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It Is Better to Die While Following Bhágavata Dharma | |
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Speaker | Shrii Shrii Anandamurti |
Date | 1978 November 5 |
Time | Evening |
Place | Kolkata, India |
Topic | Better to die while following your own dharma |
Included in | Ananda Vacanamrtam Part 4 |
Location in Sarkarverse |
“It Is Better to Die While Following Bhágavata Dharma is a discourse given by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti in Kolkata, India. The discourse was delivered on the evening of 1978 November 5. This discourse is the twelfth chapter of Ananda Vacanamrtam Part 4.[1]
Synopsis
Svadharme nidhanaḿ shreyah – that is, “If human beings die while following the path of Bhágavata dharma, that death will open up the path to liberation.” Paradharmo bhayávaha. And the mind of a person following animal dharma will become degraded – and that person, after death, will be reborn as an animal or plant. So, paradharmo bhayávaha [“do not live as an animal”]. Here svadharma does not mean Shákta Dharma, Vaishnavite Dharma or Hindu Dharma.
Anandamurti starts the discourse by saying that during infancy, children have no developed intellect and no one expects them to be responsible for their actions. A vedic initiation occurs when children develop some maturity of mind; they are taught to pray God for showing them the right path. Anandamurti then explains that the next stage is a Tantric initiation, when people are ready to receive his their Ista mantra (a personal mantra which helps us to identify with our supreme self). On the next stage people have to face a variety of obstacles and when they finally do, they can no longer tolerate sin or injustice or commit those two. Anandamurti goes on saying that such human beings eventually attain Godhood. their actions become noble and benevolent and they keep evolving until they merge in God.[1]
References
Preceded by Which Is the Right Path? |
Ananda Vacanamrtam Part 4 With: It Is Better to Die While Following Bhágavata Dharma |
Succeeded by The Three Stages of Spiritual Progress |