Srila Sanatana Gosvami Poetry

Srila Sanatana Gosvami Poetry
At the end of his book entitled Sri Brihat Bhagavatamrita, Srila Sanatana Gosvami wrote some very beautiful poetry, with love and trust I share a paragraph:
“When everything is dark around you, Your Holy Name lights up a light in me. I turn the rosary that My Guru gave me, and they comfort me whispering, fear not, I am with you. "

Incredible

Incredible, by Haripada dasa
Srila Prabhupada sent from Vrindavana, India, on July 9, 1977 a special letter to all his temples, there he named 11 ancient disciples and ordered them to start in my name from now on, then when Srila Prabhupada entered his lila samadhi or disincarnated they changed Srila Prabhupada's instruction and said that now they are the gurus.
This created a schism, schism means that in a group of people there are two opinions, so that no one doubts that Srila Prabhupada's wish was that his disciples start on his behalf, it is that in Srila Prabhupada's Will it is said that all the properties of iskcon must always be in the name of his disciples.
Many people have left Iskcon not to be complicit in all the offenses they are doing to Srila Prabhupada, the result of offending the guru is that the person becomes atheistic and a first-class speculator.
We would all like the Srila Prabhupada movement to be led by people who want to obey Srila Prabhupada and who have a lot of love for Srila Prabhupada.

Three prayers and give thanks

Three prayers and give thanks, by Haripada dasa
With love and trust I share that before chanting the rounds of the Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, I pray to the Jagat-Guru or Guru of the Universe Srila Prabhupada, God or Krishna and my Deity of Lord Nrisimhadeva bless me so that I may chant Hare Krishna without offense, bless me so that I do not offend any moving and immobile living entity and forgive my offenses by trying to serve them with love and devotion.
And when I finish my rounds I thank the Jagat-Guru or the Guru of the Universe, Srila Prabhupada, God or Krishna and my Deity of Lord Nrisimhadeva for having let me sing the 16 rounds, in my house that is a temple of Krishna, I have posted almost 200 laminated photos of Srila Prabhupada, Deities, and places of pilgrimage throughout the house. Srila Prabhupada always said that the paintings that devotees make are windows to the spiritual world, and the photos of pure devotees, Deities, and sacred places are on the absolute plane.
By Krishna's mercy I have been practicing Krishna consciousness since 1984, and I have come to the conclusion that the most important thing is to obey Srila Prabhupada's instructions, because the result of this is that one will live with Srila Prabhupada and acquire his qualities.

The clear things

The clear things, by Haripada dasa
With love and trust I share that on Facebook I have almost 5,000 friends, the majority are from India, and I put my spiritual messages in 20 groups, most from India, there are some people who like my messages and have told me that I am His guru, so that there is no confusion and things are clear, I have replied that the only guru here is Srila Prabhupada, and if you want we can be spiritual brothers or spiritual friends, Srila Prabhupada did not leave anyone as his successor, but who commanded his disciples to initiate on his behalf, most of his disciples do not want to obey that order, there are only some very serious and sincere who obey this order.
There are also people who on Facebook have told me they love me, so that there are no confusion and things are clear, I have answered that I am not interested in material relationships, material relationships means envy and much suffering, I am interested in relationships Spiritual, spiritual relationships means having God or Krishna and His representative Srila Prabhupada at the center of our lives, and the result of this is that one experiences eternity, spiritual knowledge and true happiness.
I end this message with a very beautiful verse from the Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya-lila, 4, 179: Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued: “Śrī Mādhavendra Purī used to live alone. He was fully renounced and always very silent. He had no interest in anything material, and, for fear of talking about worldly things, he always lived without any company.

There are many differences

There are many differences, by Haripada dasa
I will try to expose the differences between devotees of God or Krishna and non devotees.
Devotees of God or Krishna are always doing good to others without wanting anything in return, serving others they enjoy much happiness and freedom, non-devotees never do good to others, they think on the terms of me and mine, that's why they are always depressed and fearful.
When the devotees of God or Krishna cook their mentality is that they are cooking for God or Krishna, then they offer food to God or Krishna and eat prasada which means the mercy of God or Krishna, Krishna is never offered meat, fish or Eggs, non devotees cook to please their senses, and in the Gita it is said that they only eat sins.
Devotees of God or Krishna are friendly to everyone and enjoy talking about God or Krishna with other devotees, non-devotees never like to talk about God or Krishna, they speak only of temporal and worldly things, they make friends with other people to get money out of them and please their senses.
Devotees of God or Krishna are humble, they can do wonderful things, but they think that this is the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna, the non-devotee is proud, he thinks that I am the maximum, there is nobody superior to me. In the Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya-lila, 1, 43 Srila Prabhupada says that the least respect should not be offered to non-devotees.
Devotees of God or Krishna are 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, not devotees are neither tolerant not merciful, every day they send millions and millions of innocent animals to the slaughterhouse, and they are not tolerant, I saw a person whistle to the car in front because the traffic light had turned green and the other left the car all annoying and ended up hitting each other.

We want nectar

We want nectar, by Haripada dasa
Here I share a beautiful verse from the Chaitanya Charitamrita, Antya lila, 1, 120: "" I do not know how much nectar the two syllables ‘kṛiṣ-ṇa 'have produced. When chanted, the holy name of Kṛiṣhṇa seems to dance in the mouth. So we want many, many mouths. When that name enters the earholes, we desire many millions of ears. And when the holy name dances in the courtyard of the heart, it conquers the activities of the mind and, due to this, all the senses remain inert. ”»
We all understand and accept that the truth will set us free, it will always be better to pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna for others than to criticize, to avoid criticism we must obey the instruction of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada who says that others do what they want, to I do not care, I already have enough work singing Hare Krishna to purify my damned mind, and Bhaktivinoda Thakura said that if you see a defect in others, it is not that the person has that defect, but that you have it and you reflect it on the other person, the only way to eliminate evil on a personal and collective level, is through kindness, he who does not live to serve, does not live to live and peace and good.
Nectar means obeying all the instructions that Srila Prabhupada and all the guru parampara have given us, regarding the association of the devotees, Baktivinoda Thakura in the Bhakti Sudhodaya tells us that the devotees should relate to the most advanced, affective and having devotees the same temperament, and Visvanatha Chakravarti instructs us and says that if in the devotees association we see people with a very harsh character, that we respect them in the mind but that we do not associate with them, and I have done very well. break the relationship with anyone that I feel wants to control me.
I am very clear that my best friends in the spiritual life are those people who transmit me to Srila Prabhupada. The Bhakti plant or devotion to Krishna feeds on nectar, not rare stories, gossip, envy, etc.
We have very defined spiritual ideals, trying to follow all the instructions given in Srila Prabhupada's books, and helping each other to 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. The amara jivana song by Bhaktivinoda Thakura has helped me a lot, in this song he with all his humility puts himself in the role of an ordinary person so that we know the mentality of people in general, there he says three times that I only make people suffer. the others and when that happens I feel great happiness.
The worst thing that can happen to a person in the spiritual life is thinking that I know everything, in this connection Srila Prabhupada told a story, there was a violin teacher, there were two people there, the teacher asked them, do you know how to play something? the violin, one answered that I don't know anything, and the other said that I already know how to play the violin, the teacher told them that for the one who doesn't know I will charge 20 euros a month, and for the one who already knows 40 euros a month, and the one who said he knew protested why he does this to me, charge me double, and the teacher told him that with you first I have to teach you all the things that you think you know, but that you don't really know, and teach you everything again, so it's double work.
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Hare Krishna

Hare Krishna, with love and trust I share this beautiful verse of the Chaitanya Charitamrita, Antya-lila, 13, 133, the result of understanding and accepting this verse is that the person will become a pure devotee of God or Krishna and will never criticize anyone.

TEXT 133

vaiṣṇavera nindya-karma nāhi pāḍe kāṇe

sabe kṛṣṇa bhajana kare,--ei-mātra jāne

SYNONYMS

vaiṣṇavera—of the Vaiṣṇava; nindya-karma—reproachable activities; nāhi pāḍe kāṇe—he does not hear; sabe—all; kṛṣṇa bhajana kare—are engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service; ei-mātra—only this; jāne—he understands.

TRANSLATION

He would not listen to blasphemy of a Vaiṣṇava, nor would he listen to talk of a Vaiṣṇava's misbehavior. He knew only that everyone was engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service; he did not understand anything else.

PURPORT

Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa never did anything harmful to a Vaiṣṇava. In other words, he was never inattentive in the service of the Lord, nor did he ever violate the rules and regulations of a pure Vaiṣṇava. It is the duty of a Vaiṣṇava ācārya to prevent his disciples and followers from violating the principles of Vaiṣṇava behavior. He should always advise them to strictly follow the regulative principles, which will protect them from falling down. Although a Vaiṣṇava preacher may sometimes criticize others, Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa avoided this. Even if another Vaiṣṇava was actually at fault, Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa would not criticize him; he saw only that everyone was engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service. That is the position of a mahā-bhāgavata. Actually, even if one is serving māyā, in a higher sense he is also a servant of Kṛṣṇa. Because māyā is the servant of Kṛṣṇa, anyone serving māyā serves Kṛṣṇa indirectly. Therefore it is said:

keha māne, keha nā māne, saba tāṅra dāsa
ye nā māne, tāra haya sei pāpe nāśa

"Some accept Him, whereas others do not, yet everyone is His servant. One who does not accept Him, however, will be ruined by his sinful activities." (Cc. Ādi 6.85)

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