Yesterday was sweet beyond words. Spending the day with our twenty-two amazing Courage & Grace Advanced Teacher Trainees, talking all things bhakti, and dissolving together was such a gift. The second stage of the bhakti path is
sadhu sangha or association with a holy community. It felt like just that. I'm so grateful for this time, and for this life I've been blessed with. Bowing deeply.
In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu the science of devotional sevice
is explained as follows:
In the beginning stage there must be a preliminary desire
for self-realization. This will lead one to the platform of desiring
to associate with spiritually advanced persons. The next step
is to become initiated by an authorized spiritual master and
to perform devotional service under his guidance. Through the
execution of devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual
master, one will become free from all material attachments, achieves
steadiness in self realization and finds taste in hearing about
Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This taste leads one
to further attachment in Krsna consciousness which is called
bhava or the preliminary stage of pure love of Godhead. Pure
love to the Lord is called prema or the supreme perfectional
stage in life.
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