People are crazy

People are crazy, for Haripada dasa
A crazy person is one who does not know who he is, a crazy person thinks that I am Santa Teresa de Ávila, another crazy person thinks that I am Srimati Radharani, a madman thinks that I am Jesus Christ, another crazy thinks that I am Napoleón, etc., The first lesson in the spiritual life or in the consciousness of God or Krishna is to understand and accept that we are not the temporary material body but eternal spiritual souls, we are going to try to understand and accept the origin of the eternal spiritual soul. In all the Holy Scriptures of the world it is said that the origin of everything is God. God has unlimited powers and energies, so that we understand them the great sages have classified them into three main ones, spiritual energy, material energy and marginal energy. We belong to the marginal energy, it is said in the Holy Scriptures of India that the soul has a glimpse of the spiritual world and also has a glimpse of the material world, 99 percent choose to go to the spiritual world to live with God or Krishna and never fall to the material world, and there is a one percent that we are that when seeing the opulences of God we get envy and turn our backs on God and choose to go to the material world, free will means that you choose. To understand this point I advise you to read the lost paradise of Milton. It is said that three quarters of God's creation is the spiritual world and the material world is only a quarter of God's creation. The causes of all wars is to live in the bodily concept and religious fanaticism, Hitler thought the Germans are the most, we are going to kill the others who are inferior, the Christians thought we are the most we are going to kill the Muslims, and the Muslims thought we are the best, we are going to kill Christians, all this is pure ignorance, the people who live in the bodily concept are full of ignorance and envy, and the result of this is much suffering, if the rulers of the world taught this scientific knowledge that we are not the temporary material body but eternal spiritual souls, this is called extra education, if there is a Ministry of Spiritual Education in each country and the educational institutions will teach spiritual education, the result of this would be that people would be free and happy
To understand the difference between God and us there are several examples that illustrate this, God is like a great fire and we are like sparks of that fire, God is like the great ocean and we are like drops of that ocean, God is unlimited and infinite and we are infinitesimal, God and we are qualitatively one, that is, we are spirit, and we have conscience, but quantitatively God is infinite and unlimited and we are infinitesimal, that is why one of the unlimited names of God is Achyuta which means that never it falls because it has complete knowledge, but we, being infinitesimal, tend to fall into ignorance and suffer. The whole process of Krishna consciousness is constituted by spiritual activities that help us to transfer from the material world to the spiritual world.
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Corporal, mental, intellectual and spiritual

Corporal, mental, intellectual and spiritual, by Haripada dasa
I share these beautiful verses of The Bhagavad Gita, 3, 43 and 44, there it is said that the senses of work are superior to gross matter; the mind is higher than the senses; the intelligence is even higher than the mind; and she [the soul] is even higher than intelligence. Consequently, knowing that one is transcendental to the material senses, mind and intelligence, oh, Arjuna, the one with the powerful arms, the mind must be stabilized by a deliberate spiritual intelligence [the process of Krishna consciousness], and so, by spiritual force, conquer that insatiable enemy known as lust. Srila Prabhupada taught us that there are people who live on the body platform, these people work very hard to earn money and spend it on their sense gratification, they think that life is alive to the bun and dead to the pit, they are lower than the animals, the animals follow their evolution, but these people degrade and are born in lower species of life, then there are those who live on the mental platform, these people speculate so much that they smoke out of the brain, then there are the intellectuals, It says in the Srimad Bhagavatam that the symptom that a person is intelligent is that he will always be chanting, the Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (H it is read as J de jota), and will be happy in Krishna consciousness. And the person who lives on the spiritual platform has these qualities that are described in chapter 12 of the Bhagavad Gita, from verses 14 to 20. It says that he who is not envious but rather is a good friend of all living entities, who does not believe himself to be the owner of anything and who is free from false ego, who maintains equanimity in both happiness and affliction, who is tolerant, who is always satisfied, who is self-controlled, and who is dedicated to devotional service with determination, with fixed mind and intelligence in Me, that kind of devotee of Mine is very dear to Me. He for whom no one is put in difficulties and who is not disturbed by anyone, who maintains balance in happiness and affliction, in fear and in anxiety, is very dear to Me. That devotee of Mine who does not depend on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, who is expert, who has no worries, who is free from all suffering and who does not crave for a result, is very dear to Me. He who neither rejoices nor grieves, who neither laments nor desires, and renounces both favorable and unfavorable things, a devotee of that class is very dear to Me. He who is equal with friends and enemies, who maintains equanimity in the midst of honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and affliction, fame and infamy, which is always free from polluting relationships, which is always silent and satisfied with anything, who does not care about any residence, which is fixed in the plane of knowledge and is dedicated to devotional service, that kind of person is very dear to Me. Those who follow this imperishable path of devotional service and who, with faith, dedicate themselves entirely to Him, having Me as the supreme goal, are very, very dear to Me.
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Light and darkness

Light and darkness, by Haripada dasa
I share this beautiful verse from Srimad Bhagavatam, 1, 3, 43, which says that this Bhāgavata Purāṇa is as bright as the Sun, and has arisen just after the departure of Lord Kṛṣṣṇa to His own abode, accompanied by religion, the knowledge, etc. People who have lost their vision due to the dense darkness of the age of Kali, will receive the light of this Purāṇa. The essence of all the instructions in Srila Prabhupada's books is that you come out of darkness and come to the Light, and also in Chaitanya Charitamrita it is said that God or Krishna is like Light and maya or ignorance is like darkness, where there is God or Krishna there can be no darkness. Also in the Bhagavad Gita, God or Krishna says that this energy of Mine, maya or darkness, is very difficult to overcome, but those who surrender to Me can easily overcome it, in other words, maya is controlled by Krishna, and when A soul obeys the laws of God or Krishna, Krishna tells His energy not to influence His devotee, so the devotee enjoys full and total freedom. In the process of surrendering to God or Krishna one must: (1) accept everything that is favorable for the performance of devotional service, (2) reject everything that is unfavorable to it, (3) firmly believe in the Lord's protection. , (4) to feel that it depends exclusively on the mercy of the Lord, (5) to have no interest apart from the Lord's interest, and (6) to be always meek and humble.
The biggest problem of today is the hypocrisy that exists in people, hypocritical people put a stamp and say that I am Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hare Krishna, etc., but these people have no interest in knowing God and love him, his only interest is to have many followers and live like kings and fight against each other, that is called Kali-yuga the current era full of hypocrisy and quarrels. At the end of the preface to the Bhagavad Gita, Srila Prabhupada says that we hope, then, that people will get the greatest benefit of all through the study of Bhagavad-gītā just as it is in the way we have presented it here, and if Only one man becomes a pure devotee of the Lord, we will consider that our effort has been a success. One of the most devoted and loved devotees by Srila Prabhupada named Jayananda prabhu left the body a few months before Srila Prabhupada entered his Samadhi-lila, and Srila Prabhupada said that he had gone to Goloka Vrindavana, to the spiritual world, so we concluded that Srila Prabhupada's mission has been a success.
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The solitary dinner 2,018

The solitary dinner 2,018, by Haripada dasa
I share that last Friday we celebrated the solidary dinner 2018, this is the fourth year that I attend this solidary dinner, as every year there is always an atmosphere of love and solidarity, I am very happy to see that there are still good people in the world , that without wanting anything in return do good to others, the truth that the worst thing that can happen to a person is to be selfish, selfish people are killers of the soul, the soul is thirsting for love and freedom, but the Selfish people who are full of material desires and ambitions kill the happiness and freedom of the soul, this social and charitable event is organized by the young entrepreneurs of the region, each company gives a donation and all proceeds are distributed to various charities, this year they raised more than 5,000 euros and each association will give us more than 500 euros. At 9pm the guests started arriving, this year about 140 people attended, first they served some drinks and some refreshments, I arrived earlier to talk with the person in charge of my table so they could make me a vegetarian menu, thank God since 1983 I do not eat meats, fish or eggs, garlic, onions or vinegar. At the snack I ordered a cheese sandwich, the service of the waiters was first class, then we went to the room where the dinner was served, after dinner we talked all the associations explaining our social aid projects, I am the president of the ong foods for world peace and explained that we have in Vrindavana, India, 3 schools, and 1,500 students benefit, we have done 12 wells and more than 50,000 people have benefited and our hospital has been operating since 2009.
Our spiritual master Srila Prabhupada founded the food for life project in 1972, Srila Prabhupada instructed all his temples that around 14 kilometers no one should go hungry, from then until now millions and millions of prasada plates have been distributed in Everybody, prasada means vegetarian foods offered to God or Krishna. Srila Prabhupada did this project for people to do some service to God or Krishna, God or Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita, 18, 55, that one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is, only by means of service devotional.
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Lord Kalipadeva

Lord Kalipadeva, by Haripada dasa
The first thing we have to understand and accept in the spiritual life is that we are not this temporary material body but eternal spiritual souls, loving and eternal servants of God or Krishna and His devotees. This is called self-realization or knowing oneself, the process of Krishna consciousness is the practice of spiritual activities that transfer us from the material world to the spiritual world, these transcendental activities are authorized by God or Krishna and by His pure devotees and by the revealed scriptures such as Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, The Nectar of Devotion, etc., when one practices devotional service this devotional service may not be pure but contaminated by ignorance, passion and kindness, that is why it is very interesting that in Srimad Bhagavatam in the third chant, chapter 29, an incarnation of Krishna called Lord Kapiladeva explains these contaminations and also informs us about pure devotional service without contamination, in Srimad Bhagavatam, third song, chapter 29, entitled Lord Kapiladeva explains devotional service, verses 8, 9 and 10 explain the devotional service ional polluted by ignorance, passion and kindness, and in verses 11-12 pure devotional service is explained without mixtures, these are the verses: The devotional service performed by an envious person, proud, violent and angry, and be separatist, it is considered under the modality of darkness. The worship of Deities in the temple carried out by a separatist, whose motivation is material enjoyment, fame and opulence, is devotion in the form of passion. The devotion of the devotee who worships the Supreme Personality of Godhead and offers Him the results of his activities seeking freedom from the drunkenness of fruitive activities is in the mode of goodness. Unalloyed devotional service manifests itself when the devotee's mind is attracted as soon as he hears the name and the transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, which resides in the hearts of all. Like the water of the Ganges, which naturally flows into the sea, this devotional ecstasy flows to the Supreme Lord without any material conditioning impeding it.
In the Nectar of devotion, chapter 2, it is said that the three categories of devotional service that Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī describes in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu are known as devotional service in practice, devotional service in state of ecstasy and devotional service in state of pure love for God.
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Sex life

Sex life, by Haripada dasa
I share this beautiful verse from Srimad Bhagvatam, 7, 9, 45, which says that sexual life is compared to the act of rubbing one's hands to relieve an itch. The married, the false married lacking spiritual knowledge, believe that this itch is the highest degree of happiness possible, although in reality it is only a source of affliction. The greedy ones, the fools who are the opposite of the conscious persons of God or Krishna, surrender themselves again and again to the enjoyment of the senses without reaching satisfaction. However, those who are dhīras, those who are sober and can tolerate that itch, are not subject to the sufferings of fools and scoundrels. Srila Prabhupada called sexual life to unite the urinals, he always said that people go crazy after sexual life, what happiness there is in joining urinals. There is illicit and licit sex, God or Krishna says that I am the sex that does not go against the provisions of the Scriptures, in other words, licit sex means with the attitude of procreating good children, illicit sex means to please the senses, the result of illicit sex is that it puts the soul in a deep body concept. The materialists criticize the spiritualists saying they repress the senses, the senses must be given full freedom of action, there is happiness, but spiritualists criticize the materialists saying that you give full freedom to your senses, but repress your senses spiritual, if happiness is to please the senses then because we see in practice that in the richest countries in the world where there is much sense gratification in Denmark or Sweden people commit suicide, usually a person commits suicide because they are frustrated everything and full of suffering. The genuine spiritualist plays with great advantage with the materialists, the spiritualist has already had a life of sense gratification and has changed it for a life dedicated to satisfying God or Krishna and His representative, the authorized spiritual master, but the materialist only has had a life, pure sense gratification, a materialist has never experienced spiritual happiness.
Srila Prabhupada had many problems in his preaching of Krishna consciousness in the USA and in Europe, some very materialistic parents could not understand that their children had abandoned their material life because they were happy glorifying God or Krishna 24 hours a day. In the USA, they even tried the Hare Krishna to decide if it was a genuine religion, the trial lasted 18 days and all the judges decided that it was a genuine religion whose roots were in India, and it was supported by all the Scriptures. Sacred from India such as Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam and Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, etc., and the judges said that they would not bother the Hare Krishna anymore. After this trial Srila Prabhupada said that this has been my total success, how wonderful is God or Krishna. The preachers of the conscience of God assume many risks, Jesus was crucified, Srila Prabhupada was poisoned, but these pure souls full of love for God and for all humanity and full of mercy transcend death, they always live in the world spiritual even being in the material world, and he who obeys his instructions lives with them.
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I am that inhabitant of Vrindavana

I am that inhabitant of Vrindavana, by Haripada dasa
Once a devotee told Srila Prabhupada that you say in your books that to enter the mood of Vrindavana we have to follow in the footsteps of a Vrindavana inhabitant, but I do not know any Vrindavana inhabitant, and Srila Prabhupada told him that I am that inhabitant of Vrindavana.

The whole problem in Iskcon and outside Iskcon is the poor realization that people have to understand and accept that and who is Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada is a saktyavesa avatara, a nitya siddha, mor sena pati, the commander-in-chief of the spiritual forces of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu, the acharya of our disciplic succession who came to establish the verse of El Chaitanya Charitamrita which says that the saints Krishna's names will be sung in every town and village in the world, the Acharya that through his books will be the Acharya for the next 10,000 years. Now why people do not understand or accept this, because instead of obeying Srila Prabhupada they offend him, if a person obeys Srila Prabhupada and sings his 16 rounds, he follows the 4 regulative principles and does a service to Srila Prabhupada with faith , love, attachment and gratitude, Krishna or God will be very happy with that person and from the heart will give the ability to love Krishna or God and all, to give mercy to the innocent, will give their love to the demons avoiding them and will friendship with the true devotees who serve and love Srila Prabhupada.

Today there are very unfortunate people, people who think that they are on the same level as Srila Prabhupada, very sick people of the soul, and who do not believe in God or Krishna, nor in Srila Prabhupada, nor in the law of karma, these people are they call mayavadis, and anyone who comes in contact with that class of people their spiritual life is ruined. The fate of these people is very dark.

We all know what Srila Prabhupada wants from us, that we chant our 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, that we follow the 4 regulative principles, that we lead an honest life without deceiving ourselves or others, that we establish personal relationships with others. devotees based on love and trust, that we change nothing the message of the guru-parampara, that we do not fight each other, that we free ourselves from sexual attraction by experiencing a superior taste or in other words that we are happy in the conscience of Krishna and that we help others to also be happy in Krishna consciousness.
May the Jagat-guru, the Savior of the fallen, Saktyavesa avatara, mor sena pati, the commander-in-chief of the spiritual forces of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu,
 AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada bless you and protect you all.
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The interests

The interests, by Haripada dasa
In Srila Prabhupada's book titled Lord Chaitanya's teachings, chapter 12 describes the 26 qualities of the pure devotee of God or Krishna, and one of them is that the devotee's interest lies in the essence of life, the which is spiritual. It is very interesting that Srila Prabhupada says in the nectar of instruction that the interests and aspirations of a person are developed according to the company that they maintain, in other words, tell me who you are with and I will tell you who you are, once a guest asked him to Srila Prabhupada that as I can become a devotee, and Srila Prabhupada replied that a drunkard becomes a drunkard because he associates with drunkards, in the same way a devotee becomes devout by associating with devotees. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura always said that the rebellious soul is very hostile to serving God or Krishna and His devotees. And in the Bhagavad-gita, chapter 7 verse 15, God or Krishna describes people who do not surrender to Him, says those evil ones who are grossly foolish, the lowest among humanity, whose knowledge has been stolen by the Illusion and participating in the atheistic nature of demons, do not surrender to Me. And in the same chapter, verse 16, God or Krishna describes the pious people, there he says that four kinds of pious people render Me devotional service: the afflicted, the one who wants wealth, the inquisitive and the one who seeks knowledge of the Absolute.
Srila Prabhupada always said that people do not understand anything about the spiritual life because they are full of sinful activities, it is said in the Spiritual Scriptures of India that people are so sinful in this age that they will not see again the human form of life in millions and millions of births. People do not understand how valuable this human form of life is, the goal of life is to understand and love God or Krishna and His devotees and how there is only God or Krishna and His energies naturally if you love God or Krishna you will love everything and everyone. A devotee of God or Krishna is the only person who has no personal interests, the devotee has no interest apart from the interest of God or Krishna, all people have personal interests, but they do not know that the cause of all their sufferings is having those personal interests.
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