“Bhagavat-dharma is Broad Gauge and Wide Elevator.” Srila B. S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj. 13 April 2007. Nabadwip Dham, India

Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj 

Bhagavat-dharma is
Broad Gauge and Wide Elevator

“Bhagavat-dharma is not so narrow gauge;
it is broad gauge and wide elevator.”

Morning darshan, 13 April 2007,
Nabadwip Dham, India.

 

Slokas from this lecture:

ye vai bhagavatā proktā upāyā hy ātma-labdhaye
añjaḥ puṁsām aviduṣāṁ viddhi bhāgavatān hi tān

_{(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.34)} 

yān āsthāya naro rājan na pramādyeta karhichit
dhāvan nimīlya vā netre na skhalen na pated iha

_{(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.35)} 

kṛṣṇe sva-dhāmopagate dharma-jñānādibhiḥ saha
kalau naṣṭa-dṛśām eṣa purāṇārko ’dhunoditaḥ

_{(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.3.43)} 

kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ

_{(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: 12.3.51)} 

jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva jīvanti

_{(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.14.3)} 

kāyena vāchā manasendriyair vā
buddhyātmanā vānusṛta-svabhāvāt
karoti yad yat sakalaṁ parasmai
nārāyaṇāyeti samarpayet tat

_{(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.36)} 

ānukūlyasya saṅkalpaḥ prātikūlyasya varjanam
rakṣiṣyatīti viśvāso goptṛtve varaṇaṁ tathā

_{(Śrī Chaitanya-charitāmṛta: Madhya-līlā, 22.100)} 

sarva-bhūteṣu yaḥ paśyed bhagavad-bhāvam ātmanaḥ
bhūtāni bhagavaty ātmany eṣa bhāgavatottamaḥ

_{(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.45)} 

īśvare tad-adhīneṣu bāliśeṣu dviṣatsu cha
prema-maitrī-kṛpopekṣā yaḥ karoti sa madhyamaḥ

_{(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.46)} 

archāyām eva haraye pūjāṁ yaḥ śraddhayehate
na tad-bhakteṣu chānyeṣu sa bhaktaḥ prākṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ

_{(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.47)} 

sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam
hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa sevanaṁ bhaktir uchyate

_{(Nārada-pañcharātra)} 

anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ
jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam
ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-
śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā

_{(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.1.11)} 

āsakti-rahita sambandha-sahita
viṣaya-samūha sakali mādhava
śrī-hari-sevāya yāhā anukūla
viṣaya baliyā tyāge haya bhula

_{(Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Saraswatī Ṭhākur)}