A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuranam : 5.5 - Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= Tuesday, 07 Nov 2023. 05:30. Chapter - 5: Narada Instructs Yudhisthira on Ashrama Dharma -5.5. ========================================================================= What is that something that is higher? It will come gradually. In the beginning, we expose ourselves to coming in contact with the whole creation. The Grihastha has no time to do that because he has other duties. The Brahmachari is not concerned with it at all, as he is concerned only with the accumulation of energy and the study of the Veda, etc. Here is the time when we become a friend of all. We are not merely a friend of people, but even the very elements will bend before us. Upasana in this form is very difficult because the mind has to expand into the arena of the performance of the five elements. We have to place ourselves in the context of all things in the world, so that we are not only sitting and meditating in one place; the five ele