By:
Mahesh Raja (UK)
Diksha actually means initiating a disciple with transcendental
knowledge by which he becomes freed from all material contamination.
So here we see from above definition of Diksha quotes:
1) Transcendental Knowledge awakened, initiated
2) Becomes freed from all material contamination; vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity.
Now ask a simple question HOW can a Brahmana (Kanistha) who is NOT
freed from MATERIAL CONTAMINATION GIVE DIKSHA - BY WHICH - ONE BECOMES
FREED FROM **ALL** MATERIAL CONTAMINATION?
Just take a look at how contradictory and stupid this looks:
Q1) HOW can a Brahmana (Kanistha) who is HIMSELF material contaminated free another person from **ALL** MATERIAL CONTAMINATION?
Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.25 Purport King Yayati Achieves Liberation
The word vidhuta, meaning “cleansed,” is very significant. Everyone in
this material world is contaminated (karanam guna-sango ‘sya). Because
we are in a material condition, we are contaminated either by
sattva-guna, by rajo-guna or by tamo-guna. Even if one becomes a
qualified brahmana in the mode of goodness (sattva-guna), he is still
materially contaminated. One must come to the platform of suddha-sattva,
transcending the sattva-guna. Then one is vidhuta-trilinga, cleansed of the contamination caused by the three modes of material nature.
Q 2) If a Brahmana (Kanistha) had Transcendental Knowledge then why is in contaminated by goodness (sattva-guna)?
Diksha is the process by which one can awaken his transcendental knowledge and vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity.
Diksha actually means initiating a disciple with transcendental
knowledge by which he becomes freed from all material contamination
Q 3) So HOW can a Kanistha (Brahmana) who HIMSELF is material
contaminated does NOT have Transcendental Knowledge give another person
Transcendental Knowledge to free him?
Common-sense: What you do NOT have you CAN NOT give to others.
Conversations, February 14, 1977, Mayapur
Prabhupada: Vaishnava is not so easy. The varnasrama-dharma should be established to become a Vaishnava. It is not so easy to become Vaishnava.
Hari-sauri: No, it’s not a cheap thing.
Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore this should be made. Vaishnava, to become Vaishnava, is not so easy. If Vaishnava,
to become Vaishnava is so easy, why so many fall down, fall down? It is
not easy. The sannyasa is for the highest qualified brahmana. And
simply by dressing like a Vaishnava, that is… fall down.
Hari-sauri: So the varnasrama system is like for the kanisthas, Kanistha-adhikari.
Prabhupada: Kanistha?
Hari-sauri: When one is only on the platform of neophyte.
Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. Kanistha-adhikari, yes.
Hari-sauri: Varnasrama system is beneficial.
Prabhupada: Kanistha-adhikari means he must be a brahmana. That is kanistha-adhikari. The spiritual life, kanistha-adhikari, means he must be a qualified brahmana. That is kanistha. What is esteemed as very high position in the material world, brahmana, that is kanistha-adhikari.
arcayam eva haraye
pujam yah sraddhayehate
na tad-bhaktesu canyesu
sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah
The brahmana means from the material stage gradually he is elevated to
the spiritual stage. And below the brahmana there is no question of
Vaishnava.
Hari-sauri: No question of?
Prabhupada: Vaishnavism.
Conversations, February 6, 1976, Mayapur
Dayananda: But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?
Prabhupada: Kanistha-adhikari. They are not devotees, but they are called bhaktabhasa. There is some signs of bhakti. Actually they are not bhakta. Bhaktabhasa. Abhasa. Abhasa means a simple, a little light.
Hridayananda: So devotee really means one who has love for Krishna.
Prabhupada: Yes, unalloyed, without any condition. Anyabhilasita-sunyam,
zero, all other, that “I am this, I am that, I am jnani, I am yogi, I
am karmi, I am minister, I am king”- all these are thinking like that,
they’re all nonsense. “I am servant of Krishna”--that is greatness. Jivera svarupa haya nitya-krsna-dasa. That is self-realization, atma-tattvam.
Madhya 20.59 Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Instructs Sanatana Gosvami in the Science
PURPORT
This verse is spoken by Prahlada Maharaja in Srimad-Bhagavatam
(7.9.10). A brahmana is supposed to be qualified with twelve qualities.
As stated in the Mahabharata:
dharmas ca satyam ca damas tapas ca
amatsaryam hris titiksanasuya
yajnas ca danam ca dhrtih srutam ca
vratani vai dvadasa brahmanasya
“A brahmana must be perfectly religious. He must be truthful, and he
must be able to control his senses. He must execute severe austerities,
and he must be detached, humble and tolerant. He must not envy anyone,
and he must be expert in performing sacrifices and giving whatever he
has in charity. He must be fixed in devotional service and expert in the
knowledge of the Vedas. These are the twelve qualifications for a
brahmana.”
Bhagavad-gita describes the brahminical qualities in this way:
samo damas tapah saucam
ksantir arjavam eva ca
jnanam vijnanam astikyam
brahma-karma svabhava-jam
“Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance,
honesty, wisdom, knowledge, and religiousness - these are the qualities
by which the brahmanas work.” (Bg. 18.42)
In the Muktaphala-tika, it is said:
samo damas tapah saucam
ksanty-arjava-virakta yah
jnana-vijnana-santosah
satyastikye dvisad gunah
“Mental equilibrium, sense control, austerity, cleanliness, tolerance,
simplicity, detachment, theoretical and practical knowledge,
satisfaction, truthfulness and firm faith in the Vedas are the twelve
qualities of a brahmana.”
Lectures, August 28, 1973, London
So first of all, we have to become brahmana. Then Vaishnava. Brahmana simply knows that “I am spirit soul,” aham brahmasmi. Brahma janati iti brahmana. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma. By such knowledge one becomes prasannatma.
Means relieved. As you feel relief… When there is burden on your head,
and the burden is taken away you feel relieved, similarly, this
ignorance that “I am this body” is a great burden, a burden upon us. So
when you get out of this burden, then you feel relieved. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma. Means
when actually one understands that “I am not this body; I am soul,”
then he has to work so hard for maintaining this body, so he gets relief
that “Why I am working so hard for this lump of material things? Let me
execute my real necessity of life, spiritual life.” That is great
relief. That is great relief. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati. The relief means there is hankering, no more lamentation. These are the brahma-bhutah.
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.20 Purport Divinity and Divine Service
The very same thing is confirmed herein in the above words. No ordinary
man, or even one who has attained success in human life, can know
scientifically or perfectly the Personality of Godhead.
Perfection of human life is attained when one can understand that he is
not the product of matter but is in fact spirit. And as soon as one
understands that he has nothing to do with matter, he at once ceases his
material hankerings and becomes enlivened as a spiritual being.
This attainment of success is possible when one is above the modes of
passion and ignorance, or, in other words, when one is actually a
brahmana by qualification.
A BRAHMANA IS THE SYMBOL OF SATTVA-GUNA, OR THE MODE OF GOODNESS. AND
OTHERS, WHO ARE NOT IN THE MODE OF GOODNESS, ARE EITHER KSATRIYAS,
VAISYAS, SUDRAS OR LESS THAN THE SUDRAS. THE BRAHMINICAL STAGE IS THE
HIGHEST STAGE OF HUMAN LIFE BECAUSE OF ITS GOOD QUALITIES. SO ONE CANNOT
BE A DEVOTEE UNLESS ONE AT LEAST QUALIFIES AS A BRAHMANA. The devotee
is already a brahmana by action. But that is not the end of it. AS
REFERRED TO ABOVE, SUCH A BRAHMANA HAS TO BECOME A VAISHNAVA IN FACT TO
BE ACTUALLY IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL STAGE. A PURE VAISHNAVA IS A LIBERATED
SOUL AND IS TRANSCENDENTAL EVEN TO THE POSITION OF A BRAHMANA. IN THE
MATERIAL STAGE EVEN A BRAHMANA IS ALSO A CONDITIONED SOUL BECAUSE
ALTHOUGH IN THE BRAHMINICAL STAGE THE CONCEPTION OF BRAHMAN OR
TRANSCENDENCE IS REALIZED, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUPREME LORD IS
LACKING. ONE HAS TO SURPASS THE BRAHMINICAL STAGE AND REACH THE VASUDEVA
STAGE TO UNDERSTAND THE PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD KRISHNA.
Divya-jnana means: Divya TRANSCENDENTAL and Jnana means KNOWLEDGE
So UNLESS one is on TRANSCENDENTAL PLATFORM means Uttama
Adhikari (Maha Bhagavata) there can NOT be any question of
Transcendental Knowledge of one’s CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION coming FROM
him. THIS EFFECTIVELY DISQUALIFIES KANISTHA AND MADHYAM (MIDDLE STAGE)
FROM GIVING DIKSHA -- AUTOMATICALLY.
Hrde means heart and Prokasito means revealed just as in prakasa – manifested Krishna becomes manifest in the heart of the Pure Devotee.
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