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WORLD  Jaiva Dharma - Phala Sruti BY GVP  USA, May 21 (VNN) — Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura - Phala Sruti (The fruits of Hearing)"One who reads Jaiva Dharma with faithful deliberation will surely attain suddha bhakti, but one who does not read Jaiva Dharma can never attain bhakti." - Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura Hare Krsna, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept my humble obeseness. Dear Prabhus, By the desire of Srila Prabhupada and the mercy of the Bhaktivedanta Parampara Sri Jaiva Dharma is available to the English speaking world. Srila Prabhupada explains: (690923BA.Lon) "So this Bhaktivinoda Thakura's birthday, we should adore, we should worship, because in the modern age he reintroduced the disciplic succession." "He has left behind him many books. Caitanya-siksamrta, Jaiva Dharma. These are very important books." "So we are trying to present Bhaktivinoda Thakura's books also in English translation. Gradually you will get it." Why did Srila Prabhupada want to give us Jaiva Dharma? Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains: Phala Sruti (The fruits of Hearing) "One who reads Jaiva Dharma with faithful deliberation will surely attain suddha bhakti, but one who does not read Jaiva Dharma can never attain bhakti" To order click here (special price of $12 incl. Shipping in US) Srila Prabhupada's Quotes: "So this Bhaktivinoda Thakura's birthday, we should adore, we should worship, because in the modern age he reintroduced the disciplic succession. From Caitanya Mahaprabhu... Five hundred years ago, Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught this philosophy, but within two hundred years... Because this material world is so made that whatever you introduce, in due course of time it will deteriorate. You make a nice house, but after one hundred years, two hundred years, or nowadays, even after fifty years, it becomes dilapidated. That is the nature's law, kala. Time will destroy everything. Now, British empire, such a big, vast empire, now it is finished. The kala, the time, will make everything finished. That is material. Anything material, it has birth, it has growth, it has got some opulence, then dwindling, then finished. That is the way of material... So we are interested in spiritual subject matter. Therefore the process is adau gurv-asrayam. One has to accept a bona fide spiritual master. That is our process. Without accepting a bona fide spiritual master, we cannot make any progress. It is impossible. So Bhaktivinoda Thakura happens to be acaryas, one of the acaryas. And he has left behind him many books. Caitanya-siksamrta, Jaiva Dharma. These are very important books. They're in Bengali, in Sanskrit. And many songs. He has prepared many books of song. The song, Ei nam gaya gauracand madhura svare, that is Bhaktivinoda Thakura's song. So we are trying to present Bhaktivinoda Thakura's books also in English translation. Gradually you will get it. So our adoration, our worship to Bhaktivinoda Thakura today because he may bless us to make peacefully progress in Krsna consciousness. Acarya-upasana, simply by the blessings of the acaryas we can make very rapid progress." "Not that I am manufacturing. We cannot manufacture anything, but we can repeat the words of our predecessors. Bhaktivinoda Thakura, in his Jaiva-Dharma, or in Caitanya-siksamrta." Contact VNN about this story  Send this story to a friend
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