SRILA LOCHANA DAS THAKURA KI JAYA

Shri Lochana Dasa Thakura was a disciple of Shri Narahari Sarakara Thakura, a dearest associate of Lord Gaura Raya.
 
   "My hope of hopes is to be near the lotus feet of Shri Narottama Dasa Thakura and serve him with my very life. The cherished desire of the fallen Lochana Dasa is to be allowed, by Narahari's grace, to sing the glories of Lord Gauranga. My Lord is Shri Narahari Thakura, I am His servant. Bowing before him I beg for his service. This is my only aspiration." (Lochana Dasa, Chaitanya Mangala)
 
   Lochana Dasa Thakura wrote Chaitanya Mangala which tells many pastimes of Lord Chaitanya not revealed by Vrindavana Dasa Thakura or Krishna Dasa Kaviraja. He mentions an especially touching conversation Shri Gaurasundara had with Vishnupriya Devi the night before He took sannyasa. Being a talented musician, Lochana Dasa told Mahaprabhu's pastimes in beautiful poetry filled with fire and rhythm. Common people could easily understand the divine character of Shri Chaitanya and awaken their religious feelings. As Devotees regularly chant the Vedic epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, Gaudiya Vaishnava's still wander through Bengal reciting the Chaitanya Mangala.
 
   Lochana Dasa Thakura also wrote many songs praising Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Shri Nityananda Prabhu, and Gauridasa Pandit. Lochana Dasa stresses that raganuga bhaktas must take shelter of Gadadhara Vrindavanishvari to attain Radha-Govinda prema bhakti. Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura used to print and distribute Lochana Dasa Thakura's Shri Chaitanya Mangala. Shrila Prabhupada was very fond of his bhajans. While singing Parama Karuna Shrila Prabhupada would plunge into the ocean of Gauranga prema. Prabhupada wrote an extensive commentary on this bhajana: Bhajo bhajo bhai, Caitanya Nitai, sudrdha visvasa kori … "Lochana Dasa asks everyone, 'My dear brother, just worship Lord Chaitanya and Nityananda with firm faith and conviction.' Don't think that this chanting and dancing will not lead to the desired goal; it will. It is the assurance of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu that one will get all perfection by this process. Therefore, one must chant with firm faith and conviction." His samadhi is in 64 Samadhis Area. 

"Lochana Dasa asks everyone, 'My dear brother, just worship Lord Chaitanya and Nityananda with firm faith and conviction.' Don't think that this chanting and dancing will not lead to the desired goal; it will. It is the assurance of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu that one will get all perfection by this process. Therefore, one must chant with firm faith and conviction." (In the image: Shri Shri Gaura Nitay, ISKCON Chennai, Tamil Nadu).

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LOVE YOUR ENEMIES

Love your enemies, or Haripada Javier Figuerola dasa
Martin Luther King always said that just say what you think, you already created many enemies. What is an enemy ?, he is a person who insults us, despise, envy and humiliates us. It says in verse 9 of chapter 6 of the Bhagavad Gita that a person is more advanced as regards all - the well-wisher honest, friends and enemies, the envious, the pious, the sinner and those who are indifferent and impartial - with a fair mind. Jesus always told to pray to God for friends is easy, but we must pray to God for our enemies. A Jesus Christ made him many offenses and crucified him, but he prayed to God for their offenders. Was merciful and tolerant, it is said that a great personality is measured by their degree of tolerance, of course, tolerance and mercy are two qualities that are linked, a person is tolerant when it is very merciful, materialists are not tolerant nor merciful, daily send millions and millions of innocent animals for slaughter, and are not tolerant, I saw him as someone whistled the car ahead that had turned the green light and the other got out all upset and They ended up sticking punches.
I will tell you three true stories that illustrate love your enemies. My spiritual teacher named Srila Prabhupada bought land in Bombay, India, to a temple of Krishna, a hotel, a theater and a vegetarian restaurant. Nair bought it a very powerful figure, Supreme Court President and Director of a newspaper. Nair before it sold the land to the Company C., trapping the ground and took away money, C. Nair sued Company but Nair won the lawsuit. Srila Prabhupada knew and yet ventured. Nair and his lawyer wanted to do the same with Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada sued to court, but Nair died of a heart attack. Your lady continued litigation and made a big mistake, bribed officials to vandalize the City Council who were building temple and to cast all the devotees of Krishna who lived on the ground. He left the backfire, devotees of Krishna called all her friends and told them all Hindus, all the most important people in Bombay condemned this act and Mrs. Nair was devastated. After Mrs. Nair every repentant went to Srila Prabhupada and weeping at his feet pulled to forgive, merciful Srila Prabhupada said that you are to me as my daughter, never in life you will lack nothing, I I'll take care of you. Now the temple is one of the most important temples of spiritual India.
The other story comes in the Bhagavatam, there was a great yogi named Durvasa Muni once Durvasa Muni no reason offended a great pure devotee of God or Krishna called Ambarisa Maharaja, God or Krishna never tolerate insults to His devotees and sent their personal weapon called the Sudarsana Chakra, when Durvasa Muni saw the Sudarsana Chakra that would punish fled by all the planets, even went to the spiritual world and the lotus feet of God or Narayana went and apologized for offending Her devotee Narayana or God told him to apologize to His devotee to Him, Durvasa Muni went and apologized to Ambarisa Maharaja and saw Ambarisa Maharaja was praying to God for the good yogi, and Durvasa Muni said it now I understand the glories of the pure devotees of God, I have offended you in return and you have prayed to God for my good fortune.
The third story is quite amazing, a great preacher of Krishna consciousness encountered two drunk and asked them to sing Hare Krishna, one of the drunks grabbed a rock and broke his head, the preacher with a head full of blood said no problem you can kill me if you want, but I just ask you to sing the Holy Names of God, you have broken my head with the stone but in return I'll give love of God, drunkards to see the attitude of the preacher were terrified and thrown at his feet asking for forgiveness, then these two drunk pure devotees of God and became great preachers. God works wonders.
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THE FIRST LESSON PART 2

The first lesson Part 2, by Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
First I want to clarify that all the information I gave in my messages come from the books of my spiritual teacher named Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada translated the Holy Scriptures of India from Sanskrit into English and wrote 80 books of 400 pages each and have been translated into all the languages ​​of the world, Srila Prabhupada and their meanings helped us understand everything from 1967 to the present day disciples and admirers have distributed more than 500 million books. I thank God I put my two cents and from 1984 until 2011 have distributed over 200,000 books of Srila Prabhupada traveling and living in Spain, in 16 Latin American countries, in USA and India. The origin of this spiritual knowledge is God or Krishna and human society descends through the guru-parampara or disciplic succession chain, genuine gurus who are representatives of God. Srila Prabhupada instructed us to share this knowledge to the whole human society, spiritual knowledge is the cause of unlimited happiness and ignorance is the cause of all suffering. If someone wants to read the books of Srila Prabhupada are in this web: www.vedabase.com
In this 2nd part of the first lesson we will try to understand and accept the origin of the eternal spirit soul. In all the world Scriptures say that the origin of everything is God. God has unlimited power and energy, so that we understand the great sages have classified into three main, spiritual energy, the material energy and the marginal energy. We belong to the marginal energy, is said in the scriptures of India that the soul out of the spiritual world and also out of the material world, 99 percent choose to go to the spirit world to live with God or Krishna and never fall into the material world, and there is a one percent that we are seeing the opulence that God holds us and we envy their backs on God and chose to go to the material world, free will means that you choose. To understand this point I advise you to read Milton's Paradise Lost. It is said that three-fourths of God's creation is the espirtual world and the material world is only one fourth of God's creation.
To understand the difference between God and us there are several examples that illustrate this, God is like a big fire and we are like sparks of the fire, God is like the great ocean and we are like drops of the ocean, God is unlimited and infinite and we are infinitesimal, God and we are qualitatively one, that is, we are spirit, and we are aware, but quantitatively God is infinite and unlimited and we are infinitesimal, so that one of the unlimited names of God is Achyuta which means that you never falls that has complete knowledge, but we infinitesimal when we tend to fall into ignorance and suffering. The whole process of Krishna consciousness is constituted of spiritual activities that help us transfer us the material world to the spiritual world.
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THE FIRST LESSON PART 1

The first lesson Part 1, by Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
The first lesson in spiritual life is to understand and accept that we are not the temporary material body, but eternal spirit souls, loving servants of God or Krishna and His devotees. Let's analyze the difference between a living body and a dead one, living body means that the soul is within the body and carcass means that the soul left the body. Actually the body is always dead which gives life to the body is the soul. If your dead body to burn it, nothing happens, no one will protest, but if your a living body with a pin prick what the person protest, why the symptom of the soul is consciousness and that consciousness passes through all our body through the blood. For example, the person you are inside the shirt and jacket, but you're not the shirt or jacket, just as the soul is the person, and the body that covers it is impersonal, we have two bodies that cover the soul, one is called the gross body or coarse which is composed of earth, water, fire, air and ether, that body we see it, and no other body that is subtle, that we do not see and is composed of mind, intelligence and false ego, so called subtle because we know that we have it but do not see. Both the gross body and the subtle bodies are impersonal, but the soul is the real person.
Today there are scientists who say that life comes from matter, that we are a combination of matter and life appeared there, and also promise to create life in the laboratory. But the reality is quite the opposite, you can have a wonderful machine, a computer, a plane, a car, a robot, etc., but these machines require that a person, a conscience do work. In 1975 in Bombay, India, a very intelligent, devoted to God or Krishna challenged the scientists with 50,000 euros if they were able to create life with material elements, the bet was that if scientists created life through Krishna devotees matter gave them 50,000 euros, no scientist was presented. If the theory of scientific atheists and materialists out practice, then a person dies, they investigate what the material elements that failed, would put new resurrected body. And they could also make a paralytic walk watching the material elements that are wrong, but this is science fiction, that only happens in movies Franquestein.
The causes of all wars is to live in the body concept and religious fanaticism, Hitler thought the Germans are the most, let's kill the others being lower, the Christians thought we are as much going to kill Muslims, and Muslims thought we are the greatest, we will kill Christians, all this is sheer ignorance, is a very sad situation that nobody taught in educational institutions this scientific knowledge that we are not the temporary material body but eternal espiritules souls, living in the spiritual concept of the person is full of unlimited happiness and freedom.
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LISTENING IS NOT EASY

Listening is not easy, Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
It's amazing qualities, memory and listening skills of great souls or God-conscious people. There is a part of the Bhagavatam where King Pariksit tells his spiritual master Sukadeva Goswami, you please talk about a topic; then she makes him eight questions, to tell nineteen twelve descriptions and explanations, totaling forty subjects, and if this was not enough, tells him to say what he should know and have not been able to challenge. Sukadeva Goswami told the 18,000 verses that make up the Bhagavatam and there was Suta Goswami who memorized the verses 18,000 and then sang in the forest at a meeting Naimisaranya 60,000 sages. Today let me know where the car keys or house is a great achievement. It is said that one learns to listen or suffer. The biggest impediment to learning to listen is the false ego or pride, everyone goes through life thinking he knows everything and no one can teach me anything, no humility, no humble attitude going in thinking I am the fool number one and I need to learn many things.
The truth is that listening is not easy, no one can put all your attention if you have a pure mind. No one can be pure mind, if their actions are not pure; No one can be pure in their actions if not pure in eating, sleeping, fearing and mating.
The other day I had a friend who was talking to a person when the person talking and not listening when someone spoke to him forced him to hear. I share a very beautiful verse of the Bhagavatam: "Men are like dogs, pigs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the narrations of the pastimes of Krishna or God, He delivers from all evil ". The point is that in modern education since young are educated to listen and glorify worldly people, there is an education to hear about God and His devotees. There is knowledge of God and science of the soul and spiritual knowledge to establish a personal relationship with God. The true purpose of education is to end inequalities and injustices, everyone talks about so many injustices and inequalities, but nobody has a solution, for me the solution to all problems, injustice and inequality is spiritual, understand and accept that it is God that He has created everything, understand and accept that we are all fellow human beings, animals, insects, plants, etc. and there is only one Father, God the Creator, and that the most beautiful word in the dictionary is to share, as Jesus said if you have two blankets and give your neighbor no one and do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and do not do to others what you would not like unto you, if people obey these moral norms there would be police, courts have not, there would not have politicians and false religions.
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THE BULLS

Hello, I share this message, I have sent many politicians of Spain and the media.
Hello, I am writing to you to give me your opinion on these two issues:
Why not ban bullfighting in Spain, we are giving the world an image that we are a very violent country, pay violence with violence and what you sow crops. I practice nonviolence since 1983, I do not eat meat, fish or eggs, the idea is nourished by the minimal violence to nature, let your medicine be your food and your food be your medicine, thank God I have very good health, in 33 years I have not been to a doctor, people eat meat because they like and they feel very envious of animals. For me it is inconceivable as a person 50 euros is spent at an entrance to the bulls to enjoy and see as torture and kill the noblest creature of God's creation, the bull. Also in the Bible it says in Isaiah, chapter 66, verses 12 and 13 to kill the bull tantamount to killing the man, and in the Holy Scriptures of India says that he who kills a bull or a cow will be born many Sometimes as hairs have the bull and the cow and be killed in the same way, so if the bulls are banned in Spain will make a great favor to the bullfighters. It is said that if you see an injustice and no protests are an accomplice, not only protest against the killing of bulls but all killing of innocent animals to satisfy the tongue. I am not a hypocrite, I say one thing and do another, but the words convince Trails.
It would be a great idea to create a spiritual environment in Congress and the Senate, each day before each session the beautiful prayer of Peace of San Francisco de Assisi in reciting this prayer there is spiritual love, no devotion to God and no humility.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace ...... WHERE is hatred, let me sow WHERE LOVE ......... is injury, let me sow discord WHERE THERE IS FORGIVENESS ...... , I may bring UNION ......... WHERE DOUBT, TAKE ME TO HAVE FAITH ..... WHERE ERROR, THAT I TAKE WHERE THERE IS TRUTH ...... despair that I ..... bring hope where there is sadness, let me sow ..... WHERE JOY is darkness, let me sow light ...... O Master, grant that I did not seek to be consoled as COMFORT ..... BE understood as to understand. .... LOVED, BUT LOVE ..... WHY: giving that we receive, pardoning that we are pardoned, and dying we are born to eternal life.
Waiting for your reply, affectionately bouncing your good friend Javier Figuerola.
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HELLO

Hello, I share this message, I sent to all Spain's leading politicians and the media.
Hello, I write to introduce some ideas:
It would be a good idea if all the politicians of Spain made a mandatory part of the background and give salary to help people who are having a hard time in Spain. In doing so people will think that politicians have become very good people.
There are two sayings in Spain spoil it all, one is that in Spain each manages and the other is that Spain is a land of thieves. Who have now voted only 58 percent means that people are badly burned. The only way to govern a country is to have love for people.
Another idea is that Spain could learn from other European countries to govern without so many politicians, political exaggeration there, as people say, "There are too many people sucking the boat".
Another idea is that if politicians and people in general receive a spiritual education that would make them understand and accept that we are not the body, we are eternal spirit souls, and the only thing that will bring us to the next life are our activities and what you sow crops, that would be a great achievement. The finding that there is this spiritual education is that people living in the bodily concept and think I am Catalan, Basque, Andalusian, Galician, etc and fight with each other, the causes of all wars is to live on the concept body and religious fanaticism. If people in general would have spiritual vision that we are all brothers, people, animals, plants, etc and there is only one Father, God the Creator. I have been many times in India distributing food, and when I come to Spain I am amazed to see the opulence that is in my country, too amazement I see everyone complaining, this seems a vale of tears, Spain has done much material progress but neglected the spiritual, is felt in the atmosphere much atheism, the result is that people live very desequlibrada, and think that the solution lies with the psychologists, one sees a newscast and grabs a depression.
I conclude by saying that worldwide the great crisis there is universal leaders with vision, people full of love and kindness and are 24 hours a day thinking and making plans to help people without wanting anything in return.
Waiting for your reply, affectionately bouncing your good friend Javier Figuerola.
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THE REAL ANTI-SYSTEM

The real anti-system, by Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
Practically speaking no one believes in God, it is said that the one God who has no atheists is money, this is true for anti comply vote initiated and sing every day at least 27,648 Holy Names of God. This practice leads to an hour and a half to two.
Everyone makes sex as dogs, pigs, camels and donkeys, the real anti-celibacy for this is the result of practicing celibacy is that one has a lot of body glitter, health, lots of memory and longevity.
To forget the suffering or to turn off the penalties everyone drinks alcohol and drugs, and we are quite intoxicated by being in contact with matter, the real anti for this is to take only mineral water.
Everyone covets the money and why everyone practiced gambling, the real anti for this is used to depend on God, after all everyone has what he deserves.
Almost everyone eats meat, fish and eggs, the real anti for this is to have a vegetarian diet, personally take on this diet since 1983 and what is not sick, and to spiritualize the offer food to God my temple.
After evacuating almost everyone cleans the anus with toilet paper, the real anti for this year is cleaned with water is cleaner than the mouth, in India everybody does that.
On the politics, I am fully convinced that the basis of political material is that the members of our political party are our friends and members of other political parties are our enemies, what is the cause of this philosophy? ignorance and envy, how is it possible for citizens to obtain some benefit for people full of ignorance and envy ?, if politicians or executive heads of state are only interested in themselves, they can never provide for the welfare of citizens. In the Srimad Bhagavatam, 2, 3, 19 defines these politicians like donkeys, political and materialistic atheist is entangled in many illusory to raise the position of others, as leader of the political emancipation and economic development occupations. There is nothing wrong with trying to achieve political emancipation and economic development, but one should not forget the real purpose of life, all these philanthropic activities must be coupled to a return to God. It is also said in the Srimad Bhagavatam that he who is not a pure devotee of God can not have good qualities. Srila Prabhupada always said that those who are afraid of these infernal politicians who take refuge in the process of Krishna consciousness. Another point we need to understand is that to know and love God's people should be pure and without sin, sinful people only understand that suffering is happiness.
Chants the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (j reads H Jota) and be happy.
Srila Prabhupada served with love, faith, attachment and gratitude and your life will be successful and sublime.
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WE ARE NOT THE BODY

We are not the body, Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
In the same way that the asylum crazy identify with something that is not, well we identify ourselves with the body, which we are not. The basis of all the problems individually and collectively we do not know what and who we are as a consequence not understand what we need. The truth is that to understand that I am not this temporary material body is not that difficult, it just requires a little intelligence; the problem today is that no one is teaching these things. A materialists and atheists are not interested in spiritual knowledge is disclosed, they care that people live in sheer ignorance and full of fears, that way the can control and manipulate. The materialists and atheists get very happy when they see people suffer, and suffering is greater when they see God or Krishna devotees happy and free. Once my spiritual master Srila Prabhupada was called to teach these things to a school for children of 8-12 years. When they were all together, he said, "raise your hand the smartest child in this school." The children laughed and looked at each other, one finally dared to raise his hand. The spiritual master told him he would have put questions and if he was able to answer them. First told him he pointed his head, and the boy saw that it was very easy pointing to his head and said: "This is my head." Then he said would bring his arms. The boy said: "These are my arms." He later said he would bring his belly, and the boy pointed saying. "This is my belly" Then he said would bring his legs, and the boy replied, "these are my . legs "Finally the teacher said," And now you appoint thee "Then the child was taken aback, not knowing that part note.. What Srila Prabhupada wanted to show with this it is that there is a clear and indisputable difference between possessing and possessed. The boy said: "I head, arm, leg, belly," but said, ". This is my head, this is my arm, these are my legs, this is my belly" My indicates possessive adjective and to possess something must have two things, the thing possessed and the possessor. By pure reasoning there is a clear difference between what one has and the possessor or possessing.
Another simple to understand that we are not the body point is that I have now 56 years old and I remember perfectly well when I was 5 years old and my grandmother took me to school and I did not want to go because older children wanted to hit me, bullying, where is this child's body that I had? He disappeared, but I remember clearly that indicates the soul, I'm still the same person despite already, in this life I have had many bodies. A doctor told me he was proven scientifically that every seven years we renew every cell in the body, in other words, the soul, in life and have had eight different bodies. We find in the Bhagavad-gita a philosophical verse makes it clear this issue, says: "The seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent, the material body, no permanence, and that of the eternal, soul, no change. This conclusion came after studying the nature of both. "
All the wars in the world are due to not understand that we are not the body, also by religious fanaticism, Hitler thought the Germans are superior will conquer the world, the Catholic Monarchs also thought the Spaniards were superior in the name of God will conquer the world. All this is sheer ignorance of reality. Until you have a spiritual master, representative of the Supreme Personality of God will live in ignorance. I share the mantra the spiritual master: "I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge, he would offer my most humble obeisances." There are many people who do not believe that there is life after death, alive and dead at the hole bun, the cause of this is that they are afraid of birth, and those people experience God at the time of death. God or Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that I am death.
Thought to ponder:
"The result of love and help others without wanting anything in return is that God or Krishna and His devotees forever bless you with unlimited happiness and spiritual knowledge."
Chants the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (j reads H Jota) and be happy.
Srila Prabhupada served with love, faith, attachment and gratitude and your life will be successful and sublime.
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