Stories of Sankirtana

 Stories of Sankirtana, by Haripada dasa

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna, from 1984 to 2011 I have been distributing Srila Prabhupada's books in 16 countries, I share these stories about the distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books.

 This history of Sankirtana the devotees translated from Spanish to English and put it in the magazine back to the Supreme for the whole world to read, it was the December marathon of the Centennial of Srila Prabhupada's Transcendental Appearance, 1996, we were 12 devotees and we rented a country house, this was in the Basque country, in Spain, by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada I won the marathon, the marathon was the entire month of December, we made Queen Kunti very famous, we distributed thousands and thousands of Hardcover books of the prayers of Queen Kunti, my daily quota was to distribute more than 100 books, throughout the month I distributed 3,300 books, every day I collected more than 80,000 pesetas, 100 pesetas was a dollar, the day I distributed the most was 130 books and I collected 150,000 pesetas or 1,500 dollars.

 In the capital of San Sebastián we would stand in the Plaza Mayor, once a very elegant gentleman came and with a 2,000 pesetas bill in his hand he told me that I also want a book, please, this seemed strange to me and I asked him Because you want a book, he replied that I live there in those apartments, and when I see that you are distributing the books I stay all day looking at them, and I have come to the conclusion that you are happy and transmit this happiness to others and that is why people buy your books, so please give me a book because I also want to be happy, my hair stood on end and I was excited to hear this gentleman, I gave him the book and I said God bless you.

In relation to the subject, I remember a class by Srila Prabhupada who said that if a devotee practices Krishna consciousness and is sad something is wrong, the symptom that a devotee is practicing Krishna consciousness in a correct way is that he is always happy. , and actually that is our best preaching, transmitting our happiness to others. The devotee of God or Krishna is the only person who is not selfish, everyone else is selfish, the only wish that the devotee has is to see everyone be happy in Krishna consciousness.

Positive messages

 Positive messages, by Haripada dasa

Positive Messages mean messages that make you reflect and raise your state of consciousness to a higher state. Eating, sleeping, fearing and mating are the basic activities of all living entities, the human form of life has the ability to understand who I am, who is God or Krishna, what is my relationship with God or Krishna and with everything, what it is this material manifestation, which is time, which is karma or activities and where will I go after death.

The other day my older brother Paco told me that Javier the best thing you have is that you are always in the company of good people. My attitude to send these messages is healthy, my only intention is to share experiences, I would have liked that people responded more to these messages, but I understand that most people work very hard to maintain themselves and do not have time to respond to messages. I have received all the mercy of my spiritual master Srila Prabhupada and it is my duty to share my experiences with others, that helps me a lot not to be selfish or envious.

Srila Prabhupada says in his books that attitude is the most important thing in spiritual life, and in the introduction to the Nectar of Devotion he says that the author of Bhakti-rasāmṛita-sindhu, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, very humbly states that he is only trying to spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world, although it is humbly considered unsuitable for this work. That should be the attitude of all the preachers in the Kṛiṣhṇa consciousness movement, following in the footsteps of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. We should never think that we are great preachers ourselves, but we should always consider that we are simply instruments of the former āchāryas, and simply by following in their footsteps we may be able to do something for the benefit of suffering humanity.

Most beneficial

 Most beneficial, by Haripada dasa

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada we understand and accept that there is nothing more beneficial than associating with the pure devotees of God or Krishna, association with the pure devotees of God or Krishna is more valuable than all the riches of the Universe and more valuable than going To the heavenly planets, a moment of association with the pure devotees of God or Krishna can free you from birth, death, old age and sickness and go back home to God or Krishna.

If the association with the pure devotees of God or Krishna is so valuable because people do not associate with them, the answer is that the generality of the people, that is, the heads of families think that their main duty is to give themselves to solve family problems. , and that self-realization or enlightenment in spiritual knowledge is a secondary matter, and it is also that these people are very poor of heart that is why they do not associate with the pure devotees of God or Krishna.

I remember a class by Srila Prabhupada who said that people think that the time I am listening to a class of the Bhagavad Gita or the Bhagavatam, that time is better used to be in the office or at work and thus earn money. It is a very practical fact that one's desires and ambitions develop according to the company one has. If one maintains association with devotees of God or Krishna, he will surely develop love for God or Krishna.

I share this beautiful verse The Srimad-Bhagavatam (3-25-25) which says: “Conversations about the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the company of pure devotees are very pleasant and satisfying to the ear and heart. One who cultivates this knowledge gradually advances on the path of liberation until he is liberated and his attraction is fixed. Then true devotion and true devotional service begin. "

Those who think that the great Masters like Srila Prabhupada and other Masters of the disciplic succession die, they reason eternally in their instructions and those who obey them live with them.

SRILA PRABHUPADA KI JAYA

 SRILA PRABHUPADA KI JAYA

We celebrate the momentous disappearance of Srila Prabhupada 2020

If Srila prabhupada had not appeared in this age of Kali. Srila Prabhupada gave us the true essence of life, the charm of divine love, the life without which it is impossible to live in this world.

By the mercy of Srila Prabhuada we know that Srimati Radharani reigns in the realm of divine love. Having received all these things from Srila Prabhupada, we now think that life is worth living.

Lord Ramachandra became famous for building a floating stone bridge across the sea to Sri Lanka. Now, in this age of Kali yuga, Srila Prabhupada has given us the bridge of Hari Nama sankirtana, The Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, thus even the lame and blind can cross the sea of ​​birth and death and achieve supreme spiritual happiness.

Srila Prabhupada lives eternally in his instructions, and he who obeys them lives with him.

Most amazing

 

Most amazing, by Haripada dasa

Once a great sage asked King Maharaja Yudisthir what is the most amazing thing there is, and the King replied that you see that relatives, friends and other people die, but one thinks that I will never die.

Usually people do not like to talk about death because they are very afraid, it is said that the devotee of God or Krishna experiences God through devotional service and that materialists and atheists experience God at the time of death I remember a video of Srila Prabhupada speaking with some theologians and Srila Prabhupada telling them that God will come as death, and all his money, his prestige, his family, etc. It will be taken away from you, now you understand God? God or Krishna says in the Bhagavat gita that I am death, I remember that in the fourth song of Srimad Bhagavatam to Maharaja Dhruva a plane from the spiritual world came for him and taking advantage that the personification of death came, put his feet on the head of death to get on the plane, so until death he takes pleasure in serving the devotee of God or Krishna.

It is very interesting that the personification of death is represented as a skeleton with a harvest, that is to remind us that what you sow, harvest, in other words each person is the architect of their destiny, each one has what they deserve. , and God or Krishna also says that this material world is a place of suffering and temporary, someone can argue that I have a lot of money, women, material enjoyment, yachts, etc., that you have because you deserve it because surely in your life In the past you did many pious activities, but do not forget that everything is temporary. God or Krishna has created everything, therefore everything belongs to God or Krishna, as Srila Prabhupada always said that a person is honest and honest when he uses everything to serve God or Krishna and His devotees.

The process of God or Krishna consciousness is a scientific process, and it is for very brave people who want to raise their consciousness to a higher state, unfortunately nowadays people think that God or Krishna things have already gone out of style , now we are going to live full of lust, anger, greed, envy, pride and ignorance, and we are going to suffer and be deceived, that is true happiness, and out of envy they criticize and say that the devotees of God or Krishna are parasites of society, they do nothing for the country, for the family, always chanting The Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H is read as J de jota), it is said that in the paradise of the foolish and ignorant, being a wise man is great foolishness.

Love and trust

 Love and trust, by Haripada dasa

Srila Prabhupada wanted the devotees to relate with love and trust, and by establishing these relationships wonderful things will be done to serve and please God or Krishna and His devotees. In spiritual relationships based on love and trust there is harmony and happiness, there is no selfishness or envy, and in material relationships there is only selfishness, envy and much suffering, love and trust means that there will be no betrayal, love and Trust is only possible between pure devotees of God or Krishna, because only devotees of God or Krishna have good qualities, materialistic and atheistic people do not have good qualities, we see in practice that they fight each other for nothing.

The relationships between materialists and atheists are based on deceiving each other, everyone understands and accepts that materialists and atheists are scammers. On the other hand, Nalini Kantha prabhu advised me not to expect much from others, Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada always said that others do whatever they want, I already have enough work in chanting Hare Krishna to purify my damn mind, and he also always said that no one can hurt you, you can hurt yourself, and he also said that when you share spiritual messages with others, only a few people are going to be receptive, this is a fact, I send many people my messages, and only a few are receptive, the others do not answer anything, only God or Krishna knows what will be in the minds of those people and when I have sent them my devotional life so that they know me I say there that if you want you can send me the yours, only two people came forward.

If we see the behavior of God or Krishna and His devotees it is that they are always very grateful, Srila Prabhupada always said that without the help of his disciples, he could not have done anything, God or Krishna when someone offers him something the only thing he looks at is love in the offering, Duryodhana invited Krishna to eat, and to impress him he made some wonderful arrangements, but when Krishna arrived he felt that there is no devotion here and left, and then he went to Vidura's house, and his wife Vidu was so happy to have Krishna there that he offered him the banana peels and threw the banana, and Krishna ate the peels with great pleasure because there was devotion and love, another thing is that only Krishna and His devotees reciprocate and give protection, this It is a fact, one feels the protection of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Nrisimhadeva and Krishna and His devotees, and it is thanks to this protection that one feels that one can live full of spiritual happiness and freedom.

The only hope

 The only hope, by Haripada dasa

The only hope to go back to God or Krishna is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, there are many people who think that they are gurus without the authorization of God or Krishna, these people are deceiving themselves and others, Srila Prabhupada always said that this is a great impediment for Krishna consciousness to expand, the only hope to lead a simple life with elevated thoughts is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, the only hope to achieve the goal of human life that is to have love for God or Krishna, it is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, the only hope to get to live with Srila Prabhupada, is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, the only hope to lead a pure and sinless life, it is obeying the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, the only hope to come to love your enemies, is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada.

By His mercy God or Krishna sends His closest devotees from the spiritual world to the material world to reestablish the principles of religion, religion means the Laws of God, and the result of obeying God's laws is that one is freed from entanglement material. When Srila Prabhupada was born the astrologer said that this boy when he is 70 years old will leave India to go to the western countries to preach Krishna consciousness, he will open more than one hundred Krishna temples, he will write 80 books and these books will be the law books for the next 10,000 years for all of humanity. To date, more than 500 million of his books have been distributed in all the languages ​​of the world. Srila Prabhupada did not come to make a new religion, but to preach concepts and truths that are eternal, as Jesus Christ said that I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. When humanity obeys these eternal truths there will be peace and prosperity in the world.

I am going to try to expose those eternal truths that Srila Prabhupada taught us, the first lesson to be understood and accepted is that we are not the temporal material body but eternal spiritual souls, we are parts and portions of God or Krishna, and our happiness is in serving God or Krishna and His devotees taught us that God is Krishna and gave us a process to awaken our latent love that we all have for God or Krisnna, and how there is only God or Krishna and His energies in a natural way when we love God. o Krishna, we will love everyone and everything, taught us that everything is from God or Krishna because He has created everything, and that a person becomes honest and wise when he uses everything to serve God or Krishna and His devotees, taught us that The spiritual world exists, and that the goal of human life is to go back home to God. He taught us that the real problems are freeing us from birth, death, old age and disease, he taught us that the only spiritual process in Kali yuga or the present age is chanting The Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna , Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H reads J for jota), and taught us that the pure and intimate devotees of God or Krishna never die, they live eternally on his instructions, and those who obey his instructions.

Anxiety

 Anxiety, by Haripada dasa

We have physical illnesses such as the flu and others and there are also mental illnesses like insanity and others and there are also illnesses of the soul like anxiety and others. There was a great spiritual master who belongs to our disciplic succession named Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, he was a High Court Judge, he did many trials every day and the verdicts were perfect and amazing, the English judges of his time were very attracted to this great personality or pure devotee of God or Krishna, once they asked him how it is possible that we make several judgments every day and you make four times more judgments than us and your verdicts are always perfect, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura answered that I make the judgments as quickly as possible because I feel a lot of compassion to see that the accused is anxious to know the verdict.

 That is the difference between a pure devotee of God or Krishna and a materialistic and atheistic person, the pure devotee of God or Krishna suffers when he sees others suffer and is happy when he sees others happy in God or Krishna consciousness, his attitude in life is that everything he does is to please God or Krishna and His devotees, and the materialistic and atheistic person suffers when he sees others happy in God or Krishna consciousness, and is very happy when he sees others suffer, his attitude in life is the law of the funnel, the width for me and the narrow for others, he lives in the concept of me and mine, pure selfishness.

From the Prime Minister who has a head full of political problems to the simple street sweeper, everyone lives full of anxiety. The question that arises is: What is the cause of anxiety ?, This is explained very well by my spiritual master in the meaning of the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra, there he says that we are parts and portions of God, that means that we are superior energy of God, and when we come into contact with the lower or material energy, the situation is incompatible, but when we come into contact with the higher energy, called Hara or Radharani, the living entity is established in his normal happy condition.

In other words, the process of God or Krishna consciousness is a practice of devotional activities that transfer us from the material world to the spiritual world which is our true home, that is called coming home to return to Godhead.

We all would like to have a free life and be happy, but that is not so easy, generally people think that happiness is in the gratification of the senses, but we see in practice that in countries where there is more opulence for sense gratification there are more suicides. We are not the temporary material body, but eternal spirit souls, eternal loving servants of God or Krishna and His devotees, when we act in that consciousness there is eternal happiness and one lives without anxiety.

Before and after

Before and after, by Haripada dasa

Before means before Srila Prabhupada entered his lila samadhi, and after means after Srila Prabhupada entered his lila samadhi, I have the 23 DVDs of the ITV collection on Srila Prabhupada, there you see the devotees very happy and bright in Krishna consciousness, there Srila Prabhupada was the center and the founding Acharya and they were all very united to please Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada's wish and Krishna's is that when Srila Prabhupada entered his lila samadhi, everything would continue Same as before, that is why Srila Prabhupada ordered his disciples to initiate on his behalf, and he would continue to be the center and the spiritual master of all, that is called Jagat guru, the guru of the whole universe.

Unfortunately Srila Prabhupada's disciples made changes to Srila Prabhupada's books and did not obey the order to initiate in his name, and in an artificial way that is by vows (Srila Prabhupada says in El Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya Lila, 1, 220, that the choice of a guru is not made by votes), they became gurus because they think that they are at the same level as Srila Prabhupada, when Srila Prabhupada's Gurudeva entered his lila samadhi a very similar thing happened, there is a letter that Srila Prabhupada sent him to Rupaguna explaining what happened, there Srila Prabhupada says that his Gurudeva openly said to create a GBC and to all work together, and if they see someone who is self-effulgent they have to accept him as my successor, they did not obey these orders and the result is that now they all claim to be Acharyas, although they may be adhikaris kanisthas with no ability to preach, therefore we may make the same mistake in our ISKCON. Actually, among my godbrothers no one is qualified to become an Acharya. So it is better not to mix with my godbrothers too intimately because instead of inspiring our students and disciples they can sometimes contaminate them. This attempt was previously made by them, especially Madhava Maharaja, Tirtha Maharaja and Bon Maharaja, but one way or another I saved the situation.

We accept that Srila Prabhupada is that self-effulgent person, but Gaudiya Matha does not recognize that, we do not mix with Gaudiya Matha. We do not mix with Srila Prabhupada's disciples who are betraying and offending Srila Prabhupada, they live in unconsciousness and that is the reason they do not want to obey Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada, Krishna and everyone would like to For Iskcon to be led by people who obey and love Srila Prabhupada, it is always better to pray for others than to criticize, we pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna that these people obey Srila Prabhupada and so we would all be together and happy and bright in the Krishna consciousness.

I have served in Iskcon 1984-2008, Krishna has distributed through me more than a quarter of a million books of Srila Prabhupada and from my collection I have given them more than 500,000 dollars, they have deceived me but I do not hold any grudge against them. They already have a bad enough misfortune to be as they are Now I feel happy and free in Krishna consciousness.