Helping each other

  Helping 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 good of that person and of 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 to make Srila Prabhupada happy, not in him there were personal interests, having personal interests in Krishna consciousness is terrible, I once sent a message entitled the spiritual aspect, the essence of this message is that Srila Prabhupada taught us in practice that when the spiritual aspect is very strong, God or Krishna is very satisfied and reciprocates with giving a lot of intelligence and material opulence, association of devotees means open relationship based on love and trust, should We should ask each other, how are your 16 rounds going, you are singing them, you are following the 4 regulative principles, you are reading Srila Prabhupada's books, when there is a good relationship with the devotees we overcome our hypocrisy and impersonalism, I share a very nice poem From Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura who has helped me a lot, he always said: "Forget the past, it is asleep, and in the future your heart should not dream, and in the present you must become Krishna conscious, that is your obligation."

When Srila Prabhupada came to the USA, he wrote some very beautiful poems, in one of them he said that when all the souls who 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. About leadership in Krishna consciousness, my humble opinion is that a leader is the one who has the most capacity to serve, Jesus always said if you want to be a leader become the servant of all, I share that Srila Prabhupada gave readings of the Nectar of Devotion in The 1972 Kartika at the Sri Radha Damodara in Vrindavana, its themes 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, although 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 teachers , that is the position, he must think that Krishna has sent him many spiritual masters, he does not think of himself as a spiritual master, he thinks that he is a servant, because they have to be trained, Krishna has named him as the one who is going to train them, therefore he must think that he is the servant of his disciples. "