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741222SB.BOM Lectures
Somebody was asking about the parampara. So that parampara is very necessary, to know the knowledge by the parampara system. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh. Parampara is very important thing. Therefore, unless we take to the parampara system, which is, in another word, it is called sampradaya... Sampradaya.
So to understand the Absolute Truth, there are four recognized sampradayas: the Brahma-sampradaya, the Rudra-sampradaya, the Kumara-sampradaya, and the Sri-sampradaya. Sri-sampradaya mean one sampradaya is coming from directly from the goddess of fortune, Laksmi. That is called Sri-sampradaya. And one sampradaya is coming from Lord Brahma. Tene brahma hrda adi-kavaye. The adi-kavi is Lord Brahma. He learned from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Tene brahma hrda. The Supreme Personality of Godhead instructed Lord Brahma from within the heart: tene brahma hrda. Hrda means within the heart. So in this way, instruction is received from Lord Brahma, from Lord Siva, from Laksmiji the goddess of fortune, and the Kumaras, Sanat-kumara, Sanaka, Sanatana, Sananda Kumara. They have got a sampradaya. So we have to approach the sampradaya. Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum eva abhigacchet. Abhigacchet: "must approach the sampradaya," either of the sampradaya. Sampradaya-vihina ye mantras te nisphala matah: "If you don't take your instruction, mantra, from the sampradaya, then it is useless." It has no meaning, because they do not know. Therefore we have to take sampradaya, accept sampradaya.
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