Help each other

 Help each other, by Haripada dasa

As I understand it, association with devotees means helping each other, and if in this association we see someone who has a lot of hypocrisy, personal interests and contradictions, our duty for the sake of that person and others is to help him, Srila Prabhupada He said that I am very proud to have had a disciple like Jayananda prabhu, and he also said that everyone should follow his example, the essence of Jayananda prabhu's life is that everything he did was for Srila Prabhupada to be happy, in him no vested interests existed, having vested interests in Krishna consciousness is terrible, once I sent a message titled the spiritual aspect, the gist of this message is that Srila Prabhupada taught us in practice that when the spiritual aspect is very strong, God or Krishna is very pleased and reciprocates with giving much intelligence and material opulence, association of devotees means open relationship based on love and trust, due We would like to ask each other, how are your 16 rounds going, are you chanting them, are you following the 4 regulative principles, are you reading Srila Prabhupada's books, when there is a good relationship with devotees we overcome our hypocrisy and impersonalism, I share a very nice poem Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura who has helped me a lot, he always said: "Forget the past, it is asleep, and in the future your heart must not dream, and in the present you must become Krishna conscious, that is your obligation".

When Srila Prabhupada arrived in the USA, he wrote some very beautiful poems, in one of them he said that when all the souls that are suffering in this material world are happy in Krishna consciousness, the wish of the Acharyas or authorized spiritual teachers will have been fulfilled. . That is the only wish of a true devotee, that everyone be happy in Krishna consciousness. Regarding leadership in Krishna consciousness, my humble opinion is that a leader is one who has the greatest capacity to serve, Jesus always said if you want to be a leader, become the servant of all, I agree that Srila Prabhupada gave readings on the Nectar of devotion in the 1972 Kartika at the Sri Radha Damodara in Vrindavana, his topics were the association of devotees, the position of the spiritual master and living in Vrindavana. "The spiritual master should be treated as Hari, the Supreme Person, even if he is offered the same respect as Hari, he must think that he is a humble servant of Hari and everyone, he thinks of his disciples as if they were his spiritual masters , that is the position, he must think that Krishna has sent him many spiritual masters, he does not think of himself as spiritual master, he thinks that he is a servant, because they have to be trained, Krishna has appointed him as the one who will train them, therefore he must think that he is the servant of his disciples."

Letter to Srila Prabhupada

 Letter to Srila Prabhupada, by Haripada dasa

With love and confidence I share my Vyasa Puja letter to Srila Prabhupada Mahasaya.

All the devotees who serve and love Srila Prabhupada write a letter called the Vyasa Puja letter, Vyasadeva is a literary incarnation of God or Krishna, He wrote all the Vedic literature, The Bhagavad-gita, The Srimad-bhagavatam, The Mahabharata etc, and our spiritual master's birthday is called Vyasa Puja day, on this day the spiritual master is glorified and thanked for all his mercy, all this spiritual knowledge given to us by Vyasadeva is transmitted from the guru to the disciple through the chain of disciplic succession, all these truths are eternal and never change, that's why Srila Prabhupada always said that the philosophy of Krishna consciousness is very easy, because we don't have to invent anything, we just have than to repeat what the previous spiritual masters said.

Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have found the Truth and the Truth will set you free. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have come out of ignorance, which is the cause of all suffering. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have understood the purpose of human life, to understand and love God or Krishna, and since there is only God or Krishna and His energies, by doing this in a natural way one loves everyone and everything. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have understood that this material world is full of envy and is no place for a gentleman, here there are only cheaters and cheated. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we hope to go back home to God and Krishna and His devotees, and the experience of having been in this material world will be a bad nightmare. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have understood that we are not the material body, but eternal spirit souls, eternal loving servants of God or Krishna and His devotees. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we are now no longer a rudderless ship, now Srila Prabhupada is the person we trust and love the most. If Srila Prabupada had not come, what would have become of us?

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 like death, and all his money, his prestige, his family, etc. It will be taken away, do you understand God now? 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, he 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 his destiny, each one has what he deserves. , 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, unhappily 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.

Hare everyone has a chance

 Here everyone has a chance, by Haripada dasa

Here in the process of Krishna consciousness everyone has the opportunity to chant 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 for jota), and be happy in Krishna consciousness, here there is neither discrimination nor exploitation, everyone has the opportunity to lead a pure and sinless life, for that you have to follow the 4 regulative principles, 1, do not eat meat , fish or eggs, 2, no illicit sex, only sex for procreation and with one's wife is allowed, 3, no gambling, and 4, no tea, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., all have the opportunity to be initiated by a disciple of Srila Prabhupada who initiates in the name of Srila Prabhupada, here there is no place for opportunists or for climbing positions, here we are all friends and humble servants of each other, we are all friends and spiritual brothers and sisters , and the one with the greatest capacity to serve, we accept as leaders. natural der, of course we follow the spiritual etiquette that the senior devotee with more experience gives his mercy to the junior devotee, and the junior devotee is thankful and respectful to the senior devotee, everyone has the opportunity to follow all the instructions given in Srila Prabhupada's books, and helping each other do the same, by doing this we live with Srila Prabhupada and acquire his qualities. Our love and service is for Srila Prabhupada, and we have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the authorized person who is going to take us back home, back to Krishna.

Here we are not interested in the opinions of an ordinary person, ordinary people have four types of defects, the first defect is that they tend to make mistakes, another defect is being in illusion, the third defect is the propensity to deceive and finally our senses they are imperfect. Any opinion other than revealed truth is worthless. Revealed truth means truth, or scripture that comes from a reliable source, the chain of disciplic succession formed by bona fide spiritual masters is the reliable source; since these people are self-realized and pure souls, and they are free from the four defects mentioned above. Here nobody speculates, we understand and accept that a person is speculating, when he does things in a capricious way without relying on the Guru, Sadhu and Sastra. Here only the original books of Srila Prabhupada are used, we are totally against all the changes that have been made to the original books of Srila Prabhupada. Here we have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the way, the truth and the life, and if someone goes back home back to Godhead or Krishna, it is by Srila Prabhupada's mercy.

Become a mouse again

 Become a mouse again, by Haripada dasa

According to the Harinama Chintamani, the pure devotee of Krishna is an ocean of mercy, and he distributes this mercy in 4 ways, 1, through his instructions, 2, the remnants of his food, 3, the dust of his lotus feet and 4, the water that washes his lotus feet, when Krishna's pure devotee enters his samadhi lila, the only way to live with him is by obeying his instructions. There are disciples who are so grateful for all his mercy that they sacrifice their life to make their Guru happy, and they develop great love for Sri Guru, and they become perfect devotees, and Krishna loves those devotees very much, and there are others who are very hypocritical, externally they pass themselves off as serious and sincere devotees, but internally they have many hidden desires, to illustrate this subject Srila Prabhupada expounded a story, the mouse and the sage, there was a mouse that was chased by cats, and he was to see a great sage who has many mystical powers, and he told the sage the cats want to devour me, and the sage told him what do you want, to be a cat, it's okay to be a cat, some time passed and he returned to the sage and He told him the dogs want to kill me, and the wise man said and what do you want, to be a dog, that's fine, be a dog, and in the end he went to see the wise man again and told him that the tigers want to devour me, and what do you want , be a tiger, okay, be a tiger, and stared at the wise man thought I'm here because I have my lunch, and the wise man told him to turn back into a mouse.

Srila Prabhupada criticized his disciples many times saying that they did not read his books, the result of not reading Srila Prabhupada's books is that one becomes fanatical and sentimental, I have come to the conclusion that to establish relationships with devotees based on in love and trust at least you have to be on the platform of Madhyama or intermediate, between Kanisthas or neophyte devotees it is not possible, because in the Kanistha there is envy, selfishness, hypocrisy and the tendency to fight with others is very strong, there is a book by Raghunatha dasa goswami entitled Mana-siksa or preaching to the mind, the essence of this book is that it tells us that the most difficult thing to purify is the tendency towards deception, we deceive ourselves and others, the only way to purify this is to dive into the ocean of nectar of Krishna consciousness.