mat-parah

The word mat-paraḥ is most significant in this connection. How one can become a mat-paraḥ is described in the life of Maharaja Ambarisa. Srila Baladeva Vidyabhūsana, a great scholar and acarya in the line of the mat-paraḥ, remarks: "mad-bhakti-prabhavena sarvendriya-vijaya-pūrvika svatma drstiḥ sulabheti bhavaḥ." "The senses can be completely controlled only by the strength of devotional service to Krsna." Also the example of fire is sometimes given: "As the small flames within burn everything within the room, similarly Lord Visnu, situated in the heart of the yogi, burns up all kinds of impurities." The Yoga-sūtra also prescribes meditation on Visnu, and not meditation on the void. The so-called yogis who meditate on something which is not the Visnu form simply waste their time in a vain search after some phantasmagoria. We have to be Krsna conscious-devoted to the Personality of Godhead. This is the aim of the real yoga.    (More...)