Hare Krishna 🙏🏻🌺
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻🌺
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻🌺
Bhagvad Gita is basic foundation book to start your journey in Krishna Consciousness.Gradually when one advances then one reads Srimad Bhagavatam & till further advances one reads Caitanya Caritamrita.
But you cannot understand it just by simply reading on your own. You always need a Bonafide Spiritual master who can guide you & make you understand the real essence of all these scriptures.
Bhagavad Gita has 700 verses but do you that one verse is there that comes twice in the Bhagavad Gita??
Bhagvad Gita 9.34 :-
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam
ātmānaṁ mat-parāyaṇaḥ
Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.
Bhagavad Gita 18.65 :-
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te
pratijāne priyo 'si me
Always think of Me and become My devotee. Worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend.
As you can see 1st half part of both the verses is the same & translation given by Srila Prabhupada is the same.
So one can understand that how much importance of this message that Sri Krishna mentioned this verse twice to Arjuna.
This shows gravity of this verse & we have to just follow the instruction given in these verses,”always think of Krishna, become Krishna’s devotee, worship Krishna & offer obeisances to Krishna” basically we have to mould our life in such a way that we always remain Krishna Conscious & be engaged in transcendental loving devotional service of Krishna under guidance of Bonafide spiritual master.
Hare Krishna 🙏🏻🌺
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻🌺
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻🌺