The Ritual Trap | Krishna & Real Devotion

Raghunath· Host0:00

We're talking about the rules and regulations, and this is yet again how Bhagavad Dharma, this idea of worshiping Bhagavan or the Supreme Lord, is more powerful than all the rules and regulations in the Vedas. Uh, uh, and how love of God is the goal. The rules are meant to serve love of God, not the other ways-- not the other way around. The rules are meant to bring us to this point, and here is the very, very obvious example of these Vedic Brahmins, these great theologians, these Vedic pundits who knew all the appropriate prayers, all the appropriate rituals, all the appropriate cleanliness. I gotta say cleanliness 'cause let's face it, if you're a mom with little kids at home, you're not that clean. That's just part of being a mom. And these Vedic... And these wives of the Brahmins, they had kids, they were in the household. They didn't n- they weren't, um, the, the, this s-sophisticated class, um, uh, uh, uh, of, uh, e- or educated class. Their husbands were. Yet they were the ones who got the mercy, and this is considered the highest rung of the ladder. Not that you're a s-Sanskrit pundit, you know. It's nice if you're studying the stuff. It's nice to learn Sanskrit, but it's not the goal. The goal is pure bhakti. [singing] Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya. Om Namo