Siddhant Ke Pada is the compilation of the philosophical Padas written by Shri Nagri Dev in His Vani.
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Some claim that Nitya-Vihāra can only be attained by performing spiritual endeavors according to Vedic injunctions. However, these practices are filled with countless rules, which can never find a place in the hearts of those who tread the path of pure love.
O Swāminī, You are the infinite source of divine love-bliss. Why, then, have You hidden that supreme treasure and let my mind become entangled in the worthless chaff of mundane affairs and worldly pleasures?
Śrī Nāgarideva Jī advises—O brother, you speak of love, but you mix it with grandeur and splendor. This exposes your claim to being a true rasika (connoisseur of divine love) as false, exposing its immaturity upon closer examination.
Śrī Nāgrīdev declares: Vṛndāvana's rasa aspirant clinging to worldly norms and Vedic rules brings disgrace upon this path.
In this pad, Śrī Nāgrīdās explains the ideology of love followed by the Ananya Rasika saints. He says that just as the chataka bird lives solely on the raindrops falling during the autumn asterism Svātī, and chakora feeds only on moonbeams, in the same way, the exclusive Rasika saints live gazing at the divine love-play of the divine couple in Vṛndāvana.
An exclusive Rasika devotee of the ‘Nitya Vihāra’ sentiment declares: “Having attained this blissful Rasa upāsanā, who would turn the mind to penance, sacrifices, or pilgrimages?”
