Best friends

 Best friends, by Haripada dasa

A friend is that person who always wishes us our good, in which one has a relationship based on love and trust, and one knows that there will never be betrayal, our best friends are God or Krishna and His devotees, by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada we understand that God or Krishna in His Paramatma or Supersoul form is in the hearts of all living entities, and He is our best friend because He never leaves us.

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada we understand and accept that we are all in the material world for having misused our free will, it is very interesting what is said in the book of Krishna in the chapter entitled the prayers of the personified Vedas, there it is said that there cannot be any influence of chance on living entities, they have knowledge and, therefore, they are called chaitanya, which means knowingly, their location in different conditions of life, therefore, it is not accidental, it is due to they have chosen like this, since they have knowledge, in other words, that is, it is we who have turned our backs on God or Krishna and have come to this material world, and God or Krishna is so friendly and merciful to us that he believes the material world for the living entities to play God or Krishna.

 The fall of the soul to the material world was illustrated very well by Jesus in the parable of the prodigal son, the son told his father that I want my part of the inheritance to have a life independent of you, the inheritance was spent pleasing his senses with prostitutes, wine, etc., when he had money he had friends, when he ran out of money he ran out of friends and saw himself eating carob beans with the pigs, there he reflected and realized the big mistake he made, he thought with my father he had his love and I never lacked anything, I had everything, what a big mistake I have made, I am going to ask my father for forgiveness, and when he got to his father he threw himself on the ground crying and asking his father for forgiveness, his father was very happy to see his son again and hugged him, and then made a big festival to welcome his son.

Srila Visvanatha Thakura in his book entitled Madhurya Kadambini illustrates very well the entry of the spirit soul into the spirit world, when the spirit soul comes to the spirit world in the form of a cowherd boy and sees Krishna faint, then Krishna goes there and It says that I know all the sufferings that you have had to undergo to be My devotee in the material world, because I have always been with you, all your friends and family despised you, they all thought you were crazy, and you had to tolerate everything for Me, and I have not done anything as a reward for all your sacrifices, therefore I have become your debtor, then the spirit soul tells Krishna that to satisfy my desire to serve at your lotus feet, you deposited the syllables of Your mantra in my ears, You destroyed my sufferings, You purified me with the process of hearing, chanting and constantly remembering Your qualities and Your name and through association with Your devotees You made me understand how to do e service to you, a person as miserably selfish as I deserves to be punished, but on the contrary, you have made me drink nectar by showing me your own personality.

The bottom line is that our best friends are God or Krishna and His devotees.

I am very happy

  I am very happy, for Haripada dasa

Some time ago I prayed to Srila Prabhupada and to God or Krishna to send me mature and pure devotees of Krishna, by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna, now I am associating with such devotees, I am very happy, it is not necessary to mention their names because such devotees are very humble and do not like to be glorified.

These pure devotees of Srila Prabhupada obey the order of Srila Prabhupada and initiate in his name, thanks to one of them I have learned of the glories of the perfect devotee of Srila Prabhupada, said devotee named Jayananda Prabhu practiced Krishna consciousness for 10 years 1967- 1977 and sacrificed his life to please Srila Prabhupada, and when he left the body Srila Prabhupada wrote a very nice letter and said that he was now in the spiritual world, in Goloka Vrindavana.

These devotees have a lot of love for Srila Prabhupada, and they want everyone to serve and love Srila Prabhupada. One can see how powerful this chant is.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 jota), is said in the Sacred Scriptures that by chanting the word Krishna only once, one can counteract all sinful activities, of course you have to chant on the pure platform, in the chanting of the Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra there are three stages, one is the offensive chant, There are 10 offenses that are made when singing, then there is the clarifying stage, and then pure singing, it is said in El Chaitanya Charitamrita that if one sings with offenses, one can spend millions and millions of lives singing and one will never reach the goal of singing which is to have love for God. That is why there are very demonic people who dress as devotees and pose as devotees, but all they do is deceive and take advantage of innocent people, only a pure devotee can understand another pure devotee.

What I mean by this message is that the most important thing in spiritual life is association with devotees, once a devotee told Srila Prabhupada that Jesus Christ said that I am the way, the truth and the life, and Srila Prabhupada He told him that this is very true, because without the association of a pure devotee, no one can become a pure devotee, I am very happy and happy to see that there are still devotees of Srila Prabhupada who have things very clear and without wanting anything in return They share all their experiences with everyone, I sense that people are already fed up with so many deceptions, that people want to live the truth, the truth will set you free, I remember a program on television and there was a psychologist who said very interesting things , I remember that he said that the result of material and atheistic life, he is a very believing person in God, is that people suffer a lot, and the most important and necessary people for now will be the spiritual advisers, of course this s spiritual advisers will be pure devotees of God and will not cheat people by charging money.

How is health ?

 How is health ?, by Haripada dasa

Hare Krishna, with love and confidence I share that yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine, he is a legal advisor, and he told me that this situation of the pandemic is making many people think, I told him that in the Harinama Chintamani it is said that the people start worshiping God out of fear of death.

I also told him that it is a time to encourage each other to move forward, and it is also a time of much prayer to God or Krishna and His representative Srila Prabhupada for help.

Another friend told me that the virus has stopped all materialistic civilization, and people are very scared. I told him that in the second chant of the Bhagavatam there is a chapter that says that Krishna consciousness is the only solution to all problems.

If we are able to understand and accept that everything we do is an offering of love and devotion to God or Krishna and His representative Srila Prabhupada, that God or Krishna is the owner of everything because He has created everything and that God or Krishna He is our best friend, the best friend is the one who never abandons you, and God or Krishna is always with us. If we are able to experience this we are living in the spiritual world.

Mercy

 Mercy, by Haripada dasa

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada 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 made many offenses to Jesus Christ, they humiliated him, beat him 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 whipped 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 rose again 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 he gets out of the car and they fist it up.

Once a disciple of Srila Prabhupada told him in a sentimental plan 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 to you 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.

Great Souls

 Great Souls, by Haripada dasa

In relation to this subject, in Gita, 7, 3, God or Krishna says that of many thousands of men, one may strive for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one really knows Me. In the same chapter, verse 19, God or Krishna says that after many births and deaths, he who truly has knowledge gives himself to Me, knowing that I am the cause of all causes and all that exists. A soul this big is very hard to find.

In the Bhagavatam, 6, 14, 5, it is said that Oh, great sage! Of the many millions of liberated and perfect people in the knowledge of liberation, perhaps one is a devotee of Lord Nārāyaṇa, Kṛiṣhṇa. Finding one of those completely peaceful devotees is something extraordinarily difficult.

And in Chaitanya Charitamrita it is said that the only peaceful person is the pure devotee of God or Krishna, everyone else has material desires, the fruitive worker, wants to enjoy matter, the mental speculator, wants to mitigate his sufferings, the mystic yogi He wants mystical powers, but the pure devotee of God or Krishna does not want anything material, his only wish is that the whole world be happy in Krishna consciousness.

When Srila Prabhupada arrived in the USA, he wrote very beautiful poems, in one of them he said that when all people are happy in Krishna consciousness, the wishes of the pure devotees of God or Krishna will be fulfilled.