Simple life and high thinking

 Simple life and high thinking, by Haripada dasa

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada we understand and accept that by leading a simple life with high thoughts we are happy in this material world and we are preparing to go back home to Godhead.

 Simple life means that we need some clothes, some prasada (prasada is God's mercy, food offered to God), and a place to rest.

High thinking means thinking of God or Krishna and of the representative of God or Krishna Srila Prabhupada, and of all the acharyas or spiritual teachers of the guru-parampara, of the Pañca Tattva and of Sri Radha Krishna, it also means thinking of doing good to others. Furthermore, sending positive messages for people to reflect and try to raise their states of consciousness also means giving prasada to others, in the Food for Life program of Vrindavana in India and in other parts of the world, millions and million plates of prasada.

That is pure spiritual life. Material life is the opposite, it means living to satisfy the body and mind, and it is based on selfishness, me and mine and not giving any food to the soul, never thinking of God or doing good to others, rather always think how to deceive others and the law of the funnel, the width for me and the narrow for others.

 The great Saktyavesa Avatara Jesus Christ, gave us his teachings: "Love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself, do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you, and do to others what you would like them to do to you, if you have two blankets and you see that another does not have any, give him a blanket and share what you have with others, so you will free yourself from envy and selfishness, he also spoke that there is a Kingdom of God and that the goal of life is to return to the Kingdom of God. "

In relation to Christians, Srila Prabhupada said that if Christians worshiped Deities and obeyed Jesus Christ's command not to kill, they would become devotees of God or Krishna.