Sri Guru Puja 2000.pdf - Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaja

the Absolute, Who is represented as a Personality. In the Absolute
Personality we find three features - that He is Ever-existent. He is ever full
of knowledge and He is the Fountainhead of unceasing bliss. In Him there
is no factor of time, no factor of ignorance or less knowledge. In Him there
is no discrepancy, no defect, no inadequacy nothing of the kind. In the
conception of God, we find He is the Emporium of all bliss, all knowledge,
and no acts of nescience or ignorance are to be associated with Him, and
we need not seek after any fruit for our purpose leaving Him aside. He
need not give us anything. We are to serve Him as servitors, He being the
only Lord. In this world we find that hundreds of absolute infinitesimals
trouble themselves with the undesirable elements of these phenomena. If
the undesirable elements are simply driven out, eliminated, then a
desirable position can be had. But in the conception of heaven, we find
that it is meant for our purpose, to get our wishes for enjoyment fulfilled,
for our enjoyment apart from the enjoyment of the Absolute. The
enjoyment of the Absolute is full, whereas our enjoyment is liable to be
involved in some troubles. All these miserable situations should be cleared
out for the purpose of safety- for our peace. The eternal peace can only
come if we are at all sanguine to engage ourselves in the service of the
Lord, I mean, the Personality of Godhead. God has got spiritual eyes,
spiritual ears, spiritual nose, spiritual tongue, spiritual skin and spiritual
mind; not material things like us. Our senses are made up of material
things and there is no such element in God. God is the Emporium of all
desirable elements. He is found to be Eternally Existing, He is Full of
Knowledge, He is Omniscient and He is All-blissful. He delegates His power
to certain absolute infinitesimals, or, in other words, the absolute
infinitesimals are endowed with such potencies which enable them to
transact affairs with the Eternal Authority. Now we are placed in a region
where all sorts of imperfections and undesirable situations are prominent,
and we require that our bitter experience should devise some means to
get rid of these unpleasant situations, the painful situations must be
kecked out from activities. We should be prepared for the stage where we
can realise our own real selves. We need not trouble ourselves here
engaging ourselves in amusements and other things. We require that
some prudent, preparatory measures should be adopted when we have
got life, that we should have discretion to judge our desirabilities and have
comparative study of the revealed scriptures that have come to us and
can ameliorate our conditions and give up the passionate desires that are
engrossing the people who are busy with annihilating themselves or busy
with fruit- seeking purpose. The third party is known as devotees or
bhaktas or who possess bhakti which is the vehicular agent to carry us to
the Absolute. It will be the uniting tie between the Personality of the Lord
and our personalities. Our persons should be united with the Personality of
God, and that Personality of Godhead is purely spiritual and has no
mundane reference. If we wish to know Him by any mundane reference
that would be like trying to send rays from the retina to the sun. But we
should receive rays from the emanating disc of the sun. So by the mercy
of the Supreme Lord we will be able to know what He is, and after learning
this, we will engage ourselves for His purpose. We will have nothing else to
do in this world. We have got the only purpose of associating ourselves