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The Three Modes of Nature

The Three Modes of Nature. I Know I Should But. Willpower in the Modes, Part 2. What’s Your Mode?. Japa in the Modes of Nature.

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The Three Modes of Nature

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  1. The Three Modes of Nature

  2. I Know I Should But

  3. Willpower in the Modes, Part 2

  4. What’s Your Mode?

  5. Japa in the Modes of Nature There is hearing in the mode of passion, in the mode of ignorance and in the mode of goodness. Similarly, there is chanting in the mode of ignorance, passion and goodness, etc. SB 3.29.10

  6. Devotional Service in the Modes Reference: SB 3.29. 8-10

  7. Pure Bhakti • One's mind is at once attracted to hearing the transcendental name and qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is residing in everyone's heart. SB 3.29.11-12

  8. Blinded by the Modes • When you are a particular mode, you can’t see its negative effects. • For example, when affected by ignorance, dirty or disorganized places won’t bother you. When in goodness, you will notice and it will bother you.

  9. The Need for Goodness •     “Until one revives one's direct knowledge of the spirit soul and drives away the illusory identification with the material body and mind caused by the three modes of nature, one must cultivate those things in the mode of goodness. • By increasing the mode of goodness, one automatically can understand and practice religious principles, and by such practice transcendental knowledge is awakened.” ~ SB 11.13.6

  10. Bhakti and Goodness • The practices of bhakti put one in goodness. • Prabhupada said when you are hearing the SrimadBhagavatam, you are automatically in goodness.

  11. The Basics of Goodness • … the first principle is that every devotee must try to rise early in the morning. No one should sleep more than six hours. Or, if you want to, sleep more... But you must rise in early in the morning. At four o'clock, attend the ärätrika, maìgala-ärätrika. Maìgala-ärätrika means auspicious beginning of your day.

  12. Keys to Rising Early • Eat your main meal at lunch • Eat lightly in the evening, not later than three hours before resting. • Read or chant before resting • Set your internal alarm • Note: Every hour your rest before midnight, is more beneficial than after midnight, so you need less rest when you take rest earlier.

  13. Sacred Space We all need sufficient sacred time daily early in the morning for devotional practices.

  14. Regulation Do the same thing the same time every day.

  15. 9 to 5 are Banking Hours • One should work eight hours at the most to earn his livelihood, and either in the afternoon or in the evening a householder should associate with devotees to hear about the incarnations of Kåñëa and His activities and thus be gradually liberated from the clutches of mäyä. SB 7.14.3-4

  16. Strictly Follow • If you continue in this way, and strictly follow the four regulative principles, making sure to chant at least sixteen rounds on the beads, daily, it is without a doubt that at the end of this lifetime, you can go back home, back to Godhead. ~ Letter 26 December, 1972

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