{"id":9428,"date":"2011-03-27T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2011-03-27T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T04:31:00","slug":"hg-praghosa-prabhu-speaks-on-sb-41251-from-a-live-broadcast-on-mayapurtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=9428","title":{"rendered":"H.G. Praghosa prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.12.51- from a live broadcast on Mayapur.TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
\nHis Grace Praghosa prabhu took initiation from Satsvarupa das Goswami in the early 1980’s. He is currently one of Mayapur’s GBC’s and also GBC for UK, Sweden, Denmark and Ireland. He lives in Dublin where he manages 3 successful Govinda’s Restaurants. He is also the force behind the well appreciated dandavats.com devotee website.<\/p>\n

\u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam 4.12.51
\nj\u00f1\u0101nam aj\u00f1\u0101ta-tattv\u0101ya
\nyo dady\u0101t sat-pathe ‘mr\u0323tam
\nkr\u0323p\u0101lor d\u012bna-n\u0101thasya
\ndev\u0101s tasy\u0101nugr\u0323hn\u0323ate<\/p>\n

SYNONYMS
\nj\u00f1\u0101nam \u2014 knowledge; aj\u00f1\u0101ta-tattv\u0101ya \u2014 to those who are unaware of the truth; yah\u0323 \u2014 one who; dady\u0101t \u2014 imparts; sat-pathe \u2014 on the path of truth; amr\u0323tam \u2014 immortality; kr\u0323p\u0101loh\u0323 \u2014 kind; d\u012bna-n\u0101thasya \u2014 protector of the poor; dev\u0101h\u0323 \u2014 the demigods; tasya \u2014 to him; anugr\u0323hn\u0323ate \u2014 give blessings.<\/p>\n

TRANSLATION
\nThe narration of Dhruva Mah\u0101r\u0101ja is sublime knowledge for the attainment of immortality. Persons unaware of the Absolute Truth can be led to the path of truth. Those who out of transcendental kindness take on the responsibility of becoming master-protectors of the poor living entities automatically gain the interest and blessings of the demigods.<\/p>\n

PURPORT
\nJ\u00f1\u0101nam aj\u00f1\u0101ta means knowledge which is unknown almost throughout the entire world. No one knows actually what is the Absolute Truth. Materialists are very proud of their advancement in education, in philosophical speculation and in scientific knowledge, but no one actually knows what the Absolute Truth is. The great sage Maitreya, therefore, recommends that to enlighten people about the Absolute Truth (tattva), devotees should preach the teachings of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam throughout the entire world. \u015ar\u012bla Vy\u0101sadeva especially compiled this great literature of scientific knowledge because people are completely unaware of the Absolute Truth. In the beginning of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, First Canto, it is said that Vy\u0101sadeva, the learned sage, compiled this great Bh\u0101gavata Pur\u0101n\u0323a just to stop the ignorance of the mass of people. Because people do not know the Absolute Truth, this \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam was specifically compiled by Vy\u0101sadeva under the instruction of N\u0101rada. Generally, even though people are interested in understanding the truth, they take to speculation and reach at most the conception of impersonal Brahman. But very few men actually know the Personality of Godhead.<\/p>\n

Recitation of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam is specifically meant to enlighten people about the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although there is no fundamental difference between impersonal Brahman, localized Param\u0101tm\u0101 and the Supreme Person, factual immortality cannot be obtained unless and until one attains the stage of associating with the Supreme Person. Devotional service, which leads to the association of the Supreme Lord, is actual immortality. Pure devotees, out of compassion for the fallen souls, are kr\u0323p\u0101lu, very kind to people in general; they distribute this Bh\u0101gavata knowledge all over the world. A kindhearted devotee is called d\u012bna-n\u0101tha, protector of the poor, ignorant mass of people. Lord Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a is also known as d\u012bna-n\u0101tha or d\u012bna-bandhu, the master or actual friend of the poor living entities, and His pure devotee also takes the same position of d\u012bna-n\u0101tha. The d\u012bna-n\u0101thas, or devotees of Lord Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a, who preach the path of devotional service, become the favorites of the demigods. Generally people are interested in worshiping the demigods, especially Lord \u015aiva, in order to obtain material benefits, but a pure devotee, who engages in preaching the principles of devotional service, as prescribed in the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, does not need to separately worship the demigods; the demigods are automatically pleased with him and offer all the blessings within their capacity. As by watering the root of a tree the leaves and branches are automatically watered, so, by executing pure devotional service to the Lord, the branches, twigs and leaves of the Lord, known as demigods, are automatically pleased with the devotee, and they offer all benedictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The d\u012bna-n\u0101thas, or devotees of Lord Kr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a, who preach the path of devotional service, become the favorites of the demigods. Generally people are interested in worshiping the demigods, especially Lord \u015aiva, in order to obtain material benefits, but a pure devotee, who engages in preaching the principles of devotional service, as prescribed in the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, does not need to separately worship the demigods; the demigods are automatically pleased with him and offer all the blessings within their capacity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}