{"id":5245,"date":"2019-12-24T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2019-12-24T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T17:29:07","slug":"following-ekadasi-even-unconsciously-is-beneficial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/following-ekadasi-even-unconsciously-is-beneficial\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Ekadasi even unconsciously is beneficial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Vedas teach us many gradual methods of purifications and gradual advancemnet twords liberation and pure devotional service. All of them entail many hardships by performing austerities and sacrifices.
\nBut in Kali-yuga people are very disqualified. Any of those disciplines are possible for the almost totality of people. We can\u2019t meditate, can\u2019t perform sacrifices, can\u2019t do any austerity as prescribed in the Vedas.<\/p>\n

A description of the level of those who take birth in Kali Yuga is given in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.1.10).
\npr\u0101ye\u1e47\u0101lp\u0101yu\u1e63a\u1e25 sabhya
\nkal\u0101v asmin yuge jan\u0101\u1e25
\nmand\u0101\u1e25 sumanda-matayo
\nmanda-bh\u0101gy\u0101 hy upadrut\u0101\u1e25
\n\u201cO learned one, in this iron Age of Kali men almost always have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed.\u201d<\/p>\n

So how can unintelligent people, who can\u2019t concentrate, who are lazy, always crticizing and bickering with each other, and so low class who can\u2019t even understand that they shouldn\u2019t eat meat understand this great philosophy?
\nThis is what Srila Prabhupada asked Sri Krishna while coming to the West. \u201cI wish that You may deliver them. Therefore if You so desire their deliverance, then only will they be able to understand Your message.\u201d (Jaladuta Diary, 18th September 1965).<\/p>\n

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Just because we are so unqualified, the gentle Lord Sri Krishna blesses this dark age with special mercy, giving simple processes for spiritual advancemnet.
\nSimply by chanting Hare Krishna, even uncosciously, one can go back to Krishna. Simply by following an Ekadasi, even involuntary, one can go back to Godhead. Simply by taking some prasadam, even if one doesn\u2019t know that is taking Krishna\u2019s mercy, one can go back to Godhead. Simply listening to Srimad-Bhagavatam, even without understanding much of what he is hearing, one can go back to Krishna.
\nk\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47e sva-dh\u0101mopagate
\ndharma-j\u00f1\u0101n\u0101dibhi\u1e25 saha
\nkalau na\u1e63\u1e6da-d\u1e5b\u015b\u0101m e\u1e63a
\npur\u0101\u1e47\u0101rko ‘dhunodita\u1e25
\n“This Bh\u0101gavata Pur\u0101\u1e47a is as brilliant as the sun, and it has arisen just after the departure of Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a to His own abode, accompanied by religion, knowledge, etc. Persons who have lost their vision due to the dense darkness of ignorance in the age of Kali shall get light from this Pur\u0101\u1e47a.”<\/p>\n

If even unconsciously one can get a lot of benefit, what to speak of the devotees, who do everything consciously, knowing what, how and why they are are fasting during Ekadasi? The blessings can be incalculable.<\/p>\n

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So please everyone take very seriously observing Ekadasi, which is called the day of Hari, by not eating grains and by chanting more of the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra.<\/p>\n

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Your well-wisher
\nManonatha Dasa (ACBSP)<\/p>\n

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