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
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.
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...
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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.
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