GR#8 Discussion: SB 1.2.18-23 Divinity & Divine Service-3 | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 29 Oct 2026
Question: what helps the devotee cross that line from having inauspicious things or troublesome things to the heart almost removed to having them completely eliminated?
Excerpt from the answer:
You got to keep going. It's the same as medicine. When you go to a doctor after you've vetted him or her, and decided this is a qualified doctor, he or she may give you some medicine. And after you've checked with ChatGPT to make sure it's got more merits than not, and you're fully convinced this is the right medicine, this is the right doctor, and you start taking the medicine—there will be a gradual improvement in your health if it's working right.
You might not notice anything the first few days. You may have had a physician say, "Here, take the full course of the medicine. Don't stop. It's 12 days; you got to take all 12." So you get to day three, and you don't feel anything except for a little bit depressed because your friends keep telling you don't take it—because they say, "You shouldn't believe in doctors, and don't you know that stuff's poison?" and stuff like that.
Then you get to day six, and you have an inkling that you're feeling a little bit better, but you can't tell whether it's because you just were in a good mood that day or the sun was shining and it wasn't yesterday. You can't tell. It's prāyeṣu—you're in a middle ground.
Then you get to day eight: "Yeah, this is definitely working." Your ashram-mate says, "You know, hey, you look better," and you go, 'I feel better!' You become demonstrative about it because you know for yourself that you're feeling better.
By day 11, you're jumping frisky because you're thinking, "I'm almost completely better!" And on day 12—ta-da! rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ—you are like, "I'm back!"
That's what all these verses are really: a long paragraph describing the progression, going from one step to the next. It's helpful, isn't it, to know that there are these various stages. When we're oriented towards these and say, 'Oh, here's where I am right now,' that can be really helpful.
So, the main point is you have to keep going, keep taking the medicine. That's what Akrūra said. Remember when he was on his way to see Kṛṣṇa? He said, " A log floating, floating, floating forever on the river but one day it will come to the shore." There is a time. (16:22)
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