SB-1.2.11- The Aim Of life — April 26, Tirupati, 1974
479) Whether I know what the platform of Brahma bhuta is! Taught by Srila Prabhupada!
—————— You can attain bhakti when you are already Brahman realized person, or perfect brähmana. Brahma jänätiti brähmanah.
So when you have realized, when you are a brähmana, when you have complete knowledge of Brahman, that is the beginning of bhakti life. Not that by bhakti one comes to the Brahman realization platform. One who has got complete understanding of Brahman, he can make progress to the bhakti platform.
brahma-bhütah prasannätmä na socati na käìksati
samah sarvesu bhütesu mad-bhaktim labhate paräm [Bg. 18.54]
After all these qualifications, making oneself brahma-bhüta [SB 4.30.20] and prasannätmä, no more lamentation, no more hankering, always joyful, jubilant, blissful… This is the symptom for Brahman realization. Brahma-bhütah prasannätmä na socati na käìksati, samah sarvesu bhütesu [Bg. 18.54]. Then he can see on equal level to all living entities. Samah sar… Then he can enter mad-bhaktim labhate paräm. —————–
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