tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7168803705786686263.post-66746616700259084152008-02-21T08:44:00.004+01:002008-09-28T06:36:34.458+02:00<p><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Sutra 47</span></b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /><i style="">Devotion to any object other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not recommended, for such devotion agitates the mind and is temporary by nature. </i><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> Commentary by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura<br /></span></b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> Here someone may protest: On the path of performing pious deeds (karma), where one worships the demigods, pitas, and others, many benefits are obtained. Why, then, do you say that this path of pious deeds is not good?</span></p><p>============<br /><br /><br /><em>Work has been done regarding the life force present in plants. In one typical experiment, electrical wires are connected from an electro sensitive meter to a plant. After a stable reading is obtained on the instruments, a small twig is cut from the plant. Invariably, at that moment, a significant response is perceivable on the meter, indicating that the separation of the twig has disturbed or agitated the plant.</em><br /><br />Science of Identity Foundation - Siddhaswarupananda<br /><br /><br />============<span style="" lang="EN-GB"><i style=""><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> Fearing that someone would raise this protest, the author speaks this sutra. Here the word 'kamya' means 'the result of lusty desires', 'itara' means 'other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead', devotional service offered to any one of the many millions of individual spirit souls is not recommended by the devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for such devotion merely agitates the mind. There are many, many demigods and pitas and others, many many Sruti and Smrti scriptures describing them, many many rules and regulations to follow in many many different kinds of yajnas and worship offered to them. All this keeps the worshipper very very busy in many many different kinds of activities. In this way the worshipper's mind becomes agitated and he becomes influenced by the material mode of passion. This is described in Bhagavad-gita (2.41) where Lord Krsna explains:<br /><i style=""> "The intelligence of they who are irresolute is many-branched."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> These many kinds of demigod-worship bring only temporary results. As farming and commerce brings results that are very short lived, so the wealth, good children and other benefits attained in this life time as well as the residence in Devaloka, Pitrloka and other benefits attained in the next lifetime are all very temporary and short-lived. That is the meaning. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> In The Sruti-sastra it is said:<br /><i style=""> "A person filled with material desires should perform an agnistoma-yajna." </i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> In the Chandogya Upanisad (8.1.6) it is said:<br /><i style=""> "As the benefits gained from pious deeds in this world are soon lost, so the benefits gained in the worlds of the devas are also lost very soon."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7168803705786686263-6674661670025908415?l=www.jagadgurusiddhaswarupananda.org'/></div>Quotes of Jagad Guru Chris Butler Siddhaswarupanandanoreply@blogger.com