Worldly Religion and Eternal Religion

 

Worldly Religion and Eternal Religion, by Haripada dasa
It is very interesting that the Bhagavatam maintains in its first pages its own uniqueness: dharmah projjhita-kaitavo `tra," All supposed religiosity covered by fruitive intentions is here completely rejected. " (S.B. 1, 1, 2) Fruitive intentions take the form of Kama (complacency of gross and subtle senses), artha (economic development), dharma (worldly or sectarian religiosity), and even moksa (liberation). These four goals are described as materialistic practices, and contaminate every attempt at true religion.
The motivating force behind each of them is the increase in sensual satisfaction. For example, an ordinary man may practice religiosity (dharma) because he actually seeks wealth (artha). Understanding that there is a Supreme Controller, he seeks to plead with his "god" and, thus, reaches his goal. This practice, by the way, is often misleading, and a person absorbed in this type of motivated religiosity mistakenly believes himself to be a serious practitioner of the spiritual life.
In reflecting, however, it becomes evident that such a religious is actually a materialist, since all his practice is directed towards the wrong end: the acquisition of wealth. Why do you want riches, for the sake of kama, or sense gratification, a goal that is directly contrary to religious principles. Moreover, when someone gets tired of this whole business, they look for moksa, or liberation.
Unfortunately, true liberation could not be further from an individual so deceived, since he has completely missed the purpose of spiritual practice. Although many fall prey to this mentality, the Bhagavatam urges its readers to go beyond this situation, and beyond the material illusions that trap even the well-intentioned, the student of the Bhagavatam must abandon all worldly goals and strive for achieving total purity.
If one desires a lower goal, one must approach a lower writing. That is why Srila Prabhupada says in the Chaitanya Charitamrita, adi-lila, 17, 169 that the Old and New Testament and the Koran is for meat eaters, and they are not eternal writings. Bhagavatam is for those who are serious in regard to the ultimate goal of life: love for God.
The first thing that eternal religion teaches you is that we are not the temporal material body, but eternal spiritual souls, in understanding and accepting this point it is natural for the person to be more interested in eternal relationships than in temporal ones, temporal relationships are with Family, society, friendships and worldly love, and eternal relationships means with God or Krishna and with His devotees.
The result of practicing eternal religion is that one knows God and loves him, and since there is only God or Krishna and His energies will naturally love everyone and everything.

Life is beautiful

 

Life is beautiful, by Javier Figuerola (Haripada dasa).
This message comes from love of life.
Life is beautiful because God is a non-dual spiritual personality full of bliss, full of knowledge and full of eternity and we as parts and portions are also in our pure and natural state we have three qualities mentioned above, as the saying goes : LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, the difference between God and us is that He is infinite and we are infinitesimal, being infinite God never falls from his position, but we are one of the infinite energies of God which is called marginal, that means say we have two trends, one is to be with God and love Him with devotion and the other is that we enjoy besides God, on this issue I suggest you read the book titled PARADISE LOST oF MILTON. Now a question may arise whether life is beautiful, because there are many people who suffer from anxiety, poverty, depression, diseases, cancer, etc. There is the law of karma, the infallible law, in society there are laws made by men, and if you break your nothing happens, for example if your you spend a red light and you do not see the police nothing happens, but the law of karma by God is infallible law of karma is the law of action and reaction, tHE BOOMERANG EVERYONE reap what you sow, IF YOUR CROPS RECEIVE GOOD GOOD AND EVIL CROP IF YOU RECEIVE tHE EVIL , EVERYONE dESERVES WHAT, eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, when Jesus asked his disciples, what this person is born Maestro blinded by their reactions to this life or previous ?, Jesus answered: "He was born blind to show God's law, "God's law is the law of karma, karma or no individual and collective destiny. A few years ago in England in an interview with the coach of the England football team, asked the reason that a person is paralyzed, and he said that is their karma or destiny, that answer shocked much English and were one month in all media talking about the law of karma, we also have in Spain the child's history of Granada remembered all the details he had been a lama of Tibet in his previous life and the child were there and remembered everything . When a person is well versed in the law of karma and the law of transmigration of the soul and reincarnation, lives happily in this world and understands everything. The greatest gift God has given us is the FREE WILL, THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE, but we would ROBOTS, we can choose to live with God by obeying his laws and commandments or living exploiting and enjoying the art and suffering the reactions that entails. A society in which all follow the law of God, LOVE GOD ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF, where people were always thinking of doing good to others, to share what they imagine God been given to others who have less, where people related with LOVE aND TRUST, where it did not exist in people's selfishness, envy, greed, lust, anger and ignorance, unfortunately the Bishop of Carterbury used to say: "MEN WANT THE KINGDOM OF GOD BUT NOT GOD". The most difficult thing to get rid of one is hypocrisy, people are already used to deceive themselves and others. "THIS PRESENT COMPANY IS cheaters and the cheated": As a great teacher and saint of India said. Unfortunately everything is tainted by personal and selfish interests, family, religion, politics, medicine, police, military, media, employers, unions, finance (bags, banks) etc, there is a great crisis of simple people at heart, full of integrity, honesty and wisdom. People that convey positive messages for people to reflect and change their lives for the better without wanting anything in return, they make people understand that this human body life is a blessing that God has given us, and we have the ability to understand things that animals can not entenden, who I am, I do in this world that suffer, that is what awaits me at the time of death, etc, animals are conditioned to eat, sleep, fear and mate, and if a person just does what animal is an animal too. Unfortunately today in the media only transmit negative messages, the other day a friend told me that seeing the telediaro you entered a depression, better not see it, nothing positive, all negative. Life is beautiful when one used to LOVE GOD AND WHEN ONE LOVES GOD, AS THERE IS ONLY GOD AND ENERGY, LOVE OF A NATURAL WAY TO ALL AND TO ALL. PEACE AND WELL.
Chant the Maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare and be happy.
Srila Prabhupada Serve with love, faith, gratitude and attachment and your life will be successful and sublime.

Letter to Srila Prabhupada

 

Letter to Srila Prabhupada, by Haripada dasa

Celebrate the Transcendental Appearance of Srila Prabhupada, all the devotees who serve and love Srila Prabhupada make 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 the birthday of our spiritual master is called Vyasa Puja day, on this day the spiritual master is glorified and thanked for all his mercy All this spiritual knowledge that Vyasadeva gave us is transmitted from the guru to the disciple through the chain of disciplic succession, all those truths are eternal and never change, that is 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 to repeat what the previous spiritual teachers 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, 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 not a place for a gentleman, here there are only deceivers and deceived. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have hopes of going home to return 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 no longer a ship without a rudder, now Srila Prabhupada is the person we trust the most and love the most. If Srila Prabupada hadn't come, what would have become of us.