{"id":59641,"date":"2025-02-16T02:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=59641"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T18:04:09","slug":"my-devotee-remains-happy-and-worships-me-with-great-faith-and-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/my-devotee-remains-happy-and-worships-me-with-great-faith-and-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"My Devotee Remains Happy and Worships Me with Great Faith and Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to Srimad Bhagavatam (11.21.2), the practice of chanting the holy name must be done in this way:<\/span><\/p>\n

sve sve ‘dhikare ya nistha<\/span><\/p>\n

sa gunah parikirtitah<\/span><\/p>\n

viparyayas tu dosah syad<\/span><\/p>\n

ubhayor esa niscayah (33)<\/span><\/p>\n

Stability in one’s position is considered true devotion, while deviating from one’s position is considered unholy. Thus, the two things are definitively established.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Qualifications for chanting the holy name are given in Srimad Bhagavatam (11.20. 27-8):<\/span><\/p>\n

jata-sraddho mat-kathasu<\/span><\/p>\n

nirvinnah sarva-karmasu<\/span><\/p>\n

veda duhkhatmakan kaman<\/span><\/p>\n

parityage ‘py anisvarah<\/span><\/p>\n

tato bhajeta mam pritah<\/span><\/p>\n

sraddhalur drdha-niscayah<\/span><\/p>\n

jusamanas ca tan kaman<\/span><\/p>\n

duhkhodarkams ca garhayan (34)<\/span><\/p>\n

Having awakened faith in the tales of My glories, disgusted by material activities, knowing that sense gratification leads to misery, even if he is unable to give up all sense gratification, My devotee remains happy and worships Me with great faith and conviction. Even though he sometimes engages in sense gratification, My devotee knows that it leads to an unfortunate outcome and sincerely regrets doing those things.<\/span><\/p>\n

The acquisition of the six favorable qualities for the performance of bhajana is important. These are described in Upadesamrta (3):<\/span><\/p>\n

utsahan niscayad dhairyat<\/span><\/p>\n

tat-tat-karma-pravartanat<\/span><\/p>\n

sanga-tyagat sato vrtteh<\/span><\/p>\n

sadbhir bhaktih prasidhyati (35)<\/span><\/p>\n

There are six principles conducive to performing pure devotional service: (1) to be enthusiastic, (2) to strive with confidence, (3) to be patient, (4) to act according to regulatory principles (such as sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam – listening, chanting, and remembering Krishna), (5) abandoning the association of non-devotees, and (6) following the steps of the previous acaryas. These six principles undoubtedly ensure complete success in pure devotional service.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cBhajana Rahasya\u201d, by Bhaktivinode Thakura.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To buy the complete book, <\/span>click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  According to Srimad Bhagavatam (11.21.2), the practice of chanting the holy name must be done in this way: sve sve ‘dhikare ya nistha sa gunah parikirtitah viparyayas tu dosah syad ubhayor esa niscayah (33) Stability … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":59645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-59641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-bhajana-rahasya-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 17:58:53","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\/59641","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\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}