WHy no AdvAncement?
\nSri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja
\nOne may ask, \u201cI have been hearing and chanting for many years. I have been carrying out the order of s\u0101dhus, gurus, vai\u1e63\u1e47avas for many years. Why am I still not making any advancement on the path of devotional service?\u201d
\nIn answer to this, Jiva Goswami has said in his Bhakti- sandarbha that one may not be making advancement because in his heart there is duplicity and crookedness. It is in a subtle corner, not in a gross form. Although you have been performing \u015bravana and k\u012brtana, hearing and chanting, and you may be offering some service, still you cannot make any advancement. Jiva Goswami also states that although for hundreds of lives you may offer worship to Lord Vishnu, but if you disrespect a vai\u1e63\u1e47ava, a dear devotee of Lord Vishnu, then Lord Hari will never be pleased with you.
\nYou are duplicitous. You have not got complete faith, strong faith. Maybe you have a little faith \u2014 soft, pliable faith \u2014 but not unflinching faith. You have some desires other than bhakti and thus your attention is diverted to material objects, women, money, etc. You are not careful about your bhajana, you show laziness in your s\u0101dhana, and you are a very great, puffed-up fellow. \u201cYes, I am a seni or devotee. Don\u2019t you know?\u201d Such a big false ego you have. \u201cI have done this and that. And that, and other things.\u201d You have so much dambha, pride.
\nThis is a great disease with you. Although you are hearing from a s\u0101dhu, a vai\u1e63\u1e47ava, the disease is not cured. Then you should understand that you have committed many, many offenses. \u2014 Lecture, Bhubaneswar, 21 April 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WHy no AdvAncement? Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja One may ask, \u201cI have been hearing and chanting for many years. I have been carrying out the order of s\u0101dhus, gurus, vai\u1e63\u1e47avas for many years. Why … 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":[140,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area2","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 06:08:57","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\/37607","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=37607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}