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“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty. All the great sages such as Nārada, Asita, Devala and Vyāsa proclaim this of You, and now You Yourself

“I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me.” “Everything” includes living entities and inert matter. Both matter and the living entities come from Kṛṣṇa. Indeed, the whole world is a combination of matter and spirit, prakṛti and the living entity.

“The knowledge of the field of activities and of the knower of activities is described by various sages in various Vedic writings – especially in the Vedānta-sūtra – and is presented with all reasoning as to cause and effect.”

If one receives his guru properly and seats him comfortably, and if the guru is pleased with one’s behavior , the guru can speak very frankly and freely, and this will be very beneficial to the student. By going to a spiritual master and asking for his instructions and then not following them, one simply I am ātmā, a spiritual soul, and you are ātmā. That is the difference between ātmā and Paramātmā.

and took on the ecstatic emotions of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī (rādhā-bhāva-dyuti). If Kṛṣṇa cannot comprehend the limit of His own attraction and bliss, it is certainly not possible for If we misunderstand Kṛṣṇa and take Him to be a human being like us, we become mūḍhas, fools. The material nature belongs to Kṛṣṇa, and He is its controller. We are under the control of material nature, and that is the difference.

Questions and answers are very satisfactorily dealt with when the inquirer is bona fide and the speaker Here Maitreya is considered a powerful sage, and therefore he is also described as bhagavān. When there are discourses on transcendental topics between devotees of equal mentality, the questions and answers are very fruitful and encouraging.

Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him.”

One approaches a Mahātmājī and says, “I am suffering from this disease. Please help me.” And the Mahātmājī says, “Yes, I have a mantra that will heal you and give you success. Give me a little money and take it.” This is not a real guru. A guru is one who knows the Vedas and the Vedic conclusion.

Any person who seriously desires to achieve real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and

For this purpose there is the varṇāśrama-dharma, composed of four varṇas and four āśramas. For instance, there are different divisions for the body: the head, the arms, the belly and the legs. Even a śūdra can understand what is Brahman, and in that case he becomes a brāhmaṇa automatically.

Being encouraged and pleased by Vidura’s inquiry about transcendental knowledge, Maitreya spoke as follows

Both the Māyāvāda-sampradāya and the Vaiṣṇava-sampradāya have explained the Vedānta-sūtra. It is said that Vidura understood transcendental knowledge from Maitreya, and it is stated that Maitreya This means that both Vidura and Maitreya know what Vyāsadeva knows. Vyāsadeva accepted Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Arjuna also accepted Kṛṣṇa as Para-brahman

Material energy is inferior, and spiritual energy is superior. Why? For instance, human beings are advanced living entities, and they have created modern civilization by

“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living

One must approach the proper person, the guru, and submissively listen to him expound transcendental

The Vedas are called śruti, and the bona fide guru is in the line of hearing from the disciplic succession A bona fide guru does not impart some self-styled, concocted knowledge; his knowledge is standard and are his two qualifications: he must have heard the Vedic knowledge through the disciplic succession, and God gives us the ears to hear, and simply by hearing we may become great preachers.

Vyāsadeva accepted Kṛṣṇa as paraṁ brahma, and Vyāsadeva began his commentary on Vedānta-sūtra with the Vidura was very eager to receive transcendental knowledge, and because of this, Maitreya was very pleased One can please the spiritual master simply by surrendering to him and rendering service, saying, “Sir Please accept me and give me instructions.” Bhagavad-gītā he surrendered himself, saying, śiṣyas te ’haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam: “Now I am Your disciple and

In a house, there is a tenant and a landlord. The tenant is the occupant, and the landlord is the proprietor.

If one actually wants to understand spiritual life and spiritual knowledge, one has to approach a guru And what is that knowledge? Tad-vijñāna. That heaviness is brahma-niṣṭhā – attachment to Brahman and to Para-brahman, Bhagavān.

One must first find a guru to whom one can surrender, and if this is not possible, one shouldn’t waste