Transcript NOI Final_Diagrams.ppt

Nectar of Instruction
(NOI)
From
çraddhä
to
prema
In Eleven Verses
Texts 1-3
çraddhä
Texts 4-6
sädhu-saìgaù
Text 7
bhajana-kriyä
anartha-nivåttiù
niñöhä
ruciù
Text 8
Texts 9-11
äsaktiù
bhävaù
prema
Key themes in the
Nectar of Instruction
Mind & Sense Control
Attitude
ISKCON’s Purpose
Guru and Disciple
Sadhu-sanga
Devotees (Kinds, Behavior & qualifications)
Bhakti (Stages & Development)
NOI
Text One
Maharaja Pariksit
on
Atonement
Analogies
Elephant & Bath
Thief & Police
Confessions
Real Atonement
Awakening
Dormant KC
(Tapasya)
Training according to
Regulative Principles
& Methodical Life
Application
Pancaratric Tapasya:
Rupa Goswami’s Method
Traditional
Tapasya
Celibacy
Austerity
Don’t
Do
Truthfulness
Mind & Sense Control
Renounciation
Cleanliness
Yoga-äsanas
Practice Bhakti
Under Guru guidance
In Assoc. of Devs.
Four Regs.
Application
SP’s
Purport
Väco
Manasaù
BSST’s
Purport
Krodha
Jihvä
Problem:
Karmis & Jnanis
Snake & Toad
Problem:
Vacuum
Attracts Anarthas
Problem:
Can’t be stopped
Problem:
Forced to eat in
Karmi shops
Solution:
Krishna Katha
(not silence)
Solution:
Meditate on
Lotus Feet
Sun & Krishna
Solution:
Apply against
Blasphemers
Jag & Mad, Hanuman
Arjuna
Solution:
Prasada
Be grateful when
Krishna supplies
Accept as mercy
Scheduled times
Udaro Pastha
No unnecessary sex
KC Kids
BSST’s Purport
Anuvåtti Commentary
3 Kinds of Urges
Speech
Mind
Body
Connected in straight line starting with tongue
Problem:
Prajalpa
Karmis, Jnanis &
Karma Kandis
Solution:
Hari Katha
SB 1.5.10-11
Avirodha-préti
Tongue
Unrestricted
Attachment
Virodha-yukta-krodha
Anger due
to Frustration
Verses:
BVT – Prasad Prayers
CC Ant 6.227
CC Ant 6.236
6 Types of Demands
Tamo – Dead bodies
Rajo - Spicy
Sattva – Milk & Grains
Maha Tamo – Intoxicants
Prasad – Offering delicious food
Präsäda (Mansion) – Visiting for food
Belly
Genitals
Illegal:
Problem:
Stomach Disease
5 types:
thinking, planning,
talking, doing &
Artificial means
Solution:
Fasting for Ekadasi
& Festivals
Legal:
Marriage &
KC kids
Conclusion
The Theme of NOI
“You Can Only Serve One Master”
Senses
Krishna
Go-däsa or Adänta-go:
Gosvämé:
Servant of
the senses
Controller of
The Senses
(Qualified as a Spiritual Master)
NOI
How They Spoil
Pure Bhakti?
Atyähäraù
Analogy:
Rice & Birds
Prayäsaç
Jana-saìgaù
Overendeavour:
Brothels
Factories
Liquor Dens
Religion
Actual Purpose
SB 1.2.9
Problem:
Less Time
for Inquiry
Modern Society
SB 4.8.41
Solution:
Simple Living
SB 1.2.10
Analogy:
Stock Market
Bhakta-sane vasa
by Narrotama d.
Laulyam
Ideal Society
Bhukti
Enemity
Destroyed
Mukti
Economic
Maladjustments
Corrected
Siddhi
Political
Stability
Spiritual
Community
Established
Philosophy
Analogy:
Business Man
Re-born as
Cobbler
What are the
Advantages of
Avoiding Them?
Text Two
Prajalpo
Niyamägrahaù
Karmi’s Books
Jnani’s Books
Analogy:
Frog
agraha
ägraha
Cause of
Spiritual Awakening
ISKCON
Welfare Work
Rejects rules:
Enjoyers
Analogy:
Commies & Capitalists
$100 on the road
Iso. Mantra 1
Not Centered
on Krishna
Accepts rules:
Ritualists
Education
Training
NOI
Attitude - utsähän niçcayäd dhairyät
Behaviour - saìga-tyägät
Character - tat-tat-karma
Direction - sato våtteù
What is
NOT Bhakti?
What IS Bhakti?
Text Three
Impetus
for
Bhakti
How to Perform?
Favorable
Conditions
Who can
Perform?
Why Perform?
Sentimental
Speculation
BRS 1.1.11
anyäbhiläñitä
SB 7.5.23
çravaëaà kértanaà
Rare
Imaginative Ectasy
Cultivation
NOT
Idle Meditation
Under Guru
BG 4.34
MU 1.2.12
CC mad 19.151
Blissful
Attachment to
Devotional
Activities
Liberating
Where to
Perform?
Any Sincere
Practitioner
ISKCON
Favorable
Conditions
Utsähän
Niçcayäd
Why?
For Success in
Any Field
Student
or Businessman
What?
Endeavour with
Intelligence
No Confidence in
Other Paths
BG 2.69
Opposite lifestyle
Karmis,
Jnanis
& Yogis
Impermanent
Causes Restlessness
Leads to Fall-down
Dhairyät
Taking
Instructions
From Guru
Execute
Devotional
Service
Wife Wants Child
Dictaphone
Depending on
Guru& Krishna
for results
DO:
Chant
Follow 4 Regs
SB 7.5.23
Confidence only
in Bhakti
Perfection
Bhakti is Life,
Soul, Desired
Goal & Perfection
Saìga-tyägät
Neglect
Will Destroy
Devotional
Service
Protection
Profit
Surrender to
Gain
Protection
Pure
and Perfect
Wife Wants Child
yukta-vairägya
BG 9.4 - mat-sthäni
Tat-tat-karma
BVT - avaçya rakñibe kåñëa
BG 2.40 - nehäbhikrama
Forcibly
Dragged
To Success
BG 2.40
BG 9.31
Sato våtteù
Avoid Karmis,
Jnanis &
Yogis
CC Mad 22.87
Morning
Prog. & Fill
time with
KC Activities
Live with
Devotees
Bhakta-sane vasa
by Narrotama d.
Powerful
Productive
Pure
SB 1.2.6 –
No Material
Qualifications
SB 5.18.12
No Tinge of
Material
Activities
No Mundane
Cause,
Material
Imposition
or Interruptions
Develop Divine
Qualities of
Demigods
ahaituky
apratihatä
BG 9.13 –
mahätmänas
Bhakti Performed
Under Internal
Potency
NOI
Text Four
Do NOT
Associate with
Associate with
Whom?
Where?
Principle of Assoc.
BG 2.62
saìgät saïjäyate
Devotees
Businessmen
at Hotel
ISKCON
Why?
Success
Desires & Ambitions
Develop According
to Our Association
Life Membership
Facilitates
6 Exchanges
Peace
Life Member
Dadäti
Devotee
Gives
Donation
Gives
Books
Invitation
to House
Honours
Prasadam
Inquires
about KC
Gives
Explaination
Spiritual Life
Nourished
How?
Dormant KC
Revived
Pratigåhëäti
Willing & Ready
to Receive
Give Holy Name
Effect:
Çikñäñöaka 1–ceto
CC Mad 22.107
Friendship
Haridäsa & Nitai
Caitanya in
Jhärikhaëòa
Convert Members
Guhyam
äkhyäti
Guhyam
påcchati
Explains situation of
Material World
Bhuìkte
Inquires
about KC
Bhojayate
Sunday Feast
Tranquility
Invited Home
Do NOT
Associate with
Whom?
Mäyävädés
&
Atheists
How?
Guhyam
Never
Inquire
Confidentially
äkhyäti
Never Give
Or Accept
Invitation
To Associate
Intimately
Påcchati
By Intimate
Intermingling
One is
Affected
Çréla Rüpa Gosvämé’s
Dadäti
Pratigåhëäti
Negative
Injunction!
Do Not Give
or Take
Anything
Bhuìkte
Bhojayate
Never Give or
Accept Food
CC Ant 6.278
viñayéra anna
Poisonous
Association
Snake, Milk
& Bananas
Any information will
be used to promote
materialism & oppose
KC!
CC Mad 11.8
niñkiïcanasya
Unless one is
very advanced
he is unable to utilise
everyone’s contribution
for furthering KC!
Dadäti Principle
Advanced Devotee
Gives at Least 50%
Why?
Whatever the
Income – 50%
Principle:
We should not
accept charity from
Mäyävädés &
Atheists
Service to Krishna
& Devotees
50% - Krishna
25% - Family
25% - Personal
Fufills demands of
Dadäti
NOI
Text Five
Kaniñöha
Madhyama
Uttama
Uncritical
Even if a Pure
Devotee Criticises
Maitré
Friends with
Devotees
Worships Only
Deity
Prema
Krishna is the
Object of Love
Behaves Badly
With Devotees
Kåpä
Merciful
Upekñäù
Avoids the Envious
Without false
ego or envy
Out of great
pain or regret
Harinama Initiated
Trying to Chant
Fixed-up
Surrendered to
KC Process
Inconclusive
Knowledge of Sastra
Hate disease
not diseased
To protect
newcomer’s faith
Pliable Faith
Soft / Unsteady
CC Ant. 4.192
dékñä-käle bhakta
Undeterred
Continues Process
in Any
Circumstance
Faithful
Firm in Chanting
With Faith
çraddhä
Self-Realised
Seriously Engaged
in Lord’s Service
Strict In Following
Four Regs.
Expounds
Spreads KC
Disinterested In
Material Enjoyment
Guru
Best Guru
Converts
Offenseless
Inquire
Interactions with
Uttama-adhikäri
Serve
Pure
Free from Anarthas
Associate
BVT – Vaisnava Converts
Many to Vaisnavism
NOI
Text Six
7 Offences
Against A Pure Devotee
1
Criticism of
Bodily Defects
2
Birth
BG 9.30
Even if NOT from
Brahman or
Goswami Family
api cet
suduräcäro
3
Material Vision
Who IS
a Goswami?
Non-Envious &
Pride less
NOT Herditary
Rupa &
Sanatana
Protest Goswami
Title Given to
American Vaisnavas
Proud of Own
Birth
The Effect:
Obstructive &
Dangerous
For KC
Advancement
What’s the Origin
Of External
Vision?
Did NOT
Appreciate the
Extraordinary
Activities of
Spreading
KC Worldwide
Thinks That KC
Is Limited to a
Goswami Families
May Criticise
Not Envious of
Western
Sannyasis
6
7
To Advise To Correct
Should See How
He is Serving
The Lord
NOT Observe Actions
of Pure Devotee
From Material
Perspective
Monopoly of
Pure Devotees
5
Disciplinary
Action
4
Jealous
Certain Section
of People
Prabhupada’s
Godbrothers
Certain Section
Of Devotees
Certain Tract
Of Land
Empowered Person
Should NOT be
Treated as
an Ordinary
Human Being
CC Ant 7.11
Kåñëa-çakti
vinä nähi
NOI
Text Seven
Principles of Chanting
Symptoms of
Disease
Cause of
Disease
Cure
Beyond
Cure
What?
NO Taste for
Name, Form, etc.
Individual
Bitter
Sugar Candy /
Jaundice
CC Mad 20.117
kåñëa bhuli'
CC Mad 20.108
jévera 'svarüpa'
bhävaù
Chanting
Ignorance
Method:
Care & Attention
Forgetfulness
Benefits:
Easy & Beneficial
Effects:
ceto-darpaëa
Mirror & Fire
Where?
Distracted by Maya
3 Symptoms
ISKCON
False or Bad Shelter
(Duräçraya)
çraddhä
sädhu-saìgaù
Hope Against Hope
Little Faith
Cannot Understand
Mistakes
Collective
bhajana-kriyä
Definition:
preliminary
awakening
of dormant love
of Godhead
Comes to ISKCON
Sankirtana
No Bodily
Concepts
Understand:
Krishna & Maya
anartha-nivåtti
Atheistic Leadership
16 Rnds. & 4 Regs.
Misled by
Blind Leaders
BG 7.15
na mäà duñkåtino
Oppose Devotee
Endeavours
Personally Never
Surrender to Krishna
Celibacy &
No Gambling
Undisturbed by
Maya
No Tea, coffee or
restaurants
Sun & Shadow
NOI
Text Eight
Why to Train?
How to Train?
Friend
Reside
Impressions
In Vraja
Process
Remembrance of
Krishna and
Eternal Associates
Under Shelter of
Advanced
Devotees
Dangerous
How to Serve?
With Feeling
Under Direct Guidance
of a Particular Associate
of Krishna
Sädhana
Function at
Death
spiritual practices
executed while
in stage
of bondage
Think of Krishna
and Pastimes
Creates
Next Body
Sädhya
God realization
ADVICE: Train Mind
To Think of Krishna
Think of Krishna
NOT Birth
Different Stages
of Remembrance
Different Stages
Of Remembrance
çravaëa-daçä
Varaëa-daçä
Smaraëävasthä
Sampatti-daçä
Hearing
Acceptance
Remember &
Chant in Ecstasy
Eternal Relationship
Revealed
5 Stages
of Smaraëa
Interrupted
Uninterrupted
Uninterrupted &
Concentrated
Meditation Expands
& Becomes
Constant
Uninterrupted &
Unceasing
Anusmåti
Anusmåti
Samädhi
NOI
Text Nine
Hierarchy of Holy Places
Vaikuëöha
Mathurä
Våndävana
Govardhana Hill
Rädhä-kuëòa
Spiritual World;
Transcendental
Realm
Where
Krishna
Appeared
12 Forests
(dvädaça-vana)
Krishna Lifted
At the Foot of
Govardhana Hill
Love of Krishna
Over-flows
¾ of
Total Creation
Located in
Material World
Famous for
Krishna’s
Pastimes
Krishna
Tends Cows
Advanced Souls
Reside
Site of Many
Loving Pastimes
Rendezvous
with
Çré Rädhä
Rediscovered
by
Lord Caitanya
Most Dear to
Gaudiya
Vaisnavas
Superior to
Material World
Excavated by
Six Goswamis
Not Other
Vaiñëava
sampradäyas
Or Those NOT
Engaged in
Devotional
Service
NOI
Text Ten
Progress of Bhakti
Vikarmés
Act w/out
Vedic
Knowledge
Not
Appreciated by
Saintly Persons
SB 5.5.4
Take Birth as
Animals, Trees
& Plants
Act According to
Vedic Knowledge
Karmés
Jïänés
Bhaktas
Come to Platform
Of Knowledge
(ätma-tattva)
Know Fruitive
Activities Bind
Superior to
Karmés
Unless Takes to
Devotional Service
Still in Avidyä
BG 7.19
Perform
Devotional
Service Under
Reg. Principles
Superior to Vikarmés
Pure Devotees
Elevated to
Higher Planets
Like the Moon
Develop Pure
Love of Godhead
Return to
martya-loka
BG 9.21
Narada, Sanaka
& Sanatana
Çrématé
Rädhäräëé
Gopés
Only Know
Satisfying
Krishna
Expect
NO Return
from Krishna
Cannot
Forget
Krishna
Most Exalted
of
All Devotees
Highest of
All Gopis
Cannot be
Excelled
Krishna Cannot
Understand Her
Vipralambha-sevä
Mood of Seperation
Mood of
Lord Caitanya
Better Than
Serving Directly
Rädhä-kuëòa
Rädhäräëé’s
Lake
Serious Devotee
Must Take Shelter
Execute Service
There
Came as
Lord Caitanya
Most Exalted Place
Laghu-bhägavatämåta
Uttara-khaëòa 45
NOI
Text Eleven
Serving Rädhä-kuëòa
Why
Rädhä-kuëòa?
Who?
Bhaktivinoda
Öhäkura
Writes:
Belongs to
Rädhä
Most
Beloved
Gopi
As Dear
to Krishna
As Rädhä Herself
Bhaktisiddhänta
Sarasvaté Öhäkura
Writes:
Those Interested
In Advanced
Devotional Service
In wake of
Sakhés &
Maïjarés
Unlimited
Glories
Those Under
Protection of
Lord Caitanya
Rarely
Attained
Those Eager
To Go Back
to Godhead
The
Result
How?
Not Just
Ordinary
Devotees
Bathing
As Many
Times
As Possible
Not Even
Narada or Sanaka
Only the
Greatly Fortunate
Giving up
Material
Conceptions
Most Important
Devotional
Service
Residing
Serve Under
Serving Maids
In Loving
Service Of Lord
Pure Love of
Krishna in
Wake of Gopis
By
Bathing
Once
Will Return
To Godhead to
Rädhä
Under gopi
Supervision