Prema

Желание удовлетворять собственные чувства именуется камой, вожделением, а желание услаждать чувства Господа Кришны называют премой, или чистой любовью.

С верой

БГ 17.28:Любые жертвоприношения, пожертвования или аскеза, совершаемые без веры во Всевышнего, о сын Притхи, преходящи. Их называют асат, и они не приносят блага ни в этой жизни, ни в следующей.

БГ 9.23:Те, кто с верой поклоняется другим богам, в действительности поклоняются Мне одному, о сын Кунти, однако делают это неправильно.

БГ 7.21: Я пребываю в сердце каждого как Сверхдуша, и, когда человек хочет поклоняться тому или иному полубогу, Я укрепляю его веру в этого полубога, чтобы он мог вручить себя ему.

БГ 7.22: С такой верой человек поклоняется этому полубогу и добивается желаемого. Но на самом деле все блага, которые он получает, дарую Я один.

ШБ 3.32.16: Люди, сильно привязанные к материальному миру, очень тщательно и с глубокой верой исполняют предписанные им обязанности. Изо дня в день они делают все, что положено, рассчитывая насладиться плодами своего труда.

ШБ 3.32.43: Тот, кто хотя бы раз подумал обо Мне с любовью и преданностью, кто слушает и пересказывает повествования о Моих деяниях, непременно вернется домой, к Богу.

ШБ 11.19.20-24: Твердо верить в приносящие блаженство рассказы о Моих играх, постоянно воспевать Мою славу, быть привязанным к ритуальному поклонению Мне, прославлять Меня в прекрасных гимнах, с благоговением относиться к преданному служению Мне, кланяться Мне всем телом, как можно лучше поклоняться Моим преданным, сознавать Мое присутствие во всех живых существах, заниматься повседневной деятельностью, направленной на поддержание тела, в духе преданного служения Мне, использовать речь для описания Моих качеств, посвящать Мне свои мысли, отказываться от всех материальных желаний и богатств ради преданного служения Мне, отвергать материальные чувственные удовольствия и материальное счастье, заниматься всевозможной праведной деятельностью (к которой относятся, в частности, благотворительность, жертвоприношения, чтение мантр, обеты и аскеза) для того, чтобы приблизиться ко Мне, — вот настоящие религиозные принципы, с помощью которых у людей, действительно вручивших себя Мне, в сердце естественным образом развивается любовь ко Мне. А какую еще цель может преследовать Мой преданный?

ЧЧ 1.8.31: Но если человек, пусть и с небольшой верой, произносит святые имена Господа Чайтаньи и Нитьянанды, он очень быстро освобождается от всех оскорблений. Поэтому, как только такой человек начинает повторять маха-мантру Харе Кришна, он чувствует блаженство любви к Богу.

ЧЧ 2.22.49: «Благодаря общению с преданными у человека появляется вера в преданное служение Кришне. Благодаря же преданному служению в его сердце пробуждается дремлющая любовь к Кришне, и тогда материальное, обусловленное существование такого человека подходит к концу».

Vedic culture

S. B. 3.3.28.p.:

The foodstuffs prepared by the Yadus at the Prabhāsa pilgrimage site to offer to the bona fide brāhmaṇas there were all offered to the Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu. The Yadus offered their sincere obeisances by touching their heads to the ground. The Yadus or any enlightened family in Vedic culture are trained for attainment of human perfection by total cooperation of service between the different divisions of social orders.

S. B. 4.13.21.p:

It is said by Cāṇakya Paṇḍita that a father is an enemy when he is too much in debt, a mother is an enemy if she marries for a second time, a wife is an enemy when she is very beautiful, and a son is an enemy when he is a foolish rascal. In this way, when a family member becomes an enemy it is very difficult to live in family life or remain a householder. Generally such situations occur in the material world. Therefore according to Vedic culture one has to take leave of his family members just after his fiftieth year so that the balance of his life may be completely devoted in search of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

S. B. 4.25.13.p:

In this verse the word lakṣita-lakṣaṇām indicates that the human body attained in Bhārata-varṣa is very auspicious. Vedic culture is full of knowledge, and a person born in India can fully take advantage of Vedic cultural knowledge and the cultural system known as varṇāśrama-dharma. Even at the present time, as we travel all over the world, we see that in some countries human beings have many material facilities but no facilities for spiritual advancement.

S. B. 4.25.39.p:

Pravṛtti-mārga means sense enjoyment, and nivṛtti-mārga means spiritual advancement. In the life of animals and demons, there is no conception of nivṛtti-mārga, nor is there any actual conception of pravṛtti-mārga. Pravṛtti-mārga maintains that even though one has the propensity for sense gratification, he can gratify his senses according to the directions of the Vedic injunctions. For example, everyone has the propensity for sex life, but in demoniac civilization sex is enjoyed without restriction. According to Vedic culture, sex is enjoyed under Vedic instructions. Thus the Vedas give direction to civilized human beings to enable them to satisfy their propensities for sense gratification.

S. B. 7.3.23.p:

In this verse the words dvija-gavāṁ pārameṣṭhyam indicate the most exalted position of the brāhmaṇas, brahminical culture and the cows. In Vedic culture, the welfare of the cows and the welfare of the brāhmaṇas are essential. Without a proper arrangement for developing brahminical culture and protecting cows, all the affairs of administration will go to hell.

S. B. 8.19.21.p:

Thus according to Ṛṣabhadeva the human beings in this material world are just like madmen engaged in activities which they should not perform but which they do perform only for sense gratification. Such activities are not good because in this way one creates another body for his next life, as punishment for his nefarious activities. And as soon as he gets another material body, he is put into repeated suffering in material existence. Therefore the Vedic culture or brahminical culture teaches one how to be satisfied with possessing the minimum necessities in life.

To teach this highest culture, varṇāśrama-dharma is recommended.

S. B. 9.3.20.p:

Nonetheless, her father expected her to be faithful to her husband. When he suddenly saw that his daughter had accepted someone else, even though the man was young and handsome, he immediately chastised her as asatī, unchaste, because he assumed that she had accepted another man in the presence of her husband. According to Vedic culture, even if a young woman is given an old husband, she must respectfully serve him. This is chastity. It is not that because she dislikes her husband she may give him up and accept another. This is against Vedic culture. According to Vedic culture, a woman must accept the husband given to her by her parents and remain chaste and faithful to him.

S. B. 9.3.21.p:

It is quite clear that according to Vedic culture a woman who accepts a paramour or second husband in the presence of the husband she has married is certainly responsible for the degradation of her father’s family and the family of her husband. The rules of Vedic culture in this regard are strictly observed in the respectable families of brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas and vaiśyas even today; only the śūdras are degraded in this matter. For a woman of the brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya class to accept another husband in the presence of the husband she has married, or to file for divorce or accept a boyfriend or paramour, is unacceptable in the Vedic culture.

S. B. 10.24.25.p:

Lord Kṛṣṇa is famous as go-brāhmaṇa-hita, the well-wishing friend of the cows and the brāhmaṇas. Lord Kṛṣṇa specifically included the local brāhmaṇas in His proposal because He is always devoted to those who are devoted to the godly Vedic culture.

S. B. 10.51.31.p:jo

It is common in Vedic culture that a kṣatriya will humbly introduce himself as kṣatra-bandhu, a mere relative in a kṣatriya family, or in other words a fallen kṣatriya. In ancient Vedic culture, to claim a particular status on the basis of one’s family relations was itself indicative of a fallen position. Kṣatriyas and brāhmaṇas should be given status according to their merit, by their qualities of work and character.

S. B. 10.80.34.p:

The word prajāti here indicates either begetting good children or the second birth obtained by ritual initiation into Vedic culture.

D. B. 11.7.8.p:

In human society we find happiness and distress, love and hate, victory and defeat, war and peace, life and death, and so on. However, we do not have any permanent relationship with any of these conditions, because we are eternal spirit souls, part and parcel of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Vedic culture is arranged in such a way that everyone can become perfect in self-realization simply by performing his occupational duty for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

S. B. 11.18.18.p:

Saintly persons in the renounced order of life may beg from strict followers of Vedic culture to obtain foodstuffs and other bodily necessities. According to Vedic injunction, a renounced saint should beg from the brāhmaṇa community, but if there is danger of his starving, he may beg from kṣatriyas, then vaiśyas, and even śūdras if they are not sinful... 

Those who oppose Vedic culture pass laws to make begging by saintly persons a criminal act. They thus insult and persecute saintly beggars, considering them to be ordinary vagrants. A lazy person begging to avoid work is certainly abominable, but a saintly person dedicated to the service of the Lord and practicing the discipline of begging to develop full dependence on the Lord’s mercy should be given all facility in human society.

Привязанность

Господь Шри Кришна - Верховная Личность Бога, причина всех причин, вместилище всех рас (отношений), а именно: нейтралитета (пассивного преклонения), служения, дружбы, родительской любви, супружеской любви, веселья, сострадания, страха, рыцарства, ужаса, удивления и опустошения.

БС 5.30: 

Всегда играющий на флейте, Тот, Чьи глаза — словно лепестки расцветшего лотоса, А голова украшена пером павлина, Чей прекрасный облик имеет оттенок синей тучи, Обладатель несравненной красоты, пленяющей миллионы богов любви — Ему — Предвечному Господу, Говинде, я поклоняюсь.

Krishna. 14. 

Привязанность к телу объясняется только тем, что в нем находится наше "Я", или душа. Более развитый в духовном отношении человек понимает, что душа приносит радость потому, что является неотъемлемой частицей Кришны. В конечном счете именно Кришна приносит всем радость и привлекает всех. Он Сверхдуша всего сущего. Для того, чтобы дать нам это знание, Кришна приходит к нам и объясняет, что Он - тот, кто привлекает всех и все. То, что не исходит от Кришны, не может быть привлекательным.

Krishna. 21.

Тот, кто всегда пребывает в духовной медитации и видит Кришну в своем сердце и перед собой, кто вспоминает о том, как Кришна, играя на флейте, вступает в лес Вриндавана и как Он вместе с другими пастушками присматривает за коровами, воистину достиг совершенства самадхи. Самадхи, транс, - это состояние, в котором все чувства поглощены одним предметом, и гопи заметили, что размышления об играх Кришны - это совершенство всякой медитации или самадхи. В "Бхагавад-гите" также сказано, что человек, всегда поглощенный мыслями о Кришне, - величайший из всех йогов.

Другая гопи сказала, что, когда Кришна и Баларама пасут коров, Они похожи на актеров, собирающихся выйти на сцену. Кришна облачен в ярко-желтые, а Баларама в голубые одежды, и оба держат в руках побеги мангового дерева, павлиньи перья и цветы. На Них гирлянды из лотосов. Шествуя в окружении друзей, Они время от времени поют сладкими голосами. Одна гопи спросила своих подруг: "Отчего Кришна и Баларама так прекрасны?" Другая сказала: "Дорогие подружки, нельзя даже представить себе, какие благочестивые деяния совершила бамбуковая флейта Кришны, чтобы сейчас наслаждаться нектаром Его уст, который на самом деле принадлежит нам, гопи !" Кришна порой целует пастушек, и потому только им доступен божественный нектар Его губ. Гопи недоумевали: "Как может флейта, обыкновенный бамбуковый стебелек, непрестанно пить нектар с уст Кришны? Мать и отец этой флейты, должно быть, счастливы от того, что она служит Верховному Господу".

B. G. 10.36.

Из всех видов мошенничества Я азартная игра. Я блеск всего, что поражает великолепием. Я победа, Я приключение и сила сильных.

B. G. 18.59.

Если же ты не выполнишь Мою волю и не вступишь в сражение, то выберешь неверный путь. Твоя природа все равно заставит тебя сражаться.

Me alone

B. G. 8.5.

And whoever, at the end of his life, quits his body remembering Me alone at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.

B. G. 9.23.

Whatever a man may sacrifice to other gods, O son of Kunti, is really meant for Me alone, but it is offered without true understanding.

B. G. 7.22.

Endowed with such a faith, he seeks favors of a particular demigod and obtains his desires. But in actuality these benefits are bestowed by Me alone.

S. B. 2.9.33.

Brahmā, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of Godhead.

S.B.11.13.24

Within this world, whatever is perceived by the mind, speech, eyes or other senses is Me alone and nothing besides Me. All of you please understand this by a straightforward analysis of the facts.

S. B. 11.13.30.

According to My instructions, one should fix the mind on Me alone. If, however, one continues to see many different values and goals in life rather than seeing everything within Me, then although apparently awake, one is actually dreaming due to incomplete knowledge, just as one may dream that one has wakened from a dream.

S. B. 10.23.14.

[Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Tell the wives of the brāhmaṇas that I have come here with Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. They will certainly give you all the food you want, for they are most affectionate toward Me and, indeed, with their intelligence reside in Me alone. 

S. B. 11.14.14.

One who has fixed his consciousness on Me desires neither the position or abode of Lord Brahmā or Lord Indra, nor an empire on the earth, nor sovereignty in the lower planetary systems, nor the eightfold perfection of yoga, nor liberation from birth and death. Such a person desires Me alone.

S. B. 10.51.63.

O King, in your very next life you will become an excellent brāhmaṇa, the greatest well-wisher of all creatures, and certainly come to Me alone.

S. B. 10.46.43.

Nothing can be said to exist independent of Lord Acyuta — nothing heard or seen, nothing in the past, present or future, nothing moving or unmoving, great or small. He indeed is everything, for He is the Supreme Soul.

CC 2.25.37. 

 ‘Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the cause of all causes. He is past, present and future, and He is the movable and immovable. He is the greatest and the smallest, and He is visible and directly experienced. He is celebrated in the Vedic literature. Everything is Kṛṣṇa, and without Him there is no existence. He is the root of all understanding, and He is that which is understood by all words.’

B. G. 15.16. P. 

Those who are in oneness with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, however, are called infallible. Oneness does not mean that they have no individuality, but that there is no disunity. They are all agreeable to the purpose of the creation.

Death as the representative of God

Ordinary family man who works very hard day and night and is successful in giving comforts to the members of his family thereby relishes a kind of mellow, but his whole advancement of material happiness immediately terminates along with his body as soon as his life is over. Death is therefore taken as the representative of God for the atheistic class of men. The devotee realizes the presence of God by devotional service, whereas the atheist realizes the presence of God in the shape of death.

Yayati And God Of Death

There is a beautiful story, a great parable in the Upanishads:
One of the great kings, Yayati, was dying. He was a hundred years old, ripe enough to die — one should be ready by that time — but not grown-up enough; the seed of renewing life was not yet burnt. So when death came, Yayati fell at the feet of Death — a great king, a great conqueror! — and he said to Death, “Spare me only one hundred years more. I don’t ask for more, just one hundred years more. And it is nothing for you, you can do it. All my desires are still unfulfilled because I had never thought about you. I was simply preparing and preparing. I have not enjoyed my life. Now that everything is ready — I have conquered the whole world, I have all the riches, the most beautiful women, the most intelligent and courageous sons, the best army in the world, everything is settled, all enemies killed — I was just thinking to relax and enjoy. Is this the time to come? All these hundred years have been spent simply in preparing for these moments. Spare me just one hundred years more so that I can live to my heart’s content.”
Death laughed and said, “I am ready to spare one hundred years more to you, but I will have to take one of your sons because I have to go with somebody who resembles you; if not you, at least one of your sons. I can’t go empty-handed, I have to give the account to my boss himself. He will ask, ‘Where is Yayati?’ What am I going to say? Such a thing has never been done before, but I feel sorry for you. Just ask one of your sons.”

Yayati had a hundred sons; he must have had a hundred wives too. He asked his sons. The oldest was eighty, but he started looking downwards, was not ready to say yes. Why should he? He had lived only eighty years; if his father is not contented with a hundred years, how can he be contented with only eighty years? At least twenty years more he is entitled to live. In those days, the story says, people used to live a hundred years. Why should he die a premature death, an untimely death? And this old fellow has lived enough! He did not want to hurt the old man so he didn’t say anything, he kept quiet.

The father was very much shocked; he used to think that his sons were ready to sacrifice themselves. But in this world nobody is ready to sacrifice himself for anybody else. He looked around. His sons also started looking at each other, meaning “Why don’t YOU go?”
The youngest, who was only twenty years old, stood up and he said, “I am ready. Take me with you, I am coming with you.”

Even Death felt sorry for the boy. Death came close to the young man and said, “Are you a fool or something? Your other brothers — one is eighty, one is seventy-five, one is seventy, sixty, sixty-five, fifty — these people are not ready to go and you are the youngest, you have not lived at all. Why are you ready to go?”

The young man said, “If my father could not live in a hundred years, if my eldest brother could not live in eighty years, if my other brothers… nobody has been able to live, then the whole project is nonsense. I don’t want to waste time. If I have to die it is better to die now. Why wait for eighty years? If THESE people have not been able to manage, it is absolutely certain it is unmanageable. And let my father try a hundred years more.”

Death tried to convince him, but he wouldn’t listen. Death had to take him away.
After a hundred years, Death came back and the situation was the same. Again Yayati fell at his feet and started crying and weeping and he said, “I know that now I should be ready, but nothing is fulfilled yet; all the desires are the same. I have LIVED all the desires, I cannot say that I have not lived them, but nothing is fulfilled. I want more! Now that I have lived a hundred years a new desire has arisen — I want more! I want to live at least one time more, a hundred years more, just one time more.”

And this went on happening again and again. When Yayati became one thousand years old and Death came, he was just going to fall at his feet. Death said, “Wait — enough is enough! Can’t you see the point, Yayati? Are you so blind? You have lived one thousand years, and you have been doing the same things again and again. You have done nothing new in these one thousand years, and still you want more? Can’t you see the simple point that mind lives in the more, it goes on asking for more? There is no end to it. Now you come with me — I am not going to listen anymore. Now even my boss is feeling angry with me. He says, ‘This is too much! This man has been given too much time.’ But I also wanted to try — let us see what you can make out of one thousand years. You have not made any progress, you are exactly in the same place, going in circles.”

Approaching Guru

S. B. 6.15.16. Com. : The guru should not be approached for material benefits. One should not approach a guru just to cure some disease or receive some miraculous benefit. This is not the way to approach the guru. Tad-vijñānārtham: one should approach the guru to understand the transcendental science of spiritual life.