The Supreme Swan

 The Supreme Swan, by Haripada dasa

Once Srila Prabhupada visited one of his temples in the USA, in the house in front of the temple they had painted a great insult against the Hare Krishnas, there he said that the Hare Krishna are a children of ..., so that Srila Prabhupada would not see this when He went out to do his morning walk, he was surrounded by the highest devotees, in one way or another Srila Prabhupada saw the insult and said that this house is the luckiest house in the USA, because it says Krishna, the highest level devotees are called paramahansas, that means the supreme swan, the swan has the ability that from a mixture of water and milk, he will take the milk and will not touch the water, in the same way the devotee who lives in pure goodness has the ability to drink from this world the spiritual part, the positive part, and he never touches the material part or the negative part, in other words, he takes gold even from poison, Srila Prabhupada, Jesus, Srila Haridasa Thakura, etc., envious and ignorant they attack them a lot, in the period Germany's most important story on the first page put a great criticism against Srila Prabhupada, there he said that in Los Angeles, USA, there is a guru who has his disciples like crazy selling his books, while he lives a life full of luxury.

People generally do not understand the pure devotee of God or Krishna, only a pure devotee can understand another pure devotee, in the Bhagavatam, 8.7.44 it is said that great personalities usually accept voluntary sufferings to alleviate the suffering of people common. This is considered to be the highest form of worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is in everyone's heart, and in the purport Srila Prabhupada says that we should strive for that which we cannot attain even if we travel the entire universe. from top to bottom, carried away by the reactions of karma. And what is that? We should strive to be Krishna conscious. When someone tries to spread Krishna consciousness all over the world, it should be understood that he is doing the best beneficial activity. Immediately, the Lord is very pleased with him, and if the Lord is pleased with him, what more can he get? It is very possible that the person who has been recognized by the Lord does not ask the Lord for anything, but the Lord, who is in everyone's heart, will give him whatever he wants. This is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham). And, as stated in this verse, tapyante loka-tāpena sādhavaḥ prāyaśo janāḥ. The best beneficial activity is raising people to Krishna consciousness, for the suffering of conditioned souls is solely due to their lack of Krishna consciousness.

Cheers up! Srila Prabhupada instructed us and said that everyone should follow Jayananda prabhu's example, let's all try to obey this instruction together and make Jagat-guru Srila Prabhupada Mahasaya happy, and not do anything that displeases him.

The authentic anti-system

 The authentic anti-system, by Haripada dasa

Everyone thinks that I am this body and that the goal of life is to satisfy my senses to the fullest, the authentic anti-system for this is that I am not the body but an eternal spiritual soul, and that the mission of human life is know God or Krishna and love him and go back to Godhead.

Nobody believes in God, that is why it is said that the only God that does not have atheists is money, the authentic antisystem for this is to fulfill the vow of the initiate and chant at least 27,648 Holy Names of God every day. This with practice takes an hour and a half to two.

Everyone has sex like dogs, pigs, camels and donkeys, the real anti-system for this is celibacy, the result of practicing celibacy is that one has a lot of body shine, health, a lot of memory and longevity.

To forget the suffering or to extinguish the penalties, everyone takes alcohol and drugs, we are already quite intoxicated by being in contact with the matter, the real antisystem for this is to drink only mineral water.

Everyone lusts for money and that is why everyone plays games of chance, the real anti-system for this is to get used to depending on God, in the end everyone has what they deserve.

Almost everyone eats meat, fish and eggs, the real anti-system for this is to have a vegetarian diet, personally I have been on this diet since 1983 and I do not know what it is to be sick, and to spiritualize food I offer it to God or Krishna in my temple.

After evacuating almost everyone cleans the anus with toilet paper, the real anti-system for this is to clean the anus with water, it is cleaner than the mouth, in India everyone does that.

On politics, Srila Prabupada always said that if the political heads or executives of the state are only interested in themselves, they will never be able to look after the well-being of the citizens. Srila Prabhupada always said that those who fear these hellish politicians take refuge in the Krishna consciousness process.

Another point that we have to understand is that to know and love God the person must be pure and without sins, sinful people only understand that suffering is happiness.

Our mission

 Our mission, by Haripada dasa

As I understand it the mission of those people who have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the way, the truth and the life, and if someone goes back home back to God or Krishna, it is by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada It is helping each other to obey Srila Prabhupada's instructions and free ourselves from doubts, the result of doing this is that we will live with Srila Prabhupada, acquire his qualities and qualify ourselves to go back home, back to Godhead. In relation to this it is very interesting what Srila Prabhupada says in the Bhagavatam, 5, 12, 13, there he says that this movement for Kṛishṇa consciousness has been founded to engage people in the service and glorification of the Lord the twenty-four hours of the day. In this institution, students engage in Kṛishṇa consciousness cultivation from five in the morning until ten at night. That way they don't have a chance to waste time unnecessarily talking about politics, sociology and current affairs. All this follows its own course. The devotee is only interested in serving Kṛishṇa in a serious and positive way.

Another point is that we always have to emphasize strictly following the spiritual standards given by Srila Prabhupada, here everyone chants his 16 offense-free rounds of the Maha Mantra Hare Krishna, everyone follows the 4 regulative principles very strictly, 1, do not eat meat, fish or eggs, 2, no illicit sex, only sex is allowed to procreate and with one's wife, 3, no gambling, and 4, no tea, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., all sing the three gayatris daily, everyone follows Ekadasis, Purusottama month, Chaturmasya, Kartika Vrata, appearances and disappearances of the Supreme Lord and His devotees, everyone avoids bad association and is always happy and eager to associate with serious and sincere devotees of Srila Prabhupada, they always wear the tilaka marks on their body, they always have Srila Prabhupada at the center of their lives and they help people to put Srila Prabhupada at the center of their lives and every day they read in the morning and p Hearing Srila Prabhupada's books at night, they only eat Krishna prasada, food offered to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu and Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Here everyone obeys the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada in his books on how we should use our hard earned wealth, Srila Prabhupada gives the example of Srila Rupa Goswami, when he retired from service to the Muslim government and surrendered to the lotus feet of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu divided his wealth into three parts. 1-50 percent gave it to the Brahmanas and Vaisnavas, 25 percent for their relatives and the other 25 percent for personal emergencies, by practicing this a transcendental atmosphere is created and egoism is destroyed. Here nobody speculates, we understand and accept that a person is speculating, when he does things in a capricious way without relying on the Guru, Sadhu and Sastra.

In the Iskcon as it is only the original books of Srila Prabhupada are used, we are totally against all the changes that have been made to the original books of Srila Prabhupada.

The Three Kinds of Happiness

 The Three Kinds of Happiness, by Haripada dasa

This information is in the Nectar of Devotion, chapter 1:

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has analyzed the different sources of happiness. He has divided happiness into three categories, which are: 1) happiness derived from material enjoyment, 2) happiness derived from identifying with the Supreme Brahman, and 3) happiness derived from Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

In Tantra-śāstra, Lord Śiva speaks to his wife, Satī, in this way: "My dear wife, a person who has surrendered to the lotus feet of Govinda and who has developed pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness, can receive easily all the perfections desired by impersonalists; and beyond this, he can enjoy the happiness attained by pure devotees. "

Happiness derived from pure devotional service is the highest because it is eternal. But the happiness derived from material perfection or from understanding oneself as Brahman is inferior because it is temporary. There is no way to prevent one from falling from material happiness, and there is even every chance of falling from spiritual happiness derived from identifying with impersonal Brahman.

And in the Bhagavad-Gita, 18, 37 to 39 it is said that what at first may be like poison but which in the end is like nectar, and which awakens one in self-realization, is said to be happiness in the plane of the mode of goodness. The happiness that comes from the contact of the senses with their objects, and which at first appears to be nectar but at the end appears to be poison, is said to be of the nature of passion, and happiness that ignores self-realization, that it is a delusion from beginning to end, and that it proceeds from sleep, laziness, and illusion, is said to be of the nature of ignorance.

The initiation

 The initiation, by Haripada dasa

The process of Krishna consciousness or Bhakti-yoga is like a ladder that has nine steps, the first is faith, faith means having complete conviction that by chanting the Holy Name of God or Krishna you will automatically fulfill all spiritual duties and complete all pious activities. Those who do not have that faith are inept at chanting the Holy Name, the second step is the association with the devotees, the result of this is that faith increases, and the third step is the initiation, in the introduction to the Nectar of devotion. Srila Prabhupada says that the link with the spiritual master is called initiation. From the day the spiritual master initiates, the link between Kṛiṣhṇa and the person cultivating Kṛiṣhṇa consciousness is established. Without being initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, the true link to Kṛiṣhṇa consciousness never occurs.

On this point of initiation among the devotees of Krishna there is a schism, schism means different opinions in a group of people, some think that Srila Prabhupada authorized his disciples to be gurus in order to continue the guru parampara and others think that Srila Prabhupada On July 9, 1977, he sent a special letter to all the temples of his movement ordering his disciples to initiate in his name, the difference between these two groups is that those who say that Srila Prabhupada authorized his disciples to be gurus did not. They can show that Srila Prabhupada said that, and the other group that says that Srila Prabhupada sent on July 9, 1977 a special letter to all the temples of his movement ordering his disciples to initiate in his name, they can prove it because that letter it's there, this letter exists, and anyone can read it.

In 1986 I was initiated into Iskcon, that same year that guru fell, then in 1990 I was initiated with another guru, and when they informed me that Srila Prabhupada did not leave anyone as his successor but ordered his disciples to initiate In his name, in order not to be an accomplice in all the offenses that were being done to Srila Prabhupada, I left Iskcon, then in 2008 a disciple of Srila Prabhupada initiated me in the name of Srila Prabhupada, that has helped me a lot to feel the Srila Prabhupada's presence in my life and to purify myself from contamination by having been previously initiated by two false gurus. My humble opinion is that all the devotees who have been initiated by false gurus have never been connected to the guru parampara, a guru who is offending Srila Prabhupada because he does not want to obey the order to initiate in the name of Srila Prabhupada lives influenced by the modalities. Low from ignorance and passion, in that person there can be no goodness, that is why all those devotees must initiate with disciples of Srila Prabhupada who are obeying Srila Prabhupada's order to initiate in his name.

I share that a devotee sent me this about initiation: Lecture on SB 1.5.36 - Vrindavana, August 17, 1974: In many ways we can always remember Kṛiṣhṇa. That ... (Pause) ... if someone is chanting Hare Kṛiṣhṇa, that is fine, but chanting out of the need for initiation. Initiation means that the disciples accept the instruction of the spiritual master, and Kṛiṣhṇa accepts the disciple immediately to give him a spiritual body. This is the process. Otherwise, there is no need for initiation.

Humility, deception and tolerance

 Humility, deception and tolerance, by Haripada dasa

Humility, humility means feeling insignificant, and if we do something positive to help others to awaken their Krishna consciousness, it is by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and God or Krishna.

On deception, on a walk in Mayapur, India on March 14, 1976 Srila Prabhupada says that the whole world is a society of deceivers and deceived, that is my Gurudeva's version, so do not become a deceiver or allow them to fool you, that's intelligence.

All conditioned souls are born with 4 defects, 1, we make mistakes, to err is human, 2, we have imperfect senses, 3, we have the tendency to fall into ignorance and 4, we have the tendency to deceive ourselves and others .

In Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami's book entitled mana-siksa or preaching to the mind, he says that the only medicine to cure deception is humility, humility means feeling insignificant, and if we do something positive to help others to awaken their Krishna consciousness, it is by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and God or Krishna.

On tolerance, Jesus Christ was made many offenses and crucified, but he prayed to God for his offenders. He was merciful and tolerant, it is said that a great personality is measured by his degree of tolerance, of course tolerance and mercy are two qualities that go together, a person is tolerant when he is very merciful, materialists are not even tolerant nor merciful, every day they send millions and millions of innocent animals to the slaughterhouse, and they are not tolerant, I saw how one person whistled at the car in front because the traffic light had turned green and the other got out of the car all annoyed and they finished punching each other.

How people generally are

 How people generally are, by Haripada dasa

I share this beautiful song of Bhaktivinoda Thakura, he is one of our spiritual teachers in disciplic succession, although he was a pure devotee of God or Krishna driven by his deep humility he puts himself in the position of an ordinary person, and says that I have always dedicated my life to commit sinful activities, you will not find in me even a trace of pious activities, only a life of sinful activities, I am always ready to cause problems for other living entities ...., that is my occupation, I want to see that others suffer , and, and when that happens, I enjoy. In order to obtain my own sensory gratification, I do not mind committing any sinful activity, I have no mercy, and I only pursue the satisfaction of my own interests, so when others suffer, I feel very happy ... I am used to telling lies , even in ordinary affairs, and when someone suffers, that is very pleasant to me, I have unlimited desires in my heart, and I am always disgusted and conceited with false prestige, envy and false pride are my ornaments, sleep and Laziness conquers me, I am always repulsed by pious activities, and I am very enthusiastic about doing impious activities, I always deceive others to gain prestige, I am subjugated by greed and I am always lustful, I am very fallen and never associate with the devotees of God or Krishna, I am an offender constantly, my mind is always attracted to morbid things, therefore, at the very end of my life, I am almost disabled due to to all these tribulations, now in my old age, I no longer have any other alternative ..., and therefore I have had to become very meek and humble, thus, Bhaktivinoda Thakura, offers the testimony of the activities of his life to the lotus feet of God or Krishna.

I remember in the book entitled Perfect Questions and Perfect Answers, Srila Prabhupada says that preaching Krishna consciousness is very difficult, because a preacher always has to go with the truth ahead, and people have so much false ego that they feel insulted, and sometimes they kill the preacher as in the case of Jesus Christ, they told Jesus if you say that you are the son of God we are going to crucify you, and he said do whatever you want, but I cannot change the philosophy. Today to be a true devotee of God you have to be very brave, because your so-called relatives, friends, and society are going to turn against you, Srila Prabhupada always said that this material world is like a madhouse, everyone is crazy , but the crazy people think that the crazy people are the doctors, and sometimes they convince them.

Share

 Share, by Haripada dasa

In relation to sharing there is a very interesting story, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada named Yamuna learned all the culinary art of India from Srila Prabhupada, his godbrothers told Yamuna to share everything he had learned with others, and Yamuna said no, that she had all rights reserved, then they went to see Srila Prabhupada to complain about Yamuna, and Srila Prabhupada called her and told her that if you don't share what you know with others you will become envious, so Yamuna like A good disciple wrote a book and revealed all the culinary secrets that she had learned from Srila Prabhupada.

Although I joined the Hare Krishna movement in 1984, I have had the great luck of having two very vivid dreams with Srila Prabhupada, one of them happened in a city in southern Spain called Seville, I was distributing Srila Prabhupada's books and all of them. People were very negative, I fought all day and ended up completely exhausted, and at night Srila Prabhupada appeared to me in my dreams, and I remember that he consoled me and encouraged me, and Haripada told me you are a fighter by nature, but I advise you that you never get attached to the result of your struggle, and I want you to know that I am very grateful for your service in the distribution of my books, when I got up the next day I was a new person, full of enthusiasm, and we went to another city ​​and we distributed many books, and the other dream was in a town in Mexico, I was distributing books and I was staying in a house of devotees, it was two in the morning and Srila Prabhupada appeared to me in dreams, I remember going to s walking with Srila Prabhupada on a beach, and Srila Prabhupada told me to bring me this, bring me that and I would serve him, there I understood that Srila Prabhupada was telling me in this dream that I should always be serving Srila Prabhupada, after the dream I woke up and I grabbed the japa or rosary and couldn't stop chanting the Hare Krishna maha mantra, from 2 to 6, 4 o'clock, these two transcendental experiences with Srila Prabhupada have helped me a lot to stay fixed in Krishna consciousness, and also It is good to share these experiences, I remember reading Srila Prabhupada's walk with his devotees and he asked a devotee if he was chanting in kirtana last night, and the devotee told Srila Prabhupada that when he sang he started crying, and so he stopped to sing so that the devotees would not think that I was doing a theater, and Srila Prabhupada told the devotee to sing and cry whatever he wanted, because the devotees will understand that you are crying for Krishna.

It would be a good idea for Srila Prabhupada's disciples and everyone else to share their experiences with Srila Prabhupada. In the Govardhana Hill pastime, Krishna tells his father Nanda Maharaja that there are no secrets among holy people.

Spiritual Science

 Spiritual Science, by Haripada dasa

Srila Prabhupada presented the process of Krishna consciousness as a spiritual science and also as a spiritual culture, in any science there are three aspects, 1, the theory, 2, the practice and 3, the result, the theory is the Scriptures, there tells you that in this age of hypocrisy and quarreling, the authorized process is to chant The Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and the result of this The song is that your consciousness will be purified of lust, anger, greed, envy, ignorance and pride, the process of Krishna consciousness begins with faith, faith means having complete conviction that by chanting the Holy Name of God or Krishna automatically will fulfill all spiritual duties and complete all pious activities, faith also means that one obeys what the scriptures say, Srila Prabhupada told a devotee that I tell you to chant Hare Krishna and you obey, that means that you u have faith in me.

All this spiritual science is explained very well in the first chant of the Bhagavatam, second chapter, verses 17 to 21, there it is said that hearing what the Vedic literatures say about Kṛiṣhṇa or hearing Him directly through the Bhagavad-gītā, is virtuous activity itself. And for one who hears about Kṛiṣhṇa, Lord Kṛiṣhṇa, who dwells in everyone's heart, acts as a well-wisher friend, and purifies the devotee who is always engaged in hearing about Him. Thus, in the devotee He develops. in a natural way the transcendental knowledge that is latent. As he hears more of what the Bhāgavatam and the devotees speak of Kṛiṣhṇa, he becomes established in the devotional service of the Lord. Through the development of devotional service one is freed from the modes of passion and ignorance, and thus greed and material lusts diminish. When these impurities are cleansed, the candidate stands firm in his position of pure goodness, is encouraged through devotional service, and fully understands the science of God. Bhakti-yoga thus cuts the tight knot of material affection, and enables one to immediately reach the stage where the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead or Krishna, is understood.

Cheers up! And let's all together try to make Jagat-guru Srila Prabhupada Mahasaya happy, and not do anything that displeases him.

An ocean of mercy

 An ocean of mercy, by Haripada dasa

Srila Prabhupada is an ocean of mercy. The spiritual master receives the blessing of the ocean of mercy. Just as a cloud pours water on a forest fire to put it out, the spiritual master releases the afflicted material world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances to the lotus feet of that spiritual master, who is an ocean of auspicious qualities.

I share a very moving story, we were in Vrindavana, India, in the house of some Italian devotees, we were respecting some maha-prasada pizzas, a very old disciple of Srila Prabhupada arrived, I don't remember her name, but I know she was Lohitaksa's wife , she told us that Srila Prabhupada was in the temple in New York and they were doing guru puja, suddenly a person with very long hair and a beard and very dirty entered the temple as if it were a dog on all fours. He headed towards Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada recognized him immediately, and crying at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet told him several times that forgive me I have failed you, Srila Prabhupada crying was stroking his head, and all the devotees in the guru puja were crying, then that person left and no one ever heard from him.

A few years ago I was talking to an Iskcon guru in Vrindavana, India, he told me that Srila Prabhupada deviated from the guru-parampara by ordering his disciples to initiate in his name or the Ritvik philosophy, as this philosophy does not come in the Sastras or Scriptures, when I heard this I thought that this person has less intelligence than a mosquito, I told him that Srila Prabhupada distributes his mercy to everyone, but if you do not want to obtain it, the fault is yours, Srila Prabhupada ordered his disciples who initiated in his name, this is supported by a special document that Srila Prabhupada sent to all Iskcon from Vrindavana, India, on July 9, 1977, anyone can read this document, and if you do not want to obey this order, blame It is not from Srila Prabhupada but from you. I also told him that according to Harinama-chintamani, the result of offending the guru is that one becomes a mayavadi or atheist. Then some years passed and we also saw each other in Vrindavana, and he said sorry for what I told you several years ago, I replied that you should not ask forgiveness from me, but from Srila Prabhupada.

Mercy

 Mercy, by Haripada dasa

By Srila Prabhupada's mercy we understand that justice means the balance, each person has what they deserve, the law of karma, and that mercy is a much higher concept than justice, since mercy means that they are giving you something. that you don't deserve A merciful person suffers when he sees others suffer and is happy when he sees others happy in God or Krishna consciousness.

Mercy and tolerance go hand in hand, a very merciful person is very tolerant, for example, envious people did many offenses to Jesus Christ, they humiliated, beat and crucified him, he had to tolerate the intolerable, however Jesus Christ was at the same time merciful and prayed to God to forgive their offenders because they did not know what they were doing, also the great devotee Srila Haridasa Thakura for chanting Hare Krishna the Muslims beat him in twenty two markets, and the chief of the Muslims told the executioners that If they did not kill him he would kill all their families, and Srila Haridasa Thakura out of compassion for the executioners so that they would not kill their families went into a coma and died, the Muslims threw Srila Haridasa Thakura's body into the Ganges River, and when he touched the The water was resurrected and came out on the other shore singing Hare Krishna, seeing this the Muslims realized that they had committed a great offense to a holy person and they went there and t They went to the lotus feet of Srila Haridasa Thakura to forgive them, here we see a great difference between the Jewish and the Muslim race, to this day the Jews have never asked forgiveness for all the offenses they did to Jesus Christ, without However, the Muslims immediately apologized to Srila Haridasa Thakura for their offenses.

Materialistic people are neither merciful nor tolerant, to satisfy their palate they send millions and millions of innocent animals to the slaughter every day, and when they are at a traffic light and the car behind whistles turns green, the man grabs the fake ego and gets out of the car and fists it fixed.

Once a disciple of Srila Prabhupada told him sentimentally to give him his mercy, Srila Prabhupada told him that I have given you 80 books of 400 pages each, if you read my books and practice what you read, the result of this will be that your latent love for God or Krishna will awaken and your human life will be a success, this seems little mercy. The difference between Srila Prabhupada and other gurus is that God or Krishna sent Srila Prabhupada from the spiritual world to do a mission on Earth, that is why he is called jagat-guru or saktyavesa avatara, the guru of the universe or the Savior of the world. , Srila Prabhupada's mission was to give us his books, he called their meanings his spiritual ecstasies, unfortunately many very demonic people have used the figure of Srila Prabhupada to satisfy their personal and selfish interests, and for doing this God or Krishna is punishing them very severely. The transcendental activities of God or Krishna and Srila Prabhupada bring pleasure to pious devotees, but for the envious, they bring pain.

The Cultured Person

 The Cultured Person, by Haripada dasa

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada we understand and accept that the cultured person is identified because he has three basic qualities, these are: 1) he sees all women as mothers, except his own wife. There are seven mothers: the original mother, the priest's wife, the king's wife, the spiritual master's wife, the nurse, the cow, and the Earth. 2) See the properties of others as straw in the street, in other words, be satisfied with what you have and not want or envy the goods of others and 3) Do to others what you would like them to do to you and not to do to others what you would not like them to do to you. Can you imagine a society made up of people with these qualities? It would be a perfect partnership. We see how nowadays people consider all women as their wives and their wife does not pay attention to her. There is an inordinate competition to surpass others, both personally and between nations and no one thinks about the welfare of others. They are all politicians, a politician is one who makes plans to be happy without thinking about the welfare of others. Nowadays a cultured person is considered for his diplomas and degrees and not for his qualities. The spiritual culture of India was killed by people who invented or speculated that one can belong to the high class or be a priest by birth, but in the Holy Scriptures it is said that one belongs to the high class or priest by qualities, not his birth matters.

Srila Prabhupada was authorized and empowered by God or Krishna to revive the spiritual culture of India, by his mercy and his instructions he turned people from all over the world who were like crows into swans. There is a story related to this topic: The Himalayas were going to give birth, to have offspring, and all the most important people in the universe gathered there, and everyone was in great expectation. Timpani and other musical instruments sounded, and what did Himalaya give birth? A mouse. Everyone was very frustrated. Thus, nowadays, so many austerities and sacrifices that people make to get a career, and then when they obtain the diploma, they have to go with their curriculum, wagging their tail like a puppy, looking for a master. This is very unfortunate. And in schools, in the past it was considered something very punishing for a child to throw paper balls at another child in the class, or not to pay attention to the teacher; But nowadays, a young man goes with a machine gun and begins to kill his companions for no reason, my God! how things have changed for the worse.

Today chaos reigns, finding a balanced person is very difficult, what to say to find a pure devotee of God or Krishna, so that all this negativity does not affect you one must be very strong spiritually, it is as if it is very cold , one bundles up and that's it. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati always said that whatever else they do as they want, it doesn't concern me, I already have enough work chanting Hare Krishna and being happy and free.

Wood and Water

 Wood and Water

Hare Krishna, it is very interesting what it says in CC Madhya 15.134, there it says that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “In the age of Kali, Kṛiṣhṇa manifests Himself in two forms: wood and water. Thus, by giving the conditioned souls the possibility to see the wood and to bathe in the water, it helps them to liberate themselves. And in the next verse 135 it is said that “Lord Jagannātha is the Supreme Lord Himself in the form of wood, and the river Ganges is the Supreme Lord Himself in the form of water.

Meaning:

The Vedas order: sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma: Everything is the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Brahman, Parambrahma. Parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktis tathedam akhilaṁ jagat: Everything is a manifestation of the energy of the Supreme Brahman. Since the energy and the source of the energy are identical, actually everything is Kṛiṣhṇa, Parambrahma. This is confirmed by Lord Kṛiṣhṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.4):

mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā

mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ

«I, in My unmanifested form, am present in the whole universe. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them ».

Kṛiṣhṇa, in His impersonal form, is spread throughout the universe. As everything is a manifestation of the Lord's energy, the Lord can manifest through any energy. In the present age, the Lord manifests Himself through wood in the form of Lord Jagannātha, and through water in the form of the river Ganges. For this reason, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ordered the two brothers, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and Vidyā-vācaspati, to worship Lord Jagannātha and the Ganges River.

With love and trust I share these beautiful prayers to Mother Ganga:

Sri Ganga Stotram: Prayer to Mother Ganga, By Adi Sankaracharya

1) Oh goddess Ganga! You are the divine river of heaven. You are the one who saves us from the three worlds. You are pure and restless. You adorn the head of Lord Shiva. Oh mother! may my mind always rest on your lotus feet.

2) Mother Bhagirathi! You give happiness to everyone. The meaning of your holy waters is praised in the Vedas. I am ignorant and I am not able to understand its importance. Oh Devi, you are full of mercy. Please protect me.

3) Oh Devi! Your waters are as sacred as Sri Hari's charanamrita. Your waves are white like snow, the moon and pearls. Please wash away all my sins and help me cross the ocean of samsara.

4) Oh, Mother !, those who participate in your pure waters, undoubtedly reach the highest state. O Mother Ganga, Yama, the Lord of death cannot harm your devotees.

5) Oh, Jahnavi! Your waters that flow through the Himalayas make them even more beautiful. You are the mother of Bhishma and the daughter of the sage Jahnu. You are the savior of the one who falls from his path, and that is why you are venerated in the three worlds.

6) Oh, Mother! You fulfill all the wishes of your devotees. Those who bow down to you don't have to suffer. Oh, Ganga! You are anxious to merge with the ocean, like a young man eager to meet his beloved.

7) Oh, Mother! Those who bathe in your waters do not have to be born again. Oh, Jahnavi! You are in the highest esteem. You destroy the sins of your devotees and save them from hell.

8) Oh, Jahnavi! You are full of compassion. You purify your devotees with your holy waters. Your feet are adorned with the crown jewels of Indra. Those who seek refuge in you get the blessing of happiness.

9) O Bhagavati! Take away my illnesses, sadness, difficulties, sins and bad attitudes. You are the essence of the three worlds and you are like a necklace around the Earth. Or Devi! You are the only refuge of mine in Samsara.

10) Oh, Bargain! Those who seek happiness adore you. You are the source of happiness for Alakapuri and the source of eternal bliss. Those who reside on its banks are as privileged as those who live on Vaikuntha.

11) Oh Devi! It is better to live in your waters, like turtles or fish, or on your shores like a poor chandala, than to live far from you like a rich king.

12) Oh, Goddess of the Universe! Purify us! O daughter of Jahnu muni! Whoever recites this Ganga Stotram every day certainly achieves success.

13) People who have devotion to Mother Ganga always achieve happiness and achieve liberation. This beautiful and lyrical Gangastuti is a source of supreme happiness.

14) This prayer, Sri Ganga Stotram, written by Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Lord Siva's devotee, purifies us and fulfills all our wishes.

Hare Krishna, this youtube link is a beautiful Artika or worship of Mother Ganga in Varanasi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0e4v5Rb3w

Hare Krishna if you put on youtube to look for this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d20NhSifd7A

You will get the Ratha yatra of Puri, filmed by a TV in the USA, very beautiful.

Most beneficial

 Most beneficial, by Haripada dasa

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada we understand and accept that there is nothing more beneficial than associating with the pure devotees of God or Krishna, the association with the pure devotees of God or Krishna is more valuable than all the riches of the Universe and more valuable than going To the heavenly planets, a moment of association with the pure devotees of God or Krishna can free you from birth, death, old age and disease and go back home to God or Krishna.

If the association with the pure devotees of God or Krishna is so valuable because people do not associate with them, the answer is that the generality of the people or the heads of families think that their main duty is to give themselves to solve family problems , and that self-realization or enlightenment in spiritual knowledge is a secondary matter, and it is also that such people are very poor of heart that is why they do not associate with the pure devotees of God or Krishna.

I remember a class by Srila Prabhupada who said that people think that the time I am listening to a class of the Bhagavad Gita or the Bhagavatam, that time is better used to be in the office or at work and thus earn money. It is a very practical fact that one's desires and ambitions develop according to the company one has. If one maintains association with the devotees of God or Krishna, he will surely develop love for God or Krishna.

I share this beautiful verse from the Srimad-Bhagavatam (3-25-25) which says: “Conversations about the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the company of pure devotees are very pleasant and satisfying to the ear and heart. One who cultivates this knowledge gradually advances along the path of liberation until he is liberated and his attraction is fixed. Then true devotion and true devotional service begin. "

Those who think that the great Masters like Srila Prabhupada and other Masters of the disciplic succession die, they reason eternally in their instructions and those who obey them live with them.

Srila Prabhupada's Men

 Srila Prabhupada's Men, by Haripada dasa

Srila Prabhupada's men are people who have decided to use their lives to please Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada's men are by nature meek and humble, but when they see that there are people who offend Srila Prabhupada they are like lightning bolts. In the same way that drug addicts cannot do without their drug, Srila Prabhupada's men cannot live without reading Srila Prabhupada's books every day. Srila Prabhupada's men are always making plans for people to be happy in Krishna or God consciousness. Srila Prabhupada's men are the smartest people because they are always chanting Hare Krishna. Srila Prabhupada's men love even their enemies. Srila Prabhupada's men never engage in sense gratification. Srila Prabhupada's men are the only people who have overcome lower taste by finding great satisfaction in higher taste.

Srila Prabhupada's men are assured of their return home, their return to Godhead. Srila Prabhuada's men use everything for the service of Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga. Srila Prabhupada's men are obedient to Srila Prabhupada's instructions. Srila Prabhupada's men have no time for maya. Srila Prabhupada's men understand and accept that Srila Prabhupada is the Acharya through his books for the next 10,000 years. Srila Prabhupada's men establish relationships with other devotees based on spiritual love and trust. Srila Prabhupada's men are very careful to offend any moving or immobile living entity. Srila Prabhupada's men have found a taste in being the servants of others. Srila Prabhupada's men have decided that their love is for Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada's men understand and accept that many unauthorized people have used Srila Prabhupada for a living.

Srila Prabhupada's men understand and accept that Srila Prabhupada is our direct link to the guru-parampara. Srila Prabhupada's men understand and accept that Srila Prabhupada is the Jagat-guru the guru of the universe and to all devotees who have accepted Srila Prabhupada as the way, the truth and the life offer their respectful obeisances. Srila Prabhupada's men establish a friendly relationship and see all the devotees who have accepted Srila Prabhupada as their Gurudeva as godbrothers. Srila Prabhupada's men obey Srila Prabhupada's order to initiate on his behalf, they don't speculate.

Lead by example

 Lead by example, by Haripada dasa

I take this opportunity to thank all the people who send me donations, I pray to Srila Prabhupada and God or Krishna to always bless them.

Western educators say: “Don't follow me; follow my words ”; Or, put another way: "Do not do what I do, but what I say." Srila Prabhupada's life refutes this principle, as he applied all the instructions in his books in his own life and was a vivid example of them. There is not a single instruction in his books that he has not personally followed, and therefore there is no disparity between his writings and his life; between his actions and his words.

Srila Prabhupada taught us that a true spiritual master is one who preaches with his personal example, once Sanatana Goswami told Haridasa Thakura that you are the perfect devotee of God or Krishna, there are those who preach but do not practice and there are those who practice but not preach, but you practice everything you preach.

I share a beautiful verse from the Bhagavad gita, 3, 21, there it says that common men follow in the footsteps of a great man, whatever action he performs. And whatever guidelines he establishes through exemplary acts, the whole world follows them, and in the purport Srila Prabhupada says that the generality of people always requires a leader who can teach them through their behavior in practice. A leader cannot teach people to quit smoking if he smokes himself.

Srila Prabhupada always said that what people like the most is to be deceived and suffer, and he also said that one of the great impediments to expanding Krishna consciousness is the large number of deceivers there are, and how people She is so lazy to do the spiritual awakening they take advantage and tell people you give me 30 euros and I will give you a mantra and in six months you will be God, and people are so stupid that they believe it. That is why this society is one of deceivers and deceived.

The words convince, but the example drags. In the Jaiva dharma it is said that if someone gives religious advice without practicing it himself, it becomes a source of evil for the world.

Two thoughts to ponder:

1- Give good advice to a wise person and they will appreciate it and give good advice to a foolish person and they will get angry.

2- If you have nectar in your heart you will never give poison and if you have poison in your heart you will never give nectar.

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 Lord Kṛiṣhṇa's departure 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 have to receive the light of this Purāṇa. The essence of all the instructions in Srila Prabhupada's books is to come out of the darkness and come to the Light, and also in The Chaitanya Charitamrita it is said that God or Krishna is like the Light and maya or ignorance is like the dark, where God or Krishna is 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, thus 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 for it, (3) firmly believe in the protection of the Lord , (4) feel that you depend exclusively on the Lord's mercy, (5) have no interest apart from the Lord's interest, and (6) always be meek and humble.

The biggest problem today is the hypocrisy in people, hypocritical people put a stamp on themselves and say that I am Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hare Krishna, etc., but those people have no interest in knowing God and love him, their only interest is to have many followers and live like kings and fight 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 therefore hope that people will gain the greatest benefit of all through studying the Bhagavad-gītā as it is in the way we have presented it here, and if If only a man becomes a pure devotee of the Lord, we will consider our effort a success. One of Srila Prabhupada's most devoted and beloved devotees 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 complete success.

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.

Most amazing

 ! All glories to Sri Krishna Janmastami 2021 Ki Jaya, and the Transcendental Appearance of Jagad-Guru Srila Prabhupada!

Most amazing, by Haripada dasa

Once a great sage asked King Maharaja Yudisthir what is the most amazing thing there is, and the King replied that you see that relatives, friends and other people die, but one thinks that I will never die.

Usually people do not like to talk about death because they are very afraid, it is said that the devotee of God or Krishna experiences God through devotional service and that materialists and atheists experience God at the time of death. I remember a video of Srila Prabhupada speaking with some theologians and Srila Prabhupada telling them that God will come like death, and all his money, his prestige, his family, etc. It will be taken away, do you understand God now? God or Krishna says in the Bhagavat gita that I am death, I remember that in the fourth song of Srimad Bhagavatam to Maharaja Dhruva a plane from the spiritual world came for him and taking advantage that the personification of death came, he put his feet on the head of death to get on the plane, so until death he takes pleasure in serving the devotee of God or Krishna.

It is very interesting that the personification of death is represented as a skeleton with a harvest, that is to remind us that what you sow, harvest, in other words each person is the architect of his destiny, each one has what he deserves. , and God or Krishna also says that this material world is a place of suffering and temporary, someone can argue that I have a lot of money, women, material enjoyment, yachts, etc., that you have because you deserve it because surely in your life In the past you did many pious activities, but do not forget that everything is temporary. God or Krishna has created everything, therefore everything belongs to God or Krishna, as Srila Prabhupada always said that a person is honest and honest when he uses everything to serve God or Krishna and His devotees.

The process of God or Krishna consciousness is a scientific process, and it is for very brave people who want to raise their consciousness to a higher state, unhappily nowadays people think that God or Krishna things have already gone out of style. , now we are going to live full of lust, anger, greed, envy, pride and ignorance, and we are going to suffer and be deceived, that is true happiness, and out of envy they criticize and say that the devotees of God or Krishna are parasites of society, they do nothing for the country, for the family, always chanting The Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H is read as J de jota), it is said that in the paradise of the foolish and ignorant, being a wise man is great foolishness.

Everyone has a chance here

 Everyone has a chance here, by Haripada dasa

Here in the process of Krishna consciousness everyone has the opportunity to chant The Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H is read as J of jota), and be happy in Krishna consciousness, here there is neither discrimination nor exploitation, everyone has the opportunity to lead a pure and sinless life, for that you have to follow the 4 regulative principles, 1, do not eat meat , fish or eggs, 2, no illicit sex, only sex is allowed to procreate and with one's wife, 3, no gambling, and 4, no tea, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., all have the opportunity to be initiated by a disciple of Srila Prabhupada who initiates in the name of Srila Prabhupada, there is no place for opportunists or to climb ranks here, here we are all friends and humble servants of each other, we are all friends and spiritual brothers and sisters , and the one who has the most capacity to serve, we accept as l Natural der, of course we follow the spiritual label which says that the senior devotee with more experience gives his mercy to the minor devotee, and the minor devotee is grateful and respects the senior devotee, everyone has the opportunity to follow all the instructions given in Srila Prabhupada's books, and helping each other do the same, by doing this we live with Srila Prabhupada and acquire his qualities. Our love and service is for Srila Prabhupada, and we have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the authorized person who is going to take us back home, back to Krishna.

Here we are not interested in the opinions of an ordinary person, ordinary people have four types of defects, the first defect is that they tend to make mistakes, another defect is being in illusion, the third defect is the propensity to deceive and finally our senses they are imperfect. Any opinion that is not the revealed truth, lacks all value, the revealed truth means, the truth, or scripture that comes from a reliable source, the chain of disciplic succession formed by genuine spiritual teachers is the reliable source; for these people are pure and self-realized souls, and they are free from the four defects mentioned above. Here nobody speculates, we understand and accept that a person is speculating, when he does things in a capricious way without relying on the Guru, Sadhu and Sastra. Only the original books of Srila Prabhupada are used here, we are totally against all the changes that have been made to the original books of Srila Prabhupada. Here we have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the way, the truth and the life, and if someone goes back home back to God or Krishna, it is by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.

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. "

The Symptom of Love

 The Symptom of Love, by Haripada dasa

Years ago, a devotee named Devarsi prabhu translated some things from the books of conversations into Spanish and gave me those translations, I remember reading there an interview between Sria Prabupada and one of her disciple, Srila Prabhupada said that I will be a Christian and you will be Hare Krishna, Srila Prabhupada told him that we have millions and millions of followers, temples, etc., and you are very few, the devotee said but we have love for God or Krishna and that is the important thing, Srila Prabhupada told him He said that we also have love for God and we go to church and pray to him, the devotee told him that if you had love for God you would obey his orders, Jesus ordered you not to kill and you have the best slaughterhouses, and Srila Prabhupada told him that there It is where I wanted to take you, the symptom that you love God is that you obey his orders, a person who does not know God or love him cannot obey God's orders. Today there are many groups of Christians, and also of Hare Krishnas, so that they do not deceive you you must see if these people are obeying the orders of Jesus and Srila Prabhupada.

One of the points of the philosophy of Krishna consciousness is that we are not interested in the opinions of an ordinary person, ordinary people have four kinds of defects, the first defect is that they tend to make mistakes, another defect is being in illusion , the third defect is the propensity to deceive and finally our senses are imperfect. Any opinion that is not the revealed truth, lacks any value, the revealed truth means, the truth, or scripture that comes from a reliable source, the chain of disciplic succession formed by genuine spiritual teachers is the reliable source; for these people are pure and self-realized souls, and they are free from the four defects mentioned above. You can fool yourself and others, but no one can fool God or Krishna and His pure devotees.

In Srimad Bhagavatam, 5, 26, 15 Srila Prabhupada says that whether we are Hindu, Muslim or Christian, we must all follow the religious principles that correspond to us. However, whoever invents his own religious path, or does not follow any religious principle, will be punished in hell.

Krishna consciousness

 Krishna consciousness

When Srila Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1965 in New York, a friend of his told him why he did not put God consciousness instead of Krishna, and Srila Prabhupda replied that Dio is somewhat vague, but Krishna is something concrete, and if someone does not know that Krishna is God, come here and we will explain it to them.

In the preface to Krishna's book Srila Prabhupada explains why Krishna is God: Now, one can ask the question why is Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead? The answer is, because He conforms exactly and in detail to the descriptions of the Supreme Being, the Divine, in other words, Krishna is God because He is supremely attractive. Beyond the principle of supreme attraction, there is no other meaning of the word "God." How can someone be supremely attractive? First of all, if someone is very rich, if he possesses great wealth, then he becomes an attractive person to people in general. Similarly, if someone is very powerful, he also becomes an attractive person; and if someone is very famous, very beautiful, or wise, or detached from all kinds of possessions, he also becomes an attractive person. Thus, from practical experience we can observe that one is attractive thanks to: 1) wealth, 2) power, 3) fame, 4) beauty, 5) wisdom and 6) renunciation. One who possesses all these six opulences simultaneously, and who possesses them to an unlimited degree, is understood to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Parasara Muni, a great Vedic authority describes these opulences of God. We have seen many rich, powerful, famous, beautiful, learned and learned people; we have seen many people who belong to the renounced order of life and who are detached from material possessions, but we have never seen anyone like Krishna in the history of mankind, who was simultaneously and unlimitedly rich, powerful, famous, beautiful , wise and detached. Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is a historical person who appeared on this planet five thousand years ago and behaved just like a human being; but his activities were unparalleled, from the moment of his appearance to the moment of his disappearance. Each of their activities is unique in the history of the world, and consequently whoever knows what we mean by the word "God" will accept Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one is equal to God, and no one is greater than Him. That is the meaning of the family proverb "God is great."

Krishna consciousness means the art of focusing our attention on God and giving him our love. Many people think that they will be happy promoting the cause of moral principles and religious rites, others think that they will be happy in economic development, and others through sense gratification, but the truth is that people can only be happy loving God or Krishna. And all the great representatives of God in different cultures like Jesus Christ, Srila Prabhupada, Muhammad, Confucius, etc. preach this truth: Love God above all things, and your neighbor as yourself. Krishna consciousness is not a sectarian but a universal process, and it is practiced all over the world, Srila Prabhupada always said that Krishna consciousness is simple for the simple-hearted and for those who are serious and sincere and it is complicated for those of twisted mind. Although the origin of Krishna consciousness is India, punya bhumi the land of piety, the caste system ruined the entire spiritual culture of India, so Srila Prabhupada came to the west to preach Krishna consciousness and then went to India with its Western disciples and Hindus were very surprised that Westerners full of love for God chanted the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. It is very interesting what Srila Prabhupada says in the introduction to the Bhagavad Gita about the difference between faith and sanatana dharma, faith can change, we see that a Christian becomes Muslim, or becomes Hindu, or vice versa, but sanatana dharma it does not change, sanatana means eternal, and dharma means duty, the eternal duty of the eternal spiritual soul is to serve God or Krishna and His devotees.

Personally I am very happy and happy to see that so many people are interested in knowing God and loving him, it is a fact that today there is a great spiritual awakening throughout the world, and that there are more and more peaceful dialogues between religions, The other day a friend of mine told me that Pope Francis spoke about the law of karma and when Srila Prabhupada was asked what he thought about Jesus Christ, he always said that Jesus Christ is our spiritual master, thank God we are no longer of the age In the middle of the Inquisition era, that for saying that the Earth was round they burned you at the stake, while that was happening in the West in India Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu and his associates were discussing the Srimad Bhagavatam that informs us of the nature of all planets of the universe and the distances between all the planets in a scientific way.

Extra education

 Extra education, by Haripada dasa

I share this beautiful verse from The Bhagavad Gita, 9, 2, there it says that this spiritual knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets, it is the purest knowledge, and because it gives perception of the self through enlightenment, it is the perfection of religion, it is eternal and it is joyfully executed. Following in the footsteps of our spiritual master Srila Prabhupada I try to state the facts very logically, nowadays finding a balanced person is very difficult to say that finding a pure devotee of God, usually people are so absorbed in life material that they forget to feed the soul, the result of this is that people live full of anxieties and disturbed, a person full of anxieties and disturbed will never experience peace or happiness.

The other day a friend told me that now in Spain they are introducing meditation in schools, they see that children so young are so full of anxieties and disturbed that meditation will at least calm their mind. But they don't know what true meditation is, true meditation means finding God who is in the heart and following his instructions, the result of this is that one becomes divine. We urgently need extra education, spiritual education, the first lesson is to understand and accept that we are not the material body, but eternal spirit souls, and that the relationship with the body is temporary, but the relationship with God or Krishna is eternal and full of bliss. and knowledge. In the spiritual world there are three things, there is God or Krishna, there are his devotees and there is the love relationship between God or Krishna and His devotees, the spiritual world is our natural environment, the material world is the perverted reflection of the spiritual world, therefore Because here people live full of anxieties and disturbed, it is as if you took a fish out of the water and gave it all the material facilities, the fish would never be happy since its environment is water. The goal of human life is to know and love God and go back home to God.

There is a big difference between a teacher and a spiritual master, the teacher is paid a salary to give certain information, but the spiritual master is empowered and authorized by God or Krishna to bring people back to Godhead, of course provided that the disciple obeys his instructions.

The Three Kinds of Happiness

 The Three Kinds of Happiness, by Haripada dasa

This information is in the Nectar of Devotion, chapter 1:

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has analyzed the different sources of happiness. He has divided happiness into three categories, which are: 1) happiness derived from material enjoyment, 2) happiness derived from identifying with the Supreme Brahman, and 3) happiness derived from Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

In Tantra-śāstra, Lord Śiva speaks to his wife, Satī, in this way: "My dear wife, a person who has surrendered to the lotus feet of Govinda and who has developed pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness, can receive easily all the perfections desired by impersonalists; and beyond this, he can enjoy the happiness attained by pure devotees. "

Happiness derived from pure devotional service is the highest because it is eternal. But the happiness derived from material perfection or understanding as Brahman is inferior because it is temporary. There is no way to prevent one from falling from material happiness, and there is even every chance of falling from spiritual happiness derived from identifying with impersonal Brahman.

And in the Bhagavad-Gita, 18, 37 to 39 it is said that what at first may be like poison but which in the end is like nectar, and which awakens one in self-realization, is said to be happiness in the plane of the mode of goodness. The happiness that comes from the contact of the senses with their objects, and which at first appears to be nectar but at the end appears to be poison, is said to be of the nature of passion, and happiness that ignores self-realization, that it is a delusion from beginning to end, and that it proceeds from sleep, laziness, and illusion, is said to be of the nature of ignorance.

The devotees

 The devotees, by Haripada dasa

Hare Krishna if you put on youtube to look for this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d20NhSifd7A

You will get the Ratha yatra from Puri, filmed by a TV in the USA, very nice, hd.

Hare Krishna, with love and trust I share what Srila Prabhupada said in Sri Radha Damodara in Vrindavana, Kartika 1972: APPRECIATION, Narada Muni says that the devotee always appreciates the qualities of other devotees, yes, that is the sign, appreciation of the activities of the devotees, a devotee who is currently liberated from all contaminations does not find any fault with other devotees, he does not think of himself as a great devotee, or greater than others, he thinks of himself as the most low of all, as the author of The Chaitanya Charitamrita, Krishna dasa Kaviraj says that I am as low as the insect that lives in the excrement, I am more sinful than Jagai and Madhai, whoever takes my name, immediately all the results of his pious activities fade away, it is not imitation, any devotee who is currently advanced, he feels it, just as the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton used to say that I have simply collected a few grains d e sand of the ocean of knowledge, indeed that is a fact, everything is unlimited, so no one should be proud that they have become a great devotee, everyone should be very humble, trinad api sunichena, taror api sahisnuna, amanena manadena, kirtaniya sada hari, if one thinks that he has become a very advanced devotee, that is very dangerous, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said that my spiritual master saw me as a great fool, therefore he has punished me, do not read the Vedanta Sutra, sings Hare Krishna, He introduced himself in that way, he is Caitanya Mahaprabhu murka, fool, that concept has an advanced devotee, he never thinks he is a very advanced devotee, what is it to be advanced, the devotion that we can offer him to Krishna, He is unlimited, He kindly accepts our service, that is all, do not take pride in becoming a great devotee, that will be a first class fall.

Once a brahmachari devotee or celibate monk had an affair with a woman, when Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati found out he told him to leave the temple, and when the devotee was leaving the other devotees began to insult him by saying that you are a fallen, a deceiver, etc. , when Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati saw this he admonished his disciples and told them that I thought you were merciful people, and on another occasion a devotee had some discussions with other devotees and left the temple, when Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati found out he told the devotees that They went to look for him all over Calcutta, the devotees knew that he was an expert in fixing watches and they went to all the watch shops, at last they found him and the crying devotee told them that he was very sorry for the separation of the devotees and he went to live with devotees.

Srila Prabhupada always said that all the chaos that the Earth lives is due to the lack of serious and sincere devotees of God or Krishna, in the Adi Purana God or Krishna tells Arjuna that whoever says that he is My devotee, that is not My devotee, but the one who says that he is My devotee of My devotee of My devotee, that yes is My devotee, and in the Padma Purana Lord Siva tells his wife Parvati that the highest worship is to serve God or Krishna, but higher than that is serving the devotees of God or Krishna.

Serious and sincere

Serious and sincere, by Haripada dasa

Srila Prabhupada always said that the devotee must be serious and sincere in his Krishna consciousness practices, this also applies to mothers, serious and sincere means that one does not deceive himself or others, in others In other words, one is not a hypocrite, we in a practical way show Srila Prabhupada and God or Krishna that we are serious and sincere when we practice verses 2 and 3 of the Nectar of Instruction, there it is said that when someone becomes too entangled in the After six activities, your devotional service is ruined; (1) Eating more than necessary, or accumulating more funds than required; (2) trying too hard for worldly things that are too hard to get; (3) talking unnecessarily about worldly subjects; (4) follow the rules and regulations of the Scriptures solely for following them and not to advance spiritually, or reject the rules and regulations of the Scriptures and work independently or whimsically; (5) associate with people of worldly inclinations who are not interested in cultivating Kṛishna consciousness; and (6) covet worldly achievements and there are six principles that favor the performance of pure devotional service: (1) be enthusiastic, (2) strive with confidence. (3) be patient, (4) act according to regulative principles [such as śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇam: hearing, chanting and remembering Kṛishna, (5) leaving the company of nondevotees, and (6) following in the footsteps of the previous ācāryas. These six principles undoubtedly ensure the complete success of pure devotional service.

In the Padma Purana it is said that so that we are not inhabitants of hell we have to be very careful with these 4 things, 1- see the Deity of Krishna as if it were a stone, 2- consider that the chanting of the Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna , Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H is read as J for j), it is a worldly sound vibration, 3- see the charanamrita, or the water that washes the Deities as simple running water and 4- see the devotees from the material point of view.

Love and trust

 Love and trust, by Haripada dasa

In general, people think that love means giving in love affairs as much as they receive from the other person, they are simply business deals, selfish or self-centered, and when this fails, violence enters, and they kill each other. Sincere love can be seen when parents love their children despite their children's rejection. Then there are the self-satisfied people, they do not require anybody's love, these people are absorbed in thoughts about the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus they do not care if someone loves them or not, these people are oceans of mercy, and they try to help human society so that people become pure devotees of God or Krishna, these people are full of love for God or Krishna, and as there are only God AND His energies, naturally they love everyone already Everything, to understand this point there are two examples, when one waters the root of a plant, the branches, stems, leaves and flowers naturally benefit and by feeding the stomach, all the senses are satisfied. The goal of human life is to awaken the latent love that we all have for God or Krishna, and God or Krishna reciprocates giving us bliss, spiritual knowledge and eternity.

Unfortunately there are ungrateful people, it is said that they are insensitive, and they rebel against superior people, which means that they receive favors from their parents or the spiritual master, and even then they neglect them. Srila Prabhupada said that relationships between devotees should be based on LOVE AND TRUST, and by establishing these relationships wonderful things will be done to serve and please God or Krishna and His devotees. In spiritual relationships based on love and trust there is harmony and happiness, there is no selfishness or envy, and in material relationships there is only selfishness, envy and a lot of suffering.

Trust is lost when there is betrayal. Trust is only possible between pure devotees of God or Krishna, because only devotees of God or Krishna have good qualities, materialistic and atheistic people do not have good qualities, we see in practice that they fight each other for nothing. The relationships between materialists and atheists are based on deceiving each other, everyone understands and accepts that materialists and atheists are scammers.

Love your enemies

 Love your enemies, by Haripada dasa

Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati always said that I love even my worst enemy and her Gurudeva Gaura Kisora ​​das babaji always said that all living entities are worthy of my veneration. What is an enemy? It is a person who insults, belittles, envies and humiliates us. It is said in verse 9 of chapter 6 of the Bhagavad Gita that a person is even more advanced when he considers everyone - the honest well-wisher, friends and enemies, the envious, the pious, the sinner and those who are indifferent and impartial. - with an even mind.

Jesus Christ always said that praying to God for friends is easy, but we must pray to God for our enemies. They made many offenses against Jesus Christ and crucified him, but he prayed to God for his offenders. He was merciful and tolerant, it is said that a great personality is measured by his degree of tolerance, of course tolerance and mercy are two qualities that go together, a person is tolerant when he is very merciful, materialists are not even tolerant nor merciful, every day they send millions and millions of innocent animals to the slaughterhouse, and they are not tolerant, I saw how one person whistled at the car in front because the light had turned green and the other got out of the car all annoyed and they finished punching each other.

I am going to tell two true stories that illustrate love your enemies.

This story comes in the Bhagavatam, there was a great yogi named Durvasa Muni, once Durvasa Muni for no reason offended a great pure devotee of God or Krishna named Ambarisa Maharaja, God or Krishna never tolerate offenses to His devotees and sent his weapon personal called the Sudarsana Chakra, when Durvasa Muni saw the Sudarsana Chakra that was going to punish him he fled through all the planets, he even came to the spiritual world and threw himself at the lotus feet of God or Narayana and asked forgiveness for offending His devotee , God or Narayana told him to go and ask forgiveness from His devotee, not Him, Durvasa Muni went and asked Ambarisa Maharaja for forgiveness and saw that Ambarisa Maharaja was praying to God for the yogi's sake, and Durvasa Muni said that now I have Having understood the glories of the pure devotees of God, I have offended you and in return you have prayed to God for my good fortune.

And the second story is very incredible, it is told in the Chaitanya Charitamrita, there were two terrible brothers named Jagai and Madai, they were drunkards, womanizers, etc., once Lord Nityananda was chanting Hare Krishna through the streets of Navadvuipa, and when they saw this The two brothers were angry, one of them grabbed a clay pot and broke it on Lord Nityananda's head and it started to bleed, and Lord Nityananda told him that you have hurt me, but in return I will give you love for God or Krishna, when the brothers saw Lord Nityananda's attitude they fell at his lotus feet asking for forgiveness, and Lord Nityananda forgave them, and then these two brothers became pure devotees of Krishna, and all the people were very astonished .

Love for God

 

Love for God, for Haripada dasa

There is a spiritual book called the Madhurya Kadambini or the Nectar Clouds of Srila Visvanatha Chakravarti, there in a scientific way reveals all the experiences that we all must go through from faith to love for God, faith means that one obeys the instructions given in the holy scriptures, then one associates with the devotees, that increases the faith, then one is initiated by the authorized spiritual master, the initiation means that the disciples accept the instruction of the spiritual master and Kṛiṣhṇa accepts the disciple immediately to give him a spiritual body, the result of initiation is that one becomes purified of all the dirty things of the heart, such as lust, anger, greed, etc., then one becomes fixated on devotional service, then one likes the spiritual life, then one becomes attached to the spiritual life, then one experiences spiritual emotions and then one comes to love for God, and thus one fulfills the purpose of life Human love for God is eternally there in everyone's heart, and it is awakened when one practices Krishna consciousness. Ecstatic love for Kṛiṣhṇa (prema) is explained in the Bhakti-rasāmṛita-sindhu (1.41) with the following words: “When the heart has completely softened and is free from all material desires, and when emotional feelings become very strong, a person becomes very attached to Kṛiṣhṇa. This purified emotion is known by the name of pure love.

In the state of love for God or Krishna he considers his friends as useless as a desert, too big, and his home becomes like a thorn forest, the food becomes completely tasteless, the praise of other devotees seems to him like the bite of a snake, daily activities seem as painful as death. All the members of his body are like an unbearable burden, the consolation of his companions is like poison. Although he is constantly awake, he is awake. Like an ocean of penance, and if the dream comes it is seen as mortal (worldly) anguish. His body seems like the Lord's target of punishment. And breathing seems as sterile as sowing roasted grains. What else can be said? That what were always his favorite things are now abandoned as great calamities. Even thinking about the Lord is like tearing your body to pieces.

Cheers! Srila Prabhupada instructed us and said that everyone should follow Jayananda prabhu's example, let's all try to obey this instruction together and make Jagat-guru Srila Prabhupada Mahasaya happy, and not do anything that displeases him.

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 have been given 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 make 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.

I am that inhabitant of Vrindavana

 I am that inhabitant of Vrindavana, by Haripada dasa

Once a disciple of Lokanatha swami told me that his guru had told him that he once told Srila Prabhupada that you say in your books that to get into the mood of Vrindavana we have to follow in the footsteps of an inhabitant of Vrindavana, but I I do not know any inhabitant of Vrindavana, and Srila Prabhupada told him THAT I AM THAT INHABITANT OF VRINDAVANA.

The whole problem in Iskcon and outside of Iskcon is the poor realization that people have of understanding and accepting what and who Srila Prabhupada is. Srila Prabhupada is a SAKTYAVESA AVATARA, A NITYA SIDDHA, THE MOR SENA PATI THE COMMANDER IN HEAD OF THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF SRI GAURANGA MAHAPRABHU, THE ACHARYA OF OUR DISCIPULAR SUCCESSION WHO SAID THE CAVESAMENT OF SENA, WHICH SAID THE CAUSAM NOSAMARI DEL NESTABLECERANY TO ESTABLISH CARE KRISHNA WILL BE SING IN EVERY TOWN AND VILLAGE, THE ACHARYA THAT HAS MOST EXPANDED THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF KRISHNA ALL OVER THE WORLD, THE ACHARYA THAT THROUGH ITS BOOKS WILL BE THE ACHARYA FOR THE NEXT 10,000 YEARS. Now why do people not understand or accept this, because instead of obeying Srila Prabhupada they offend him, if a person obeys Srila Prabhupada and chants his 16 rounds, he follows the 4 regulative principles and does Srila Prabhupada a service with faith. , love, attachment and gratitude, Krishna or God will be very happy with that person and from the heart will give him the ability to LOVE KRISHNA OR GOD AND EVERYONE, TO GIVE MERCY TO THE INNOCENTS, HE WILL GIVE THE LOVE TO THE DEMONS AVOIDING THEM AND WILL DO FRIENDSHIP WITH THE TRUE DEVOTERS. Only good souls who have sacrificed their lives to make Srila Prabhupada, God or Krishna happy gives them the intelligence to understand what and who Srila Prabhupada is.

Today there are very unfortunate people, people who think that they are on the same level as Srila Prabhupada, (SPIRITUAL SUPERMANS) people who are very sick 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 called mayavadis, and anyone who comes into contact with such people their spiritual life is ruined. The fate of those 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 without offense, that we follow the 4 regulative principles very strictly, 1, do not eat meat, fish or eggs, 2, no illicit sex, only sex is allowed to procreate and with one's wife, 3, no gambling, and 4, no tea, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., that we lead an honest life without deceiving ourselves or others , that we establish personal relationships with other devotees based on love and trust, that we do not change the message of the guru-parampara, that we do not fight among ourselves, that we free ourselves from sexual attraction by experiencing a higher taste or in other words may we be HAPPY IN KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, SARVE SUKHINO BHAVANTU.

That the Jagat-guru, the Savior of the fallen, Saktyavesa Avatara, MOR SENA PATI, THE COMMANDER IN HEAD OF THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF SRI GAURANGA MAHAPRABHU, A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA bless you and protect you all.

Every madman with his theme

 Every madman with his theme, by Haripada dasa

Each madman with his subject means that each person gets involved in life with the subjects according to his interest. In this world there are five themes, I will try to explain them, first religion, in human society there are various religious concepts described as Hindu, Christian, Hebrew, Mohammedan, Buddhist, etc., hypocritical people need to put a label or stamp and say I belong to this religion or that one, but we see in practice that nobody obeys the precepts of their religion and thus they deceive themselves and others, true religion means knowing God and loving him, but people do not know what and who It is God, no one can love someone they do not know, from the very beginning of Srimad Bhagavatam those deceiving religions are rejected. Srila Prabhupada always said that what people like the most is to suffer and to be deceived, that is why those deceitful religions have so many followers, and they also fight among themselves saying that my religion is better than yours.

In deceitful religions God is asked for money, health, etc., in other words economic development, and for what…. To satisfy the third theme which is sense gratification, people use their intelligence to know which alcoholic beverage is best, which restaurant is the best, which nightclub is the best, etc., nowadays people achieve development economic without having to go to God, that's why the fashion today is to be an atheist, and I live to the hole, and dead to the hole, nobody is interested in knowing God and loving him, people only believe in money and in power, the fourth theme is liberation, when the spirit soul tires of deceiving itself and others, of thinking that the purpose of life is to fill the belly, full belly, happy heart, to lead a life full of self-indulgence. the senses, there ignorance deceives you and you think you are God, and you want to merge with God, that is called spiritual suicide, it is like the prisoner who suffers a lot in jail and thinks that if I commit suicide this suffering will end.

But there is hope and that is where the fifth topic comes in, the fifth topic is knowing God and loving Him, and how only God and His energies exist, naturally when a person awakens their love for God they will love everyone and everything, because they will see it. everything in relation to God. Srila Prabhupada gave us 80 books of 400 pages each that describe the unlimited names of God or Krishna, His forms, His qualities and His pastimes, and there are all the spiritual instructions necessary to know God or Krishna and love Him.

I once saw a video of Nostradamus saying that an elderly person would come from the East who always goes with a cane to inaugurate the universal religion, the chant of the Holy Names of God The Maha-Mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (H is read as J for jota), when Srila Prabhupada arrived in New York he sat in a park and chanted The Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra, and there began his movement.

The only hope

 The only hope, by Haripada dasa

The only hope to go back to God or Krishna is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, there are many people who think that they are gurus without the authorization of God or Krishna, these people are deceiving themselves and others, Srila Prabhupada always said that this is a great impediment for Krishna consciousness to expand, the only hope to lead a simple life with elevated thoughts is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, the only hope to achieve the goal of human life that is to have love for God or Krishna, it is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, the only hope to get to live with Srila Prabhupada, is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, the only hope to lead a pure and sinless life, it is obeying the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada, the only hope to come to love your enemies, is to obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada.

By His mercy God or Krishna sends His closest devotees from the spiritual world to the material world to reestablish the principles of religion, religion means the Laws of God, and the result of obeying God's laws is that one is freed from entanglement material. When Srila Prabhupada was born the astrologer said that this boy when he is 70 years old will leave India to go to the western countries to preach Krishna consciousness, he will open more than one hundred Krishna temples, he will write 80 books and these books will be the law books for the next 10,000 years for all of humanity. To date, more than 500 million of his books have been distributed in all the languages ​​of the world. Srila Prabhupada did not come to make a new religion, but to preach concepts and truths that are eternal, as Jesus Christ said that I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. When humanity obeys these eternal truths there will be peace and prosperity in the world.

I am going to try to expose those eternal truths that Srila Prabhupada taught us, the first lesson to be understood and accepted is that we are not the temporal material body but eternal spiritual souls, we are parts and portions of God or Krishna, and our happiness is in serving God or Krishna and His devotees taught us that God is Krishna and gave us a process to awaken our latent love that we all have for God or Krisnna, and how there is only God or Krishna and His energies in a natural way when we love God. o Krishna, we will love everyone and everything, taught us that everything is from God or Krishna because He has created everything, and that a person becomes honest and wise when he uses everything to serve God or Krishna and His devotees, taught us that The spiritual world exists, and that the goal of human life is to go back home to God. He taught us that the real problems are freeing us from birth, death, old age and disease, he taught us that the only spiritual process in Kali yuga or the present age is chanting The Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna , Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H reads J for jota), and he taught us that the pure and intimate devotees of God or Krishna never die, they live eternally on his instructions, and those who obey them live with them.

A great success

 A great success, by Haripada dasa

At the end of the preface of The Bhagavad Gita Srila Prabhupada says that without just one man becoming a pure devotee of the Lord, we will consider our attempt as a success, since Srila Prabhupada achieved success, Jayananda prabhu practicing Krishna consciousness in a way Strict, serious and sincere she became a pure devotee of Krishna, and when she left her body in 1977 Srila Prabhupada said that she went to Vaikuntha, to the spiritual world.

Srila Prabhupada says in his books that there are devotees everywhere but they have forgotten, our mission is to educate pious people to know Srila Prabhupada and love him, Srila Prabhupada says in his books that in this consciousness movement Krishna, there are people who wear kuntis and japa but they are very envious, these people must be ignored, Srila Prabhupada said that everything is in his books, and he also criticized his disciples many times saying that they do not study his books enough, if a person She is an expert in Srila Prabhupada's books, when she hears someone preach Krishna consciousness she will immediately detect if that person is transmitting Srila Prabhupada to others, or if he is transmitting himself to others.

We understand and accept that God or Krishna is the supreme mystic and I can do everything, in the Chaitanya Charitamrita, Antya lila, 3, 50 it is said that the scriptures say that the next ten thousand years will be the predominance of the Krishna consciousness movement, but that, after that period, all will turn to melechas and yavanas.

An ocean of mercy

 An ocean of mercy, by Haripada dasa

Srila Prabhupada is an ocean of mercy. The spiritual master receives the blessing of the ocean of mercy. Just as a cloud pours water on a forest fire to put it out, the spiritual master releases the afflicted material world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances to the lotus feet of that spiritual master, who is an ocean of auspicious qualities.

I share a very moving story, we were in Vrindavana, India, in the house of some Italian devotees, we were respecting some maha-prasada pizzas, a very old disciple of Srila Prabhupada arrived, I don't remember her name, but I know she was Lohitaksa's wife , she told us that Srila Prabhupada was in the temple in New York and they were doing guru puja, suddenly a person with very long hair and a beard and very dirty entered the temple as if it were a dog on all fours. He headed towards Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada recognized him immediately, and crying at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet told him several times that forgive me I have failed you, Srila Prabhupada crying was stroking his head, and all the devotees in the guru puja were crying, then that person left and no one ever heard from him.

A few years ago I was talking to an Iskcon guru in Vrindavana, India, he told me that Srila Prabhupada deviated from the guru-parampara by ordering his disciples to initiate in his name or the Ritvik philosophy, as this philosophy does not come in the Sastras or Scriptures, when I heard this I thought that this person has less intelligence than a mosquito, I told him that Srila Prabhupada distributes his mercy to everyone, but if you do not want to obtain it, the fault is yours, Srila Prabhupada ordered his disciples who initiated in his name, this is supported by a special document that Srila Prabhupada sent to all Iskcon from Vrindavana, India, on July 9, 1977, anyone can read this document, and if you do not want to obey this order, blame It is not from Srila Prabhupada but from you. I also told him that according to Harinama-chintamani, the result of offending the guru is that one becomes a mayavadi or atheist. Then some years passed and we also saw each other in Vrindavana, and he said sorry for what I told you several years ago, I replied that you should not ask forgiveness from me, but from Srila Prabhupada.

Patience, humility and respect

 Patience, humility and respect, by Haripada dasa

Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada always said that in this world of ignorance, which is contrary to serving God or Krishna, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends to do devotional service to God or Krishna and His representatives.

Regarding patience, I am very clear that only people who live in the mode of goodness can have it, people who live in the modes of passion and ignorance cannot be patient. Also Srila Prabhupada talks about this quality in the Nectar of Instruction, verse 3.

On humility, Srila Prabhupada says in the Gita, 13, 8 that humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others. Another point is that although one can do wonderful things to please God or Krishna and Srila Prabhupada, one understands that that is all pure mercy of God or Krishna and Srila Prabhupada.

About respect there is a very beautiful verse in the Bhagavatam, 5, 5, 26, this verse was spoken by the incarnation of Krishna called Risabadeva to his children, there it says that my dear children, you should not feel envy of any living entity, or mobile nor immobile. Knowing that I am in them, you must offer respect to all of them at all times. In this way, you will offer respect to Me.

Everyone's friend

 Everyone's friend, by Haripada dasa

Hare Krishna, I lovingly and confidently share a paragraph from a small book by Srila Prabhupada entitled Meditation and Superconsciousness:

We are looking for a friend to provide us with peace and quiet. That friend is Krishna, God. Just make friends with Him, and you will find that the whole world will become your friend. Since God is situated in everyone's heart, if you make friends with God, He will instruct everyone inwardly to treat you friendly. One who befriends the chief of police receives certain benefits. If you make friends with the president of the country, everyone will be your friend, since everyone is subordinate to the president. If you want something from an official, you just have to call the president and he will tell him: "Okay, help this man," and so everything is resolved. Just try to befriend God, and everyone else will become your friends. All people will become peaceful if they understand this beautiful truth, that God is the friend of all and that He is the supreme owner. Lord Chaitanya also explains this.

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna I have been from 1984 to 2011 distributing Srila Prabhupada's books, I will have spoken face to face with more than 4 million people, in this transcendental activity one experiences that Krishna is the supreme controller and that one is his loving servant, in Guatemala twice Lord Nrisimhadeva saved my life, Srila Prabhupada always said that we should pray to Lord Nrisimhadeva for protection and blessings to be able to preach. Wherever you go you will see selfishness, hypocrisy and fighting, but as Srila Prabhupada says in this paragraph that all people will become peaceful if they understand this beautiful truth, that God is the friend of all and that He is the supreme owner. Lord Chaitanya also explains this.