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.