THE FAITH

Hare Krishna, my intention and attitude in sending you this message, is that Srila Prabhupada wanted us to transmit his teachings to everyone, without wanting anything in return.
THE FAITH, by Haripada dasa
We all understand and accept that the constitutional nature of all living entities is that we are eternal seekers of pleasure. Faith means the confidence or conviction that by performing certain activities, I will be happy, or I will get pleasure. Faith also means having complete conviction that by chanting the Holy Name of God or Krishna will automatically fulfill all spiritual duties and complete all pious activities. Those who do not have that faith are inept to chant the Holy Name. The question that Arjuna asks of Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita is very interesting. Arjuna asks: "Oh Krishna! What is the situation of those who do not follow the principles of the scriptures, but who worship according to what their own imagination dictates? Are they in the plane of goodness, passion or ignorance? "Krishna responds very philosophically:" According to the modes of material nature that the incarnated soul has acquired, his faith can be of three kinds: in the plane of the mode of goodness, in the plane of passion or in the plane of ignorance. "Then, Lord Krishna, for our good and so that we can discern in the activities, explains the characteristics of the food, the sacrifices, austerities and charity, according to the three modes of material nature.
 In Europe and North America, there are some people who are called deprogrammers, they are people who work for hire and their mission is to destroy the religious faith of people who believe in God. I have a great friend in Spain, that his father paid a lot of money to these deprogrammers, to kidnap his son and deprogram him. They took him to a cabin in the Swiss Alps and tried to destroy his religious faith, but they were not successful, my friend escaped! Three years ago I was in South India at a religious festival. The festival lasted twenty days; every day they took the sacred deities in procession in a palanquin, all very beautiful, with lots of color, music, etc., thousands and thousands of pilgrims came every day to the festival. On the last day of the festival, which was the main day, three million people entered the temple. I thought it was funny that the deprogrammers came here, to destroy the religious faith of these people. They would make a fool of themselves; wanting to remove the religious faith of these people is like wanting to take away the sweetness of sugar, the liquidity of water, or the light and heat of the fire, is this possible? No. There is a story in India that faith is based on experience, very interesting and instructive: "the great sage Narada Muni was going to see God or Narayana in the spiritual world. On the way there was a ritualist priest who said: please when you meet God or Narayana, ask how many lives I have left to be here in the material world. Then he met a humble shoemaker who asked him the same thing. Narada Muni asked God or Narayana: how many lives does the priest have left and how many times does the shoemaker have to be in the material world? Narayana, God replied: the priest has many lives left, but the shoemaker, this is his last life in the material world. Narada Muni was very surprised and asked: And how is this, that the priest has many lives and the shoemaker only one? Lord Narayana replied: You will understand when you are asked: what was God or Narayana doing in the spiritual world? You will answer: an elephant was passing through the hole of a needle. When Narada Muni returned to earth and met the ritualistic priest, he asked him: how many lives has God or Narayana told you that I have left in this material world? Narada replied: he told me you have many lives left. Upon hearing this the priest became angry and began to break the pots of sacrifice, the offerings, the altar, etc. When he calmed down a little, he asked Narada Muni: and what was Narayana or God doing when you saw him? Narada replied: an elephant was passing through the hole of a needle. The priest replied: But, what nonsense is this! How is it possible for an elephant to go through the hole of a needle? That is not possible. Then, Narada went to see the humble shoemaker. The shoemaker asked him: what has my Lord Narayana or God told you about how many lives do I have left here? Narada replied: He said that this is your last life here, and that you are going to return with Him. Upon hearing this, the shoemaker he was excited. Tears fell from his eyes, his hair stood on end and he had tremors all over his body; between sobs he asked Narada: and what was my Lord Narayana or God doing when you visited him? Narada replied: An elephant was passing through the hole of a needle. Upon hearing this, the shoemaker increased his spiritual ecstasy. Narada was surprised to see all this and asked the cobbler: and do you really believe that God or Lord Narayana can pass an elephant through the hole of a needle? The shoemaker answered: I live here in this banyan tree (the banyan tree is a giant tree, so giant that nobody knows where it begins or where it ends), and my Lord Narayana or God, has put in a small seed this gigantic tree, why? What should I not believe that He can pass an elephant through the hole of a needle? Narada Muni thought: this is faith based on experience.

Nonviolence and morality

Nonviolence and morality, by Haripada dasa
I share that a month ago Facebook took my account, Vanesa, Partha, Miguel Angel, Jordi and Javier were friends on Facebook, you can see if my account is there, it was a picture of Srila Prabhupada, and put Srila Prabhupada jagat guru or jagat guru Srila Prabhupada, I had more than 200 friends, and I put my spiritual messages in 20 groups, and people like it a lot, now I have tried to make another account, I have tried it 5 times and it is impossible, after doing the account it turns out that I have to put my phone, I put it and it says it is not valid, and so they do not let me enter the account, if someone wants to comment on all this ...,
One tries to preach Krishna consciousness, what a great reason Srila Prabhupada had when he said that preaching Krishna consciousness is very difficult, one has to always go with the truth ahead, and people who have a lot of false ego feel insulted, Srila Prabhupada taught us that before becoming a devotee of Krishna he has to practice nonviolence and morality, about non-violence Srila Prabhupada says in the Bhagavad-gita, 13, 8-12 that non-violence is generally understood not to kill or destroy the body, but, in reality, nonviolence means not causing anguish to others. Out of ignorance, the generality of people is trapped in the material concept of life, and perpetually suffers material pains. So, unless one elevates people to the plane of spiritual knowledge, one is practicing violence. One must try as best he can to distribute true knowledge, so that people become enlightened and abandon this material entanglement. That is nonviolence. Srila Prabhupada always said that if someone leaves the movement and eats meat, that is proof that he did not understand anything, and he also said that if the Christians obeyed Jesus' command not to kill and worship the Deities, they would become devotees. A person practices morality when he lives with Krishna by chanting His holy names The Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H is read as J de jota ), and live a pure life free of sins.
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SIMPLE LIFE AND HIGH THOUGHT

SIMPLE LIFE AND HIGH THOUGHT
 Simple life and high thinking, by Javier Figuerola (Haripada Dasa)
 By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada we understand and accept that by leading a simple life with elevated thoughts we are happy in this material world and are preparing to go back home to God.
 Simple life means that we need a little clothing, a little prasada (prasada is God's mercy, food offered to God), and a place to rest. High thought means thinking of the representative of God or Krishna Srila Prabhupada, in all the acharyas or spiritual masters of the guru-parampara, in the Pañca Tattva and in Sri Radha Krishna, it also means thinking of doing good to others, sending positive messages for people to reflect and try to raise their states of consciousness, it also means giving prasada to others, in the Food for Life program of Vrindavana in India and in other parts of the world, millions and millions of prasada dishes have been given . That is pure spiritual life. Material life is the opposite, it means to live to satisfy the body and the mind, and is based on selfishness and mine and not giving any food to the soul, never thinking about God or doing good to others, rather always think how to deceive others and the law of the funnel, how wide for me and how narrow for others.
 Now in the whole world we are celebrating the advent of the Saktyavesa Avatara Jesus Christ, it would be good if we remembered the essence of his teachings: "Love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself, do not do to others what you would not like that they did to you, and do to others what you would like them to do to you, if you have two blankets and you see that another does not have any, give him a blanket and share what you have with the others, that way you will get rid of envy and selfishness, he also spoke of the fact that there is a Kingdom of God and that the goal of life is to return to the Kingdom of God. " Regarding Christians, Srila Prabhupada said that if Christians worship the Deities and obey the commandment of Jesus Christ not to kill, they would become devotees of God or Krishna.
Sing the Maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare and be happy.
Serve Srila Prabhupada with love, faith, attachment and gratitude and your life will be successful and sublime.

Introduction to Srila Prabhupada

Introduction to Srila Prabhupada
In 1922 in Calcutta, India, Srila Prabhupada's spiritual master named Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada told him that you are a very educated person and you know English very well, it would be good if you went to Western countries to preach the conscience of God or Krishna, and then in the year 1935 he told him that if you have money he prints spiritual books. To fulfill the orders given him by his Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada left India on a ship in 1965 when he was 69 years old. The dynamic presentation of Srila Prabhupada of the Consciousness of God or Krishna, as a positive alternative to a society devoid of spiritual values, especially attracted intelligent young Westerners. Many of these intellectuals sought the true meaning of life, being sick of hedonistic materialism, nihilistic atheism and of hypocritical and sentimental religions. Srila Prabhupada began chanting the Maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare in a New York park and there he began his movement, many young people approached to him to receive spiritual training. Many people abandoned illicit sexual life, gambling, drugs and the consumption of meat, fish and eggs and sang every day 27,648 names of God in their rosaries. These people felt so much spiritual happiness that in a natural way they wanted to help Srila Prabhupada to spread his movement so that everyone would be happy. Srila Prabhupada initiated 10,000 disciples around the world, went around the world 14 times, wrote 80 books of 400 pages each, answered more than 7,000 letters and dictated thousands and thousands of lectures, opened more than one hundred temples throughout the world and many farming communities and in 1972 founded the program of Food for live or food for life, and ordered that in 15 kilometers around their temples no one should go hungry, have distributed millions and millions of dishes of prasada, or food offered to God or Krishna. He slept every day 3 hours from 10 in the night until 1 in the morning, there he got up to translate the great classics of India such as Srimad Bhagavatam and Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, his disciples and admirers have distributed more than 500 million his books in all the languages ​​of the world. Srila Prabhupada is Acharya that means he who preaches with his personal example. Unhappily a few days before disembodied he said that he was being poisoned, and after discarding his disciples led by his personal interests they changed his instructions, Srila Prabhupada ordered his disciples to initiate in his name, and his disciples disobeyed that order and in an artificial way they became gurus, without the authorization of Srila Prabhupada, these people received much mercy from Srila Prabhupada and still betrayed him. Many people like me and others who were in their movement, we left to not be accomplices of all the offenses that they are doing to Srila Prabhupada, the result of offending Srila Prabhupada is that people become atheists and live in unconsciousness, there is nothing new under the Sun and history repeats itself over and over again, the person authorized by God or Krishna comes and establishes the principles of religion, but when it goes away the disorder returns again. To people who have sacrificed their lives to please Srila Prabhupada, God or Krishna reveals to them who Srila Prabhupada really is. Those who think that the great Masters like Srila Prabhupada and others die, wrongly reason, live eternally in their instructions and those who obey them live with them.
Thought to meditate:
"There is no greater power in the universe than to pray to God or Krishna for others, it will always be better to pray for others to God or Krishna than to criticize."
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Lead by example

Lead by example, by Haripada dasa
Western educators say: "Do not follow me; follow my words "; or, put another way: "Do not do what I do, but what I say." The life of Srila Prabhupada refutes this principle, since he applied in his own life all the instructions of his books and was a living example of them. There is not a single instruction in his books that he has not followed personally and, therefore, there is no disparity between his writings and his life; between his actions and his words. Srila Prabhupada taught us that a true spiritual master is one who preaches with his personal example, once Sanatana Goswami told Haridasa Thakura that you are the perfect devotee of God or Krishna, some preach but not practice and some practice but not Preach, but you practice everything you preach, I share a beautiful verse from The Bhagavad Gita, 3, 21, there it says that ordinary men follow in the footsteps of a great man, whatever action he performs. And whatever the patterns he establishes through exemplary acts, the whole world follows them, and in the meaning Srila Prabhupada says that the generality of the people always requires a leader who can teach him through his behavior in practice. A leader can not teach people to stop smoking, if he smokes himself.
Srila Prabhupada always said that what people like the most is that they cheat and suffer, and he also said that one of the great impediments to the expansion of Krishna consciousness is the large number of deceivers that there are, and how the people It is so lazy to make the spiritual awakening take advantage and tell the people you give me 30 euros and I will give you a mantra and in six months you will be God, and the people are so foolish that they believe it. That is why this society is deceiving and deceived. The words convince, but the example drags. In the Jaiva dharma it is said that if someone gives religious advice without practicing it himself, this becomes a source of evil for the world.
Two thoughts to meditate:
1- Give good advice to a wise person and he will thank you and give good advice to a foolish person and he will be angry.
2- If you have nectar in your heart you will never give poison and if you have poison in your heart you will never give nectar.
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