, krsnas tu... Tu means "but." Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
So our prayers should be to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore we pray, govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami. We worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original person. We are all persons. Just like your father is person; therefore you are person, your son is person. Similarly, your father's father is a person, his father person, his father person. Go to Brahma, his..., he's also person. His father, Visnu, is person. His father, His father, everywhere -- Krsna, the Supreme Person. God cannot be without being person. He must be person. ...
Therefore His name is Govinda. Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah, anadir adir govinda sarva-karana-karanam [Bs 5.1]. The cause of all causes. So He is therefore Jagadisa. Jagadisa.
Here Prahlada Maharaja is trying to offer his prayer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Tasmad aham vigata-viklava isvarasya mahi grnami. Mahi. Mahi means glorious. His glorious activities. Don't you think His activities are glorious? If a modern scientist has manufactured one, what is called, sputnik, and we advertising in the paper, "So nice sputnik. It is flying in the air and it's going," and the Supreme Personality has created not only a childish sputnik, but millions and trillions of planets, they are flying in the air -- so is not it glorious?
But the rascals will say, jagan mithya: "This world is false." Why it is false? There are so much brain in manufacturing this world, and is it false? Suppose if you decorate this temple and invite some friend, if he says, "Oh, this is all false," is it not decrying or insulting you? You decorate this temple so nicely, you prepare very nice foodstuff, and he says, "Oh, this is all false." Why? That means he has no appreciation. He's prosaic, he's dull, he's a rascal.
So therefore devotees, they appreciate, "O God, O Krsna, how nice You are. How nicely You have manufactured these trees, these flowers, the sky, the planets, the sun, the moon." And he becomes overwhelmed with joy: "Oh, my God is so great." And the rascal says it is false. [chuckles] You see how much rascaldom? False. Is it false? If you want to construct one building, you have to work hard your whole life, and if I say, "It is false," how much insulted you are. So they do not know; they have no idea what is God. Yes.
So here Prahlada Maharaja says, isvarasya mahi grnami: "I shall glorify the Lord." "Oh, you are a child, sir. You are five years old. How you can glorify?" Yatha manisam! "It doesn't matter I am child. Whatever I have got, I shall express my feelings, 'O God, O Lord, oh, You have..., You are so great.' " That's all right. How you can describe or understand His glories? That is not possible. He's unlimited. But whatever limitation you have got, if you express feelingly, "My God, My Lord," that will be accepted. That will be accepted.
So Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore teaches us how to pray. This prayer is, na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagad-isa kamaye [Cc Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4]. Everyone is praying to God with some interest. That is also good. If you go and pray to God, "Give me some money" or "Give me some relief," "Give me a nice house, nice wife, nice foodstuff," that is also good. But not so good as one is praying to God that "I don't want any money. I don't want any number of followers. I don't want any good wife, nice, beautiful wife." "Then what do you want?" "I want to serve You. That's all." Finish your prayer.
That is the best prayer: "You are so good, You are so nice, You are so great that I want to be engaged in Your service. I am serving these rascals. They are not satisfied, I am not satisfied. Now I have come to You. Please engage me in Your service." That is the last word of prayer.
Thank you. ... Where is Jayapataka? Devotee: He's working.
Himavati: If Prahlada Maharaja is such a great devotee, and a devotee will always say[?], "Nothing is mine," then why does he say, "O my God"? Why does God become his? Why he says like that?
Prabhupada: No. You know it. He's Lord of everyone. Therefore everyone can say "my Lord." That does not mean if somebody says "my Lord," He becomes monopolized. [chuckles] It does not mean. You are speaking on the platform of monopolizing, "mine." But God is never monopolized. He's everyone's, so everyone has the right to say "my God," "my Lord." It does not mean... Generally, in the material sense, when I say, "This is my spectacle," it does not belong to you. Is it not?
So this "my" is not that "my." When I say "my God," that does not mean He's not your God. That is the difference. In the material sense, when I say "It is my wife," then it is not any other's wife. But God is not like that. If I say "my God," so you can say "my God," he can say "my God," everyone can say "my God." This is spiritual "my," absolute "my."
Try to understand this way, that in the material sense, when I saying something "my," that is different from when I say "my God." That is different. That is not exactly... As we think in the material way, "my thing," "my God," "my home," "my wife," "my wealth," "my bank," it is not like that.
But the relationship... Just like I say "my hand." So how can I express? Just like Krsna says mamaivamso [Bg 15.7]. Mama means "mine." "These, all these living creatures, they are My part and parcels." So why the living creatures shall not say "my God"? Do you follow? Krsna says, "You are Mine." Why shall you not say, "Krsna, You are mine"? Your husband says, "You are mine." Why shall you not say, "You are mine"? But don't take it in the material sense. In material sense, as soon as I say it is mine, it is nobody else's. It is my property. Law of identity, or something like that.
So Krsna is not like that. So you can say Krsna, "my," there is no harm. Rather, if anyone wants to possess something as his, then that should be..., that possession should be Krsna. That is the ultimate conception of "mine." That is the perfection of the word "mine." So it is quite nice, quite fit to... Tesu te mayi [Bg 7.12], in the Bhagavad-gita.
"He is Mine and I am his," Krsna says. So this is not wrong. And what is your idea, that because everything belongs to Krsna, therefore I shall not say "my"? That's your idea?
Himavati: No, I didn't understand it like this, that Krsna is the Lord. So my Lord is everyone else's Lord, and He's the controller, and that's why He's mine.
Prabhupada: He's mine, He's your, everyone's. That's all.
Himavati: I can understand it now.
Prabhupada: That's all.
Rukmini: How does [one] feel so far away from you when you're not here?
Искренность важнее красноречия
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.11–12. June 10, 1969, New Vrindavan
So tad-vag-visargo janatagha-viplavah. Viplavati: it vanquishes, it nullifies, it neutralizes. That's a fact. Nasayati. Yasmin vag-visarge, vag-visarge abaddha, abaddhavaty api apasabdadi-yukto 'pi prati slokam anantasya yasasah ankitani namani bhavanti[?]. So such kind of Hare Krsna mantra. Or sometime... Just like you are chanting, you are, the mantras, because it is not your language, so sometime it appears broken. Just like "guru." Sometimes you say "goru." Goru means cow, and guru means spiritual master. So the difference of meaning is vast. [chuckling] The spiritual master is not a cow, or a bull. [laughs] But sometimes they... Because it is not your language...
But that doesn't matter, because bhavagrahi janardana. Krsna is within you. He knows what you want to chant. Therefore He takes the meaning of guru and not goru, even it is spoken as goru. That doesn't matter. Bhavagrahi janardana. He, Krsna, knows that what you are actually... Just like I know that although you are speaking guru as goru, I, I, I don't take offense because I know that your desire is something else. I do not protest, [laughter] that "You are addressing me goru. I am not goru." [laughter] So that is not a fault.
Similarly, it is said that yasmin prati-slokam abaddhavati. If somebody does not know how to spell, how to say, but his idea is there, abaddhavaty api, because he wants to chant the holy name of the Supreme Lord, namany anantasya, ananta... Ananta means the unlimited. His name is being chanted. Namany anantasya yaso 'nkitani. And His glorification is being done. The effect is srnvanti gayanti grnanti sadha... Those who are actually advanced transcendentalist, they'll appreciate: "Oh, how nicely they are doing. How nicely." Although there is broken language of goru instead of guru, that will be appreciated.
But, on the other hand, where there is no such intention -- very, I mean to say, nice composition, but there is no... Just like there are so many poets; they'll give you nice ideas, hallucination. You'll be in the poetic idea. As soon as... Just like our Ginsberg. Ginsberg gives so many poetic ideas. People throng: "Oh, Ginsberg is speaking." But there is... Now he's chanting, of course, Hare Krsna. But in his poetry there is very rarely we can find about here.
So anyway, these things are not appealing to the persons who are really transcendentalist. But a, a composition which is even in broken language, if it is meant for glorifying the Supreme Lord, that is appreciated.Srnvanti gayanti grnanti. Srnvanti means they very attentively hear. Srnvanti. Srnvanti means hearing. Srnvanti gayanti: also repeats the chanting. Repeats. Gayanti and grnanti.
Grnanti means they take also: "It is very nice. It is very nice composition." Srnvanti gayanti. This is the distinction. One side, however nice it may be, poetically, rhetorically, but if there is no glorification of the unlimited Supreme Lord, it is rejected by the hamsas. The... Just like the play..., pleasure hunting place for the crows is never accepted by the swans, similarly these kinds of literature...
Опора на предшественников (авторитеты)
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.44. May 6, 1973, Los Angeles
So when Kunti offered prayers to Krsna in very chosen, nice words, all the words... Therefore Krsna is known, His another name is Uttama-sloka. Uttama-sloka. Because Krsna is the Supreme, He should be offered prayer with supreme words and feelings. Supreme words and feelings. The language should not be cheap, or the idea should not be cheap. Just like when we offer prayer to Krsna, we follow the path by Lord Brahma...
Krsna is Absolute. There is no distinction, "material" and "spiritual." So even we offer Krsna prayer with broken languages, because Krsna is Absolute, Krsna will accept it. Bhava-grahi, bhava-grahi-janardana. Janardana, Krsna, sees how much your heart is pure for serving Krsna. Krsna does not see the wording, the grammatical composition of your prayer. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said... When other demigods were afraid of approaching Nrsimhadeva, so Brahma requested Prahlada that "You offer prayer." So Brahma's prayer is very..., Prahlada Maharaja's prayer... So Prahlada Maharaja says that "What prayer I shall offer to the Supreme Lord? Such big, big demigods like Brahma and others, they are present here.
Even goddess of fortune, Laksmi, is present here. They are afraid, or they could not offer proper prayers to Krsna, Nrsimhadeva, to pacify Him. He's very angry. So everyone is afraid." So Prahlada Maharaja said that "I am born in a low family. My father is Hiranyakasipu. So how I can offer prayer? If big, big demigods could not offer prayer and satisfy the Lord, so what I can do?"
This is humbleness of Vaisnava. Vaisnava is so humble. He is induced, he's ordered by Brahma, that "You offer prayer. Your prayer will be accepted." So then Prahlada Maharaja considering that viprad dvi-sad-guna-yutad aravinda-nabha-padaravinda-vimukhat [SB 7.9.10]: "I can understand this, that Krsna is not satisfied by the prayers of a brahmana who is qualified with twelve nice qualities. Krsna is satisfied simply by devotion. I can understand. Because all these big, big demigods headed by Brahma, they could not... They are asking me. That means Krsna will be satisfied simply by bhakti."
Therefore, it is forbidden, those who are nondevotee, those who are not initiated, those who are not chanting regularly, their offering to Krsna will not be accepted. We must be very careful. We must know our position, whether I am sincerely following the principles of devotional service. Then Krsna will accept. Yo me bhaktya prayacchati. The real thing is bhakti. So either you offer Krsna prayers or you offer foodstuff, everything must be along with bhakti, devotion, love. Then Krsna will accept.
As Kunti, Krsna..., Kunti offered prayers. She's a woman. She has not much very learning. But still, whatever she has offered, kala-padaih, according to her, as much, as many nice words could be collected, she has offered. Kala-padaih parinuta, worshiped. So worship, for what purpose? Akhilodaye. For the enlightenment of the whole universe. For akhilodaya. By offering prayer to Krsna, everything becomes auspicious, akhilodaya. Then Krsna... Whatever you speak for Krsna, it is applicable. Whatever you speak. Because Krsna is everything.
If you say, "Krsna is the noblest man," that is applicable. And if you say, "Krsna is the greatest thief," that is also applicable. This is absolute. Because He has stolen so..., so much butter, well-known butter thief. So not only that; so many things. If you say, "Krsna is the greatest cheater," that is also applicable. And if you say, "Krsna is the most benevolent, beneficent," that is also applicable. They're absolute. That is absolute. That is described in the Bhagavad-gita, Vedanta-sutra: janmady asya yatah: wherefrom everything is coming.
So these words, what we think, "This is good word; this is bad word," so for Krsna there is nothing like that. Krsna is Absolute. Rather, what you think bad, that becomes good when it is applied to Krsna. This is Krsna consciousness.
Always. Then everything is all right. Then when you have to talk, vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane, simply talk of Krsna, this Vaikuntha. You can talk of Krsna about His pastimes with the gopis. You can talk of Krsna about His pastimes when He's killing the Putana, Aghasura, Bakasura. Both are the same. Some of the rascals, they decide that to talk of Krsna about His embracing the gopis is very good, and the talk of Krsna killing Putana or other demons, that is not good. That is rascaldom. Anything about Krsna you talk, vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane. Just like in the Srimad-Bhagavatam there are so many description, so many other things, but because it is in relationship with Krsna, so each word of Bhagavatam is value. Each word of Bhagavad-gita is value. Because there is relation. Similarly, if you dovetail everything in Krsna's service, everything is good. Everything Vaikuntha. That is Vaikuntha. Vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane.
SB 4.30.3
The great sage Maitreya said: The sons of King Präcénabarhi, known as the Pracetäs, underwent severe austerities within the seawater to carry out the order of their father. By chanting and repeating the mantras given by Lord Çiva, they were able to satisfy Lord Viñëu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
One can offer prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly, but if one repeats the prayers offered by great devotees like Lord Çiva and Lord Brahmä, or if one follows in the footsteps of great personalities, one can please the Supreme Personality of Godhead very easily. ...
Because this prayer was offered by Lord Brahmä, we follow him by reciting this prayer. That is the easiest way to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The pure devotee never attempts to reach the Supreme Lord directly. The most important way to worship the Lord is to go through the disciplic succession of devotees. The prayers offered by Lord Çiva to the Supreme Personality of Godhead were thus repeated by the Pracetäs, who were thus very successful in pleasing the Supreme Lord.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.6. August 26, 1971, London
sri-caitanya-mano-'bhistam
sthapitam yena bhutale
svayam rupah kada mahyam
dadati sva-padantikam
vande 'ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaisnavams ca
sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam tam sa-jivam
sadvaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam krsna-caitanya-devam
sri-radha-krsna-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams ca
he krsna karuna-sindho dina-bandho jagat-pate
gopesa gopika-kanta radha-kanta namo 'stu te
tapta-kancana-gaurangi radhe vrndavanesvari
vrsabhanu-sute devi pranamami hari-priye
vancha-kalpa-tarubhyas ca krpa-sindhubhya eva ca
patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah
sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
[02:02]
These prayers, although it is in Sanskrit language, simply by hearing, the effect is made by the vibration. They're symbolical representation of the Supreme Spirit. Just like you are acquainted with the omkara, om, that is also an alphabetical representation. But the sound, omkara, has a specific significance. So, even sometimes you do not understand the meaning, by hearing the vibration you will be benefited.
Глубокое смирение:
Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.8. July 2, 1968, Montreal
Siddhas means they have got all these perfection of yoga practice. So they were also present, offering prayers; Brahma was present, Lord Siva was present, and great sages were present. All of them tried to pacify. And how they wanted to pacify? Sattvaikatana-gatayo vacasam pravahaih: they were very great, learned men. Immediately they began to compose in Sanskrit verses so many nice prayers, and they were all full of goodness, modes of goodness.
Sattvaikatana-vacasam pravahaih. Pravahaih means they prayed in such a fluent way, just like the river flows down without any check. That is the learned man. Just like a learned man will speak fluently for hours together, similarly, they were so learned scholar that they composed prayers in Sanskrit so nicely and began to speak just like flow of water.
So he says, sattvaikatana-gatayo vacasam naradhitum: "Still, they could not pacify the Lord." Naradhitum. Puru-gunair adhunapi pipruh: "Still, the Lord is not pacified. Still." Kim tostum arhati: "Then what can I do?" Where... There is an English word, "Where angels fail, the fools rush in." So "I am so lower. I am born of an atheistic father, demon. How can I please the Lord?" So this is the position.
молитвы и песни
Devotee: Could you say that prayer again of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, "You chant Hare Krsna..."? I couldn't understand that.
Prabhupada: Oh. Bhaktivinoda Thakura is..., has composed a song that he is going all around the city begging alms. So he says that "I don't want anything from you. Simply you chant Hare Krsna, and that will be sufficient." So we can do also, following the footprints of Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Nityananda Prabhu. Amare kimlaha, laha gaurangera sange...
Nityananda Prabhu also said like that that you simply purchase Me by chanting Hare Krsna. This is the price. That's all.
Уровни молитвы
Харе Кришна как высшая молитва:
Room Conversation with Catholic Cardinal and Secretary to the Pope [His Eminence Cardinal Pignedoli and Monsignor Verrozano]. May 24, 1974, Rome
Cardinal Pignedoli: Because they need badly. They need this spirit of friendship with God and with His supreme values. God... Well, I wouldn't say to the Muslim world, because they are good believers, and God is probably..., they are more faithful to. And for instance, these areas of the modern world like, also in the States sometime, because these big cities like New York or Tokyo or Toronto, and so on, these are cities where they are areas where spiritual values have no meaning for these people. It's a pity, and we have to be very open and very friendly to them. I gather this. And your method is meditation and prayer, eh, if I understand it well.
Prabhupada: There are two things. We recommend two things. For the mass of people, this prayer, kirtana, a prayer: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama... So this is prayer. Hare means appealing to the energy of God. And Krsna is God. "O the energy of God, O God, please engage me in Your service." This is the sum and substance of the Hare Krsna. Hare: "O the energy of God, Krsna, O the Lord, please engage me in Your service." Because we are now engaged in the service of Satan, maya. I think... Maya. So therefore we are suffering. Service we have to render, because we are meant for rendering service. But when you forget God, then you render service to maya. Therefore it is the prayer to God that "Please pick me from this service and engage me to Your service." That's all. Service is my occupation. I cannot become master. That is not possible.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.3.18. February 11, 1971, Gorakhpur
The austerity in our Gaudiya-sampradaya is very simple: ... Vandanam, offering prayer. Hare Krsna is also prayer. Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna: "O Krsna, O the energy of Krsna, please engage me in Your service." This Hare Krsna is simply prayer.
Room Conversation with Mr. Chenique and a Christian Priest. June 10, 1974, Paris
Арчанам и ванданам
So prayer, offering prayer, that is also bhakti. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam vandanam. Just like we are worshiping Deity and somebody is offering prayer -- both of them are approved. Prayer, vandanam. Dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam. So we don't say that "This is bad" and "This is good." No. Both of them are bhakti. To worship the Deity or to offer prayer, the effect is the same. Effect is not different. Either of these nine processes,...
пример Акруры
Either you follow all the nine principles or eight or six or seven, at least one, then you become perfect. That is our preaching. Just like Akrura, the example is given. Akrura got perfection simply by offering prayers.
Харе Кришна как молитва
So I see when the Christian go to the church, in India I have seen, in Bombay especially, they kneel down and offer prayer. That's very good. We do not say that this is not approved. This is also approved. What is this "Hare Krsna"? This is also prayer, our prayer, prayer. Hare Krsna, "O Krsna, O the energy of Krsna, kindly engage me in Your service." This is the meaning of Hare Krsna. This is prayer. Repeatedly praying, "My Lord, the energy of Lord, kindly engage me in Your service." This is the meaning of Hare Krsna mantra. Just like you go to a mercantile firm with application, "Please give me some service. Give me some service," the same thing, appealing to God and His energy, "Please engage me in Your service." That's it. So that is vandana. So vandana, and Christian also they pray, "O God, give us our daily bread." So this is also good, but it is material, asking something for material satisfaction. And here, "Hare Krsna," asking something for satisfaction of Krsna, "Engage me in Your service," little advanced. Because God is supplying bread to everyone, even to the cats and dogs.
4 типа корыстного обращения к Богу, Арта
So that is also good, and it is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita, arto artharthi jnani ca, catur-vidha bhajante mam. Catur-vidha bhajante mam sukrtino 'rjuna, artah [Bg 7.16]. Artah means distress, artah, one who is distressed. "I have no food, sir, my dear Lord. Kindly give me some food." So he is distressed, so he is praying to God because he is pious. The Communists say, "Ah. Why you are praying to God? You pray to us, the government. We shall give you enough bread." The Communist propaganda is like that.
Пример Дхрувы, Артхах
SB 4.9.34
It is very difficult to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but in my case, although I have satisfied the Supersoul of the whole universe, I have prayed only for useless things. My activities were exactly like treatment given to a person who is already dead. Just see how unfortunate I am, for in spite of meeting the Supreme Lord, who can cut one's link with birth and death, I have prayed for the same conditions again.
PURPORT
Sometimes it so happens that a devotee engaged in the loving service of the Lord desires some material benefit in exchange for this service. This is not the proper way to discharge devotional service. Out of ignorance, of course, sometimes a devotee does so, but Dhruva Mahäräja regrets his personal behavior in this connection.
SB 4.9.35
Because of my state of complete foolishness and paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal service, I wanted material name, fame and prosperity. My case is just like that of the poor man who, when he satisfied a great emperor who wanted to give him anything he might ask, out of ignorance asked only a few broken grains of husked rice.
PURPORT
Dhruva Mahäräja regrets that he wanted material opulence and greater prosperity than that of his great-grandfather, Lord Brahmä. His begging from the Lord was like a poor man's asking a great emperor for a few grains of broken rice. The conclusion is that anyone who is engaged in the loving service of the Lord should never ask for material prosperity from the Lord. The awarding of material prosperity simply depends on the stringent rules and regulations of the external energy. Pure devotees ask the Lord only for the privilege of serving Him. This is our real independence. If we want anything else, it is a sign of our misfortune.
Как молятся ищущие истину и любознательные
MMS.docx
The needy pious man prays to God for a better standard of life, and the pious man who has fallen into material difficulty prays in order to get rid of his trouble. But the inquisitive man and the philosopher do not pray to God for amelioration of mundane problems. They pray for the ability to know Him as He is, and they try to reach Him through science and logic. Such pious men are generally known as theosophists.
Needy pious men pray to God to improve their economic condition because all they know is sense gratification, while those in difficulty ask Him to free them from a hellish life of tribulations. Such ignorant people do not know the value of human life. This life is meant to prepare one to return to the absolute world, the kingdom of God.
как просить прощения у Господа
Room Conversation with Film Producer about Krsna Lila. January 22, 1977, Bhubaneswar
So the evidence is not that by words, but evidence, action. So how? How He accepted? When Jagai-Madhai, after injuring Nityananda, so Caitanya Mahaprabhu was very angry, that "I shall kill them!" So at that time Nityananda begged, "Sir, You have promised not to take weapon in this avatara. So excuse them." So as soon Nityananda Prabhu said like that, both the brothers fell down on the feet of Caitanya Mahaprabhu: "Sir. Excuse us. We have done wrong. So please deliver us. We are most sinful." So Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that "You are sinful. That is not disqualification. But if you want My asraya, then you stop. No more. Whatever you have done, that's all right; I excuse you. But no more." So they said, ara nare bapa: "Bas, whatever we have done." So this is wanted. But if we continue to take shelter of Caitanya Mahaprabhu or His representative, at the same time continue our sinful activities, that is not desirable.
как прославлять Господа
Room Conversation with Mormons. April 23, 1976, Melbourne
But I am giving you the process. You have written, "the glory of God," and I am giving you the process how to glorify God... Yes. Here is the process: You are drinking water, and "Oh, how Krsna, God, is so glorified. I was so much thirsty, and just drinking this water, this is quenching my thirst." This is glorification... So that is the difference. Our Krsna consciousness movement means know how to glorify God not theoretical -- practical. Here is practically example. Everyone drinks water, and while drinking water he can glorify thousand times... That we are teaching. Prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh. As soon as you see sunlight, "Oh, we are suffering for want of sunlight. Here is God's glory. He has sent the sunlight." This is practical. So one must know how to glorify God practically. Then his life is successful. God is always glorious. There is no doubt about it. But for us, how to glorify God... Every item, there is practical.
Как правильно молиться через пение бхаджанов
как правильно повторять Молитвы перед лекцией
Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.3.11–12. February 2, 1971, Allahabad
iti devah sa aprstah
praja-samyamano yamah
pritah sva-dutan pratyaha
smaran padambujam hareh
[SB 6.3.11]
Smaran padambujam hareh. Hareh -- "of the Lord, the Supreme Lord"; padambujam -- "lotus feet"; smaran. That should be our principle. Whenever we try to speak something, we must offer prayers to Guru-Gauranga and the Supreme Lord. Not directly to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but smaran padambujam hareh.
To memorize the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is the system that one should go through guru and Gauranga. That is the prayer we offer daily: vande 'ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaisnavams ca sri-rupam [Cc Antya 3.1, Sri Gurv Astakam].
They are all guru. One spiritual master, his spiritual master, then up to Gosvamis. Sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam tam sa-jivam. Then the associates of Lord Caitanya: sa-avadhuta, sadvaitam. Sa-avadhuta, Nityananda Prabhu. Sadvaitam-sa-avadhuta parijana-sahitam. Parijana means Srivasa, Gadadhara and others. Sri krsna-caitanya-devam, that is Sri Caitanya, Guru-Gauranga. Then, sri-radha-krsna-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams ca. This is...
So smaran padambujam hareh. Yamaraja, although he is so exalted, great personality, the system is also there. Nobody should try to answer or speak without offering proper respects to Guru-Gauranga and Krsna. Smaran padambujam hareh. Pritah sva-dutan: and Yamaraja was very much pleased, because when the subordinates enquire from the superior master, he becomes very much pleased. Why he becomes pleased? Because he gets an opportunity to describe the holy activities and form and qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is an opportunity.
какие молитвы повторять перед каждым действием, важным служением
Letter to: Harer Nama. Allston, Mass. 28 May, 1968
For offering prasadam simply prayers to the Spiritual Master is sufficient. The process is that everything is offered to the Spiritual Master, and the Spiritual Master is supposed to offer the same foodstuff to the Lord. When a thing is offered to the Spiritual Master, he immediately offers to the Lord. That is the system, and as we come by parampara system, it is our duty to go through the right channel -- namely, first the Spiritual Master, then Lord Caitanya, and then Krishna. So when we chant prayers, we do this, Bande ham Sri Guru . . . and gradually to the Goswamis, then to Lord Caitanya, and then to Radha Krishna. That is the praying system. But offering the prasadam to present everything before the Spiritual Master whose picture is also in the altar, means that the Spiritual Master will take care of offering the foodstuff to the Lord. Therefore simply by chanting the prayer to the Spiritual Master, everything will be complete.
Conversation including, Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.2–34. Recitation & Purport. April 1, 1969, San Francisco
Now after... This is the process. He... First of all, he offered his respect to his spiritual master, then Narayana. Yes. Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Not first to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but first to the spiritual master, and then Narayana. Yes. Just like he was asking... Through. Narayanam namaskrtya naram caiva narottamam [SB 1.2.4]. Yes... devim sarasvatim. Sarasvati, the goddess of learning. And vyasam, and then Vyasadeva, who is the master of Vedic literature. One after another. This is... Vyasam tato jayam udirayet.
из чего состоит правильная молитва
как разговаривать с богом, общаться с богом через молитву
Why should one pray to God?
City Hall Lecture. October 7, 1975, Durban
Pusta Krsna: The question is, "Why should one pray to God?"
Prabhupada: Our prayer is, Caitanya Mahaprabhu has taught,
ayi nanda-tanuja patitam kinkaram
mam visame bhavambudhau
krpaya tava pada-pankaja
sthita-dhuli-sadrsam vicintaya
[Cc Antya 20.32, Siksastaka 5]
Just like if you are in danger, you ask your friends to help you, this is prayer. So our prayer is, to Krsna, ayi nanda-tanuja. Nanda-tanuja means... Krsna appeared as the foster son of Nanda Maharaja; therefore He is addressed as nanda-tanuja, means "the son of Maharaja Nanda." So patitam kinkaram mam visame bhavambudhau: "I am Your eternal servant. Somehow or other, I am now fallen in this ocean of nescience, ignorance." Just like if you are a person of the land, if you are thrown in the ocean, it is struggle for existence. Manah sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati [Bg 15.7]. This is struggle for exis... Everyone is struggling. But what you will struggle in the ocean? You may be a very big swimmer, but how long you shall swim? You will be tired. The only means is to take you out of the ocean. Even one inch above the ocean is your safety. It doesn't matter how many inches you are taken from the ocean. Similarly, the prayer is, "My dear Lord Krsna, I am Your eternal servant. Somehow or other, I am now fallen in this ocean. Please pick me up and fix me again as the dust of Your lotus feet." This is the prayer.
So we should know in what dangerous position we are. Then there is necessity of prayer. And prayer to whom? To the Supreme Person to save us. Therefore there are so many prayers in the sastra. Prayers means addressing the Lord to save us from this. The real saving is to pick us up from this ocean of nescience, ignorance. Then everything is all right. As soon as we come to the knowledge that "I am not this body; I am spirit soul, part and parcel of God," then our knowledge is perfect. This is called brahma-bhutah prasannatma. This is called Brahman realization.
brahma-bhutah prasannatma
na socati na kanksati
samah sarvesu bhutesu
mad-bhaktim labhate param
[Bg 18.54]
So prayer is needed because we are in danger. And actually we pray when we are in great danger. Suppose if immediately there is some earthquake or there is some danger, naturally, spontaneously, we pray. We pray. But we forget it. But the prayer, the tendency of offering prayer to the Lord at the time of danger, is automatic. So we should know that we are in danger. We are in this material condition of life means we are in danger. Therefore we should pray. We must pray to pick him up, to pick us up. That is necessity of prayer.
