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TEXT 156<\/span><\/p>\n yadi vai\u1e63\u1e47ava-apar\u0101dha u\u1e6dhe h\u0101t\u012b m\u0101t\u0101\u00a0up\u0101\u1e0de v\u0101 chi\u1e47\u1e0de, t\u0101ra \u015bukhi\u2019 y\u0101ya p\u0101t\u0101<\/span><\/p>\n yadi\u2014if; vai\u1e63\u1e47ava-apar\u0101dha\u2014an offense at the feet of a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava; u\u1e6dhe\u2014arises; h\u0101t\u012b\u2014an elephant; m\u0101t\u0101\u2014mad; up\u0101\u1e0de\u2014uproots; v\u0101\u2014or; chi\u1e47\u1e0de\u2014breaks; t\u0101ra\u2014of the creeper; \u015bukhi\u2019\u2014shriveling up; y\u0101ya\u2014goes; p\u0101t\u0101\u2014the leaf.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf the devotee commits an offense at the feet of a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava while cultivating the creeper of devotional service in the material world, his offense is compared to a mad elephant that uproots the creeper and breaks it. In this way the leaves of the creeper are dried up.<\/span><\/p>\n One\u2019s devotional attitude increases in the association of a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava:<\/span><\/p>\n t\u0101\u1e45dera cara\u1e47a sevi bhakta-sane v\u0101sa<\/span><\/p>\n janame janame haya, ei abhil\u0101\u1e63a<\/span><\/p>\n By his personal example, Narottama d\u0101sa \u1e6ch\u0101kura stresses that a devotee must always remember to please his predecessor \u0101c\u0101rya. The Gosv\u0101m\u012bs are represented by one\u2019s spiritual master. One cannot be an \u0101c\u0101rya (spiritual master) without following strictly in the disciplic succession of the \u0101c\u0101ryas. One who is actually serious about advancing in devotional service should desire only to satisfy the previous \u0101c\u0101ryas. Ei chaya gos\u0101\u00f1i y\u0101ra, mui t\u0101ra d\u0101sa. One should always think of oneself as a servant of the servant of the \u0101c\u0101ryas, and thinking this, one should live in the society of Vai\u1e63\u1e47avas (CC Madhya 13.80<\/a>). However, if one thinks that he has become very mature and can live separate from the association of Vai\u1e63\u1e47avas and thus gives up all the regulative principles due to offending a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava, one\u2019s position becomes very dangerous. Offenses against the holy name are explained in Adi-l\u012bl\u0101, Chapter Eight, verse 24. Giving up the regulative principles and living according to one\u2019s whims is compared to a mad elephant, which by force uproots the bhakti-lat\u0101 and breaks it to pieces. In this way the bhakti-lat\u0101 shrivels up. Such an offense is especially created when one disobeys the instructions of the spiritual master. This is called guru-avaj\u00f1\u0101. The devotee must therefore be very careful not to commit offenses against the spiritual master by disobeying his instructions. As soon as one is deviated from the instructions of the spiritual master, the uprooting of the bhakti-lat\u0101 begins, and gradually all the leaves dry up.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n #aparadha<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TEXT 156 yadi vai\u1e63\u1e47ava-apar\u0101dha u\u1e6dhe h\u0101t\u012b m\u0101t\u0101\u00a0up\u0101\u1e0de v\u0101 chi\u1e47\u1e0de, t\u0101ra \u015bukhi\u2019 y\u0101ya p\u0101t\u0101 SYNONYMS yadi\u2014if; vai\u1e63\u1e47ava-apar\u0101dha\u2014an offense at the feet of a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava; u\u1e6dhe\u2014arises; h\u0101t\u012b\u2014an elephant; m\u0101t\u0101\u2014mad; up\u0101\u1e0de\u2014uproots; v\u0101\u2014or; chi\u1e47\u1e0de\u2014breaks; t\u0101ra\u2014of the creeper; \u015bukhi\u2019\u2014shriveling up; … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 04:37:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SYNONYMS<\/span><\/h4>\n
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