The Role of Learned Sages and Flattery 2/2/5
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What was the foremost duty of Śrīla Sanātana, Śrīla Rūpa, and the other Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana?

  • To establish the Śrī Rādhā-Dāmodara Temple
  • To live a comfortable and irresponsible life
  • To hold learned discourses amongst themselves at Sevāku�ja, Vṛndāvana
  • To write immense literatures of transcendental importance (correct)

    • What did Śukadeva Gosvāmī warn against in the text?

  • Living a comfortable life
  • Solving economic problems
  • Asking bread from householders (correct)
  • Being a mendicant

    • What must a mendicant devotee have firm faith and conviction in?

  • The necessities of life
  • The Supreme Lord's neglect
  • The maintenance of a surrendered soul (correct)
  • The economic problems of mendicants

    • What is the general rule for a mendicant devotee according to the text?

    <p>To accept a simple small loincloth without asking for charity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who used to live in a cave and had a venomous snake as a co-partner?

    <p>Ṭhākura Haridāsa</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the snake do when Ṭhākura Haridāsa agreed to leave the cave?

    <p>It crawled out of its hole and left the cave</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the recommended path for one who is fully accomplished and purified?

    <p>The path of renunciation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is required to accumulate daivī sampat, or spiritual assets, according to the text?

    <p>Dependence on the protection of the Lord</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How should a man in the renounced order of life feel?

    <p>The presence of the Lord everywhere</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What must a person's existence be purified by, according to the text?

    <p>Discharging prescribed duties</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the renounced order of life?

    <p>To contribute something substantial to society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a parasite?

    <p>A sycophant who lives at the cost of society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is advised in the scriptures regarding mendicants and householders?

    <p>Mendicants should be treated as family children by householders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the first duty of a person in the renounced order of life according to the text?

    <p>To contribute some literary work for the benefit of human beings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of alms-giving to mendicants?

    <p>To benefit the donor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What should the mendicants not take advantage of according to the text?

    <p>The charitable disposition of the faithful householders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the duty of the householders towards mendicants?

    <p>To treat mendicants as family children</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the text say about the renounced order of life and begging?

    <p>The renounced order of life is meant for contributing something substantial to society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of a parasite?

    <p>A sycophant who lives at the cost of society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is part of a householder's duty according to the text?

    <p>Providing food and clothing to mendicants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the renounced order of life according to the text?

    <p>To contribute something substantial to society and not depend on the earnings of householders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the recommended path for a person in the renounced order of life according to the text?

    <p>To contribute some literary work for the benefit of human beings and give them realized direction toward self-realization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the duty of householders towards mendicants according to the scriptures?

    <p>To treat mendicants as their family children and provide them with food, clothing, etc., without being asked.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of a parasite according to the text?

    <p>A sycophant who lives at the cost of society without making any contribution to that society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What should pseudo-mendicants not take advantage of according to the text?

    <p>The charitable disposition of faithful householders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is part of a householder's duty according to the scriptures?

    <p>Alms-giving to mendicants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What should a mendicant devotee have firm faith and conviction in according to the text?

    <p>The Almighty Lord's protection of fully surrendered souls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the sages advised against doing in the text?

    <p>Flattering those who are intoxicated by hard-earned wealth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What must a person's existence be purified by according to the text?

    <p>Contributing something substantial to society and giving realized direction toward self-realization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the first duty of a person in the renounced order of life according to the text?

    <p>To contribute some literary work for the benefit of human beings and give them realized direction toward self-realization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the primary duty of Śrīla Sanātana, Śrīla Rūpa, and the other Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana?

    <p>Amongst the other duties, the foremost duty was to hold learned discourses amongst themselves at Sevāku�ja, Vṛndāvana.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What warning did Śukadeva Gosvāmī give to mendicants in the text?

    <p>Śukadeva Gosvāmī warned against mendicants asking bread from householders, as it is considered an insult.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What should a mendicant devotee have firm faith and conviction in?

    <p>A mendicant devotee should have firm faith and conviction that the Supreme Lord is the maintainer of all living beings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who used to live in a cave with a venomous snake as a co-partner?

    <p>Ṭhākura Haridāsa, a great devotee of Lord Śrī Caitanya, used to live in such a cave.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What must a person's existence be purified by?

    <p>A person's existence must be purified by discharging the prescribed duty for each and every order of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the general rule for a mendicant devotee according to the text?

    <p>A mendicant devotee will accept a simple small loincloth without asking anyone to give it in charity, salvaging it from rejected torn cloth thrown in the street.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the path recommended for one who is fully accomplished and purified?

    <p>The path of renunciation is recommended for one who is fully accomplished and purified.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of alms-giving to mendicants according to the text?

    <p>The purpose of alms-giving to mendicants is to benefit human society and not to live a comfortable or irresponsible life at the cost of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the text say about the renounced order of life and begging?

    <p>The text emphasizes that those in the renounced order of life should not resort to begging and should have firm faith in the Lord's maintenance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the renounced order of life according to the text?

    <p>The purpose of the renounced order of life is to depend fully on the protection of the Lord in all circumstances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The renounced order of life is never meant for ______

    <p>begging</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The renounced order is meant for contributing something substantial to ______

    <p>society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Acceptance of alms from the householders by the bona fide mendicant is an opportunity afforded by the saint for the tangible benefit of the ______

    <p>donor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the sanātana-dharma institution, alms-giving to the mendicant is part of a householder's ______

    <p>duty</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Pseudo-mendicants, therefore, should not take advantage of the charitable disposition of the faithful ______

    <p>householders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The first duty of a person in the renounced order of life is to contribute some ______

    <p>literary work</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The renounced order of life is meant for contributing something substantial to ______

    <p>society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the sanātana-dharma institution, alms-giving to the mendicant is part of a householder's ______

    <p>duty</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The renounced order is meant for contributing something substantial to ______

    <p>society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The renounced order of life is never meant for ______

    <p>begging</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the regulations of the sanātana-dharma institution, one is trained from the beginning to depend fully on the protection of the ______ in all circumstances.

    <p>Lord</p> Signup and view all the answers

    A human being is required to accumulate daivī sampat, or ______ assets; otherwise, the next alternative, āsurī sampat, or material assets, will overcome him disproportionately, and thus one will be forced into the entanglement of different miseries of the material world.

    <p>spiritual</p> Signup and view all the answers

    A sannyāsī should always live alone, without company, and he must be ______.

    <p>fearless</p> Signup and view all the answers

    He should never be afraid of living alone, although he is never alone. The ______ is residing in everyone's heart, and unless one is purified by the prescribed process, one will feel that he is alone.

    <p>Lord</p> Signup and view all the answers

    But a man in the renounced order of life must be purified by the process; thus he will feel the presence of the ______ everywhere and will have nothing to fear (such as being without any company).

    <p>Lord</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Everyone can become a ______ and honest person if his very existence is purified by discharging the prescribed duty for each and every order of life.

    <p>fearless</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Amongst the other duties in the renounced order of life of Śrīla Sanātana, Śrīla Rūpa and the other Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana, the foremost duty discharged by them was to hold learned discourses amongst themselves at Sevāku�ja, Vṛndāvana (the spot where Śrī Rādhā-Dāmodara Temple was established by Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī and where the actual samādhi tombs of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī are laid). For the benefit of all in human society, they left behind them immense literatures of transcendental ______.

    <p>importance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Similarly, all the ācāryas who voluntarily accepted the renounced order of life aimed at benefiting human society and not at living a comfortable or irresponsible life at the cost of others. However, those who cannot give any contribution should not go to the ______ for food, for such mendicants asking bread from the householders are an insult to the highest order.

    <p>householders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Such mendicants are in abundance in the age of Kali. When a man becomes a mendicant willfully or by circumstances, he must be of firm faith and conviction that the Supreme ______ is the maintainer of all living beings everywhere in the universe.

    <p>Lord</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why, then, would He neglect the maintenance of a surrendered soul who is cent percent engaged in the service of the ______.

    <p>Lord</p> Signup and view all the answers

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