Demigod worship – Light of Godhead

SB-1.2.26-27: Just worship Krsna

SB 1.2.26: Those who are serious about liberation are certainly nonenvious, and they respect all. Yet they reject the horrible and ghastly forms of the demigods and worship only the all-blissful forms of Lord Viṣṇu and His plenary portions.

Highly qualified brāhmaṇas situated in the mode of goodness have no grudges against the mode of worship of others. They have all respect for other demigods, even though they may look ghastly, like Kāla-bhairava or Mahākālī. They know very well that these horrible features of the Supreme Lord are all different servitors of the Lord under different conditions, yet they reject the worship of both horrible and attractive features of the demigods, and they concentrate only on the forms of Viṣṇu because they are serious about liberation from the material conditions. The demigods, even to the stage of Brahmā, the supreme of all the demigods, cannot offer liberation to anyone.

light-of-godhead2015-09-24T01:17:19+00:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Canto 1, Demigod worship, Goodness, Srimad Bhagavatam notes|

Come to Krsna and you will be saved

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: People Are Being Killed

Mumuksavo ghora-rupan. We are therefore restricting not to worship any other. Therefore when I started this mission many friends advised me “Why don’t you make it ‘God consciousness’?” This is bogus, God consciousness. “Krsna consciousness.” Otherwise, they’ll put so many gods. “Here is another god, here is another god, here is another god, here is another god, here is another incarnation, here is another avatara,” all nonsense. Place actual who is God. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. Narayana-kalah santah. So try to understand our mission.

light-of-godhead2015-09-24T00:50:49+00:00September 9th, 2015|Categories: Demigod worship, Kali, Krsna, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada|Tags: ISKCON|

SB 1.2.22-23: Ultimate benefit

SB 1.2.22: Certainly, therefore, since time immemorial, all transcendentalists have been rendering devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, with great delight, because such devotional service is enlivening to the self.

The speciality of devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is specifically mentioned herein. The living entities are separated parts and parcels of the Personality of Godhead. Therefore Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original form of Godhead, and He is the last word in the Transcendence. Thus He is more attractive to the higher transcendentalists who participate in the eternal pastimes of the Lord. In forms of the Personality of Godhead other than Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Baladeva, there is no facility for intimate personal contact as in the transcendental pastimes of the Lord at Vrajabhūmi. The transcendental pastimes of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa are not newly accepted, as argued by some less intelligent persons; His pastimes are eternal and are manifested in due course once in a day of Brahmājī, as the sun rises on the eastern horizon at the end of every twenty-four hours.

light-of-godhead2015-09-07T22:46:59+00:00August 6th, 2015|Categories: Canto 1, Demigod worship, God realization, Srimad Bhagavatam notes|Tags: Performing duty|

Necessity is fire

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: How To Derive The Ultimate Benefit

Just like earth, from the earth the tree grows. So tree grows means wood. Now, if you ignite the wood, first of all there is smoke, then there is fire. So my necessity is fire, neither the wood, nor the earth, nor the smoke. Similarly, for getting out of these material clutches one has to take shelter of Visnu — not of Lord Brahma nor Lord Siva.

light-of-godhead2015-08-06T21:44:13+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Demigod worship, Liberation|Tags: Earth, Fire, Smoke, Wood|

No other method will relieve us

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: The Material World – A Chance

Just like one is a prisoner. So if he pleases the superintendent of prison, he can get some little facilities. Now I have seen, practically, that one young boy, he was imprisoned for some criminal act. So he was typing in the office of the jail superintendent. So that means he was educated, but he was put into ordinary prison term. He was breaking some stone. But he satisfied the jail superintendent that “I am not accustomed to

light-of-godhead2015-08-06T21:36:06+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Demigod worship, Liberation|Tags: Government, Prisoner, Superintendent, Temporary|