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31 March 2020

Doctors’ care and Devotees’ Prayers

Good Morning. Of course morning is there. We can’t say good or bad. Nowadays there is a mixture. As we are in the material world it can’t be all good. In Vaikuntha or in the Spiritual abode only, there can be all good. But there will always be something bad in this world. This world is like that only. Bad, bad, bad or mad, mad, mad. This is bad and getting worse because of Coronavirus. Some are predicting that the worst days are still to come. Some leaders, doctors, scientists and WHO people are saying that the peak time has not been seen by the world

Be ready for that. Prepare yourself and do the homework so that it won’t get as bad as they are predicting. This is called Damage Control. Damage will be there. It can’t be avoided. Damage has already started. But we need to prepare ourselves and take the precaution and follow the do’s and don’ts given by the doctor and behave ourselves like staying at home and not stepping outside. All such care is being taken by doctors. Doctors are instructing us to be beware of this or that and to be in quarantine. All of you are well acquainted with this. No work and stay at home. Follow this rules and regulations given by doctors. Apart from that, following this much will not make it.

Along with doctors’ care, we need devotees’ prayers – especially Gaudiya Vaisnavas devotees’ prayers. Prayers are powerful. And in Gaudiya Vaisnavas’ prayers, there is special power because they chant

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna maha-mantra is a prayer and this prayer itself is the Lord. We are offering prayers to the Lord and this name is filled with all the potencies of the Lord. The Lord’s name is complete with all energies and energetic also. The Lord is called Energetic. This Hare Krishna maha-mantra is shakti-yukta, means all potencies of the Lord are there. We need this also.

Actually first we need prayers only. I was saying Doctors’ care and Devotees’ prayers. Devotees’ Prayers are mandatory. All doctors are busy making all their attempts from all the knowledge they have gained. We are very thankful to all the doctors for the role that they are playing. But along with that we need to offer prayers. Some devotees are doctors and around the world there are so many doctor devotees. We may not be doctors but we are devotees of Gauranga Mahaprabhu and it becomes our duty to pray for everyones well being. What to say?

krsne matih astu

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to give this blessing.

mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā
bodhayantaḥ parasparam
kathayantaś ca māṁ nityaṁ
tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca

Translation:
The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me. [BG 10.9]

May your consciousness get absorbed in Krsna! Mahaprabhu blessed, prayed like that for all. We are also offering prayers, chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, making people hear kathas, feeding prasada. All this is a prayer and a solution as well. Doctor’s care and Devotees’ Prayer. This is also prasada. When we call ourselves devotees then devotees are asked to prove themselves as devotees. What do devotees do? They do welfare or paropkar.

bhārata-bhūmite haila manusya janma yara
janma sarthaka kari kara para-upakāra

Translation:
One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of India [Bhārata-varṣa] should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people. [CC Adi 9.41]

Our Lord is Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Krsna had become Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu for us in the first evening of the age of Kali and He is our Lord. He is Karuna avatar. May His Karuna be all over world afflicted by Coronavirus! This is also a prayer. This is high thinking also as it for the benefit and welfare of the whole world. This is high thinking.

sarve sukhina bhavantu sarve santu niramayaha
_Sarvani bhadrani pashyantu Maa Kashcid-Duhkha-Bhaag-Bhavet

This is a Prayer. There are many feelings, words and emotions in prayers.We say Hare Krishna but there are many thoughts also. Sarve sukhina bhavantu means May the Lord keep everyone happy and healthy! Sarve santu niramahaya means please keep everyone free from all diseases. When we say this, a devotee who is in knowledge, understands that it is written in scriptures that one is vyadhi and another is adhi. Both are diseases. Vyadhi is those diseases which takes place in the body. In our scriptures, one more thing has been described which is more dangerous. Those are the mental disorders called adhi. Mentally ill. For that, there are mental hospitals. This adhi is more dangerous. There can be diseases in your subtle body including the mind.

What is the prayer? May all become free from all diseases such as vyadhi and adhi! Going back to the blessings which Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to give.

krsner matih astu

May you engage your mind, intelligence, consciousness,heart and feelings in the Lord. You may offer such a prayer for the whole world. You may repeat the prayer made by the Lord. All the people in this world are ours and hence those who are making a discrimination such as these people are mine and these are others. These are men and these are women. All this is called laghucetasam which means low minded. These are low minded thoughts. A few minutes ago, we talked about high thinking sarve bhavantu sukhina. Sarve means let everyone be happy.

Lord Krsna says,

sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo
mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca
vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedānta-kṛd veda-vid eva cāham

Translation:
I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedānta, and I am the knower of the Vedas. [BG 15.15]

I’m seated in everyone’s heart which may be Italian, American,Chinese. So may all become happy! This is the thinking of Vaisnavas. As they think like this they are beyond the three modes, duality, envy and hatred.

yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭo
dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ
samaḥ siddhāv asiddhau ca
kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate

Translation:
He who is satisfied with gain which comes of its own accord, who is free from duality and does not envy, who is steady in both success and failure, is never entangled, although performing actions.[BG 4.22]

Devotees are beyond dvandva. Dvandva means duality such as mine or others.We don’t understand. We all are one. This is dvandva-atitah. We are vasudhaiva kutumbakam means we are one but dividing it in parts that this is mine or others is another thing. And this laghucetasam means low minded.

Sarve bhadrani pasyantu Our prayer is “May everyone’s life or journey be auspicious!” Railways also say that “May your journey be auspicious”. Life is also a journey. May that be auspicious!

Maa Kashcid-Duhkha-Bhaag-Bhavet means may no one suffer.
One time there was an opening of a hospital by one of my doctor friends. At the time of inauguration, I said this prayer and explained that may everyone become free from diseases. M doctor friend said, “Maharaja what kind of prayer are you offering?” We are letting you cut this ribbon for inauguration. We need diseased people and if not then how will this hospital run? In this world there are people who are para dukhe sukhi like Bhaktivinoda Thakur says. There are people in this world who are happy in others miseries. In others miseries we become happy.Just like Mrigari who became happy seeing the distress of others.

One siddha baba( perfectionist yogi) gave the blessing that however tall building you may want, may your desire get fulfilled! But your neighbour’s home will be twice that of your home. This person’s home was 1 then neighbour’s 2. He prayed give me 2 floors and then his neighbour’s got 4 floors. He prayed for 4 floors and his neighbours got 8 floors. Like that the neighbour was getting everything doubled. Now this person became unhappy seeing his neighbour’s happiness. This is para sukhe dukhi. He thought of making some plan to put his neighbour in distress. He prayed that he may become blind in one eye. The neighbour became blind with both eyes. Then he became happy. Now he is para dukhe sukhi .

The whole world is filled with such kind of demoniac mentality. And this is low thinking. Low thinking v/s high thinking.

“kalau śūdra sambhavah”[Skanda-Purana] In the Kali Yuga, everyone will be sudras. And this is the low thinking of the sudras. The world is filled with such people. All of you are devotees and representatives of Gauranga. You should have high thinking. You’re devotees. You should not have this thinking of mine and others. Fill yourself with prayers.

Yesterday I spoke about Dheeraj Agarwal Prabhu. The information was wrong. His son is fine. Keep on praying for Dheeraj Agarwal Pr’s health. Devotees who were tested were found to be negative. Thank you for the prayers.

• Many are doing kirtan at 5 pm for half an hour or more than that.
• Many devotees are reporting.
• Happy birthday Rajeev.
• Jaishree from Mauritius has done many services.
• Vraja kishor from Kolhapur is doing kirtana.
• Harikirtan is doing kirtan with neighbours.
• Padmaja from Mayapur -64 rounds
• And one is chanting 84 rounds.
• Arjuna Prana from Kolhapur is doing kirtan.
• Ramlila Mataji will do Ram Katha.
• Ganesh Godase Pr from Pandharpur is distributing prasada

I’m saying this as all of you may get some idea for preaching or prasada distribution. Devotees from Boston are chanting with us.Stay busy 24 hours a day.

Gaur Bhagavad Katha will be there as I had said. There will be katha between 5.30 to 6.30 pm in English and it will be telecasted live from tomorrow. Be ready for it. Please attend in huge numbers. Spread the word around and get ready.

Hare Krishna!

31 марта 2020

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Хари Хари Бол! Добро пожаловать и поздравляю. Доброе утро.
Оно тоже там. Конечно, утро там. Мы не можем сказать, хорошо или плохо. Теперь дни вперемешку..
Поскольку мы находимся в материальном мире, все не может быть хорошо. На Вайкунтхе все может быть хорошо.
Это мир только такой. Bad Bad Bad или Mad Mad Mad. Он плох и ухудшается из-за корона вируса.

Некоторые лидеры говорят, такие как, доктора и сотрудники ВОЗ, что пиковое время не было достигнуто миром. Так что будьте готовы к этому.
Приготовьтесь и выполняйте домашнюю работу, чтобы не было так плохо. Ущерб будет позже. Этого нельзя избежать.
Если мы готовимся и принимаем меры предосторожности, следуем указаниям доктора и не нарушаем его, и ведем себя так, как если бы мы сидели дома и не выходили на улицу, как об этом говорят всему миру.
Всей такой заботой занимаются врачи. Остерегайтесь этого. Все вы хорошо знакомы с этим. Нет работе и нужно сидеть дома. Следуйте этим правилам и инструкциям, данными врачами.

Кроме того, после этого многое сразу не получится. Наряду с заботой врачей нам нужны молитвы преданных. Особенно Гаудия Вайшнавы. В Гаудия Вайшнава Харе Кришна Махамантра – это молитва, а сама эта молитва – Сам Господь. Мы возносим молитвы Господу, и это имя полно всего могущества Господа.

Имя Господа включает в себя все энергии, а также полно силы. В этом Харе Кришна Махамантре присутствуют все энергии Господа. Так что нам это тоже нужно. Сначала нам нужны молитвы.

Я говорил о заботе врачей и молитвах преданных.

Все врачи заняты и делают все попытки. Мы очень благодарны всем врачам за ту роль, которую они играют.

Наряду с этим нам нужно совершать молитвы. Некоторые из преданных являются врачами, и во всем мире так много преданных-докторов.

Пусть мы не врачи, но мы преданные Гауранги Махапрабху, и наша обязанность – молиться за благополучие.
Что сказать? Кришне Матих Асту. Сам Господь Чайтанья давал это благословение.

мач-читта мад-гата-прана бодхайантах параспарам
катхайанташ ча мам нитйам тушйанти ча раманти ча
(БГ 10.9)

Перевод Шрилы Прабхупады:
Все мысли Моих чистых преданных поглощены Мной, и вся их жизнь посвящена Мне. Всегда делясь друг с другом знанием и беседуя обо Мне, они испытывают огромное удовлетворение и блаженство.

Пусть ваше сознание погрузится в Кришну!
Мы молимся, заставляем людей слушать катху, кормим прасадом Это тоже прасад. Если мы называем себя преданными, тогда преданных просят проявить себя как преданные. Так пусть все станут счастливыми! Когда они так думают, они выходят за пределы трех гун, двойственности, зависти и ненависти.

Они находятся за пределами двандвы или двойственности, такой как мое и не мое. Мы не понимаем. Мы все едины, васудзайва кутумбакам – это одно, а разделение на части – другое.
Пусть жизнь или путешествие каждого человека будут благоприятными! Железные дороги тоже так говорят. Жизнь это также путешествие. Пусть это будет благоприятно!

Однажды один из моих друзей-докторов открыл больницу.

Я выполнил и объяснил эту молитву. Он сказал, что за молитву вы выполняете. Нам нужны больные люди, а если нет, то как будет работать больница? В этом мире есть люди, которые являются пара дукхе сукхи, такие как Мригари, которые становятся счастливыми, видя страдания других.
Один сиддха-баба дал благословение, что, какое бы высоко зданиее вы ни пожелали, пусть ваше желание исполнится! Но дом вашего соседа будет вдвое выше вашего дома. Дом этого человека был в один этаж, а у соседей два. Его два этажа, а соседа четыре. Так что теперь этот человек стал несчастным, увидев счастье своего соседа.
Поэтому он решил составить какой-нибудь план, чтобы поставить своего соседа в беду. Он молился, чтобы я мог ослепнуть одним глазом, а сосед стал слепым обоими глазами. Затем он стал счастливым.
Весь мир наполнен таким демоничным мышлением. В Кали-югу будут шудры. Весь мир наполнен такими людьми.
Все вы – преданные Гауранги. Так что наполните себя молитвами.
Многие преданные сообщают. Вчера я сказал в отношении Дхирадж Адагвал прабху и его сын в порядке. Это исправление. Продолжайте молиться за Дхираджа Агарвала Пр.

Преданные, которые были проверены, оказались отрицательными по этим проверкам. Спасибо за молитвы. Многие делают киртан и повторяют 84 круга.
Рамлила Матаджи собирается исполнять Рам Катху. Ганеш Годасе Пр раздает прасад.
Я говорю это, поскольку все вы можете получить некоторое представление.
Преданные из Бостона воспевают вместе с нами.
Будьте заняты 24 часа в сутки. Гаур Бхагвад Катха будет там, как я уже сказал.

(Перевод Кришна Намадхан дас)

30 March 2020

Don’t Socialize but Spiritualize!

I had heard the report that yesterday there were 842 places from where devotees had participated. It’s a good news.

Today also so much news is flooding. This is all breaking the news. During the Japa and Japa-talk session you all are sending so many reports about whatever you all have done yesterday for the pleasure of the Lord, for the pleasure of Gauranga, Nityananda, Krsna-Balarama, Ram-Laksman. For the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada, for me as your spiritual master, and for all other Vaisnavas. Whatever Krishna conscious activities you did as prayers for the whole world to pray to the Lord for protection, liberation and devotion. It’s not humanly possible to go through all of the reports. But there is some photographic memory which a computer is retaining, that all of you can read.

I had mentioned yesterday that Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave orders to His associates that they should go and preach Krishna consciousness to everyone and then report to Him after coming back. In that parampara you all are doing similar reporting. Ultimately those reports you are making reaches me, and why only me, but all the devotees doing Japa Yajna. But ultimately all these reports are for the pleasure of the Lord. 500 years back the associates of Caitanya Mahaprabhu reported to the Lord directly and now also your reports are reaching the Lord. I had mentioned already whether you report it here or not the Lord is taking note of all that. Even your thought of reporting is getting noted by the Lord. He knows everything. That is the Lord. He is all knowing. The Lord notes your thinking of wanting to report this particular thing that you did kirtana from 5 o’clock till 5:15 pm.

Many devotees are writing, “We did kirtana at 5.00pm.” Hardik Patel from America and Vallabh Nitai from Noida did kirtana and he got it done from the members of his bhakti vriksha. Prasanna Manjari did kirtana and then she herself also got pleased by that and all those who heard the kirtana also became pleased. We are pleased and the Lord is also pleased. Some devotees have reached Jaipur to be with their family members and they did kirtana over there. Our Ganesh Godase Prabhuji from Pandharpur also did kirtana and got it done by others. Syamalata from Mayapur played the harmonium in the balcony to do kirtana.

My doctor , Shyamsundar Sharma from Nagpur broke the news that they distributed lunch, breakfast and dinner prasada. Syamalangi from the Middle East reported that the Government has allowed zoom conference over there, so she is getting kirtana done by people at distant places like London. Param Karuna from Nagpur, got kirtana done by 25 people from his house, through the medium of internet.This is just tip of iceberg. There are hundreds and hundreds of reports which I cannot even keep track of but it’s overwhelming, ecstatic, and its good news. Some devotees are doing Katha and study of Bhagavatam. There are devotees chanting 64 rounds and so many additional rounds.

We are in need of this thing only. We need the sound vibrations, utterance of the names of the Lord. This is Shabda-bramha. This Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, these words are Brahma or Bhagawan. It is Shabda-bramha.

paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma
pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān
puruṣaṁ śāśvataṁ divyam
ādi-devam ajaṁ vibhum

Translation:
Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ultimate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth. You are the eternal, transcendental, original person, the unborn, the greatest. ( Bhagavad-Gita 10.12)

That svayam Rupa of whom we can take a photograph or make videos. His Arcavigraha is also parabrahma. That Lord about whom we have heard in sahgusanga .

iti sodasakam namnam kali kalmasa nasanam
natah parataropayah sarva vedesu drusyate

Translation:
“In this way, the collection of sixteen names is the only destroyer of sins in Kali-yuga. No other remedy can be found in any part of the Vedic literature.” ( Kali-santarana upanishad text 6)

We were talking about the katha of the Lord, fame of the Lord and glories of the Lord. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna is not the only Kirtana but Rupa kirtana, Guna kirtana, Lila kirtana and Nama kirtana, Dhama kirtana. Glorification of the fame of great devotees and associates of the Lord is all kirtana. For this kirtana gaan whatever words or mantras we utter , read, sing is all Shabda-bramha. These words itself are Shabda-bramha. These are all transcendental, pure sounds. These are the Lord. When we do kirtana, katha or narrate katha to others then we spread these words all around. Wherever these words reach, as I had mentioned yesterday that whatever kirtana you do locally, it shows its effect globally. When we do kirtana the whole world is benefited. The world is entangled in big difficulty. Hare Krishna kirtana, Krsna Katha, Krsna prasada, Krsna darsana is the only solution. What are the things by which world gets affected the most? It’s words.

People talk of noise pollution. There is food pollution, water pollution etc. Similarly there is noise pollution. What is pollution? Whatever words are there in the air or ether, they are polluted. They are defective. The whole world gets affected by that. Our efforts of doing kirtana katha or distribution of prasada is for,

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa

Translation:
“Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Sri Krsna as they are given in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land.” ( Caitanya-caritamrita, Madhya 7.128)

harer nāma harer nāma
harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā

Translation:
“ ‘For spiritual progress in this Age of Kali, there is no alternative, there is no alternative, there is no alternative to the holy name, the holy name, the holy name of the Lord.’ (Caitanya-caritamrita Adi 7.6)

By this holy atmosphere, air around us, the material words are getting purified. The reason for sound pollution is not only noisy sounds made by the vehicles and different machines, but noise pollution happens due to nonsensical talks of worldly people and their mental speculations, so called stories of love and sex. When scientists talk challengingly, ‘Show us God! He is not there!’ Sometimes politicians also talk some nonsensical things. They just keep blabbering whatever they feel like. As they are not intelligent and full of ignorance. All their knowledge is illusory knowledge , which is only about material things, it’s only about Geography and Astrophysics. There is no knowledge of transcendence or of the Lord and about the knowledge of self realisation. Such people of the world are

na mam duskrtino mudhah
prapadyante naradhamah
mayayapahrta-jnana
asuram bhavam asritah

Translation:
Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons, do not surrender unto Me. (BG. 7.15)

Those who are duskritino, and mudha , prapadyante naradhamah, those who are naradhamas. They are Nara, but not Narottama. They are Nara – adhama. mayayapahrta-jnana, their knowledge has been stolen by Maya. asuram bhavam asritah, the world is full of those who have been overpowered by the demonic mentality in this age of Kali. When such people talk, write or sing then it’s all bak-bak( non sensical sounds). The whole atmosphere, sky and ether gets filled with this only. This is termed noise pollution.

There is deformity or vikriti in the words. Ignorant people have created this. Yesterday I was telling you that when we listen to some lie again and again, 5 times, 10 times, hundred times, then people start believing it to be the truth. As so many times these things about lust and anger are bombarded. By listening to it again and again and again then people start believing in it. By listening to the nonsensical talks of leaders, actors, politicians and scientists and other such ignorant people as breaking news, in electronic news and print news , then by this all the noise pollution happens. All the different pollutions then follow this. By this then mind gets disturbed and there is mind pollution. After the noise pollution there is mind pollution and then all the deformities of intelligence start manifesting as bodily consciousness, fear of death. We get entangled in all this. We start deceiving our own self. Srila Prabhupad said, “This world either gets cheated or cheats others. “Cheaters and cheated” is going on. To protect us from all this we have this,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

This is pure , eternal, liberated and complete sound. It is explained

nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś
caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ
pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto
‘bhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ

Translation:
” ‘The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual benedictions, for it is Kṛṣṇa Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Kṛṣṇa’s name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. It is not a material name under any condition, and it is no less powerful than Kṛṣṇa Himself. Since Kṛṣṇa’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities, there is no question of its being involved with māyā. Kṛṣṇa’s name is always liberated and spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature. This is because the name of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical.’ ( Caitanya-caritamrita , Madhya 17.133)

This name of the Lord is a reservoir of all the rasas. It’s complete, pure and liberated. It’s filled with knowledge. Th whole power of the Lord is filled with it. We have to get influenced by the words which describe the name, form, qualities and pastimes of the supreme Lord. This is the gift of Karunavatar Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He gave us , ‘Goloker premadhan’ which is Harinama Sankirtana which he brought from Goloka. It’s a gift to us. There are pastimes of Mahaprabhu, of Lord Rama ,of Krsna. All the pastimes, narrations of the Lord, Srimad-Bhagavatam and of course Bhagavad Gita which is the basic foundation are there. My request to all of you is in whatever situation we are currently due to the Coronavirus, make the best use of the bad bargain. Take full advantage of the situation. This address is not only for those who are on the conference, but it is for all Hare Krishna devotees all over the world.

At 5 pm all of you do kirtana for a minimum of 15 minutes. It is not India limited. We are telling you this on behalf of the ‘ISKCON Harinama Propagation Committee.’ We are inspiring devotees all over the world. Wherever you are according to their time zones, at 5 pm you do kirtana. Broadcast this transcendental sound far and wide. Stay busy . You all have smart phones. So you also become smart. By the medium of phones, by the medium of Zoom conferences, and social medias spread the sound. Turn the social media into spiritual media. No more social media. Socialising currently is the bad thing to do. No socialising, but spiritualising! Make it a spiritual forum. Spiritualise the social forums bombarding it with Katha and Kirtana.

From Noida Prema Manjari is informing that they are conducting Bhakti Vriksha on the conference. It’s a good idea. Instead of stopping Bhakti Vriksha programs you take it further, expand it to more and more people. A lot could be done in this matter. You can preach in your councillor groups. You can consult with seniors and there is no limit to all the things that can be done. Stay busy.

Finally there is not a good news! All over the world there are about 5 to 6 lakh positive cases of coronavirus. So many people have been affected. ISKCON devotees are also not spared , as they also have this physical body. Param Karuna Prabhu was giving me the news on the conference, but I had received the news last night only. Our Dheeraj Agarwal Prabhuji , who used to chant with us on this conference and who stays 100 meters from temple and his son who studies in Mayapur Gurukul have been detected positive for coronavirus. When this news was out before he was put in quarantine whomsoever he had met in the temple , all the devotees of the temple, around 30 – 35 brahmacaris of the temple have been taken to hospital for 24 hours, for investigation. Due to this the temple which was closed only for the public, is now closed completely as all the Brahmachari devotees are also out.

They are getting checked. I know all of you are praying and still I request to pray for Dheeraj Agarwal Prabhuji and his son and for the temple Brahmacharis and all those devotees who had come in contact with them. Let them be out of the hospital soon. Today there was no mangal arati of Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha, no sringar of their Lordships could be done. Situation is really grave. We pray at the feet of Radha Gopinatha, that may their Lordships protect all the world and specially our ISKCON devotees. Let their Lordships protect Dheeraj Agarwal Prabhuji and his son. May our devotees get discharged from the hospital soon and be get engaged in the service of Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha. My request is that you all should offer such prayers.

Radha Gopinatha ki Jay!
Narasingha Bhagavan ki Jay!!
Gaur Premanande Hari Hari bol!

30 марта 2020

Харе Кришна Доброе утро

736 мест подключений в конференции сегодня. Вчера было 842.

Сегодня так много разрозненных новостей, и вы отправляете так много сообщений о том, какие действия в Сознании Кришны вы совершили ради удовольствия Господа, Шрилы Прабхупады, меня и преданных, присоединившихся к этой конференции.
Мы молимся за обусловленные души всего мира для их освобождения, а также бхакти.

Ни один человек не может пройти через все эти новости. Я сказал, что Чайтанья Махапрабху наставлял Своих проповедников проповедовать и рассказывать. И я думаю, что подобное происходит в этой парампаре, где вы рассказываете. Вы отправляете отчеты мне, и не только мне, но и участникам джапа конференции, а также, в конце концов, Чайтанье Махапрабху, поскольку эти преданные обычно отчитывались непосредственно перед Ним.

Несколько дней назад я сказал, что даже если вы можете сообщить или нет, Господь знает чувства вашего сердца, поскольку Господь всеведущ.
Как вы помните, что вы делаете, когда совершаете киртан между 5 до 5:15 вечера (по индийскому времени, по мск времени 14,30-14,45) . Хардик Патель из США, Валлабх Нимай Пр, Прасанна Манджари Матаджи, Акинчана Бхакта Пр, Ганеш Годасе Пр, Шьямаланги Матаджи делали киртан. Шьямсундар Прабху послал новость, что они раздали 1000 тарелок прасада.

На Ближнем Востоке зум-конференция сейчас легализована. Преданные используют зум-конференцию, чтобы дать возможность другим совершать киртан.
Это всего лишь верхушка айсберга, и это потрясающе и экстатично. Многие преданные выполняют Шримад Бхагаватам-катху, некоторые повторяют 64 круга …

Для этого нужны только чистые звуковые вибрации о Господе, который, как сказал Арджуна, пара брахма.
Его и Его имя это Парабрахма. Мантра с 16 словами, а также киртан Его имен, форме, качествах, играх и о Его спутниках – это все киртан.
Когда мы воспеваем всю эту славу, тогда это трансцендентный чистый звук. Когда мы распространяем такие катха киртаны, и они достигают повсюду, как я сказал.

Даже если мы проводим киртан на местном уровне, все еще можно ощутить эффекты во всем мире. Это то, что мы можем сделать.
Кришна прасад Кришна даршан – единственное лекарство. Мир больше всего подвержен влиянию звука.
Существует также шумовое загрязнение. Также как загрязнение воздуха, воды и пищи, так же как и загрязнение окружающей среды, и весь мир подвержен влиянию этого.

Когда мы совершаем Харер намаива кевалам, тогда мы очищаем все существование. Шумовое загрязнение происходит не только из-за дорожного движения транспортных средств, но в основном из-за разговоров мирских людей, таких как ученые, политики.
Они продолжают говорить, поскольку они находятся в невежестве. Они не знают, кто они. У них нет никаких знаний о самореализации.

на ма̄м̇ душкр̣тино мӯд̣ха̄х̣
прападйанте нара̄дхама̄х̣
ма̄йайа̄пахр̣та-джн̃а̄на̄
а̄сурам̇ бха̄вам а̄ш́рита̄х̣
(БГ 7.15)

Перевод Шрилы Прабхупады:
Невежественные глупцы, низшие из людей, те, чье знание украдено иллюзией и кому присуща безбожная природа демонов, — все эти грешники не предаются Мне.

Те, кто душкртино, грубый глупец, самый низкий среди людей, те, чьи знания были украдены майей и с демоническим менталитетом …
… когда такие люди говорят, тогда это наполняет атмосферу, и это называется шумовым загрязнением. Когда мы снова и снова слышим ложь или похотливые, гневливые вещи, мы думаем, что это правда.
Когда мы слышим политиков и актеров, мы заражаемся, и начинается загрязнение ума, затем начинается идентификация с телом …
Затем начинается самообман, а затем начинается действие обмана и получение обмана (общество обманутых и обманщиков).
Чтобы избавиться от них, у нас есть святые имена, которые полны сладости, которая вечна, полна, со всеми силами Кришны … На нас должны влиять такие имена Господа.
Тогда какими бы загрязненными мы ни были или какими бы безликими мы ни были, по милости дара Господа Чайтаньи, который Он принес с Голоки … Есть так много катх …
Из-за короны вируса у нас есть немного времени, и мы можем лучше всего использовать плохую сделку.
Это обращение ко всем преданным Харе Кришна. Вы должны сделать пятнадцати минутный киртан. Это не ограничено Индией.
Мы говорим это из ИСККОН, Харинама Санкиртана.
Так что делайте эту Харинама Санкиртану и распространяйте это имя повсюду.

У вас есть смартфон, и вы тоже стали умным. Превратите социальные медиа в духовные. Одухотворенный социальный форум.

Джаганнатха Свами Пр
сообщил, что они проводят программы Бхакти Врикша в зуме. У вас есть программа наставничества ….
Во всем мире от 5 до 6 тысяч человек страдают от корона вируса. Преданные ИСККОН тоже не свободны от этого.
Парамкаруна Прабху сообщил, что преданный в Нагпуре и его сын пострадали от корона вируса. Некоторые преданные храма также были проверены с помощью теста.

Мы просим помолиться за Дираджа Агравала Пр, его сына и преданных в Нагпуре, чтобы они могли выйти из больницы.

Пусть все преданные ИСККОН будут защищены! Пусть всех этих преданных выписывают из больницы и они вернутся к их служению.

(Перевод Кришна Намадхан дас)

29 March 2020

Appearance day of Srila Ramanujacarya

Welcome back once again and congratulations on joining this zoom conference and chanting with thousands of devotees. As usual there are more than more usual reportings. You are reporting about your achar (behaviour) as well as pracara. I also have to chant still I’m seeing a few. It seems that all are not joining. Acara or sadacara is going on. It might be that all are not preaching. This is an emergency, and there is too much demand. Also it is the instruction of Mahaprabhu.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa

Translation:
“Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa as they are given in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land.”[ CC Madhya 7.128]

Preaching comes under seva. The Lord’s name, prasada is also there. Devotees of ISKCON Pandharpur distributed 400 plates of prasada. Iskcon Nagpur and ISKCON Noida are getting ready. Almost all the ISKCON temples in India are getting ready. Throughout the length and breadth of India people are trapped because of lockdown. Everything is locked down. People are jobless. The labourers want to return to their respective villages. They are not getting their daily wages. So many temples of ISKCON are making arrangements to distribute prasada to them. They are gearing up the kitchens. Arrangements are being made to distribute 500 plates of prasada. Somewhere 5000 plates of prasada and somewhere 20000 plates of prasada are being distributed. It might be that you can at least distribute prasada to your neighbours. Distribution of prasada is also a part of preaching. It’s a very sweet type of preaching. Many devotees have joined the movement because of Krsna prasada. Do kirtana, share Krsna Katha. Some devotees are reciting Ramayana and Srimad Bhagwatam. Some are doing kirtana on Zoom. Be smart, the user of the smartphone has to be smart to use the smartphone smartly. There should be sravanam as well as kirtana. You have to hear and preach. For your information, we are doing Japa and Japa talk on this zoom conference in the morning, but apart from this many leading leaders, GBCs, Guru, and sannyasis are doing various Kathas. Some are doing Bhagavat Katha and some are doing Rama Katha. Get the information when they are doing it. You have to be alert. Take advantage of that too. I’m thinking of doing some Katha in the evening apart from morning Japa talk. I was getting suggestions to do Rama Katha. So I will think about it. We will try to have that Katha in English and you can hear the translation in Hindi.

Today is the appearance day of Srila Ramanujacarya. The whole world is celebrating it. I was thinking that we will dedicate our sadhana and Seva at the feet of Srila Ramanujacarya. We can do it for his pleasure. Today is the birthday of Ramanujacarya and may he be pleased upon us! With this, we will dedicate our activities at his feet.

yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado

Translation:
By the mercy of the spiritual master, one receives the benediction of Krishna. [Sri Gurvashtakam verse 8]

When acaryas are pleased then the Lord will also be pleased. Let’s try to please Ramanujacarya. Sometimes Ramanujacarya unusually utters the mantra. His Gurudev had explained that this mantra liberates or frees the mind. There is lots of garbage in the form of thinking, feeling, willing about sense enjoyment in our mind. By uttering the mantra minds get purified.

ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaḿ

Srila Ramanujacarya had heard the importance of the mantra. When he received the mantra he climbed on top of the temple and called all the people and chanted Narayana! Narayana! He got the name of the Narayana mantra in disciplic succession. He was a devotee of Laksmi Narayana. He started to chant the names of Narayana. As he started to chant many peoples assembled and they also started to chant the names of Narayana. As we’re saying you that you get into your balcony and preach. Such preaching was done by Srila Ramanujacarya 1003 years before. Following in his footsteps we can preach. I want to remind you that kirtana is going on between 5 to 5.15 pm. Many devotees are reporting about this. This reporting is not only for me, but for all the devotees who are on the zoom conference. Though I am not reading all the reports, others are reading it. Of course, the Lord is reading this and has noted it down. It does not matter whether you are reporting or not. Whatever activities you are doing the Lord is noting down it. We are doing kirtana between 5 to 5.15 pm and appealing to ISKCON devotees all across the world to come out and chant in their balconies. If this goes on then Hare Krishna devotees will be seen as doing kirtan 24 hours a day all across the world. There will be Akhanda Nama Sankirtana. One party will do and then the next and then the next. Like this all the countries will be covered from east to west. Everywhere there will be kirtana. If you have not yet started then you can begin today on the appearance day of Srila Ramanujacarya. You can do it with your family members or you can do it alone. Spread this news to your friends and followers on Facebook so that many people can join kirtan.

Rama Anuja means Laksman. He was the incarnation of Laksman. Jan means to take birth. He took birth after Rama. Though Rama, Laksman, Bharat, and Shatrughan took birth at the same time, Lord Rama is considered as an elder and the other three are considered as younger. Laksman appeared as Ramanujacarya. He is also well-known as Ramanuga for following Lord Rama. He was a partial incarnation of Lord Laksman. Laksman from Treta Yuga appeared as Balarama in Dvapara and Nityananda Prabhu in Kali. Ram-Laksman or Balarama-Krsna become Gaur-Nitai. Laksman, Balarama and Nityananda Prabhu are Adi Guru. Their service is to establish the religion.

paritranaya sadhunam
vinasaya ca duskrtam
dharma-samsthapanarthaya
sambhavami yuge yuge

Translation:
In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.[ BG 4.8]

dharma-sthapana-hetu sadhura vyavahara
puri-gosanira ye acarana, sei dharma sara

Translation:
“A devotee’s behavior establishes the true purpose of religious principles. The behavior of Madhavendra Puri Gosvami is the essence of such religious principles.”[ CC Madhya 17.185]

Ramanujacarya established dharma. I’m remembering Nityananda Prabhu and He was Balarama as well as Laksman. These are all preachers as well as teachers. Vishwarupa also took sannyasa. Nityananda Prabhu was famous for preaching. Locana Das Thakur has composed a song named Akordha Paramananda Nityananda Ray.

akrodha paramānanda nityānanda rāya
abhimāna śūnya nitāi nagare beḍāya

Translation:
The noble Lord Nityananda is never angry, for He is the personification of supreme transcendental bliss. Devoid of any concept of false ego, Nitai wanders about the town. [ Akordha Paramananda Nityananda Ray song verse 1 by Locana Dasa Thakura]

He was prideless, humble as a blade of grass as Caitanya Mahaprabhu said. vita-raga-bhaya-krodha. He is free from all.

adhama patita jīvera dvāre dvāre giyā
harināma mahā-mantra dicchena bilāiyā

Translation:
Going from door to door in the residences of the most fallen and wretched souls, He freely distributes the gift of the Hari-nama mahamantra.[ Akordha Paramananda Nityananda Ray song verse 2 by Locana Dasa Thakura]

Nityananda Prabhu went from door to door and used to give them Hare Krishna Mahamantra as a gift.

jā’re dekhe tā’re kahe dante tṛṇa dhari’
‘āmāre kiniyā laha bala gaurahari’

Translation:
He exclaims to whomever he sees while holding straw between his teeth,
“Please purchase me by worshipping Gaurahari!” [Akordha Paramananda Nityananda Ray song verse 3 by Locana Dasa Thakura]

Nityananda Prabhu would hold the blade of grass in his mouth which is an indication of humility. He used to say, “You could buy Me. You have to pay some price so that you can purchase Me. If you say Gaurahari and say the Hare Krishna maha-mantra then you can purchase Me.” What is the price? Chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

eta bali’ nityānanda bhūme gaḍi’ jāya
sonāra parvata jena dhūlāte loṭāya

Translation:
Saying thus, Nityananda Prabhu rolls about on the ground, appearing like a golden mountain tumbling in the dust.[Akordha Paramananda Nityananda Ray song verse 4 by Locana Dasa Thakura]

He said this to all those who came in His way. He would roll on the ground and ask them to chant Hare Krishna once. He requested them in this way. Nityananda Prabhu’s bodily complexion is also golden just like Gauranga Mahaprabhu’s.

ajanu-lambita-bhujau kanakavadatau

He rolled on the ground, got covered with dust. Try to visualize this. Think about His feelings. Take darsana. He is not completely covered, but somewhere His golden body is visible.

hena avatāre jā’ra rati nā janmila
locana bale sei pāpī ela āra gela

Translation:
Locana Dasa Thakura says, “Whoever has not experienced the awakening of affection for such an avatara as this, that sinful person simply comes and goes uselessly in the cycle of repeated birth and death.”[ Akordha Paramananda Nityananda Ray song verse 5 by Locana Dasa Thakura]

Locana Das Thakur says that if you don’t develop an attraction for such an incarnation of the Lord such as Nityananda Prabhu or we can say Ramanujacarya then he is saying that such a person is very sinful and he has taken birth and will die. He will keep on coming and going. Think about this and do smaranam. Inspire and remain busy for the pleasure of Ramanujacarya. Remain busy on the eternal job of our parampara.

Hare krishna

29 марта 2020

Еще раз добро пожаловать и поздравляем с присоединением к этой зум-конференции и воспеванием с тысячью преданных.

Как обычно или больше, чем обычно, вы докладываете. Вы сообщаете о своей ачаре, а также о прачаре.
Я также должен воспевать, но я вижу мало. Кажется, что не все присоединяются.
Ачара или садачара продолжается. Возможно, не все проповедуют. Это чрезвычайная ситуация, и это наставление Махапрабху.

Проповедь приходит после севы. Имя Господа, прасад тоже там. ИСККОН Пандхарпур Нагпур готовится. Но несмотря на всю длину и ширину Индии правительство обратилось, и ИСККОН делает это.
Все закрыто. Есть рабочие места. Итак, раздача прасада продолжается. Возможно, вы хотя бы раздадите прасад своим родственникам.
Многие преданные присоединились к движению из-за прасада. Будь умным, пользователь смартфона должен быть умным и умно пользоваться своим смартфоном.

Подумайте о том, как вы можете проповедовать. Вы должны слышать так же, как и киртан.

Утром мы проводим масштабную конференцию, но кроме этого большого количества крупных лидеров ИСККОН, гуру-санньяси проводят Рам Катха Киртан … Будьте внимательны, когда они это делают.
Я подумываю сделать немного катхи вечером помимо утренней беседы о джапе.
Мы постараемся, чтобы эта Катха была на английском, а вы услышите перевод на хинди.
Сегодня день появления Рамануджачарьи.

Я думал, что мы предложим нашу садхану и севу к стопам Рамануджачарьи. Сегодня день рождения Рамануджачарьи, и пусть он будет рад нам!
Этим мы посвятим нашу деятельность его стопам. Когда ачарьи довольны, Господь тоже будет доволен. Попробуем порадовать Рамануджачарью.
Иногда Рамануджачарья проповедовал необычным образом. Его Гурудев объяснил, что эта мантра раскрепощает или освобождает разум.
Существует много мусора в форме мышления, желающего ощутить наслаждение. Он слышал это. Поэтому он поднялся на вершину храма и призвал всех людей. Он был в группе с преданными Лакшми Нараяны и начал воспевать имя Нараяны. Когда он начал воспевать, многие преданные начали воспевать имена Господа.

Итак, мы говорим вам это, что вы выходите на свой балкон и проповедуете. Такая проповедь была совершена Шрилой Рамануджачарьей 1003 года назад.

Следуя по его стопам, мы можем проповедовать. Киртан продолжается с 5 до 5:15 вечера. Господь это слышит и запоминает это.
Если вы прочитали Шримад Бхагаватам или сделали киртан на балконе. Мы проводим киртан между 5 и 5:15 вечера и призываем преданных ИСККОН по всему миру выходить и воспевать на своих балконах.

Если это произойдет, то преданные Харе Кришна будут совершать киртан 24 часа в сутки по всему миру.
Если вы еще не начали, вы можете начать в день явления Шрилы Рамануджачарьи.

Вы можете сделать это с членами вашей семьи или вы можете сделать это в одиночку. Распространите эту новость своим друзьям и подписчикам в Facebook, чтобы многие люди могли присоединиться к киртану.

Рам Ануджа означает Лакшман. Он был воплощением Лакшмана. Ян значит родить. Он родился после Рам.
Господь Рам считается старшим, а остальные трое – младшими.

Лакшман появился как Рамануджачарья. Они появились за Рамой. Он также известен как Рамануга следуюший за господом Рамой.

Он был частичным воплощением господа Лакшмана.

Лакшман из Трета Юги появился как Баларам в Двапара и Нитьянанд Прабху в Кали.
Лакшман из Трета Юги появился как Баларам в Двапара и Нитьянанд Прабху в Кали.
Итак, Лакшман Баларам и Нитьянанд Прабху – Ади Гуру. Их служение заключается в установлении религии.

дхарма стхапана хету садхур вьявахар

Рамануджачарья основал дхарму. Я вспоминаю Нитьянанда Прабху, и он был Баларамом и Лакшманом. Это все проповедники, а также учителя.
Вишваруп также принял санньясу. Нитьянанд Прабху прославился тем, что проповедовал.
Лочана Дас Тхакур написал песню «Акродха парамананд» … Он выглядел, смиренным, как травинка, как сказал Чайтанья Махапрабху.
Также свободен от гнева, как витарага бхайа кродха. Нитьянанд Прабху ходил от двери к двери и дарил им Харе Кришна Махамантру.
Упахар означает дар. Нитьянанд Прабху держал травинку во рту, что свидетельствует о смирении.
И Он говорил, что вы можете купить Меня. Вы должны заплатить определенную цену, чтобы купить Меня.

Если вы скажете Гаурахари и скажете Харе Кришна Махамантра, тогда вы можете купить Меня. Какова цена? Повторять Харе Кришна Махамантра.
Он говорил это всем, кто оказывался на Его пути. Он катался по земле и просил их повторять Харе Кришна хотя бы раз.
Он просил их таким образом. Цвет тела Нитьянанда Прабху также золотистый, как у Гауранги Махапрабху.
Когда Он катался по земле, Он покрывался пылью. Попробуйте визуализировать это. Подумайте о Его чувствах.
Он не полностью покрыт, но где-то Его золотое тело видно.
Лочана дас Тхакур говорит, что если вы не развиваете влечение к такому воплощению Господа, как Нитьянанда Прабху, или можете сказать Рамануджачарья, то он говорит, что такой человек очень грешен, и он пришел, и он уйдет.
Он будет продолжать приходить и уходить.
Это пища для мыслей. Обдумайте это. Поскольку все работы остановлены, почему бы не вспомнить ачарьев нашей парамапары?
Хари Бол

(Перевод Кришна Намадхан дас)

28th March 2020

Life is fragile like a drop of water on a lotus petal

Japa is taking place in 720 locations. There are 1500-2000 devotees who chanted on this conference. We are breaking all records. This is the effect of the Coronavirus. Many devotees are chanting in the Zoom conference. You are making the best use of a bad bargain. Coronavirus is a bad bargain. Thank you for joining us. In one sense we don’t do any great thing or any selfless act, but we do it for our purification and to progress in bhakti. When we chant then there is some selflessness also and also along with that, there is charity. When we do Japa it benefits the whole world and we establish dharma (religion).

dharmo rakshati rakshitaah

When we establish dharma by doing Japa and kirtana then that dharma will protect us and do welfare for us and the whole world. Thank you all for spreading the dharma. Along with the Japa which we are inspiring you to do through this conference, you can also come out on your balcony or courtyard and perform kirtana at 5 pm.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

You can call Krsna asking, “Where are You?” The Lord will come and inquire from you. He knows that you want Him and that you and the whole world need His protection.

ayi nanda-tanuja kinkaram
patitam mam vishame bhavambudhau
kripaya tava pada-pankaja-
sthita-dhuli-sadrisham vichintaya

Translation:
O son of Maharaja Nanda (Krsna), I am Your eternal servitor, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms at Your lotus feet. [Sri Siksastakam Verse 5]

This was spoken by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. This can also be the prayer as we chant. We all are servants of the Lord, but unfortunately we have fallen in this ocean of material existence which is very horrible and threatening. This bhavasagar is filled with diseases such as bhavaroga and now Coronavirus is also there. When we do Japa and kirtana we can pray to the Lord to please save us and take us back Home. Please make us the dust at Your lotus feet. We say service at Your lotus feet, but it might be service to all His limbs. We are Your eternal servants and we are eternally related to You. The relationship with this world is temporary. This world is full of miseries, but Your abode is full of bliss. Take us there. We are Your eternal servants and we might be your friends also. Engage us in Your eternal service. We become bahurmukha and we gave up our eternal service to You. No one is doing that service. Though many devotees are doing Your eternal service, the service which I was doing is vacant. I can only do that service.

biphale sevinu kṛpaṇa durajana
capala sukha-laba lāgi’ re

Translation:
For a fraction of flickering happiness, I have uselessly served wicked and miserly men.[ Bhaja Hu Re Mana song verse 2 by Govinda Dasa Kaviraja]

I’m serving wicked people in this world and deriving some temporary happiness from that.

kamala-dala-jala, jīvana ṭalamala
bhajahū hari-pada nīti re

Translation:
This life is tottering like a drop of water on a lotus petal; therefore you should always serve and worship the divine feet of Lord Hari.[ Bhaja Hu Re Mana song verse 3 by Govinda Dasa Kaviraja]

Life is very fragile like a water drop on a lotus leaf. There is no faith in this life as we are experiencing now because of this Coronavirus. This is one of the items. There are many reasons. By experiencing this we can question what faith we can have in our life, in our wealth, and our relationships. We have firm faith in You. Again engage us in your eternal service.

kripaya tava pada-pankaja-
sthita-dhuli-sadrisham vichintaya

Translation:
Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms at Your lotus feet. [Sri Siksastakam Verse 5]

You are being inspired to chant at 5 pm from your balcony, courtyard or on the roof of your building. Or you can also use the internet. Thanks to all of you. Not only that, but some devotees like Shridhar Madhav Prabhu is doing Rama Katha. Some are doing virtual Bhakti Vriksha as they are unable to reach homes. There is no need to stop the Bhakti Vriksha program. Don’t stop, be smart. You have a smartphone, so be smart and use it.

kṛṣṇa ye bhaje se baḍa catura

Translation:
Anyone who becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, he must be very, very intelligent. [ Caitanya-caritāmṛta]

Those who worship Krsna, do kirtana and preach are very intelligent or smart. Show and prove your intelligence. You have to do bhajana of Krsna, then only are you intelligent else you are a fool. Prove your intelligence. Those who render devotional service are very smart. Don’t stop the preaching. Many devotees are writing in the chat session. You can read the postings in the Let’s Chant Together Facebook page. Someone said that they did kirtana from 5 to 8 pm. Some said that they were singing Vaisnava bhajans and neighbours were listening. I was thinking that if you can use a small portable mike then Harikirtana may reach further. Don’t worry. Even if you do kirtana within your home still that kirtana will reach all over the universe. This is transcendental. Rama Katha, Krsna Katha, Gaura Katha is also kirtana. This is the Lord’s Kirti or glory. Name, form, qualities and pastimes of the Lord is also kirtana. You can remember the form or pastimes of the Lord. Many people describe the pastimes of the Lord in Bengal and then it is Dhama kirtana. In Gaura Katha we did kirtana of Nama, Dhama, and the associates of the Lord. Just singing names of the Lord is not the only kirtana, but it is glorifying the Lord. Try to understand this.

sri-radhika-madhavayor apara
madhurya-lila guna-rupa-namnam
prati-kshanasvadana-lolupasya
vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

Translation:
The spiritual master is always eager to hear and chant about the unlimited conjugal pastimes of Radhika and Madhava, and Their qualities, names, and forms.The spiritual master aspires to relish these at every moment. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master. [Guruashtakam Verse 5]

Our Acaryas always do kirtana of the qualities, names, and forms of Radha and Madhav. They relish these at every moment. This only happens in Vaikuntha or Goloka. Every living entity in Goloka, Vaikuntha or Saket is doing this day and night. There is no smell of Maya there, no three modes of material nature. But in this material world, we are bound by the three modes of nature.

prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā
kartāham iti manyate

Translation:
The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature.[ BG 3.27]

The modes of material nature make us dance. Foolish persons think that we are the doers. Three modes make us dance and keep us engaged. We enjoy some material happiness in the mode of goodness, dance in passion and sleep in ignorance, but the spiritual world is beyond these modes. Devotees remain absorbed in singing the glories of Radha Krsna. We are just beginners. There are devotees in the Lord’s abode who keep on glorifying the Lord continuously.

sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
ahaituky apratihatā
yayātmā suprasīdati

Translation:
In the transcendental land of Goloka Vrndavana, Lord Sri Krsna stands on the bank of the Yamuna river playing His flute. With His eyes blooming like lotus petals, His head bedecked with a peacock feather, and His beautiful figure tinged with the hue of blue clouds, He charms millions of cupids with His unique loveliness.[ SB 1.2.6]

We also have the right to become like them. You are intelligent as you are doing bhakti. Show your intelligence and connect others with the bhakti. In this situation also where there is a lockdown due to Coronavirus, you can establish the dharma and preach Krishna consciousness. You have time. Think hard. Some devotees were reporting that as they did kirtana, it rained. We are running Bhakti Vrikshas. We are speaking on Ramayana. Such are the realisations of the devotees.

Make sure that the members of our family, the family of Guru and Gauranga, Prabhupadanugas are healthy and the Coronavirus is not troubling them. Some devotees from around the world are affected. Few devotees didn’t remain also.

One disciple of Janananda Swami Maharaja who preaches in France left his body. Ten days ago, a disciple of Bhakti Charu Maharaja from the Bhaktivedanta Manor also left his body. I am getting all these reports. I am shocked to know that Dhananjay Prabhu who is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and also ex-Temple president of Vrndavana is the victim of Coronavirus. Keep an eye on this and get the information and also that everything’s fine. Do they need any help or prayers? Do the reporting! Audarya Dhama Prabhu who is a doctor from Russia suggested that I include ginger and turmeric in my diet. Someone sent me the news that the Coronavirus is not spreading in Israel as they are using hot lemon water mixed with a small amount of eating soda. You can suggest these to others. Alhadini Radha Mataji from Beed is in hospital. She has some brain problems. Please pray for her. Authorities of the temple requested to share this with all of you, so pray for her.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna

28 марта 2020

Харе Кришна
Из 720 мес присоединяются к нам. 1500-2000 воспевающих. Джапа происходит с 720 мест. Мы побиваем все рекорды.
Это эффект корона вируса. Многие преданные воспевают на зум конференции.

Вы наилучшим образом используете плохую сделку. Корона вирус – плохая сделка. Большое спасибо за присоединение к нам. В каком-то смысле мы не совершаем никаких великих поступков или самоотверженных действий, но мы делаем это для нашего очищения, прогресса в бхакти.
Когда мы воспеваем, тогда есть и самоотверженность. Когда мы пытаемся действовать согласно дхарме, тогда эта дхарма также защитит нас. Когда мы пытаемся сделать киртан, тогда эта дхарма защитит нас.

Спасибо, что распространяете дхарму. Мы вдохновляем вас сделать это на этой конференции.
Вы можете выйти на свой балкон или во двор и провести киртан в 5 часов вечера, и вы можете позвонить Кришне и спросить, где Ты?
Тогда Господь придет и спросит у вас. Он знает, что вы хотите Его, что вы и весь мир нуждаетесь в Его защите.

айи нанда-тануджа кинкарам
патитам мам вишаме бхавамбудхау
крипайа тава пада-панкаджа-
стхита-дхули-садришам вичинтайа (Шикшаштакам 5)

Перевод Шрилы Прабхупады:
О сын Махараджи Нанды [Кришна], я — Твой вечный слуга, но так уж случилось, что я пал в океан рождения и смерти. Прошу Тебя, вызволи меня из этого океана смерти и сделай одной из пылинок у Твоих лотосных стоп.

Этот стих также может быть молитвой, когда мы воспеваем. Все являются слугами Господа, но, к сожалению, мы попали в этот океан материального существования. Это очень ужасно и угрожающе. Этот бхавасагар ( мир иллюзии) наполнен такими болезнями, как бхаварога (цикл рождения и смерти) и корона-вирус.

Итак, теперь Господь, пожалуйста, спаси нас и отвези нас домой. Пожалуйста, сделай нас пылью у ваших лотосных стоп. Мы говорим служение у твоих лотосных стоп.

Но это может быть служением всем Его конечностям. Мы Твои вечные слуги, и мы вечно связаны с Тобой.
Этот мир полон страданий. Но Твоя обитель полна блаженства. Мы могли бы быть и Твоими друзьями.

Когда мы отвернулись от Тебя, мы отказались от нашего вечного служения Тебе, и сейчас этого не происходит. Никто не делает эту услугу.
Я служу злым людям в этом мире и получаю от этого временное счастье. Жизнь очень хрупкая, как капля воды на листе лотоса.
Мы твердо верим в Тебя. Какую веру мы можем иметь в нашей жизни, богатстве и имуществе?

Итак, вас вдохновляет воспевать в 5 часов вечера. Мало того, но некоторые совершают Рам Катху, некоторые совершают виртуальную бхакти-врикшу, поскольку они не могут добраться до дома.

Нет необходимости останавливать программу Бхакти Врикша. Не останавливайтесь, будьте разумными.

джей кришна бхадже сей бада катур

Те, кто поклоняется Кришне, очень разумны или умны. Так что покажите и докажите свой разум.
Те, кто исполняют преданное служение, очень разумны. Многие преданные пишут в чате.
Вы можете читать сообщения на странице «давайте воспевать вместе» на Facebook. Кто-то сказал, что они проводили киртан с 5 до 8 часов вечера.
Некоторые говорили, что они пели вайшнавские бхаджаны, а соседи слушали это.
Я думал, что если вы можете использовать небольшой портативный микрофон, то он может достигать чуть больше расстояния.
Но не волнуйтесь, даже если вы проводите киртан в своем доме, этот киртан достигнет всю вселенную.
Рам Катха Гаура Катха также киртан. Это кирти Господа или слава.
Нама рупа гуна киртан. Это тоже киртан. Вы можете вспомнить гуну или лилу Господа. Многие люди описывают игры Господа в Бенгалии.

Затем Дхам киртан. В Гаура-катхе мы совершали киртан из Намы, Дхамы и спутников Господа.
Поэтому просто воспевать имена Господа – это не только киртан, но и прославлять Господа.
Гуруаштакам 5. Итак, те, кто прославляет игры Радхи Мадхавы каждый миг … Это происходит только на Вайкунтхе или Голоке.
Каждая джива на Голоке, или Вайкунтхе, или Сакете, делает это. Там нет никакого запаха майи.
Там нет 3 гун материальной природы.

практе крийамни
гуаи карми сарваа
ахакра-вимӯхтм
картхам ити манйате
(БГ 3.27.)

Перевод Шрилы Прабхупады:
Введенная в заблуждение ложным эго, душа считает себя совершающей действия, которые на самом деле совершаются тремя гунами материальной природы.

Гуны материальной природы заставляют нас танцевать. Глупые люди думают, что мы созидатели.
Три гуны заставляют нас танцевать и держат нас связанными. Мы наслаждаемся материальным счастьем в саттве, танцуем в страсти и спим в тамо гуне.

Поэтому преданные остаются поглощенными воспеванием славы Радхи Кришны. Мы только начинающие. В обители Господа есть преданные, которые постоянно прославляют Господа.

са ваи пус паро дхармо
йато бхактир адхокшадже
ахаитукй апратихат
йайтм супрасӣдати
( ШБ 1.2.6 )

Перевод Шрилы Прабхупады:
Высшим занятием [дхармой] для всех людей является такое занятие, с помощью которого они могут прийти к любовному преданному служению трансцендентному Господу. Чтобы полностью удовлетворить душу, такое преданное служение должно быть бескорыстным и непрерывным.

Мы также имеем право стать такими, как они.
Итак, вы разумны, когда делаете бхакти. Из-за корона вируса нам дали это средство. Так что ломайте свои мозги.
Когда мы делали киртан, шли дожди. Таковы представления преданных. ..

Убедитесь, что члены нашей семьи, Прабхупадануга, здоровы, и корона вирус не беспокоит их.
Немногие преданные не остались (в этом мире). Один ученик Его Святейшества Джанананда Свами Махараджа покинул свое тело. Один ученик Его Святейшества Бхакти Чару Свами Махарадж также умер.

Некоторые ученики предложили мне принимать в пищу имбирь и куркуму. Аударья Дхама Прабху, доктор из России, предложил мне это.
Корона вирус не распространяется в Израиле, поскольку они используют горячую лимонную воду ..
Пожалуйста, (по)молитесь за Алхадини Радха Матаджи

(Перевод Кришна Намадхан дас)

27 March 2020

Agents needed urgently!

Gaura premanande Hari Haribol! Gauranga Nityanand!

This is the movement of Gaura and Nityanand. Sankirtanaika pitrau. They are the founding fathers of the Sankirtana movement.

Today we have 690 Participants. A hearty welcome to all of you as we souls stay in the heart. This welcome is not just verbal. Also congratulations are in order as now there might be 1000 or 1500 devotees chanting. This is very pleasing. Welcome and congratulations once again.

There was a flood in the chat session. I can’t even keep count as many devotees sent the report of yesterday’s sankirtana.

suno suno nityananda, suno haridas
sarvatra amar ajna koroho prakas prati ghare ghare giya koro ei bhiksa
bolo ‘krsna’, bhajo krsna, koro krsna-siksa iha bai arna boliba,
bolaiba dina-avasane asi’ amare kohiba

Translation:
“Listen, listen, Nityananda! Listen Haridasa! Make My command known everywhere. Go from house to house and beg from all the residents,‘please chant Krsna’s name, worship Krsna, and teach others to follow Krsna’s instructions. ‘Do not speak, or cause anyone to speak, anything other than this.” (Sri Caitanya-Bhagavata, Madhya-Khanda 13.8)

Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu had ordered His associates to go to every home and instruct about the teachings of Krsna and report to Him.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘Krsna’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa

Translation:
Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Krsna as they are given in Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land. (CC Madhya-lila 7.128)

He instructed and then asked others to report. In a similar mood, we just repeated Gauranga Mahaprabhu’s order. I am not the only one repeating Mahaprabhu’s order. There are many leaders who did this. I couldn’t read all the reports. You can also read them in the ‘Let us chant together’ Facebook. As I read some parts, I could understand that you followed the instructions given yesterday to perform kirtana from 5 to 5:15 pm.

I also did kirtana with other devotees. I was on the balcony and others went into the courtyard and performed enthusiastic kirtana.

Padmamali Prabhu also reported that there was kirtana in Ahmedabad and there it rained the whole night.

annad bhavanti bhutani
parjanyad anna-sambhavah
yajnad bhavati parjanyo
yajnah karma-samudbhavah

Translation:
All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rain. Rains are produced by performance of yajna (sacrifice), and yajna is born of prescribed duties. (BG 3.14)

Rain occurs by performing yajna, If rains are there, grains will grow and we can live. This is a cycle by which we are automatically maintained.

ananyāś cintayanto mām
ye janāh paryupāsate
tesām nityābhiyuktānām
yoga-ksemam vahāmy aham

Translation:
But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form – to them I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have. (BG 9.22)

This is the arrangement of the Lord. He fulfils our needs. Those who perform Sankirtana will always be fulfilled and happy.

ekākī āmāra, nāhi pāya bala,
hari-nāma-sańkīrtane
tumi krpā kori’, śraddhā-bindu diyā,
deho’ krsna-nāma-dhane

Translation:
I do not find the strength to carry on alone the sankirtana of the holy name of Hari. Please bless me by giving me just one drop of faith with which to obtain the great treasure of the holy name of Krsna. (‘Ohe Vaisnava Thakura’ Song from ‘Saranagati’ by Bhaktivinod Thakur)

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur has said that spreading this sankirtana all over the world is not possible for him alone. Srila Prabhupada said the same thing and he would inspire all to join this movement. He would ask, ‘How many sons do you have?’ – Ten sons! Then he asked them to give him one son. In this way he appealed to everyone to understand this movement and join and spread this Hare Krishna movement.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, ‘ami akela malakaar, I am alone gardener and how many fruits can I gather and how many cartons can I fill and distribute? These fruits are to be distributed all over the world. And there are many with faith who are interested. So, join me and help me distribute.’ ‘Agents wanted!’ Become agents and distributors. Srila Prabhupada said that you eat and taste fruits and also distribute. We were not chewing it properly. We were not doing sravana, kirtana, smarana properly due to lack of time, but now Lord has made an arrangement. This is a blessing in disguise. The curse of the Coronavirus has become a blessing. Now we have lots of time. Srila Prabhupada said, “Practice Krishna consciousness 24 hours a day. Study and teach also.” I also read that many devotees are spreading messages from Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavatam or Nectar of Devotion. Devotees are on campaign.

We need to spread this. Many have friends or followers on Facebook. You can inspire them to join kirtana and perform in their balcony, courtyard or terrace. Get together with your next door ISKCON devotees. You can do kirtana wearing your mask. Hardik Patel from the USA suggested that wherever there is ISKCON, in more than 150 countries, if kirtana goes on, then there will be 24 hours kirtana all across the earth. There will be a presence of Harinama 24 hours a day. I don’t know about Damodar or Balaramdesh. You proceed after thinking. If devotees at all these places perform kirtana in one country after another then holy names can be spread all over the world.

People don’t have to be present next to you to hear. It won’t go in vain. Even if no one hears then still you should understand that people of this world are benefitting. There can’t be any better welfare activity than this, as we are helping the soul and not just sense gratification or enjoyment of the mind or intellectual debates. People are busy in sense gratification, debating or quarrelling. In all such attempts, there is no benefit for the people. In this way they are cheating and getting cheated. We might be cheating our family also as we gratify the senses of our family members or provide them with sense enjoyment. The whole world is busy in exploitation.

apareyam itas tv anyām
prakrtim viddhi me parām
jīva-bhūtām mahā-bāho
yayedam dhāryate jagat

Translation:
Besides these, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is another, superior energy of Mine, which comprises the living entities who are exploiting the resources of this material, inferior nature. (BG 7.5)

hari hari! biphale janama goñāinu
manusya-janama pāiyā, rādhā-krsna nā bhajiyā,
jāniyā śuniyā bisa khāinu

Translation:
O Lord Hari! I have spent my life uselessly. Having obtained a human birth and having not worshiped Radha and Krsna, I have knowingly drunk poison. (Dainya Bodhika song 2 from ‘Prarthana’ by Narottama Das Thakur)

Filmy songs are poison. It increases the lust within us.

sanniyamyendriya-grāmam
sarvatra sama-buddhayah
te prāpnuvanti mām eva
sarva-bhūta-hite ratāh

Translation:
Those who fully worship the impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth by controlling the various senses and being equally disposed to everyone, such persons, engaged in the welfare of all, at last achieve Me. (BG 12.4)

Our service is that we have to give relief to souls and peace is possible thereafter.

jiva jago, jiva jago, gauracanda bole
Kota nidra jao maya-pisacir kole

Translation:
Lord Gauranga is calling, “Wake up, sleeping souls! Wake up, sleeping souls! How long will you sleep in the lap of the witch called Maya? ( Arunodaya kirtan song 2 from Geetavali by Bhaktivinod Thakur)

Wake up your relatives. Preach to them telephonically by making them hear melodious kirtana. There is no need to make them fearful. Share with them how sweet Krsna, His qualities are. This is the best news. This life is meant for the welfare of others. If we just live for ourselves then we will never get pleasure or get temporary pleasure.

dhyāyato visayān pumsah
sangas tesūpajāyate
sangāt sañjāyate kāmah
kāmāt krodho ‘bhijāyate

Translation:
While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises. (BG 2.62)

Let’s stop here. We will meet again.
Hare Krishna !!

26th March 2020

Think globally, Act locally!

Gaura premanande Hari Haribol!

Yesterday there were more than 700 participants. Old and new participants both are welcome! New participants who are joining on YouTube, we start chanting at around 6 am and have a japa talk at 6:40 am. The japa talk is being telecasted on YouTube.

Many devotees sent me greetings for the new year. Yesterday, one of the new years began. This is Shakabdha. Like that there is Gaurabdha, Christabdha. January, February are the months of Christabdha. Months named with Narayana, Madhava, Govinda are Gaurabhdha. The Monsoon month is Shakabhdha. Happy New Year for this one also. One month ago, Gaurabhdha began for all of us which is important for Gaudiya Vaisnavas.

With the beginning of Chaitra month, the spring season started. In this month, Lord Balarama performs His rasa dance. We also celebrate the anniversary of that in this season. Madhu and Madhava are the names of March and April. In this month, Lord Balarama reached Vrndavana from Dvaraka and performed rasa dance at Rama-ghata. Only Krsna and Balarama have the right to play rasa dance. No one else has this right. Lord Rama, Narasimha or Parasurama have their single consort or Laksmi who pleases Them.

chintamani prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vriksha-
laksavriteshu surabhir abhipalayantam
lakshmi-sahasra-shata- sambhrama-sevyamanam
govindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajami

Translation:
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakshmis or gopis. ( Brahmasamhita chapter 5)

But Krsna and Balarama have thousands of Laksmis or Gopis to please Them. Krsna is God and Balarama is light. Their opulences are absolute.

aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasah śriyah |
jñāna-vairāgyayoścaiva sannām bhaga itīranā ||

Translation:
Full opulent: complete wealth, complete strength, complete beauty, complete knowledge, complete renunciation. One who possesses all these six things completely, he is Bhagavān. (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47)

One is called Svayam and the other is Vaibhav. Bhagavan is applicable to Krsna and Balarama. No one else has this absoluteness of opulences.

500 years ago Balarama hoile nitai – Balarama became Nityananda Prabhu and Nandanandan became Sacinandana or Gauranga. Krsna and Balarama who were dancing in Vrndavana started to perform kirtana in Navadvipa, Mayapur.

udilo aruna pūraba-bhāge,
dwija-mani gorā amani jāge,
bhakata-samūha loiyā sāthe,
gelā nagara-brāje

Translation:
When the rising sun appeared in the East, the jewel of the twice-born, Lord Gaurasundara, awakened, and, taking His devotees with Him, He went all over the countryside towns and villages. (Udilo Aruna, Gitavali song by Bhaktivinod Thakur)

During the early morning hours, Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu started sankirtana and Nityananda Prabhu also joined. Caitanya Mahaprabhu went to Gaya where He got Harinama and was initiated. As soon as Gauranga Mahaprabhu returned to Navadvipa from Gaya, He met Nityananda Prabhu and They started the Sankirtana Movement.

Sankirtanayke pitro kamalay taksho vishvambharo ….

They both are merciful (karuna) manifestations. Corona has also come. They are bestowing Karuna on the Corona afflicted world. They performed and showed ways to perform kirtana and dance to the whole world.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Devotees are writing in the chat sessions that they are singing and explaining the meaning of the songs of Srila Narottam Das Thakur in a zoom conference.
24 hour kirtana is going on in Bhiwandi by different parties. This time, due to Corona 24 hour kirtana couldn’t take place in Noida on Ekadasi, but they did kirtana at 108 homes.

Today we received news from Mayapur. HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja requested all devotees to come out at 5 pm in their balconies everyday and perform kirtana and dance for 15 minutes. When I read this news, I was very happy. A thought came into my mind and I am inspired to say this: Why only Mayapur? Srila Prabhupada said, “Floods from Mayapur should reach the whole world.”

ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha–davagni-nirvapanam
shreyah-kairava-chandrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambudhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamritaswadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate sri-krishna-sankirtanam

Translation:
Glory to the Sri-Krsna-Sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. This sankirtana movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious ( Verse 1 Siksastakam)

The flood from Mayapur is the ocean of transcendental kirtana and this ocean has no boundaries. It goes on spreading everywhere. Can you also perform kirtana between 5 and 5:15 pm in your balcony, courtyard or terrace with your family? Can you do it? As all workplaces are shut, why don’t we start our work as Gaudiya Vaisnavas? This is congregational chanting which means the gathering of devotees and performing kirtana. We can be physically distanced, but we can think globally and act locally. This home based, local act will reach the whole world. This will be our collective prayer as this Hare Krishna chanting is a prayer. The world needs prayers. Hare Krishna devotees will pray and prayers are powerful. These prayers have bhakti and yukti also. These prayers will spread in the sky, in the ether. Words and sound stay in ether. This is their characteristic. Words, taste, form, touch and smell are the five sense objects. Sound is the object of the ears. Hare Krishna sound will be there in ether and these sounds will purify the ether. And because of that, the consciousness of people will improve. This is the strength in sound and especially in the names of the Lord.

namnam akari bahudha nija-sarva-shaktis
tatrarpita niyamitah smarane na kalah
etadrishi tava kripa bhagavan mamapi
durdaivam idrisham ihajani nanuragaha

Translation:
O my Lord, Your holy name alone can render all benediction to living beings, and thus You have hundreds and millions of names, like Krsna and Govinda. In these transcendental names You have invested all Your transcendental energies. There are not even hard and fast rules for chanting these names. O my Lord, out of kindness You enable us to easily approach You, by Your holy names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attraction for them. (Verse 2 Siksastakam)

These sounds will purify the whole world. As per Ayurveda, the mind becomes diseased first. Later, it makes the body diseased. Disease grows from subtle to gross. Mind is thinking, feeling and willing. As we get influenced by words, we get healthy or diseased. We will go for pravritti or nivritti.

In Vedanta Sutra, it is said, anavritti sabdat. Taking birth in various forms of life is called avritti, just like editions.

punarapi jananam punarapi maranam,
punarapi janani jatare sayanam
iha samsaare khalu dusthare,
krupayaa pare pahi murare (Bhaja Govindam, Adi Shankaracharya verse 21)

Translation:
Again and again one is born, And again and again one dies, And again and again one sleeps in the mother’s womb, Help me to cross this limitless sea of life, which is uncrossable, my Lord. (Bhaja Govindam, Adi Shankaracharya verse 21)

This cycle of our birth and death can end. That is anavritti. It is possible through sound. Those sounds are from the Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavatam. The essence of all sounds is the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

iti sodasakam namnam kali kalmasa nasanam
natah parataropayah sarva vedesu drusyate

Translation:
In this way, the collection of sixteen names is the only destroyer of sins in Kali-yuga. No other remedy can be found in any part of the Vedic literature. (Kalisantarana Upanishad, text 6)

Lord Brahma said, “I have studied all the Scriptures from beginning to end and the essence of that is the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.” By mercy of the Lord, these words have reached us and we are chanting them. Those who haven’t received these words can be given it through kirtana. The whole world will benefit along with us. We are Vaisnavas and the whole world is in distress. We can pray for them.

Are you ready to do kirtana at 5pm? This is a request to all of you from Gaura and Nityananda Prabhu who established this movement. This is yet to reach all towns and villages.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘krsna’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa

Translation:
Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Krsna as they are given in Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land. (Caitanya-caritamrita, Madhya-lila 7.128)

suno suno nityananda, suno haridas
sarvatra amar ajna koroho prakas prati ghare ghare giya koro ei bhiksa
bolo ‘krsna’, bhajo krsna, koro krsna-siksa iha bai arna boliba,
bolaiba dina-avasane asi’ amare kohiba

Translation:
Listen, listen, Nityananda! Listen Haridasa! Make My command known everywhere! Go from house to house and beg from all the residents,’please chant Krsna’s name, worship Krsna, and teach others to follow Krsna’s instructions. ‘Do not speak, or cause anyone to speak, anything other than this. (Sri Caitanya-Bhagavata, Madhya-Khanda 13.8)

The Lord instructed Nityananda Prabhu and Haridas Thakur to go to every home and spread the holy names. This instruction is for all Rupanugas or Gaur Nityanandanugas. Please follow this instruction.

Hari Haribol!

25th March 2020

Only Krishna consciousness eradicates suffering

Hare Krishna

Today we have 642 participants. I was thinking that devotees are not like materialistic people because materialistic people only think about Coronavirus in every situation and are afraid of it. We have to be Krishna conscious not Coronavirus conscious. There is huge difference between Krishna consciousness and material consciousness. The difference is like that between the sky and the earth. Hearing all such news I feel like crying. In Siksastakam Verse 6, Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said, “When will that situation come when there will be tears gliding down from My eyes as I chant Your names.”

People are crying as they are seeing others dying. People are frustrated saying this. Vraja Tarini Mataji from Jalgaon has said, “I chant 32 rounds daily.” Coronavirus is becoming tough and Hare Krishna Devotees also. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. When any task becomes tough, a few people become more tough to go ahead. The whole world has to take determined steps to face Coronavirus. The world is trying to face Coronavirus in its way .(Ahar, Nidra, Bhaya and Maithun) Here Srila Prabhupada translates Bhaya as defending.
The whole world is busy in this now. They are trying their ways. Our way is also there and it is rendering devotional service unto the Supreme Lord.

satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaśh cha dṛiḍha-vratāḥ
satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaśh cha dṛiḍha-vratāḥ

Translation
Always singing My divine glories, striving with great determination, and humbly bowing down before Me, they constantly worship Me in loving devotion. [BG 9.14]

nāmāśraya kori’ jatane tumi, thākaha āpana kāje

Translation
This temporary life is full of various miseries. Take shelter of the holy name as your only business.

kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet

Translation
My dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom. [SB 12.3.51]
Kali is the ocean of faults. There are many defects and one more defect is there now as Coronavirus. When difficulties arrives people get busy to face that difficulty. There are so many ways to face the difficulty. Hiranyakasipu asked Prahlada, “What did you learn, my son?” Prahlada Maharaja replied:

śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ
smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam
arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ
sakhyam ātma-nivedanam

Translation
These nine processes, of which the easiest is śravaṇam, hearing the Bhagavad-gītā from the realized person, will turn one to the thought of the Supreme Being. This will lead to remembering the Supreme Lord and will enable one, upon leaving the body, to attain a spiritual body which is just fit for association with the Supreme Lord. [SB 7.5.23]

He had sent him to school of Sanda and Amarka. He wanted to make Prahlada the best of the asuras. Schools of the world today are also like this. Prahlada Maharaja said,“I learnt 9 kinds of devotional service.” He had learnt this in his mother’s womb. Narada Muni had already trained him. He didn’t have to learn anything from the present teachers of his world.

evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣhayo viduḥ
sa kāleneha mahatā yogo naṣhṭaḥ parantapa

Translation
O subduer of enemies, the saintly kings thus received this science of Yog in a continuous tradition. But with the long passage of time, it was lost to the world.
So we have to learn Prahalad Maharaj to take knowledge from Parampara. Then we can face all the difficulties. [BG 4.2]

Caitanya Mahaprabhu had said that all the jivas wondering in various species are very frustrated. Out of that a few jivas are made fortunate as the Lord sends such jivas to Gurus to make them fortunate and knowledgeable.

brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja

Translation
According to their karma, all living entities are wandering throughout the entire universe. Some of them are being elevated to the upper planetary systems, and some are going down into the lower planetary systems. Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa. By the mercy of both Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service. [CC 19.151 Madhya lila]
Krsna is very kind. This system is available in all the ages. Paramparas remain there always. This is unbreakable. Today this Parampara is available in the form of ISKCON. Sadhu sang is available through various preaching ways of ISKCON and it is there and quite active. People have to take advantage. We are very fortunate that the Lord has bestowed his mercy upon all of us. His mercy is reaching all of us.

We should be thanking the Lord for such a connection, gyana and guidance.

krsna bada daya moy

Then to those who have been appointed or made instruments by the Lord, we should express our gratitude. The Lord is manifesting His kindness through Acaryas and Sadhus, like you also. We have to thank them and offer obeisances at their feet. Obeisances to the Lord and His representatives! They have brought us to this place. The target is still far ahead. We are on the right track and are encouraged to go ahead. Vaisnavas are there who understand the miseries of others. Those who are suffering are part of our family as brothers or sisters. We have to help them in all possible ways. We have to get their attention from Coronavirus consciousness to the Lord, to a higher level of consciousness and this can only be achieved by Krishna consciousness. All the devotees of ISKCON have to endeavour collectively and try together.

There was a curfew for only one day, but now the whole country from Kanyakumari to Jammu Kashmir, from the West to the East is locked down. The Prime Minister is reminding us that if you go out of your home then you may take this Coronavirus home with you. This is the condition of the whole world. Rules are being set. In this situation we can preach without going outside. Practice and propagate Krishna consciousness.

Srikant Ganguly has written that devotees are doing 24 hour kirtana by making half hour slots and allotting it to each family. They have made a schedule till 31 March. Now they have to make a further schedule. ISKCON leaders can think how we have kirtana 24 hours a day. This kirtana is the best help. This is one way. You can make your schedule for 24 hours. You may have to go out for grocery shopping.

patraṁ puṣhpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayachchhati
tadahaṁ bhaktyupahṛitam aśhnāmi prayatātmanaḥ

Translation
If one offers to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or even water, I delightfully partake of that article offered with love by My devotee in pure consciousness. [BG 9.26]

You might have to offer Bhoga to the Lord. This is foolishness. I was on a morning walk. Outside a firm there were do’s and don’ts written on the board for the workers. If you are eating eggs, don’t eat them raw. If you do so you may get infected with germs and worms in it. They didn’t tell you not to eat it. Meat is called Mansa. Man means me and sa means you. I am eating you today and tomorrow you will eat me. Get ready for that. This is the world. Such are the leaders and atheists of the whole world. For this ]there is janma mrityu. Preaching that they do is don’t drink and drive, but the government says don’t mix drinking and driving.

Preaching happening in ISKCON is directly from the Lord and the Lord is our well wisher. You might not have thought so from the beginning, but you must follow the four regulative principals. Kali was allotted these four places to stay. Please stay away from these four places and regularly chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

Hare Krishna!

Meet you again!

25 марта 2020 г.

Только сознание Кришны искореняет страдания

Харе Кришна

Сегодня у нас 642 участника. Я думал, что преданные не похожи на материалистов, потому что материалисты думают о Коронавирусе только в каждой ситуации и боятся его. Мы должны быть в сознании Кришны, а не в сознании Коронавируса. Существует огромная разница между сознанием Кришны и материальным сознанием. Разница такая же, как между небом и землей. Услышав все такие новости, мне хочется плакать. В стихе 6 из Шикшаштаки Чайтанья Махапрабху сказал: « О мой Господь, когда же глаза мои украсятся слезами любви, беспрестанно льющимися при пении Твоего святого имени?”

Люди плачут, когда видят, как умирают другие. Люди расстроены, говоря это. Враджа Тарини Матаджи из Джалгаона сказал: «Я повторяю 32 круга каждый день». Коронавирус становится жестким, и преданные Харе Кришна тоже. Когда движение становится жестким, труднее идти. Когда любая задача становится трудной, несколько человек становятся более жесткими, чтобы идти вперед. Весь мир должен предпринять решительные шаги, чтобы противостоять Коронавирусу. Мир пытается противостоять Коронавирусу по-своему (Ахар, Нидра, Бхайя и Майтхун). Здесь Шрила Прабхупада переводит Бхайю как защиту.
Весь мир занят этим сейчас. Они пробуют свои пути. Наш путь тоже здесь, и он оказывает преданное служение Верховному Господу.

сататам киртайанто мам 
  йатанташ ча дридха-вратах
намасйанташ ча мам бхактйа   
нитйа-йукта упасате

Перевод
Неустанно прославляя Меня, служа Мне с великой решимостью, падая ниц передо Мной, эти великие души всегда поклоняются Мне с любовью и преданностью. [BG 9.14]

nāmāśraya kori’ jatane tumi, thākaha āpana kāje

Перевод
Эта временная жизнь полна различных страданий. Примите прибежище у святого имени как свое единственное занятие.

kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet

Перевод
Мой дорогой царь, хотя Кали-йуга –– это океан недостатков, всё же у этого века есть одно хорошее качество: просто воспевая имя Кришны, человек может освободиться от материального рабства и вознестись в трансцендентное царство. [ШБ. 12.3.51]
Кали – это океан ошибок. Есть много дефектов, и теперь есть еще один дефект, как коронавирус. Когда возникают трудности, люди начинают сталкиваться с этой проблемой. Есть так много способов справиться с трудностями.Хираньякашипу спросил Прахладу: «Чему ты научился, сын мой?» Махараджа Прахлада ответил:

шраванах киртанах вишо
смаранах пада-севанам
арчанах ванданах дасйах
сакхьям атма-ниведанам [ШБ. 7.5.23]

Эти девять процессов, из которых самым простым является Шраванам, слушая Бхагават-Гиту от осознавшего человека, повернут к мысли о Высшем Существе. Это приведет к воспоминанию о Верховном Господе и позволит человеку, покинув тело, обрести духовное тело, которое подходит для общения с Верховным Господом.
Он отправил его в школу Санда и Амарка. Он хотел сделать Прахладу лучшим из асуров. Школы сегодяшнего мира подобны этим. Махараджа Прахлада сказал: «Я изучил 9 видов преданного служения». Он узнал об этом в утробе матери. Нарада Муни уже обучил его. Ему не нужно было ничего учить у нынешних учителей его мира.

эвам парампара-праптам   имам раджаршайо видух
са каленеха махата   його наштах парантапа

Перевод
Так эта великая наука передавалась по цепи духовных учителей, и ее постигали праведные цари. Но с течением времени цепь учителей прервалась, и это знание в его первозданном виде было утрачено. [БГ. 4.2]

Итак, мы должны научиться у Прахалада Махараджа получать знания от Парампары. Тогда мы можем столкнуться со всеми трудностями.
Чайтанья Махапрабху сказал, что все удивительные дживы разных видов очень разочарованы. Из этих нескольких джив некоторые становятся счастливыми, поскольку Господь посылает таких джив Гуру, чтобы сделать их счастливыми и знающими.

брахма̄н̣д̣а бхрамите кона бха̄гйава̄н джӣва
гуру-кр̣шн̣а-праса̄де па̄йа бхакти-лата̄-бӣджа

Перевод
«Живые существа, влекомые своей кармой, скитаются по вселенной. Кто-то из них достигает высших планет, а кто-то попадает на низшие. Из многих миллионов таких существ лишь редкий счастливец по милости Кришны встречает на своем пути истинного духовного учителя. Тогда Кришна и духовный учитель даруют ему семя преданного служения». [ЧЧ 19.151 Мадхья лила]
Кришна очень добр. Эта система доступна во всех возрастах. Парампары остаются там всегда. Это нерушимо. Сегодня эта Парампара доступна в форме ИСККОН. Садху санга доступена через различные способы проповеди ИСККОН, и это довольно активно. Люди должны воспользоваться преимуществом. Нам очень повезло, что Господь даровал Свою милость всем нам. Его милость достигает всех нас.

Мы должны благодарить Господа за такую ​​связь, гьяну и руководство.

Кришна бада дайа мой

Тогда тем, кто был назначен или сделан инструментами Господа, мы должны выразить нашу благодарность. Господь проявляет Свою доброту через ачарьев и садху и также вашу. Мы должны поблагодарить их и предложить поклоны их стопам. Поклоны Господу и Его представителям! Они привели нас в это место. Цель все еще далеко впереди. Мы на правильном пути, и нам рекомендуется идти вперед. Есть вайшнавы, которые понимают страдания других. Те, кто страдает, являются частью нашей семьи как братья или сестры. Мы должны помочь им всеми возможными способами. Мы должны отвлечь их внимание от сознания Коронавируса и привлечь к Господу, к более высокому уровню сознания, и это может быть достигнуто только сознанием Кришны. Все преданные ИСККОН должны приложить все усилия и попытаться вместе.

Был комендантский час только на один день, но теперь вся страна от Каньякумари до Джамму Кашмира, с запада на восток заблокирована. Премьер-министр напоминает нам, что если вы выйдете из дома, вы можете подхватить коронавирус. Это состояние всего мира. Правила устанавливаются. В этой ситуации мы можем проповедовать, не выходя на улицу. Практикуйте и распространяйте сознание Кришны.

Шрикант Гангули написал, что преданные проводят киртан 24 часа, проводят полчаса и выделяя его каждой семье. Они составили график до 31 марта. Теперь они должны составить дальнейший график. Лидеры ИСККОН могут подумать, как мы можем проводить киртан 24 часа в сутки. Этот киртан – лучшая помощь. Это один из способов. Вы можете составить свой график на 24 часа. Возможно, вам придется пойти в магазин за продуктами.

патрам пушпам пхалам тойам   йо ме бхактйа прайаччхати
тад ахам бхактй-упахритам   ашнами прайатат манах

Перевод
Если человек с преданностью поднесет Мне листок, цветок, плод или немного воды, Я непременно приму его подношение, предложенное моим преданным с любовью, в чистом сознании. [БГ. 9.26]

Возможно, вам придется предложить Бхогу Господу. Это глупость. Я был на утренней прогулке. За пределами фирмы на доске было написано, что можно и чего нельзя делать для рабочих. Если вы едите яйца, не ешьте их в сыром виде. В этом случае вы можете заразиться микробами и червями. Они не говорили тебе не есть это. Мясо называется Maмsa. Человек значит я, а са значит ты. Я ем тебя сегодня, а завтра ты меня съешь. Будьте готовы к этому. Это мир. Таковы лидеры и атеисты всего мира. Для этого есть джанма мритью. Проповедь которую они делают, – это не пить вовремя вождения, правительство говорит, что не совмещай пить и водить.

Проповедь в ИСККОН происходит напрямую от Господа, и Господь – наш доброжелатель. Возможно, вы не думали так с самого начала, но вы должны следовать четырем регулирующим принципам. Кали было отведено для этих четырех мест. Пожалуйста, держитесь подальше от этих четырех мест и регулярно повторяйте маха-мантру Харе Кришна.

Харе Кришна!

Встретимся снова!

24 अक्टूबर 2019

हरे कृष्ण!

आज हमारे साथ 578 स्थानों से भक्त जप कर रहे हैं। आज भक्तों की संख्या में कुछ वृद्धि हुई है। अब हमारे साथ 582 भक्त जप कर रहे हैं। इसका एक मुख्य कारण यह भी हो सकता है कि आज रमा एकादशी है। हमारे लिए एकादशी का दिवस मुख्यतया पुनःअवलोकन करने का दिवस होता है कि हमने अपने निजी क्षेत्र में तथा सामूहिक क्षेत्र में कितनी उन्नति की है। इस मास में हमारा लक्ष्य कार्तिक एकादशी तक लगभग 700 की संख्या तक पहुंचना है जो अभी काफी दूर है। आप सभी इसे थोड़ा सा देखने का प्रयास कीजिए कि किस प्रकार से यह संख्या इस कार्तिक मास में 700 को पार कर सकती है। आज के दिन आप सब अपनी भक्ति में हुई उन्नति का अवलोकन कर सकते हो।

स्वरूपानंद प्रभु, अब तुम्हारा स्वास्थ्य कैसा है ? आप अपने स्वास्थ्य का रिव्यू (अवलोकन) करो। जब स्वस्थ होंगे तभी आप अन्य लोगों को और ज्यादा से ज्यादा जोड़ सकोगे।
आज का दिन हमारा साधना, सेवा, संबंध, सिद्धांत आदि का पुनः अवलोकन करने का दिवस है कि हमने पिछली एकादशी से लेकर इस एकादशी तक कितनी उन्नति की है।

निताई चंद्र प्रभु अपना स्टेटमेंट दे रहे हैं कि ऑस्ट्रेलिया तथा न्यूजीलैंड के कई भक्तों एवं शिष्यों ने मिलकर एक ग्रुप बनाया है जिसकी संख्या बढ़कर लगभग 26 हो गई है। सेनापति भक्त प्रभु इस ग्रुप का रविवार को अवलोकन करेंगे एवं उनको फेस टू फेस (आमने सामने) सम्बोधित कर उनसे बात करेंगे। पदयात्रा प्रेस से भी यही अपेक्षा है कि वे अधिक से अधिक श्रील प्रभुपाद की एवं उनकी स्वयं की पुस्तकों का वितरण करेंगें और अपनी रिपोर्ट देंगे। जिससे रविवार के दिन सेनापति भक्त के द्वारा उसके विषय में भी बताया जा सके। ऐसी योजना बनाई गई है कि आप सब रविवार को ज्यादा से ज्यादा संख्या में उपस्थित रहें जिससे रविवार को इस रिपोर्ट को दिया जा सके।

नागपुर मंदिर से यह रिपोर्ट आ रही है कि लगभग 70 भक्त मंगला आरती में आ रहे हैं। यह बहुत सुंदर है। हमें एकादशी के दिन यह रिपोर्ट सुनकर बहुत प्रसन्नता हुई है। हम अन्य मंदिर के अध्यक्षों तथा मैनेजमेंट सदस्यों को इसकी प्रेरणा देना चाहते हैं कि वे भी इस कार्तिक मास में अपने काँङ्ग्रिंगेश्न् (congregation) भक्तों को अधिक से अधिक संख्या में मंदिर में मंगला आरती में आने के लिए प्रेरित करें। जब मैं नोएडा मंदिर में था, तब मैंने वहां दो अटेंडेंस के रजिस्टर देखे थे, एक मंदिर के भक्तों के लिए और दूसरा congregation भक्तों के लिए। नोएडा के लगभग 30 काँङ्ग्रिंगेश्न् (congregation) भक्तों द्वारा इस रजिस्टर पर हस्ताक्षर किया गया था।

इस संख्या को और अधिक बढ़ाया जा सकता है। आप सभी काँङ्ग्रिंगेश्न् (congregation) भक्त, शिष्य व अन्य भक्त इस मास में मंदिर के कार्यक्रमों को अधिक से अधिक अटेंड कीजिए। जैसे यदि आप मंगला आरती में नहीं जा पा रहे हैं तो आप दीपदान में जाइए। घर में साधना करने में और मंदिर में जाकर साधना करने में अंतर होता है। श्री कृष्ण चैतन्य महाप्रभु ने ‘परं विजयते श्री कृष्ण संकीर्तनम्’ उन्होंने भक्तों को संग में संकीर्तन करने के लिए कहा है। जब हम मंगला आरती, दीपदान संग में करते हैं या श्रीमद् भागवतम क्लास संग में सुनते हैं तब इसमें सबसे प्रमुख चीज़ साधु संग होती है। इस प्रकार से यदि हम मंदिर में आकर भक्तों के साथ सारी क्रियाएं करते हैं तो निश्चित रूप से हमारी सामूहिक और निजी भक्ति में काफी उन्नति हो सकती है।

हरि! हरि!

ग्रेटर नोएडा से खबर आ रही है कि वहां लगभग 30 भक्त मंगल आरती में आ रहे हैं। कल इस्कॉन अरावड़े द्वारा भी हाई स्कूल में दीपदान का आयोजन किया गया था और वहां लगभग 550 बच्चों ने दीपदान किया। वियतमाल के आनंदिनी माता जी और हमारे यादव प्रभु ने 30 किलोमीटर दूर गांव में जाकर दीपदान का कार्यक्रम करवाया जिसमें लगभग डेढ़ सौ भक्त सम्मिलित हुए व दीपदान किया। उसके उपरांत उन्होंने दामोदर भगवान का प्रसाद ग्रहण किया। अहमदाबाद से शुभ लक्ष्मी माता जी भी दीपदान के प्रोग्राम का आयोजन करती हैं।आज एकादशी के दिन चारों तरफ से बहुत ही सुंदर रिपोर्ट आ रही है। आप जहां कहीं भी हैं, आप अपनी साधना की गुणवत्ता व क्वांटिटी उन दोनों में वृद्धि का अवलोकन कर सकते हैं कि आपका यह कार्तिक व्रत किस प्रकार से चल रहा है? या आपका जप किस प्रकार से चल रहा है ? आपके बुक डिस्ट्रीब्यूशन या प्रसादम डिस्ट्रीब्यूशन में (पुस्तक वितरण या प्रसादम वितरण) में वृद्धि हुई है या नहीं।

इस प्रकार आप देख सकते हो कि आप कृष्ण को पाने में, कृष्ण को वितरित करने में , कृष्ण की दामोदर चेतना भावना को विकसित करने में और उसको लोगों में बांटने में कितना तत्पर हो।आप इसका अवलोकन कर सकते हो। आप सामूहिक या परिवार या भक्तों में बैठकर इष्ट गोष्ठी कर सकते हो कि किस प्रकार से आपने कुछ अनर्थ निवृत्ति प्राप्त की है या आपका कुछ अध्ययन बढ़ा है या आपका जप बढ़ा गया है। भक्ति विनोद ठाकुर अपने शिष्यों और अनुयायियों को रिकमंड(सुझाव) किया करते थे कि उन्हें एकादशी से एकादशी के बीच में अपनी साधना का अवलोकन करना चाहिए कि हमनें पिछली एकादशी से इस एकादशी तक कितनी प्रगति की है।

सांगली से राधानंद प्रभु बता रहे हैं कि उनकी छोटी पुत्री भरतनाट्यम करती है, वह भरतनाट्यम ग्रुप के सभी बच्चों को एकत्र करके उनसे दीपदान कराना चाह रही है अथवा करवाएगी। आप सबसे बहुत अच्छी रिपोर्टस प्राप्त हो रही हैं। आप इन रिपोर्ट्स को स्वयं भी पढ़ सकते हो। मैं इसके अतिरिक्त और अधिक गुह्य आध्यात्मिक विषय पर चर्चा करना चाहता हूं।
मैं आप सबको यह बताना चाहता हूं कि आज रमा एकादशी के दिन हमारी ब्रजमंडल परिक्रमा बद्रिकाश्रम में पहुंचती है। एक बद्रिकाश्रम वृंदावन में भी स्थित है। यह भक्तों का एक बहुत बड़ा अद्भुत अनुभव होता है। वे राधा कुंड में स्नान के पश्चात पैदल चलकर डिग की ओर जाते हैं। तत्पश्चात वे डिग से बद्रिकाश्रम की ओर जाते हैं।

बद्रिकाश्रम की तरफ यात्रा पर जाते हुए उन्हें एक पर्वत श्रृंखला, घाटी तथा कदंब खंडी दिखाई देना प्रारंभ हो जाती है। वहां इस मौसम में कई ग्वाले अपनी गायों को चराने के लिए आते हैं। वृंदावन धाम में बद्रिकाश्रम पर एक तपस्या कुंड भी है जहाँ पर नर नारायण ऋषि रहते तथा तपस्या करते हैं। जब ब्रजमंडल परिक्रमा के भक्त वहां पहुंच कर तपस्या करते हैं, तब उनका जो अनुभव होता है वह ब्रजमंडल परिक्रमा का मुख्य आकर्षण बिंदु होता है जिसे वह बद्रिकाश्रम में पाते हैं। आपने प्रत्येक दिन ब्रजमंडल दर्शन पुस्तक का जो एक अध्याय पढ़ने का संकल्प लिया है, आप सभी उसका यह अध्याय पढ़ कर अनुभव ले सकते हैं।

जिस प्रकार से प्रत्येक भक्त जो अपने जीवन काल में बद्रिका आश्रम का दर्शन करना चाहता है, उसी प्रकार से नंद महाराज की भी इच्छा हुई कि वह बद्रिकाश्रम जाकर दर्शन करें। उस समय कृष्ण एक छोटे नन्हें बालक थे। उन्होंने नंद महाराज से कहा- “यदि आप तीर्थ यात्रा करना चाहते हैं तो आपको ब्रज से बाहर जाने की आवश्यकता नहीं है। आपको वृंदावन छोड़ने की आवश्यकता नहीं है।” उन्होंने वृंदावन में ही जोकि समस्त तीर्थ स्थलों का उद्गम स्थान है, वहाँ पर बद्रिकाश्रम को प्रकट कर दिया। इस प्रकार से उन्होंने अपने पुत्र होने का जो दायित्व होता है कि वह अपने माता-पिता को समस्त द्वीपों की यात्रा करवा कर आए, भगवान कृष्ण ने बद्रिकाश्रम को वृंदावन में प्रकट करके किया। इस प्रकार से उन्होंने अपने माता-पिता नंद बाबा, यशोदा मैया और बलराम के साथ साथ समस्त ब्रजवासियों को बद्रिकाश्रम का दर्शन कराया। वृंदावन के ब्रज मंडल में बद्रीनाथ, केदारनाथ, रामेश्वरम और समस्त जितने भी तीर्थ स्थल हैं, सब ब्रज मंडल में उपस्थित हैं। भगवान ने अपने माता पिता के लिए जो तीर्थ यात्रा आयोजित की। ब्रज मंडल और नवदीप मंडल दोनों में ही समस्त तीर्थ समाहित हैं।

जो भी ब्रजमंडल अथवा नवद्वीप की परिक्रमा करता है। उसे इन सभी तीर्थ स्थलों की परिक्रमा करने का पूर्ण लाभ प्राप्त होता है।
आप सभी का ब्रज मंडल परिक्रमा में स्वागत है। कल मैं इस प्रकार से सोच रहा था कि इस्कॉन के प्रत्येक भक्त को कम से कम अपने जीवन काल में एक बार ब्रज मंडल परिक्रमा अवश्य करनी चाहिए। यदि आपने पहले कभी परिक्रमा नहीं की है तो कृपया आज रमा एकादशी के दिन आप इसके लिए प्लान कीजिए कि आज अपने जीवन काल में एक बार अवश्य ब्रजमंडल परिक्रमा करेंगे, चाहे अगले वर्ष या चाहे उससे अगले वर्ष। वृंदावन आपका इंतजार कर रहा है। मैं आपको कोई आईडिया नहीं देना चाहता लेकिन यदि आप फिर भी पूरा मास नहीं बिता सकते हैं, आप कम से कम 10 दिन के लिए आइए या 2 हफ्ते के लिए आइए। श्रेष्ठ तो यह रहेगा कि आप यहां पूरे मास की परिक्रमा कीजिए। इस प्रकार से आप सभी भगवान के चरणों में इच्छा और प्रार्थना कीजिए। आपके अंदर एक तीव्र इच्छा होनी चाहिए कि आप अपने जीवन काल में कम से कम एक बार ब्रजमंडल परिक्रमा के लिए अवश्य आएंगे।

यहां ऐसे बहुत भक्त हैं जोकि पिछले 30 सालों से ब्रजमंडल परिक्रमा कर रहे हैं या कोई 20 वर्षों से, कोई 10 साल से कर रहा है। आप एक बार अवश्य आइए। यह आपका जीवन परिवर्तन (लाइफ ट्रांस्फोर्मिंग) करने का अनुभव होगा। जब आप एक मास के लिए ब्रजमंडल परिक्रमा में चलेंगे, तब आप खुद ही भक्ति और जीवन में बहुत ही बदलाव अनुभव करेंगे। यह आपके लिए बहुत ही सुंदर दिव्य अनुभव होगा जिसे आप इस कार्तिक मास में परिक्रमा करते हुए जीवन में प्राप्त करेंगे। ऐसा मेरा सुझाव है आप सभी इसे गंभीरता से लीजिए और आप सभी जीवन काल में एक बार अवश्य ब्रज मंडल परिक्रमा कीजिए।

ब्रजमंडल परिक्रमा की जय!
गौर प्रेमानंदे हरि हरि बोल!

24 March 2020

Maya is the problem and Krsna is the solution

Hare Krishna. Gaura Hari! Today we have 662 devotees participating. Keep chanting. Chanting is the only solution. I’ve told this to you many times before, but have you understood?

harer nāma harer nāma
harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā

Translation:
For spiritual progress in this Age of Kali, there is no alternative, there is no alternative, there is no alternative to the holy name, the holy name, the holy name of the Lord. [CC Adi 7.76]

Be convinced. Your intentions should be strong. Keep this thought fixed in your mind. Harinama is the only solution.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Maya is problem and Krsna is the solution. Maya has many forms.

kṛṣṇa-bahirmukha hañā bhoga vāñchā kare
nikaṭa-stha māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare

Translation:
As soon as we forget Kṛṣṇa and we want to do things for our sense gratification, that is māyā. [Prema-vivarta]

When a living entity wants to enjoy or do sense gratification, then maya immediately attacks the soul. As soon as the marginal energy jiva desires to enjoy, maya catches him around his neck. Maya will always knock and kick you. Because of Maya there are problems. Krsna punishes us through Maya to turn us around from vimukha to sanmukha, bahirmukha to antarmukha. As we become antarmukha, we will get solutions to all the problems. Like I said, chanting is the only solution. The name Hari is the Lord Hari and so Hari’s name is the only solution. The Lord came in this world to give this name as a solution.

enechi auṣadhi māyā nāśibāro lāgi’

Translation:
I have brought the medicine that will wipe out the disease of illusion from which you are suffering. (Jiva Jago Verse 4)

And the Lord said in this way also,

āmi binā bandhu āra ke āche tomāra

Translation:
Other than Myself you have no friend in this world. (Jiva Jago Verse 3)

‘Oh friends, Oh my sons, Oh dear souls, Who else is there as brother other than Me?’

suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ – “I am your only best friend.”

You will be peaceful as soon as you realise this. We don’t care much about shanti or peace. We make use of such a peaceful mind. Shanti is sadhan and Bhagavan is sadhya. Prema ( love) for Krsna is sadhya. Prema purtho mahaan

kali kale nama rupe krsna avatara
nama haite haya sarva jagat nistara

Translation:
“In this Age of Kali, the holy name of the Lord, the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, is the incarnation of Lord Krsna. Simply by chanting the holy name, one associates with the Lord directly. Anyone who does this is certainly delivered. (CC Adi 17.22)

yatra mad bhakta gayanti tatra tishthami narada.
Jiva gets association of the Lord in form of Holy Name. Then this is greatest welfare.

bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ
sarva-loka-maheśvaram
suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati

Translation:
A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries. [BG 5.29]

If the mind is peaceful then we chant

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna
Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

This way there will be union between the soul and the supersoul. Union of the soul is the incarnation of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. Hare Krishna is an avatar. When we chant the Hare Krishna Mantra, Krsna will be present.

jahan krsna wahan nahe maya adhikar

Wherever there is Krsna, Maya does not have any scope whether it is in the home or any other place. If there is darkness in a room, as soon as you turn on the light darkness is not there. Where there is light darkness can never be there. Similarly, where Krsna is present , Maya cannot be there. Hare Krishna maha-mantra is Bhagavan and we meditate on it with a peaceful mind.

Astanga yoga is also sadhana. Siddhi is meditation. yama niyama asana pranayam pratyahara dhyan dharana samadhi are steps. Everything is sadhan(means) and samadhi is goal. In samadhi the soul realises the Lord fully. The soul can see the Lord clearly. There is union between the soul and the Lord. That is samadhi. Full- fledged Krishna consciousness. Due to the Coronavirus, there is increase in the number of participants.

On this day one year before, I was in Nasik. Devotees from Nasik reminded me about this. I reached Nashik Road by train. There were many devotees to welcome me. I met them for the first time. We performed kirtana enthusiastically. I expressed my ecstasy in meeting with them. We can see and watch kirtana also. We danced and people watched it. We can also smell the kirtana if there are garlands. We were celebrating Brahmotsava (Deity installation). Many devotees received initiation on that day. Few devotees wrote to me that they have their birthday today as this is the day of theri initiation. I was reminded of Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s statement to Sanatana Goswami.

brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva” “Guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja”

Translation:
Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa. By the mercy of both Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.[CC Madhya Lila 19.151]

When the Lord’s exclusive mercy is showered upon the soul the Lord makes the jiva fortunate. Then Lord sends such a devotee to pradarshaka guru or siksa guru and then eventually that soul reaches his spiritual master also. And that’s how, there is a rise of fortune for that jiva. At the time of initiation, Guru gives Lord to that jiva.

First, the Lord gives Guru to the jiva then the Guru hands over the Lord to the jiva. At the time of initiation, Guru gives the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and some other rituals are performed. Guru says, “Please take God.” Guru instructs the disciple to chant 16 rounds daily. It’s like a contract is signed. Follow the 4 regulative principles, avoid 10 offences towards the holy name and make sure you remain part of Srila Prabhupada’s movement. Guru gives some instructions like this. In this way sadhana of jiva begins and then starts the homework of the jiva. Gurujana plants the seed of devotional service in heart of the jiva. Then he has to implement ways to nourish that seed.

sravana kirtan jale koroho sinchan

With sravan (hearing) and kirtana (chanting the glories of the Lord) the jiva or sadhaka has to nurture that seed.

Along with that, one has to save oneself from offences and anarthas. One has to study scriptures. One has to study Nectar of Devotion which is the science of devotional service. Srila Prabhupada has written it as summary study of Bhakti Rasamrta Sindhu, just like Krishna book is summary study of the 10th canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. It is also our duty to read these books. Devotees reminded me that they had initiation a year before. So I’m reminding all the devotees, not only them that we have to keep doing the homework. Sadhu sanga is mandatory.

sadhu-sanga, sadhu-sanga — sarva-sastre kaya
lava-mātra sādhu-saṅge sarva-siddhi haya

Translation:
Simply by associating with a pure devotee, one becomes wonderfully advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.[CC Madhya Lila 22.54]

Srila Prabhupada established this society for sadhu sanga only. There are festivals, yatras for this purpose only. We should take advantage of this.

When I was in Nasik we went for Nasik darsana. We took darsana of Mother Godavari. We saw how Lord Rama stayed with Mother Sita and Laksman in a grass hut. We also saw the place where Surpanakha’s nose got cut. The nails of Surpanakha were long like supa. Today we also see long nails with nail polish and they keep on this succession of Surpanakha. The place where the nose of Surpanakha got cut and fell became Nasik.

Nasik is Dhama and Kumbha-mela is celebrated over here. I am also a Mahanta of Kumbha mela. We go there whenever there is Kumbha-Mela. Srila Prabhupada also went there along with his disciples. This is the greatness of Nasik Dhama. jai sri rama ho gaya kaam. If you don’t accept Lord Rama then the other option is to die with the Coronavirus. Our internet is also dying over here. Many thoughts keep on coming. As devotees said that they had their initiation ceremony, I was reminded of my initiation and my name.

I was born on a Tuesday on which Lord Rama appeared and hence my parents named me Raghunath. Lord Krsna appeared on Wednesday. I was thinking that Srila Prabhupada will give me some name like Radha Raman starting with the letter R. Srila Prabhupada kept nath and named me Lokanath. When I heard my name Lokanath, which was given on the same day as the appearance of Radha-Kunda (Bahulastami) I thought this is happening because of Srila Prabhupada and all the previous acaryas. In this way there is a gradual rise in our fortune taking place.

Will meet you again.

Hare Krishna!

24 марта 2020 г.

Майя это проблема, а Кришна это решение

Харе Кришна. Гаура Хари! Сегодня у нас 662 преданных. Продолжайте воспевать. Воспевание – единственное решение. Я говорил вам это много раз, но поняли ли вы?

харер нама харер нама
харер намаива кевалам
калау настй эва настй эва
настй эва гатир анйатха

Перевод:
В нынешний век вражды и лицемерия единственный путь к освобождению – это повторение святого имени Бога. Нет другого пути, нет другого пути, нет другого пути . [ЧЧ. Ади 7.76]

Быть убежденным Ваши намерения должны быть сильными. Держите эту мысль в уме. Харинама – единственное решение.

Харе Кришна Харе Кришна
Кришна Кришна Харе Харе
Харе Рама Харе Рама
Рама Рама Харе Харе

Майя это проблема, а Кришна это решение. Майя имеет много форм.

кршна-бахирмукха хана бхога ванчха каре
никата-стха майя таре джапатия дхаре

Перевод:
Как только мы забываем о Кришне и хотим что-то сделать для удовлетворения своих чувств, это майя. [Према-виварта]

Когда живое существо хочет наслаждаться или удовлетворять свои чувства, тогда майя немедленно нападает на душу. Как только джива желает наслаждаться маргинальной энергией, майя ловит её за шею. Майя всегда будет сбивать и пинать тебя. Из-за майя есть проблемы. Кришна наказывает нас через майю, чтобы превратить нас из vimukha в sanmukha, bahirmukha в antarmukha. Став антармукхой, мы получим решение всех проблем. Как я уже сказал, воспевание – единственное решение. Имя Хари – это Господь Хари, и поэтому имя Хари – единственное решение. Господь пришел в этот мир, чтобы дать это имя в качестве решения.

enechi auṣadhi māyā nāśibāro lāgi’

Перевод:
Я принес лекарство, которое уничтожит болезнь иллюзий, от которой вы страдаете. (Джив Джаго Стих 4)

И Господь сказал:

āmi binā bandhu āra ke āche tomāra

Перевод:
У тебя нет друга в этом мире, кроме меня самого. (Джив Джаго Стих 3)

«О друзья, о мои сыновья, о дорогие души, кто еще там, как брат, кроме Меня?

сухридам сарва-бхутанам – «Я твой единственный лучший друг»

Вы будете спокойны, как только поймете это. Нас не волнует Шанти или мир. Мы используем такой мирный ум. Шанти – это садхан, а Багаван – это садхья. Према (любовь) к Кришне это садхья. Prema purtho mahaan

кали кале нама рупе кршна аватара
нама хаите хая сарва джагат нистара

Перевод:
«В эту эпоху Кали, святое имя Господа, Харе Кришна маха-мантра, является воплощением Господа Кришны. Повторяя святое имя, человек напрямую общается с Господом. Любой, кто это делает, обязательно возвращается. (ЧЧ Ади 17.22)

йатра мад бхакта гайанти татра тиштхами нарада.

Джива получает общение с Господом в форме Святого Имени. Тогда это величайшее благосостояние.

бхоктарам йаджна-тапасам 
  сарва-лока-махешварам
сухрдам сарва-бхутанам
  джнатва мам шантим рччхати

Перевод:
Человек, полностью осознавший, что Я – единственный, кто наслаждается всеми жертвоприношениями и плодами подвижничества, что Я верховный владыка всех планет и полубогов, а также друг и благодетель всех существ, избавляется от материальных страданий и обретает полное умиротворение. [БГ. 5.29]

Если ум спокоен, тогда мы поем

Харе Кришна Харе Кришна
Кришна Кришна Харе Харе
Харе Рама Харе Рама
Рама Рама Харе Харе

Таким образом, между душой и сверхдушой будет единение. Союз души – это воплощение маха-мантры Харе Кришна. Харе Кришна это аватар. Когда мы будем воспевать Харе Кришна Мантру, Кришна будет присутствовать.

jahan krsna wahan nahe maya adhikar

Везде, где есть Кришна, у Майи нет никаких возможностей, будь то дома или в любом другом месте. Если в комнате есть тьма, как только вы включите свет, тьмы не будет. Там, где свет, тьма никогда не может быть. Точно так же, там где присутствует Кришна, Майи не может быть. Харе Кришна маха-мантра – это Бхагаван, и мы размышляем над этим со спокойным умом.

Аштанга йога это также садхана. Сиддхи – это медитация. йама нияма асана пранаяма пратьяхара дхьяна дхарана самадхи – это шаги. Всё это садхан (методы), а самадхи это цель. В самадхи душа полностью осознает Господа. Душа может ясно видеть Господа. Существует союз между душой и Господом. Это самадхи. Полноценное сознание Кришны. Из-за Коронавируса наблюдается увеличение числа участников.

В этот день год назад я был в Насике. Преданные из Насик напомнили мне об этом. Я достиг Насик Роуд на поезде. Было много преданных, чтобы приветствовать меня. Я встретил их впервые. Мы пели киртан с энтузиазмом. Я выразил свой экстаз на встрече с ними. Мы также можем видеть и смотреть киртан. Мы танцевали, а люди смотрели на это. Мы также можем чувствовать запах киртана, если есть гирлянды. Мы праздновали Брахмотсаву (инсталляция Божеств). Многие преданные получили посвящение в тот день. Некорые преданные написали мне, что у них сегодня день рождения, поскольку это день их посвящения. Мне напомнили об указании Чайтаньи Махапрабху Санатане Госвами.

brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva” “Guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja”

Перевод:
Из многих миллионов странствующих живых существ тот, кто очень удачлив, получает возможность общаться с истинным духовным учителем по милости Кришны. По милости как Кришны, так и духовного учителя такой человек получает семя лианы преданного служения [ЧЧ Мадхья Лила 19.151]

Когда исключительная милость Господа проливается на душу, Господь делает дживу счастливой. Затем Господь посылает такого преданного к pradarshaka guru или шикша-гуру, и затем в конце концов эта душа достигает своего духовного учителя. И вот как, у этой дживы растет состояние. Во время посвящения Гуру дает Господа этой дживе.

Сначала Господь отдает Гуру дживе, затем Гуру передает Господа дживе. Во время посвящения, Гуру даёт Харе Кришна маха-мантру и совершаются некоторые другие ритуалы. Гуру говорит: «Пожалуйста, прими Господа». Гуру наставляет ученика повторять 16 кругов ежедневно. Это как подписание контракта. Следуйте 4 регулирующим принципам, избегайте 10 оскорблений в отношении святого имени и убедитесь, что вы остаетесь частью движения Шрилы Прабхупады. Гуру дает несколько таких наставлений. Таким образом начинается садхана дживы, а затем начинается домашняя работа дживы. Гуруджана сажает семя преданного служения в сердце дживы. Затем он должен реализовать способы, чтобы питать это семя.

sravana kirtan jale koroho sinchan

С помощью шраван (слушания) и киртана (воспевания славы Господа) джива или садхака должны взращивать это семя.

Вместе с тем нужно спасать себя от оскорблений и анартх. Нужно изучать Священные Писания. Нужно изучать Нектар Преданности, который является наукой преданного служения. Шрила Прабхупада написал это как краткое изложение Бхакти Расамриты Синдху, точно так же, как книга Кришна – это краткое изложение 10-й песни Шримад-Бхагаватам. Мы также обязаны читать эти книги. Преданные напомнили мне, что у них было посвящение год назад. Поэтому я напоминаю всем преданным, а не только им, что мы должны продолжать делать домашнюю работу. Садху санга обязательна.

sadhu-sanga, sadhu-sanga — sarva-sastre kaya
lava-mātra sādhu-saṅge sarva-siddhi haya

Перевод:
Просто общаясь с чистым преданным, человек поразительным образом продвигается в сознании Кришны [ЧЧ Мадхья Лила 22.54]

Шрила Прабхупада создал это общество только для садху-санги. Есть фестивали, ятры только для этого. Мы должны воспользоваться этим.

Когда я был в Насике, мы пошли на Насик даршану. Мы получили даршан Матери Годавари. Мы увидели, как Господь Рама остался с Матерью Ситой и Лакшманом в хижине с трав. Мы также видели место, где нос Шурпанаки был отрезан. Ногти Сурпанакхи были длинными, как supa. Сегодня мы также видим длинные ногти с лаком для ногтей, и они продолжают эту преемственность Шурпанаки. Местом, где нос Шурпанаки был отрезан и упал, стал Насик.

Насик – это Дхама и здесь празднуется Кумбха-мела. Я также Маханта Кумбха мелы. Мы идем туда, когда есть Кумбха-Мела. Шрила Прабхупада также отправился туда вместе со своими учениками. Это величие Насик Дхамы. джай шри рама хо гая каам. Если вы не принимаете Господа Раму, то другой вариант – умереть с Коронавирусом. Наш интернет тоже умирает здесь. Многие мысли продолжают приходить. Когда преданные сказали, что у них была церемония посвящения, мне напомнили о моем посвящении и моем имени.

Я родился во вторник, когда явился Господь Рама, и поэтому мои родители назвали меня Рагхунатх. Господь Кришна явился в среду. Я думал, что Шрила Прабхупада даст мне какое-то имя, например Радха Раман, начиная с буквы Р. Шрила Прабхупада сохранил натх и назвал меня Локанатх. Когда я услышал свое имя Локанатх, которое было дано в тот же день, что и явление Радха-Кунды (Бахулаштами). Я подумал, что это происходит из-за Шрилы Прабхупады и всех предыдущих ачарьев. Таким образом происходит постепенное повышение нашей удачи.

Увидимся снова.

Харе Кришна!

जप चर्चा,
23 मार्च 2020

621 स्थानों से भक्त जप कर रहे हैं। जब हम जप या संर्कीतन करते हैं,तो इसका लाभ सारे संसार को होता हैं।
हरि हरि। जप करने वाले भी लाभान्वित होते हैं और जो अगल-बगल में सुन रहे हैं, उनका भी लाभ होता हैं। वैसे जप तो सभी को सुनाने के लिए नहीं होता लेकिन कोई भी सुन सकता हैं, जप तो हम स्वयं के लिए करते हैं लेकिन उस जप से भी दूसरों का फायदा होता हैं। जब हम मृदंग और करताल के साथ मैदान में उतरते हैं, तो उसका तो कहना ही क्या।और मैं अभी जहां हूं,मेरे साथी भी जो यहां हैं,मेरे असिस्टेंट बालकनी पर हैं,वह बालकनी से नीचे उतरे और उन्होंने मृदंग और करताल के साथ कीर्तन किया।हरि हरि।जय पताका महाराज ने भी कहा था कि 5:00 बजे मृदंग और करताल के साथ कीर्तन करो।तो हमने भी कीर्तन किया और आप में से कई भक्तों ने भी कीर्तन किया। हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे का कीर्तन करके भगवान से प्रार्थना की हैं। कीर्तन भी एक प्रार्थना हैं। यह एक प्रार्थना ही हैं, हरे कृष्णा अर्थात संबोधन! इसके जरिए हम भगवान को संबोधित करते हैं, हे कृष्ण! कहते हैं। या हे राम!कहते हैं।इसको भी याद रखिए।आपको भी तो पता होना चाहिए कि हम करते क्या हैं।हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कहते हैं या जब जप करते हैं या कीर्तन करते हैं, तो हम कह क्या रहे हैं? हम प्रार्थना कर रहे हैं।

भगवान से प्रार्थना कर रहे हैं।कई प्रार्थना हैं या कई भाव व्यक्त किए जा सकते हैं।हमारे आचार्यो ने दिशा-निर्देश भी दिए हैं।गोपाल भट्ट गोस्वामी और औरों ने भी महामंत्र पर भाषय लिखे हैं। भगवान के दिव्य नाम पर भाषय लिखे हैं।जब हम हरे कहते हैं तो क्या कहते हैं और कृष्ण कहते हैं तो क्या कहते हैं? हरे जब हमने कहा तो हम कह रहे हैं और किसी को संबोधित कर रहे हैं। हम किसी का ध्यान आकर्षित कर रहे हैं।किसी का अर्थात कोई तो हैं, निराकार नहीं हैं। हवा का ध्यान या अकाश का ध्यान आकर्षित नहीं कर रहे हैं। हम प्रार्थना करके पुकार के साक्षात भगवान राधा कृष्ण का ध्यान हमारी ओर आकर्षित कर रहे हैं। उनको पुकार रहे हैं।कुछ कह रहे हैं या कुछ प्रार्थना कर रहे हैं। उनका ध्यान कर रहे हैं। उनकी आराधना कर रहे हैं।

कृष्णवर्णं त्विषाकृष्णं साङ्गोपाङ्गास्त्रपार्षदम् ।
यज्ञै: सङ्कीर्तनप्रायैर्यजन्ति हि सुमेधस: ॥ ३२
श्रीमद भागवतम 11.5.32

भागवतम में कहा गया हैं कि जब हम जप करते हैं या कीर्तन करते हैं,जैसे आप में से कई भक्तों ने कई नगरों और कई देशों में कल कीर्तन किया, तो यह यज्ञ हैं और यज्ञनति मतलब पूजा करना।हम यज्ञ करके इस कलयुग में भगवान की आराधना करते हैं और ऐसी आराधना करने वालों को सुमेधस: कहां हैं। यही लोग बुद्धिमान हैं। वह लोग बुद्धिमान हैं, जो भगवान की आराधना करते हैं।भगवान की प्रार्थना करते हैं, कैसे प्रार्थना करते हैं?यह संकीर्तन यज्ञ करके। इसको संकीर्तन यज्ञ कहिए या श्री कृष्ण ने भगवतद्गीता में कहा हैं

महर्षीणां भृगुरहं गिरामस्म्येकमक्षरम् ।
यज्ञानां जपयज्ञोऽस्मि स्थावराणां हिमालय:।।
भगवत गीता 10.25

सभी यज्ञों में भगवान जप यज्ञ हैं। जब हम जप करते हैं तो कुछ आहुति चढ़ाते हैं।तो भगवान ने कहा कि वह जो आप आहुति चढ़ा रहे हो,वह जो आप यज्ञ कर रहे हो,वह जप मैं हूं।तो यह जप प्रार्थना हैं।
सेवा योग्यं कुरू
श्रील प्रभुपाद भी यही कहा करते थे, इसका अर्थ हैं कि मुझे सेवा के योग्य बना दो। मैं आपका दास हूं। मुझे अपनी सेवा के योग्य करो।

अयि नन्दतनुज किंकरं पतितं मां विषमे भवाम्बुधौ।
कृपया तव पादपंकज-स्थितधूलिसदृशं विचिन्तय॥५॥
शिशष्टाष्टक 5

चैतन्य महाप्रभु भी ऐसी प्रार्थना किया करते थे,कि मैं आपके चरणों की धूल हूं। मुझे अपने चरणों का किंकर बना दो। यह प्रार्थना हमें चैतन्य महाप्रभु ने भी सिखाई हैं। तो जब हम हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण का जप करते हैं तो हम प्रार्थना करते हैं,कि मुझे अपनी सेवा में लगाए। मैं आपके चरणों का किनकर हूं, हे प्रभु! मुझे इस संसार से ऊपर उठाइए और इस जन्म मृत्यु के चक्कर से बचाइए।मुझे अपनी सेवा में लगाइए। हरि हरि।अभी पूरा भाषण सुनाने का समय तो नहीं है ।मैं समय-समय पर आप को समझाता रहता हूं और आपको यह समझाने का प्रयास कर रहा हूं कि यह जो हरे कृष्ण महामंत्र का हम कीर्तन करते हैं,इससे हम प्रार्थना करते हैं। हम भगवान को प्रार्थना करते हैं। भगवान को संबोधित करते हैं और यह प्रार्थना जब करते हैं तो हम स्वयं के कल्याण के लिए नहीं करते हैं।औरों के हित और कल्याण के लिए भी करते हैं।तो यह कोई स्वार्थ पूर्ण प्रार्थना नहीं हैं। इसमें तो परमार्थ भी हैं। औरों का हित भी हैं।

संनियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धयः।
ते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रताः।।12.4।।
श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता १२.४

जो महात्मा हैं, वह औरों के कल्याण के लिए अपना जीवन जीते हैं।

संनियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धयः।
ते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रताः।।12.4।।

सर्व भूत अर्थात सारे जीवो के हितों के लिए जीते हैं।रता: मतलब तल्लीन रहते हैं।भगवान में लीन रहते हैं और कृष्ण भावनाभावित रहते हैं और कृष्ण भावनाभावित होकर क्या करते हैं? सभी जीवो के हित की बात करते हैं। सभी की सेवा की बात सोचते भी हैं, कहते भी हैं और करते भी हैं। औरों के हित के लिए करते हैं। कैसे औरों का हित करते हैं? यह नाम संकीर्तन करके।हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे यह प्रार्थना संसार के सभी कोरोनावायरस से ग्रस्त जीवो के लिए हैं या जो कोई भी कतार में हैं, कोई भी हो सकता हैं। अगला नंबर आपका भी हो सकता हैं। मेरा भी हो सकता हैं। ऐसा भी संभव हैं। कुछ भी परिस्थिति हो सकती हैं। 500 लोग पहले थे।कोरोनावायरस के कारण,आज नहीं रहे।आज कोई और 500 की बारी होगी और कल,आने वाले कल में और लोगों को भी कतार में खड़े होकर इंतजार करना होगा।हमारी प्रार्थना, हरे कृष्ण महामंत्र द्वारा की गई प्रार्थना सभी के लिए हैं। केवल भारतीय,हिंदुओं के लिए प्रार्थना नहीं करते,हम लोग सभी जीवो, आत्माओं के हित के लिए प्रार्थना करते हैं।

आत्मा तो हिंदू नहीं हैं, क्रिश्चन नहीं हैं, मुस्लिम नहीं हैं, इटालियन नहीं हैं और स्पेनिश नहीं हैं।आत्मा तो आत्मा ही हैं और आत्मा तो इस जगत की नहीं हैं, इसलिए इस संसार की उपाधि आत्मा को नहीं दी जा सकती।जो आत्मा वैकुंठ की हैं या भगवान की हैं उस आत्मा को अब कैसे कह सकते हो कि यह अमेरिकन हैं या यह हिंदू हैं या भारतीय हैं या यह काली आत्मा हैं या यह स्त्री आत्मा हैं या गरीब आत्मा हैं या यह धनी आत्मा हैं। कुछ भी नहीं हैं। आत्मा तो केवल आत्मा हैं। हम तो कई सारी उपाधियां देते हैं, लेकिन यह आत्मा इन सब उपाधियों से परे हैं। यह जवान आत्मा हैं या यह बुरी आत्मा हैं। ऐसा तो नहीं कहा जा सकता।यह तो अज्ञान हैं। आत्मा तो आत्मा ही हैं

और हमारी प्रार्थना तो सभी आत्माओं के लिए है वैसे भी हम भक्तों की जो विजन हैं, वह सभी जीवो के लिए हैं। हम यह सोचते हैं वसुदेव कुटुंबकम।पृथ्वी पर जितने भी लोग हैं, यह मेरा ही परिवार हैं। यह कोरोना वायरस का जो सीजन या जमाना हैं या जो उसने वातावरण उत्पन्न किया हैं, यह सब को सोचने पर मजबूर कर रही हैं कि हमें अपना पराया नहीं सोचना चाहिए। हम लोग अपने पराए हैं ही नहीं।हम लोग सब अपने ही हैं।ऐसा नहीं है कि इंडिया में जो आत्मा हैं या भारत में जो आत्मा हैं,यह अपनी आत्मा हैं, लेकिन जो इटली में आत्मा हैं, या जो चाइना में आत्मा हैं, वह अपनी आत्मा नहीं हैं।हम कृष्ण के बन रहे हैं या फिर कह सकते हैं कि हम गोडिय वैष्णव बन रहे हैं।श्रील भक्ति सिद्धांत सरस्वती ठाकुर प्रभुपाद ने समझाया हैं कि जो विष्णु के उपासक होते हैं,वह वैष्णव कहलाते हैं। और गोलोक पति कृष्ण की आराधना करने वाले को क्राष्ण कहते हैं और जो राधा की आराधना करते हैं उन्हें गोडिए वैष्णव कहते हैं। हरि हरि।गोडिय वैष्णव की अलग निशानी होती हैं,कि वह राधा की आराधना करते हैं। राधा भाव में या गोपी भाव में आराधना करते हैं।

हमारी खासियत यह भी हैं कि हम बड़े दिल वाले लोग हैं। बड़े दिलवाले क्यों हैं? क्योंकि इस दिल में भगवान विराजमान हैं।जो भी अनुभव करते हैं कि मेरे हृदय प्रांगण में भगवान विराजमान हैं वह बड़े दिलवाले हो जाते हैं। उनका दिल भी बड़ा हो जाता हैं और विचार उच्च हो जाते हैं। और दूर दृष्टि से भी वह मुक्त हो जाते हैं।छोटे हृदय वाले नहीं होते और नीच नहीं होते। हम नीच नहीं बनते क्योंकि हम भगवान के सानिध्य में आते हैं और भगवान की आराधना करते हैं।हमारे हृदय में भगवान हैं, इसका हम अनुभव करते हैं।इसी के साथ हमारा जो दृष्टिकोण हैं, हमारी सोच हैं उसमें परिवर्तन होता हैं।

जो परिवर्तन हैं, उसका स्वागत हैं। हरि हरि। तो प्रार्थना करते रहिए। अध्ययन भी एक प्रार्थना हैं, ग्रंथों का, या शास्त्रों का अध्ययन भी एक प्रार्थना ही हैं और भगवान के नामों का जप भी एक प्रार्थना हैं और फिर आप औरों को भी पढ़ने के लिए या शास्त्रों का अध्ययन करने के लिए प्रेरित कर सकते हो और हरे कृष्ण महामंत्र का जप करने के लिए और प्रसाद खाने के लिए। या प्रसाद पहले स्वयं खा सकते हैं। दान की शुरुआत घर से ही होती हैं।पहले स्वयं खाएं, फिर दूसरों को भी खाने के लिए आमंत्रित कर सकते हैं।जब स्वयं खाओगे तो सोचोगे कि इतना स्वादिष्ट प्रसाद हैं, मुझे यह दूसरों के साथ बांटना चाहिए और इतने मीठे भगवान हैं।

“अधरम मधुरम वदनम मधुरम मधुराधिपते रखिलम मधुरम”
भगवान की हर चीज मधुर हैं। जब हम इस मधुरता का आस्वादन करेंगे तो हम खुद सोचेंगे कि मैं क्यों ना इसको दूसरों के साथ बांटु। जैसे कि चीटियां होती हैं,किसी एक चींटी को भी अगर शक्कर का एक भी दाना मिलता हैं, तो थोड़ा सा आस्वादन करने पर वह सोचती हैं, अरे यह तो बहुत मीठी हैं, बहुत अच्छी हैं। वह तुरंत उसे खाना बंद कर देती हैं और उसके ऊपर चिंतन करने लगती हैं और दूसरों को खोजती हैं और सबको बुलाती हैं कि चलो चलो चलो कृपया आओ, कृपया आओ, तो जहां भी वह शक्कर का कन गिरा होगा कुछ ही मिनटों में या घंटों में वहां कई सारी चीटियां एकत्रित हो जाती हैं। पहले तो एक चींटी को ही वह कन मिला था फिर उसने दूसरों के साथ बांटा। वैसे ही हम हरे कृष्णा भक्तों को भी होना चाहिए।क्या आप जप करके सुखी हो? आपको आनंद आ रहा हैं या नहीं आ रहा? पीड़ा में हो या आप इसका आनंद ले रहे हो? सच कहो। अगर आपको आनंद आ रहा हैं तो मतलबी मत बनो। आप अकेले सुखी मत होओ। औरों को भी सुखी करो। इस सुख को दूसरों के साथ बांटो। हरि नाम का वितरण करो और सारे संसार को सुखी होने दो। आनंदम बुद्धि वर्धनम। आप जब भी इस आनंद को बांटोगे तो ऐसा चिंता मत करना कि यह खत्म हो जाएगा। यह खत्म होने वाला नहीं हैं, बल्कि यह बढ़ेगा। यह आनंद तो बढ़ता ही रहता हैं।यह तो असीम हैं, आनंद का ऐसा सागर जिसकी कोई सीमा ही नहीं हैं। ऐसा चैतन्य महाप्रभु ने कहा हैं,

“सर्व आत्मा स्नप्नम परम विजयते श्री कृष्ण संकीर्तन”
(शिष्टाष्टक)
हरि हरि
तो ऐसे आनंद के सागर में गोते लगाओ और औरों की भी डुबकी लगवाओ और उनको भी तैरने दो। उनको भी आनंद लूटने दो। हरि हरि और एक बात हैं, अंत में जो मैं कहना चाहूंगा।एक बार एक सर्वे किया गया और वह सर्वे था की कई लोग जो हस्पताल में मरीज थे या बीमार थे या रोगी थे तो कुछ लोगों के लिए प्रार्थना की जा रही थी और ऐसे भी मरीज थे जिनके लिए प्रार्थना नहीं की जा रही थी और उस सर्वे का नतीजा यह निकला कि जिनके लिए प्रार्थना की जा रही थी वह लाभान्वित हो रहे थे। उनकी बीमारी कम हो रही थी। उन्हें फायदा मिल रहा था उन प्रार्थनाओं का और जिनके लिए प्रार्थनाएं नहीं की जा रही थी उनका दम घुट रहा था, टेंपरेचर बढ़ रहा था, उनका स्वास्थ्य खराब हो रहा था।तो यह प्रूव हो चुका हैं, ऐसा एक निरीक्षण हुआ, तो यह बात सिद्ध हो चुकी हैं। इसलिए आप प्रार्थना करते रहो, स्वयं के लिए भी और सारे संसार के लिए भी खासकर उनके लिए जो दुनिया भर के कोरोनावायरस से पीडित लोग हैं । हमारे ही भाई और बहन हैं।हमें ऐसी भावना होनी चाहिए कि वह भी हमारे ही हैं, हमारे ही भगवान के हैं। हमारे कृष्ण के ही हैं। हमारे अल्लाह के ही हैं। आपकी प्रार्थना खाली फोकट नहीं जाएगी या फायदेमंद ही होगी। इसलिए प्रार्थना करते रहें,अधिक से अधिक जप करते रहिए,अध्ययन करते रहिए और प्रचार करते रहिए।

इस परिस्थिति में हमें प्रचार करने के नए तरीकों को खोजना होगा।आमने सामने मिल नहीं सकते तो कोई और तरीका निकालो। आप देखो कि ऐसी परिस्थिति में आप जारे देखो तारे कहो कृष्ण उपदेश कैसे कर सकते हो। इंटरनेट का प्रयोग कर सकते हैं,सोशल डिस्टेंसिंग तो ठीक हैं,लेकिन सोशल मीडिया का अधिक प्रयोग कर सकते हो और सोशल डिस्टेंसिंग को मेंटेन करो।व्यक्तिगत रूप से पास जाने के बजाय,आप सोशल मीडिया जैसे कि फेसबुक आदि आदि का प्रयोग कर सकते हैं। जूम कॉन्फ्रेंस का भी प्रयोग कर सकते हैं।अब आपको देखना हैं, प्रभुपाद ने भी कहा हैं, यूटिलिटी इस द प्रिंसिपल। अब आप देखो कि जो संपर्क के साधन हैं उनका किस प्रकार से पूर्णत: प्रयोग कर सकते हो।सोशल मीडिया के माध्यम से तो एक ही साथ कई सारे लोगों से संपर्क संभव हैं। इसका फायदा उठाइए। ज्यादा से ज्यादा एक्टिव बनिए। यह खाली बैठकर आराम करने का समय नहीं हैं। अलर्ट बनो और एक्टिव बनो और इसके लिए अब आपके पास समय भी हैं, यातायात के साधन भी उपलब्ध नहीं हैं। सारे भारत की ट्रेन कैंसिल हो चुकी हैं,रद्द हो चुकी हैं,मेट्रो भी नहीं चल रही हैं और लोकल ट्रेन भी नहीं चल रही हैं। कम और ज्यादा सारे संसार की यही हालत हैं। अभी मुवमेंट संभव नहीं हैं,लेकिन हमें खाली नहीं बैठना हैं।शब्दों को कैसे मूव कर सकते हो यह देखो।इससे फैला दो।इस तरह से हम चलते रहेंगे। ठीक हैं।आपसे पुनः मिलेंगे।हरे कृष्णा।

22-3-2020
हरे कृष्ण !!

हरे कृष्णा भक्त कभी बेरोजगार नहीं रहते।

आज 475 स्थानों से भक्त हमारे साथ में जप कर रहे हैं . आज जनता कर्फ्यू का दिन है। आज हम आशा कर रहे थे कि अधिक मात्रा में भक्त हमारे साथ जप करेंगे, परंतु दुर्भाग्यवश आज रविवार का दिन भी है अतः हमारे हरे कृष्ण भक्त इसका लाभ नहीं उठा रहे हैं यद्यपि उन्हें इसका लाभ उठाना चाहिए। सरकार तथा माया के दासों के लिए रविवार का दिन छुट्टी का दिन होता है। परंतु हरे कृष्ण भक्तों के लिए कोई छुट्टी का दिन नहीं होता क्योंकि हम भगवान कृष्ण के सनातन सेवक हैं। यद्यपि हम किसी सरकार के या किसी बॉस अथवा किसी उद्योगपति के सेवक नहीं हैं परंतु फिर भी हम किसी के सेवक के समान निरंतर कार्य करते हैं। कई लोग गर्व से कहते हैं “मैं सरकारी नौकर हूं।“ “ मैं अंबानी की सेवा करता हूं।“ उन्हें ऐसा कहते हुए शर्म भी नहीं आती। श्रील प्रभुपाद कहते थे यदि हमें और कोई नहीं मिले तो हम कुत्ते की सेवा करते हैं।

हमारे मन में यह बात सुनिश्चित होनी चाहिए कि हम भगवान श्री कृष्ण के सनातन सेवक है। हमें छुट्टी नहीं चाहिए। फिर चाहे रविवार हो अथवा सोमवार हम भगवान की सेवा 24 घंटे तथा सातों दिन करते हैं। हम सदैव के लिए भगवान के दास हैं। परंतु यह बात उन्हें कौन बताएगा जो आज इस कांफ्रेंस में सम्मिलित नहीं हुए हैं? आपके वह गुरु भाई तथा गुरु बहने जो आज रविवार के दिन विश्राम कर रहे हैं तथा हमारे साथ जप नहीं कर रहे हैं आप कृपा करके उन्हें यह संदेश दे। मैं आप सभी को यह बताना चाह रहा था कि आज जनता कर्फ्यू है अतः आप सभी अपने घरों पर रहे और इस अवसर का लाभ उठाएं . यद्यपि बाहर कर्फ्यू है परंतु फिर भी आप ज़ूम तथा इंटरनेट के माध्यम से भक्तों के मध्य प्रचार कर सकते हैं। आप बाहर जाकर किसी से नहीं मिल सकते अतः आप अपने घर से ही इन तकनीकों की सहायता से प्रचार कार्य कर सकते हैं।

रीयूनियन द्वीप से दयालु राधा लिख रही है कि वह वहां पर गीता कोर्स कर रही है। उसी प्रकार बेंगलुरु से अकिंचन भक्त ने एक रिपोर्ट भेजी हैं कि उनके वहां 20 दिवसीय गीता कोर्स चल रहा है जिसे कई भक्त सुन रहे हैं। अहमदाबाद से मुरली मोहन प्रभु अपने शिष्यों को गीता का पाठ पढ़ा रहे हैं। इस समय के दौरान कुछ भक्त मुझसे मिलने के लिए आए। दुर्भाग्यवश कोरोना वायरस के कारण वे बेरोजगार हो गए हैं, उनके व्यवसाय बंद हो गए हैं। अतः मैंने उन्हें बताया कि हरे कृष्ण भक्त कभी भी बेरोजगार नहीं हो सकते। कई बड़ी-बड़ी कंपनियां अपने कर्मचारियों को नौकरी से निकाल देती है और वे बेरोजगार हो जाते हैं। जब ऐसे हजारों व्यक्तियों के पास कोई नौकरी नहीं होती तो उन उन्हें यह बताया जाता है कि अब आप कोई नई नौकरी ढूंढिए। इसके कई कारण हो सकते हैं। परंतु हरे कृष्ण भक्त कभी भी बेरोजगार नहीं हो सकते। हम भगवान के सेवक हैं और हमारे मालिक भगवान हैं। हम भगवान के नित्य दास है। यह श्री कृष्ण चैतन्य महाप्रभु का आंदोलन है। अब हमें इस हरे कृष्णा आंदोलन की रक्षा करनी चाहिए तथा इसका विस्तार करना चाहिए। यह हमारे परिवार का व्यवसाय है तथा यही हमारी नौकरी है। आपसे यह नौकरी कोई नहीं छीन सकता , केवल माया ही आपसे यह नौकरी छीन सकती है। हम नहीं जानते कि कितने समय से हम भी बेरोजगार रहे हैं और हम भी भगवान की सेवा को भूल कर के व्यर्थ का जीवनयापन कर रहे थे। अब भगवान की कृपा से हमें यह समझ में आया है कि हम भगवान के सेवक हैं और भगवान ही हमारे मालिक हैं।
प्रत्येक स्थिति में हम भगवान की सेवा कर सकते हैं। वर्तमान समय में विश्व वैश्विक स्तर पर कई व्यवसाय बंद हो गए हैं। परंतु हमारा व्यवसाय हमसे कोई नहीं छीन सकता। यहां इसे व्यवसाय कहना गलत है वरन हम यह कह सकते हैं कि यह हमारी सेवा है जिसे हम से कोई नहीं छीन सकता। यहां तक कि कोरोनावायरस भी हमसे हमारी सेवा नहीं छीन सकता।

जैसा कि मैंने आपको पहले भी बताया है कि इस समय हम और अधिक मात्रा में भगवान की सेवा कर सकते हैं। और हमें यह समझना चाहिए कि यह कोरोनावायरस कि हमारे ऊपर करुणा है। अंग्रेजी में इसे दुख के भेष में सुख कहा जाता है। संपूर्ण विश्व इसे एक अभिशाप के रूप में समझ रहा है तथा एक दृष्टि से यह अभिशाप है भी, परंतु हरे कृष्ण भक्तों के लिए यह एक वरदान भी है। मैंने एक परिवार की तस्वीर देखी जिसमें संपूर्ण परिवार जप कर रहा था और उस तस्वीर पर लिखा हुआ था कि यदि आप बाहर नहीं जा सकते तो आप अपने भीतर जाइए। क्या आपको यह बात समझ में आती है? बाहर जाने का अर्थ है कि आप शारीरिक रूप से सड़क पर नहीं जा सकते आप अपने शरीर को किसी दुकान व्यवसाय अथवा नौकरी पर नहीं ले कर के जा सकते। वर्तमान समय में हर कहीं यह प्रचार हो रहा है कि कृपा करके आप बाहर मत जाइए। यह ठीक है तो इस परिस्थिति में क्या करना चाहिए? तब आप अंदर जाइए। संपूर्ण विश्व में सोचता है कि अंदर जाने का अर्थ है आप घर के अंदर चले जाइए और टीवी देखिए। परंतु दुर्भाग्यवश वे वास्तव में भीतर जाना क्या है उसे नहीं समझते। जबसे जीव इस पृथ्वी पर आता है तब से वह बहिर्मुखी बना हुआ रहता है बाहर जाने का अर्थ है बहिर्मुखी होना। बहिर्मुख होकर बाहर मत जाइए। आप अपने शरीर के भीतर जाइए जिसे अंतर्मुखी कहा जाता है जहां हम हमारे मन तथा विचारों को स्वयं पर तथा हमारे मन पर केंद्रित करते हैं। हमें हमारे मन की कंदराओ तथा गुफाओं में विचरण करना चाहिए।

अनर्पित चरित चिराम , कारुण्यवतीर्ण कलौ,
समर्पयितुम उन्नत उज्वल रसम , स्व भक्ति श्रीयाम।
हरी: पुरात सुन्दर द्युति कदम्ब संदीपिताः ,
सदा ह्रदय कन्दरे , स्फुरतु वः शची नन्दनः।। (चैतन्य चरितामृत आदि लीला 1.4)

कृष्णदास कविराज गोस्वामी चैतन्य चरितामृत में एक प्रार्थना करते हुए यह बताते हैं कि मैं यह आशा करता हूं कि गौरांग महाप्रभु मेरे हृदय प्रांगण में प्रकट हो। गौरांग ! गौरांग ! गौरांग ! नित्यानंद ! नित्यानंद ! नित्यानंद। जब मैं ऐसा कहता हूं तो मैं यह सोचता हूं कि वास्तव में आत्मा का निवास कहां है? आत्मा हृदय में निवास करती है और इसीलिए इसे हृदय की कंदरा कहा जाता है यहां आत्मा रहती है। ऐसा नहीं कहा जाता कि भगवान आपके पांव में अथवा पेट में अथवा और किसी अंग में प्रकट हो परंतु यह कहा जाता है कि भगवान हमारे हृदय में प्रकट हो आपको इस बात को नोट करना चाहिए। इस प्रकार हमारी आत्मा हमारे हृदय के प्रांगण में रहती है और गौरांग महाप्रभु भी उसी हृदय प्रांगण में रहते हैं।

सर्वस्य चाहं हृदि सन्निविष्टो
मत्त: स्मृतिर्ज्ञानमपोहनं च ।
वेदैश्च सर्वैरहमेव वेद्यो
वेदान्तकृद्वेदविदेव चाहम् ॥ (श्रीमद भगवद गीता 15.15)

ऐसा कहा जाता है कि जहां भगवान रहते हैं हमें भी वही रहना चाहिए। यदि आप बाहर नहीं जा सकते हैं तो आप अपने भीतर जाइए जहां भगवान रहते हैं। भीतर जाने का अर्थ यह नहीं है कि आप शारीरिक रूप से अपने घर के भीतर चले जाइए। संपूर्ण विश्व यह मूर्खता कर रहा है क्योंकि उन्हें इस विषय में कोई ज्ञान नहीं है। यह आपातकालीन स्थिति है। हमें इस स्थिति का पूरा लाभ उठाना चाहिए। ऐसा मत सोचिए कि हम बेरोजगार हो गए। यह एक सुनहरा अवसर है जब आप अधिक मात्रा में जप , श्रवण कर सकते हैं। जब हम जप करते हैं तब केवल हम ही उसका श्रवण करते हैं। जब हम और अधिक श्रवण करते हैं और फिर हम उसका कीर्तन करते हैं तो हम अन्य को भी वह सुनाते हैं। स्वयं के लिए श्रवण करना तथा कीर्तन करना यह अत्यंत आवश्यक है क्योंकि यह हमारा धर्म है। परंतु इसके साथ ही साथ हमें इसका प्रचार भी करना चाहिए। हमें भगवान के नाम रूप गुण लीला आदि का कीर्तन करना चाहिए तथा अन्य लोगों के साथ उसे बांटना चाहिए। यह लोग आपके परिवार के सदस्य हो सकते हैं आपके पड़ोसी हो सकते हैं अथवा आपके रिश्तेदार हो सकते हैं। आपको इसके विषय में विचार करना चाहिए।

जारे देख तारे कह कृष्ण उपदेश।
आमार आज्ञा गुरु होना तारो ऐई देश ।।

यह हमारी जिम्मेदारी है . श्री कृष्ण चैतन्य महाप्रभु ने हमें यह निर्देश दिया है यह किसी सरकार का निर्देश नहीं है। आप इस निर्देश का पालन कीजिए तथा कृष्ण भावना मृत का प्रचार कीजिए और अन्यों को भगवान का सेवक बनने की प्रेरणा प्रदान कीजिए तथा उन्हें बताइए कि वे भगवान के सेवक हैं किसी सरकार के सेवक नहीं है। यदि वे भगवान की दासता को स्वीकार नहीं करते हैं तो आप उन्हें यह भी कह सकते हैं कि वे भगवान के मित्र, पुत्र तथा माता-पिता भी हो सकते हैं। आप इस गंभीर विषय पर चिंतन कीजिए तथा इसका प्रचार करने के लिए विचार कीजिए।

मैं भी कुछ विचार कर रहा हूं क्योंकि मेरे लिए बाहर जाकर अधिक जन समूह में प्रचार करना वर्तमान समय में संभव नहीं है। मैं यहां एक ही स्थान पर हूं। मैं यहां कीर्तन कर रहा हूं और आप सभी को प्रचार भी कर रहा हूं। आप भी इस प्रकार कर सकते हैं। और कुछ नहीं तो आप पारिवारिक इष्ट गोष्ठी ही कीजिए।

535 वाँ गौराब्द प्रारंभ हो चुका है। इस वर्ष में आपको अपने नए वर्ष के संकल्प लेने चाहिए। अब्द का अर्थ होता है वर्ष अतः चैतन्य महाप्रभु के अवतार के 534 वर्ष पूर्ण हो चुके हैं। आप तथा आपके परिवार के सदस्य पिछले 1 वर्ष में आपने क्या भक्ति में सेवाएं संपन्न की है उसका चिंतन कर सकते हैं। जैसा कि श्रील भक्तिविनोद ठाकुरा बताते हैं कि प्रत्येक एकादशी हमें हमारी साधना का अवलोकन करना चाहिए। हमने क्या अच्छा किया और हम कहां अच्छा नहीं कर पाए इसके विषय में हमें सोचना चाहिए। हम यह भी संकल्प ले सकते हैं कि हम प्रातः जल्दी उठेंगे। रविवार के दिन हम देर तक नहीं सोते रहेंगे। जैसा कि कहते हैं यदि आप जल्दी सोएंगे तो आप स्वस्थ ,धनी तथा बुद्धिमान बनेंगे। हम और अधिक पुस्तकों का वितरण करें प्रसाद का वितरण करें और इस प्रकार हम हमारे घर को वैकुण्ठ बना सकते हैं।

आप सभी इस हरे कृष्ण आंदोलन के सदस्य हैं। आप सभी बढ़-चढ़कर इसमें हिस्सा लीजिए क्योंकि केवल आपको पता है कि कोरोनावायरस से मुक्त होने की दवाई क्या है। आप सभी को यह उपाय पहले से ही बताया जा चुका है। आपको अब इसका प्रचार करना है। यह विश्व के सभी लोगों का सबसे अधिक हितकारी उपाय है। संपूर्ण विश्व बीमारियों से जूझ रहा है। और भगवान स्वयं गोलोक से इस पृथ्वी पर हमें इन व्याधियों से मुक्त कराने के लिए अवतरित हुए हैं। भगवान अपनी अत्यंत करुणा करके इस पृथ्वी पर पधारते हैं।

गोलोकम च परित्यज्यं , लोकानाम त्राण कारणात।
कलौ गौरांग रूपेण , लीला लावण्य विग्रह।। (मार्कण्डेय पुराण)

कलयुग के लोगों का उद्धार करने के लिए परम भगवान स्वयं गोलोक का त्याग करके श्री गौरांग महाप्रभु के रूप में अवतरित होंगे तथा अपनी दिव्य लीलाएं प्रदर्शित करेंगे।
भगवान अपनी अहेतुकी कृपा से इस धरा धाम पर अवतरित होते हैं। भगवान हमें प्रकृति के तीन गुणों द्वारा दुखी नहीं होने देना चाहते हैं। संपूर्ण विश्व कोरोना प्रदान कर रहा है परंतु केवल भगवान ही है जो हमें अपनी करुणा प्रदान कर रहे हैं। भगवान के अवतार से हमें लाभ मिलता है। हमें भगवान की करुणा प्राप्त हुई है अब हमारी बारी है जब हमें हमारे भाइयों तथा बहनों को यह करुणा प्रदान करनी है जिससे वह इस कष्ट से मुक्ति पा सके।

तितिक्षव: कारुणिका: सुहृद: सर्वदेहिनाम् ।
अजातशत्रव: शान्ता: साधव: साधुभूषणा: ॥(श्रीमद्भागवत 3.25.21)

यह साधु का गुण है कि वह क्षमाशील होता है , सभी जीवो के प्रति दयालु होता है। उसका कोई शत्रु नहीं होता। वह शांत होता है, उसे शास्त्रों का ज्ञान होता है तथा उसका जीवन अत्यंत सरल होता है . अब हमें अन्य जीवों के प्रति इस करुणा का प्रदर्शन करना है। यह तभी हो सकता है जब आप उन्हें कीर्तन सुनाएंगे पुस्तक वितरण करेंगे तथा उन्हें प्रसाद खिलाएंगे . कई साधन है जिससे आप भगवान के कृपा का प्रचार कर सकते हैं। आप में से प्रत्येक भक्त इसमें हिस्सा ले सकता है। यह हम सभी की जिम्मेदारी है चाहे आप गृहस्थ हैं अथवा ब्रह्मचारी । जब आपातकाल की स्थिति होती है तो न केवल पुरुष अपितु स्त्रियां तथा बच्चे भी युद्ध के मैदान में जाने के लिए हथियार उठा लेते हैं उसी प्रकार हमें भी अब युद्ध स्तर पर कार्य करना चाहिए। जैसा कि श्रील प्रभुपाद कहते हैं प्रचार एक लड़ाई के समान है।

अब विश्राम से बैठने का समय नहीं है। हरे कृष्ण भक्तों को अन्य से अधिक तत्पर रहना चाहिए जिससे वे गौरांग महाप्रभु की करुणा को कोरोना ग्रस्त लोगों तक पहुंचा सके। आप सभी सचेत भी रहिए कि आप स्वयं कोरोना के संक्रमण से ग्रस्त ना हो जाए। आप सरकार द्वारा निर्देशित निर्देशों का पालन कीजिए क्योंकि जैसा कहा जाता है कि दान का प्रारंभ घर से होना चाहिए और यदि आप संपूर्ण विश्व को इस भव रोग से बचाना चाहते हैं तो आपको स्वयं का ध्यान रखना चाहिए। और यह तभी संभव है जब इस संपूर्ण जगत के लोग भगवान का कीर्तन सुनेंगे। कीर्तन का अर्थ यह भी है कि वे भगवत गीता के दिव्य संदेश को सुने और साथ ही साथ

हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे
हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे

इन दिव्य ध्वनि तरंगों को सुनें। आप स्वयं को व्यस्त रखिए। आंतरिक रूप से सदैव तत्पर रहिए।
हरि बोल !!!

22rd March 2020

Hare Krishna devotees are never unemployed

Hare Krishna

We have participants from 475 locations. We have Janta curfew today. I was expecting more people to chant with us today. Unfortunately, today is Sunday and Hare Krishna devotees are also taking benefit of it. Sunday is a holiday for the servants of the government and Maya. Hare Krishna devotees don’t take holiday on a Sunday as we are eternal servants of Krsna. Even though we are not the servant of the government, some boss or some industrialist or businessman we still keep on working as someone’s servant. People say proudly, “I am a government servant”. I serve Ambani.” They don’t feel embarrassed to say that. Srila Prabhupada would say that if we don’t find anyone else then we become servants of dog. It should be fixed in our mind that we are eternal servants of Krsna. We don’t take a holiday. May it be Sunday or Monday, we are servants of Lord 24/7. We are all time servants of the Lord. Who will tell those who are taking rest on this Sunday? Inform your God brother and God sister who take rest on a Sunday, but don’t do Japa.

I want to say that today is mass curfew so you can stay inside and take benefit. In such a situation, you can still communicate thanks to zoom and the internet which we can make use of. You can’t go and meet by going to someone’s place. You can communicate from your place.

Dayalu Radha from Reunion Island is writing that she is doing a course on Gita. Similarly from Bangalore Akinchan Bhakta is reporting that there is a talk on Gita which has been prepared for 20 days which is being attended by many people. Murali Mohan Prabhu from Ahmedabad will be there with his students with Gita. In this situation, a few devotees had come to meet me. Because of the Coronavirus, they are unemployed, as all businesses are shut. I replied that Hare Krishna devotees can never be unemployed. Many companies give holidays to many employees and they become unemployed. As they don’t have jobs for thousands of people, they say to employees to search for a new job. Many reasons can be there. Hare Krishna devotees can never be unemployed. We’re employees and the Lord is the employer. We are the servant of the lord. This is the movement of Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. We must maintain this Hare Krishna Movement and expand it. This is our family business and job. No one can snatch this job from us, only Maya can snatch it. We don’t know for how long we were unemployed or useless as we had forgotten the service of the Lord. Due to the mercy of the Lord, we now know that we are servants of the Lord and He is our Master.

In any situation, we can serve the Lord. In the present world situation, every business is shut down. Our business can never be snatched. Using the term business is inappropriate, but we can say our service. Coronavirus also can’t snatch it. As I have already said now we can render more service to the Lord. Assume that this is the Karuna of Coronavirus. In English, it is termed a blessing in disguise. The whole world is considering this a curse and one point of view is that it is a curse. But this is a benediction for Hare Krishna devotees. I was shown a picture of the family engaged in Japa and tapa and the caption was written that if you cannot go outside nowadays then go inside. Is it making sense to all of you? Going out means physically you are moving on the road or taking your body for shopping or job and business. Nowadays everywhere is promoted, “Don’t go outside.” It’s fine, then you go inside. The world thinks that going inside means watching TV in the home. This means that they haven’t understood the real meaning of going inside. Going outside means since time immemorial the jiva has become Bahirmukh. Don’t go outside with Bahirmukh. Take your body inside, . Antarmukh, take your mind and thoughts inside. Now look inside into the cave of your heart.

anarpita-charim chirat karunayavatirnah kalau
samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam sva-bhakti-shriyam
harih purata-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandipitaha
sada hridaya-kandare sphuratu vah shacinandanaha

Translation:
“May that Lord, who is known as the son of Srimati Shacidevi, be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold. He has appeared in the age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant spiritual knowledge of the mellow taste of His service.” [Cc. Adi, 1.4.]

Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami has complied a prayer in Caitanya-caritamrita. This is a prayer for our welfare, “May Gauranga Mahaprabhu inspire us in the courtyard of our hearts.” Gauranga! Gauranga! Gauranga! Nityananda! Nityananda! When I say this I think where is the residence of the soul? The soul lives in the heart and hence it is said in the cave of your heart. It’s not being said,“May the Lord inspire you in your leg or some other limb’” but it is said in the heart. Take note. The soul stays in the courtyard of the heart. Gauranga Mahaprabhu also stays there.

sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo
mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca
vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedānta-kṛd veda-vid eva cāham

Translation:
I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedānta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.[ BG 15.15]

It is said where the Lord stays we also stay. If you can’t go outside then go inside where the Lord stays. Inside means not physically staying at home. This is nonsense for the whole world as they can’t make any sense. This is a situation of emergency. We can derive full benefit of this. Do not think you are unemployed. This is a great opportunity for you to do more hearing and chanting. When we do Japa then we chant and hear ourselves. When we do more hearing and kirtana then others also hear. It is necessary to hear, and doing kirtana for ourselves, as it is our dharma. Along with this we share with others. Do kirtana of the name, form, qualities, and pastimes of the Lord and share with others. They may be your family members, neighbourhood or relatives. Think about this.

yāre dekha, tare kaha ‘krsna’-upadesa

It is our duty. “amara ajnaya guru hana tara’ ei desa”. This is Lord Caitanya’s instruction, not the government’s instruction. Follow the instructions, spread Krishna consciousness and help others remember that they are servants of the Lord and not of the government. If they don’t like to be servants of the Lord then let them be friends, sons or parents of the Lord. Think hard and make some plans.

I’m also making plans as it is becoming difficult to do crowd preaching. I am here in one place. I am also doing kirtana and preaching to you. You also do the same thing. Do some family istagoshti.

The 535th Gaurabhdha has started. Implement some New Year resolutions. Abhdha means year. 534 years have been completed since the appearance of Gauranga Mahaprabhu. You can make plans for your family and take a review of the previous year of your performance. As I keep saying Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura asked us to take introspection on every Ekadasi. We have to think on the do’s and don’ts. We can make a resolution that we will wake up early. We will not sleep late on Sunday. Early to bed early to rise makes one healthy wealthy and wise. We will distribute more books, prasada, turn our home into Vaikuntha. All of you are members of the Hare Krishna Movement. Participate actively in it as you know the solution of Coronavirus. You have already been given the solution. It should be promoted. This is the solution to all kinds of people for their welfare. The whole world is suffering from this disease. Lord descended from Goloka to relieve all from the sufferings of this world. Lord descended out of his causeless mercy.

Golokam ca parityajya
lokanam trana karanat
Kalau Gauranga rupena
lila lavanya vigrahah

Translation:
For the purpose of delivering the people of
Kali yuga, I shall give up Goloka, appear in
the sublime form of Sri Gauranga, and perform
enchanting pastimes. [Markandeya Purana]

Lord appeared out of His causeless mercy. Lord does not want us to suffer from the 3 modes of nature. The world gives Corona, but the Lord gives Karuna. We are benefited by the appearance of the Lord. Now it’s our turn to show compassion to all our brothers and sisters, so that they may get relieve.

titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ
suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām
ajāta-śatravaḥ śāntāḥ
sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṇāḥ

Translation:
The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime.[ SB 3.25.21]

We have to show them Karuna. This is possible when you let them hear kirtana, distribute books, feed them prasada. There are so many ways by which we can spread the mercy of the Lord. Each one of you has to take part. It is everyones duty, whether one is Grhastha or Brahmacari. In war all children, men and women take their weapons and get on the War field. Similarly, you have to come on the field. Preaching is fighting as Srila Prabhupada said. Don’t sit back and relax.

Hare Krishna devotees have to be more active to distribute the causeless mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu to people affected by Corona. You all also be careful to not get infected by Corona. Follow the guidelines given by government as charity begins at home and protect the whole world from bhavaroga. This is possible only when they hear kirtana. Kirtana also means they should hear Gita. Let them hear,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Keep yourself busy. Keep internally activated and motivated.

Haribol

22 марта 2020 г.

Преданные Харе Кришна никогда не бывают безработными

Харе Кришна

У нас есть участники из 475 мест. У нас в Джанте комендантский час сегодня. Я ожидал, что больше людей будут воспевать с нами сегодня. К сожалению, сегодня воскресенье, и преданные Харе Кришна также пользуются этим. Воскресенье – праздник для служителей правительства и Майи. Преданные Харе Кришна не отдыхают в воскресенье, потому что мы вечные слуги Кришны. Несмотря на то, что мы не слуга правительства, не какой-то начальник, не какой-то промышленник или бизнесмен, мы все равно продолжаем работать чьим-то слугой. Люди с гордостью говорят: «Я государственный служащий». Я служу Ambani. Им не стыдно так говорить. Шрила Прабхупада сказал бы, что если мы не найдем никого другого, мы станем слугами собаки. Это должно быть исправленным в нашем сознании, на то, что мы вечные слуги Кришны. Мы не берем отпуск. Пусть это будет воскресенье или понедельник, мы слуги Господа 24/7. Мы все время служим Господу. Кто расскажет тем, кто отдыхает в это воскресенье? Сообщите своему духовному брату и сестре , которые отдыхают в воскресенье и не воспевают джапу.

Я хочу сказать, что сегодня массовый комендантский час, поэтому вы можете оставаться внутри и получать выгоду. В такой ситуации вы все еще можете общаться благодаря зуму и интернету, которыми мы можем воспользоваться. Вы не можете пойти и встретиться, зайдя к кому-то. Вы можете общаться с вашего места.

Дайалу Радха с острова Реюньон пишет, что она изучает Гиту. Точно так же из Бангалора Акинчан Бхакта сообщает, что о Гите ведется беседа, которая была подготовлена ​​в течение 20 дней, и в которой принимают участие многие люди. Мурали Мохан Прабху из Ахмедабада будет там со своими учениками с Гитой. В этой ситуации ко мне пришли несколько преданных. Из-за Коронавируса они безработные, так как все компании закрыты. Я ответил, что преданные Харе Кришна никогда не могут быть безработными. Многие компании проводят отпуска для многих сотрудников, и они становятся безработными. Поскольку у них нет работы для тысяч людей, они говорят сотрудникам искать новую работу. Там может быть много причин. Преданные Харе Кришна никогда не могут быть безработными. Мы работники, а Господь – работодатель. Мы слуга Господа. Это движение Шри Кришны Чайтаньи Махапрабху. Мы должны поддерживать это Движение Харе Кришна и расширять его. Это наш семейный бизнес и работа. Никто не может украсть эту работу у нас, только Майя может похитить ее. Мы не знаем, как долго мы были безработными или бесполезными, потому что мы забыли служение Господу. Благодаря милости Господа мы теперь знаем, что мы слуги Господа, а Он – наш Учитель.

В любой ситуации мы можем служить Господу.В нынешней мировой ситуации все предприятия закрыты. Наш бизнес никогда не может быть украден. Использование термина «бизнес» неуместно, но мы можем сказать, что наш служение. Коронавирус также не может вырвать его. Как я уже сказал, мы можем больше служить Господу. Предположим, что это Каруна Коронавируса. На английском языке это называется скрытым благословением. Весь мир считает это проклятием, и одна точка зрения состоит в том, что это проклятие. Но это благословение для преданных Харе Кришна.
Мне показали фотографию семьи, занимающейся джапой и тапой(tapa), и было написано: «Если вы не можете выйти на улицу сегодня, тогда идите внутрь». Имеет ли это смысл для всех вас? Выйти означает, что вы физически двигаетесь по дороге или берете свое тело для покупок, работы или бизнеса. В наши дни повсеместно пропагандируется «Не выходи на улицу». Хорошо, тогда вы идете внутрь. Мир думает, что идти внутрь – значит смотреть телевизор дома. Это означает, что они не поняли истинного смысла идти внутрь. Выйти за пределы означает, что с незапамятных времен джива стала Бахирмукхом. Не выходите на улицу с Бахирмукх. Возьми свое тело внутрь. Антармукх, возьми свой разум и мысли внутрь. Теперь загляните внутрь пещеры своего сердца.

анарпита-чарӣм̇ чира̄т карун̣айа̄ватӣрн̣ах̣ калау
самарпайитум уннатоджджвала-раса̄м̇ сва-бхакти-ш́рийам
харих̣ пурат̣а-сундара-дйути-кадамба-сандӣпитах̣
сада̄ хр̣дайа-кандаре спхурату вах̣ ш́ачӣ-нандана

Перевод:
«Да проникнет Верховный Господь, божественный сын Шримати Шачи-деви, в самую глубину вашего сердца. Сияя, как расплавленное золото, Он по Своей беспричинной милости нисшел на землю в эпоху Кали, чтобы даровать миру то, чего не давало ни одно из воплощений Господа: высочайшую, лучезарную расу преданного служения — расу супружеской любви.». [ЧЧ. Ади, 1.4.]

Кришна дас Кавирадж Госвами совершил молитву в Чайтанья-чаритамрите. Это молитва о нашем благополучии: «Пусть Гауранга Махапрабху вдохновит нас во дворе наших сердец». Гауранга! Гауранга! Гауранга! Нитьянанда! Нитьянанда! Когда я говорю это, я думаю, где находится место жительства души? Душа живет в сердце, и поэтому это сказано в пещере вашего сердца. Нельзя сказать: «Пусть Господь вдохновит тебя в твоей ноге или какой-то другой конечности», но это сказано в сердце. Принять к сведению. Душа остается во дворце сердца. Гауранга Махапрабху также остается там.

сарвасйа чахам хриди саннивишто
маттах смритир джнанам апоханам ча
ведаиш ча сарваир ахам эва ведйо
веданта-крид веда-вид эва чахам

Перевод:
Я пребываю в сердце каждого живого существа, и от Меня исходят память, знание и забвение. Цель всех Вед – постичь Меня. Я – истинный составитель «Веданты» и знаток всех Вед.
[БГ 15.15]

Говорят, где Господь пребывает, мы тоже остаемся там. Если вы не можете выйти наружу, тогда идите внутрь, где пребывает Господь. Внутри означает не физически сидеть дома. Это нонсенс для всего мира, так как они не может быть никакого смысла. Это чрезвычайная ситуация. Мы можем извлечь полную выгоду из этого. Не думайте, что вы безработный. Это прекрасная возможность для вас больше слушать и повторять. Когда мы воспеваем джапу, мы повторяем и слышим себя. Когда мы делаем больше слушания и киртана, тогда другие тоже слышат. Необходимо слушать и совершать киртан для себя, так как это наша дхарма. Наряду с этим мы делимся с другими. Совершайте киртан имени, формы, качеств и игр Господа и делитесь с другими. Это могут быть члены вашей семьи, соседи или родственники. Подумайте об этом.

yāre dekha, tare kaha ‘krsna’-upadesa

Это наш долг. “amara ajnaya guru hana tara’ ei desa”. Это наставление Господа Чайтаньи, а не наставление правительства. Следуйте наставлениям, распространяйте сознание Кришны и помогайте другим помнить, что они слуги Господа, а не правительства. Если они не хотят быть слугами Господа, пусть они будут друзьями, сыновьями или родителями Господа. Подумайте хорошо и сделайте несколько планов.

Я также строю планы, так как становится все труднее проповедовать в толпе. Я здесь, в одном месте. Я также делаю киртан и проповедую вам. Вы тоже делаете то же самое. Проводите некоторые семейные иштагоштхи.

535-я Гаурабдха началась. Реализуйте некоторые новогодние решения. Абхдха означает год. 534 года прошло с момента появления Гауранги Махапрабху. Вы можете строить планы на свою семью и анализировать результаты своей работы за предыдущий год. Как я продолжаю говорить, Шрила Бхактивинода Тхакур попросил нас проводить самоанализ каждого экадаши. Мы должны думать о том, что можно и чего нельзя делать. Мы можем принять решение, что мы проснемся рано. Мы не будем спать допоздна в воскресенье. Человек который рано ложиться спать и рано встает, становиться здоровым, богатым и мудрым. Мы будем распространять больше книг, прасада, превращать наш дом в Вайкунтху. Все вы являетесь членами движения Харе Кришна. Принимайте активное участие в этом, как вы знаете, это ответ Коронавирусу. Вам уже дали решение. Это следует продвигать. Это решение для всех видов людей для их благополучия. Весь мир страдает от этой болезни. Господь сошел с Голоки, чтобы избавить всех от страданий этого мира. Господь сошёл по Его беспричинной милости.

Golokam ca parityajya
lokanam trana karanat
Kalau Gauranga rupena
lila lavanya vigrahah

Перевод:
С целью помочь людям Кали юга, я оставлю Голоку, появлюсь в
величественной форме Шри Гауранги, и совершу завораживающие игры [Маркандея Пурана]

Господь явился по Своей беспричинной милости. Господь не хочет, чтобы мы страдали от 3 гун материальной природы. Мир дает Corona, но Господь дает Каруну. Нам помогает явление Господа. Теперь наша очередь проявить сострадание ко всем нашим братьям и сестрам, чтобы они могли получить облегчение.

титикшавах каруниках
суххдах сарва-дехинам
аджата-шатравах шантам
садхавад садху-бхушанах

Перевод:
Симптомы садху в том, что он терпим, милостив и дружелюбен ко всем живым существам. У него нет врагов, он умиротворен, он соблюдает Священные Писания, и все его характеристики возвышенны. [ШБ 3.25.21]

Мы должны показать им Каруна. Это возможно, когда вы позволяете им слышать киртан, распространять книги, кормите их прасадом. Есть так много способов, которыми мы можем распространять милость Господа. Каждый из вас должен принять участие. Это обязанность каждого, будь то грихастха или брахмачари. На войне все дети, мужчины и женщины берут свое оружие и попадают на поле битвы. Точно так же вы должны выйти на поле. Проповедь – это борьба, как сказал Шрила Прабхупада. Не сидеть сложа руки и расслабляться.

Преданные Харе Кришна должны быть более активными, чтобы распространять беспричинную милость Чайтаньи Махапрабху среди людей, пострадавших от Corona. Вы также должны быть осторожны, чтобы не заразиться Corona. Следуйте указаниям, данным правительством, так как благотворительность начинается дома, и защитите весь мир от бхавароги. Это возможно только тогда, когда они слышат киртан. Киртана также означает, что они должны слышать Гиту. Пусть они услышат,

Харе Кришна Харе Кришна
Кришна Кришна Харе Харе
Харе Рама Харе Рама
Рама Рама Харе Харе
Займитесь собой. Сохраняйте внутреннюю активность и мотивацию.

Харибол

21st March 2020

A Devotee is Para Dukha Dukhi

Hare Krishna.

We have devotees from 531 locations. The number of chanters is quite more than this number. Many devotees sent the Ekadasi report, but I couldn’t keep track and if I keep on reading then what will happen to my Japa.

Somebody said that we have reached 12 positive coronavirus cases in Mauritius. This is not a laughing matter. It’s serious. We pray for them. Yesterday many devotees chanted extra rounds and did extra reading. I am getting reports from Dubai, Solapur, Bhiwandi, Pandharpur, Bangalore and many other places. Purnanidhi Mataji from Greater Noida is reporting that she recited the whole Bhagavad Gita. Somebody from Solapur completed the reading of Bhagavad Gita for the 3rd time. Devotees from Thane chanted extra rounds. Janhavi Ganga Mataji chanted 81 rounds.I think she is on top. She has a top score. Hirabai Mataji from Mauritius is chanting along with her family. Brother of Hardik Patel Prabhu is also chanting. This is good news as you only don’t get benefited but the whole world gets benefited. Hare Krishna maha-mantra is a prayer and we pray for the whole world. This is beneficial for all. You are increasing the quantity, but keep in mind about the quality. Are we chanting attentively or not. It’s also important to chant quality japa not just increase the quantity. This is also the purpose of the zoom conference. Other attempts will be there like depending on the Government and doctors, searching for a vaccine. Ultimately we have to surrender when all our attempts fail. Then we have to move towards the Lord as He is the ultimate shelter. Yesterday a devotee shared with me a letter of Srila Prabhupada which he wrote in 1969. Prabhupada wrote, ”Depend on Krsna”.

bolo hari bolo
sampade vipade, bhai, bolo hari bolo
bolo hari bolo
grhe thako, vane thako, bolo hari bolo
krsnaera samsare thaki’ bolo hari bolo

Translation:
Chant the name of Hari! O brothers, whether in prosperity or misfortune, chant the name of Hari! Chant the name of Hari! Whether you live at home or in the forest, chant the name of Hari! Remaining in this material world for Krsna’s purposes, chant the name of Hari! [“Bolo Hari Bolo” song verse 3 by Bhaktivinoda Thakur]

In all situations, the Lord is the only shelter. Srila Prabhupada is writing “Depend on Krsna” because after all, He is the ultimate Master of all situations. Don’t think that whatever happening from Coronavirus is not in Krsna’s knowledge. Don’t think that the Lord is not involved in this. Thinking in this way is the greatest illusion or Maya. It takes an acarya or a knowledgeable person to make such comments. Prabhupada is writing that It is not the doctor or the medicine. or the place, but it is ultimately Krsna who is the Master who does everything. We should not forget this.

marobi rakhobi-jo iccha tohara
nitya-dasa prati tuwa adhikara

Translation:
Slay me or protect me as You wish, for You are the master of Your eternal servant. [ Atma-Nivedana Song verse 3 by Bhaktivinoda Thakura]

Rākhe kṛṣṇa mare ke mare kṛṣṇa rākhe ke

Translation:
If Kṛṣṇa wants to kill you, nobody can save you. And if Kṛṣṇa wants to save you, nobody can kill you.

If Krsna wants to save us, no such virus can kill us. Keep on endeavouring to save the people who are affected by the disease. It would be great if such diseases are not there. Prevention is better than cure. World Health Organization (WHO) and so many medical agencies are also giving some guidelines which should be followed. All are making their attempts, but while doing this we should remember the Lord. No one is doing this in the world.

Though our Prime Minister addressed our nation, he didn’t remind us to remember the Lord or to read Bhagavad Gita and chant. Maybe the Pope is praying. Some comments keep on coming. We can pray and give well-wishes to the whole world. I’ll say what you have chanted or studied extra is our contribution and with that we are expressing our compassion for those who are suffering because of this disease. Many are making arrangements to save lives. Superpowers are also busy. Diseased people are suffering, but not only that but their relatives too are busy. No one is left, who is not affected because of this disease. So we can pray.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

The identity of a Vaisnava is para dukha dukhi (one who takes the suffering of other living entities as his own). Being para dukha sukhi (one becomes happy when someone suffers) is demoniac mentality just like Mrigari hunter who found delight in killing animals. Vaisnavas are those who understand the suffering of others. We are not doctors or experts. Those who are doctors can guide about how we can be saved from this pandemic. On Ekadasi, you chanted more and you didn’t honour food and you fasted from Maya and feasted with Krsna so for that on behalf of Lord Krsna we are thankful to you. Keep chanting and praying.

Krsna Consciousness activities are the ultimate welfare work. Maximum help is being done by ISKCON devotees. Opening hospitals is also one kind of welfare work. As I keep on saying diseases don’t leave us. They keep on coming back after some time, some life. They don’t leave chasing us. There is no end to this. Doctors free us from one disease, but the help which Hare Krishna devotees offer is matchless as people will not get diseased after getting such help.

janma karma ca me divyam
evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti so ’rjuna

Translation:
One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.[ BG 4.9]

Which help is better? One disease comes then you come out of that then the second one comes. It will keep on coming. There is no end. The help which Hare Krishna devotees give is supreme. Sridhar Madhav Prabhu from Pune is addressing his counselees for one hour daily. This is a good idea. You can copy that. You can use this zoom conference to address the words of the Lord. You can send your messages as far as you can which will benefit the whole world. What the Lord says is more important than our manodharma. The Lord enlightens the heart of Hare Krishna devotees with transcendental knowledge. Srila Prabhupada’s books are there and Hare Krishna maha-mantra is the Lord and Krsna prasada is there. Lord Radha Govind is standing there in the temple. This is a real help. Keep on helping as per their ability, but as Srila Prabhupada was saying it ultimately depends on Krsna.

sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ

Translation:
Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.[ BG 18.66]

Lord is promising that He will save us from dangers. This is guaranteed. Take shelter of Lord. Take more and more.

ye yathā māṁ prapadyante
tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham
mama vartmānuvartante
manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ

Translation:
As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.[ BG 4.11]

We need to see how surrendered we are? Only the Lord can help in the situation in which we are caught. This is temporary. We need to help the soul, not the body. The greatest illusion of the world is they think this body as their wife and son. They think when the body is finished everything is finished.

bhasmī-bhūtasya dehasya
kutaḥ punar āgamano bhavet

Translation:
“Oh, this body will be burned into ashes, and who is coming back again?”

This world does not know about the soul. They just know about this body. Devotees have the self-realization. You are studying to discover yourself it seems. Ignorance is the cause of all miseries. We need to instruct everyone with Krsna’s instructions.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa

Translation:
“Whomever you meet, simply talk with him about the instructions given by Kṛṣṇa or tell him of narrations about Kṛṣṇa.” [CC Madhya 7.128].

Keep busy. Be Krishna conscious and make others Krishna conscious. In this, you have selfishness and charity.

Hari bol

21 марта 2020 г.

Преданный – это Para Dukha Dukhi

Харе Кришна.

У нас есть преданные из 531 места. Количество воспевающих больше, чем это число. Многие преданные прислали отчет экадаши, но я не смог отследить, и если я продолжу читать, что будет с моей джапой.

Кто-то сказал, что мы достигли 12 случаев положительного коронавируса на Маврикии. Это не смешное дело. Это серьезно. Мы молимся за них. Вчера многие преданные воспевали дополнительные круги и читали. Я получаю отчеты из Дубая, Солапура, Бхиванди, Пандхарпура, Бангалора и многих других мест. Пурланидхи Матаджи из Большой Нойды сообщает, что она читала всю Бхагавад-гиту. Кто-то из Солапура закончил чтение Бхагавад-гиты в третий раз. Преданные из Тана воспевали дополнительные круги. Джанхави Ганга Матаджи воспевала 81 круг. Думаю, она на вершине. У нее лучший результат. Хирабай Матаджи из Маврикия воспевает вместе со своей семьей. Брат Хардика Патель Прабху также воспевает. Это хорошая новость, потому что не только вы получаете выгоду, но весь мир получает выгоду. Харе Кришна маха-мантра – это молитва, и мы молимся за весь мир. Это выгодно для всех. Вы увеличиваете количество, но помните о качестве. Мы воспеваем внимательно или нет. Также важно повторять качественную джапу, а не просто увеличивать количество. Это также цель zoom конференции. Будут и другие попытки, например, в зависимости от правительства и врачей, которые ищут вакцину. В конечном итоге мы должны сдаться, когда все наши попытки потерпят неудачу. Тогда мы должны двигаться к Господу, поскольку Он – высшее прибежище. Вчера один преданный поделился со мной письмом Шрилы Прабхупады, которое он написал в 1969 году. Прабхупада написал: «Зависит от Кришны».

bolo hari bolo
sampade vipade, bhai, bolo hari bolo
bolo hari bolo
grhe thako, vane thako, bolo hari bolo
krsnaera samsare thaki’ bolo hari bolo

Перевод:
Повторяй имя Хари! О братья, будь то в достатке или несчастье, повторяйте имя Хари! Повторяй имя Хари! Живете ли вы дома или в лесу, повторяйте имя Хари! Оставаясь в этом материальном мире для целей Кришны, повторяйте имя Хари! [Песня Боло Хари Боло, стих 3 Бхактивиноды Тхакура]

Во всех ситуациях Господь является единственным убежищем. Шрила Прабхупада пишет «Зависеть от Кришны», потому что, в конце концов, Он – окончательный Господин всех ситуаций. Не думайте, что то, что происходит с Коронавирусом, не известно Кришне. Не думайте, что Господь не вовлечен в это. Мыслить таким образом – величайшая иллюзия или майя. Чтобы сделать такие комментарии, нужен ачарья или знающий человек. Прабхупада пишет, что это не врач или лекарство или место, но в конечном итоге это Кришна, Господин, который делает все. Мы не должны забывать это.

marobi rakhobi-jo iccha tohara
nitya-dasa prati tuwa adhikara

Перевод:
Убей меня или защити меня, как Ты пожелаешь, потому что Ты Господин Твоего вечного слуги. [Песнь Атмы-Ниведаны, стих 3, Бхактивинода Тхакур]

Rākhe kṛṣṇa mare ke mare kṛṣṇa rākhe ke

Перевод:
Если Кришна хочет тебя убить, никто не сможет тебя спасти. И если Кришна хочет спасти тебя, никто не сможет тебя убить.

Если Кришна хочет спасти нас, такой вирус не может убить нас. Продолжайте прилагать усилия, чтобы спасти людей, затронутых этой болезнью. Было бы здорово, если бы таких болезней не было. Профилактика лучше, чем лечение. Всемирная организация здравоохранения (ВОЗ) и многие другие медицинские учреждения также дают некоторые рекомендации, которые следует соблюдать. Все делают свои попытки, но при этом мы должны помнить Господа. Никто не делает это в мире.

Хотя наш премьер-министр обратился к нашему народу, он не напомнил нам помнить Господа или читать Бхагавад-гиту и воспевать. Может быть, Папа Римский молится. Некоторые комментарии продолжают поступать. Мы можем молиться и дарить добрые пожелания всему миру. Я скажу, что то, что вы воспевали или изучали дополнительно, является нашим вкладом, и с этим мы выражаем наше сострадание к тем, кто страдает из-за этой болезни. Многие принимают меры, чтобы спасти жизни. Супердержавы тоже заняты. Больные страдают, но не только это, но и их родственники тоже заняты. Не осталось никого, кто не был затронут, поскольку это болезнь. Поэтому мы можем молиться.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Идентичность вайшнава – это пара дукха дукхи (тот, кто принимает страдания других живых существ как свое собственное). Быть пара-дукха-сукхи (человек становится счастливым, когда кто-то страдает) – демонический менталитет, как охотник на Мригари, который наслаждался убийством животных. Вайшнавы – это те, кто понимает страдания других. Мы не врачи или эксперты. Те, кто являются врачами, могут рассказать о том, как нас можно спасти от этой пандемии. На экадаши вы воспевали больше, и вы не почитали пищу, и вы постились от майи и пировали с Кришной, поэтому за это мы благодарим вас от имени Господа Кришны. Продолжайте воспевать и молиться.

Деятельность Сознания Кришны – это высшая деятельность по благосостоянию. Максимальная помощь оказывается преданным ИСККОН. Открытие больниц также является одним из видов социальной работы. Как я говорю, болезни не покидают нас. Они продолжают возвращаться через некоторое время, некоторую жизнь. Они не покидают нас. Нет конца этому. Врачи избавляют нас от одной болезни, но помощь, которую предлагают преданные Харе Кришна, бесподобна, так как люди не заболеют после получения такой помощи.

janma karma ca me divyam
evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti so ’rjuna

Перевод:
Тот, кто знает божественную природу Моего явления и деяний, никогда больше не рождается в материальном мире. Покинув тело, он достигает Моей вечной обители, о Aрджуна. [БГ 4.9]

Какая помощь лучше? Приходит одна болезнь, затем вы выходите из этого, а затем вторая. Это будет продолжаться. Там нет конца. Помощь, которую оказывают преданные Харе Кришна, является высшей. Шридхар Мадхав Прабху из Пуне обращается к своим подопечным в течение одного часа ежедневно. Это хорошая идея. Вы можете скопировать это. Вы можете использовать эту конференцию по зуму, чтобы обратиться к словам Господа. Вы можете отправлять свои сообщения, насколько это возможно, что принесет пользу всему миру. То, что говорит Господь, важнее нашей манодхармы. Господь просвещает сердце преданных Харе Кришна трансцендентным знанием. Там есть книги Шрилы Прабхупады, Харе Кришна маха-мантра – это Господь, Кришна-прасада – есть там. Господь Радха Говинд стоит там в храме. Это реальная помощь. Продолжайте помогать в соответствии с их способностями, но, как говорил Шрила Прабхупада, это в конечном итоге зависит от Кришны.

sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ

Перевод:
Оставь все религии и просто предайся Мне. Я избавлю тебя от всех греховных реакций. Не бойся ничего. [BG 18.66]

Господь обещает, что Он спасет нас от опасностей. Это гарантировано. Прими прибежище у Господа. Бери больше и больше.

ye yathā māṁ prapadyante
tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham
mama vartmānuvartante
manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ

Перевод:
Поскольку все предаются Мне, Я вознаграждаю их соответственно. Каждый идет по Моему пути во всех отношениях, о сын Притхи. [БГ 4.11]

Нам нужно посмотреть, как мы предались? Только Господь может помочь в ситуации, в которой мы оказались. Это временно. Нам нужно помогать душе, а не телу. Величайшая иллюзия мира – они считают это тело своей женой и сыном. Они думают, что когда тело закончено, все закончено.

bhasmī-bhūtasya dehasya
kutaḥ punar āgamano bhavet

Перевод:
«О, это тело будет сожжено дотла, а кто снова вернется?»

Этот мир не знает о душе. Они просто знают об этом теле. Преданные имеют самореализацию. Вы учитесь, чтобы открыть себя. Невежество является причиной всех страданий. Нам нужно обучать каждого наставлениями Кришны.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa

Перевод:
«С кем бы вы ни встретились, просто поговорите с ним о наставлениях, данных ему Кришной, или расскажите ему о повествованиях о Кришне». ЧЧ Мадхья 7.128 –

Будь занят. Будьте сознающими Кришну и делайте других сознающими Кришну. В этом у вас есть эгоизм и благотворительность.

Хари бол

जप चर्चा,
20 मार्च 2020

एकादशी की आप सभी को हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।आज एकादशी का महोत्सव संपन्न हो रहा हैं। एकादशी महोत्सव की जय। 544 स्थानों से भक्त जप कर रहे हैं।आप सभी भक्तों का स्वागत हैं। हो सकता हैं कि एकादशी कारण हैं कि आज जप करने वाले भक्तों की संख्या बढ़ी हैं। आप सभी जप करते रहिए। एकादशी के दिन जप करने का और भी अधिक महत्व हैं। एकादशी को भक्ति की जननी कहा हैं।

माधव तिथि भक्ति जननी।
आप में से कई भक्तों ने और अधिक जप करने का संकल्प लिया हैं,कि आज के दिन मैं 64 माला करूंगा।आप मे से कइ भक्तों ने यह चेट में लिख कर या कहकर संकल्प ले लिया हैं। अधिक जप कीजिए आज।वैसे भी आपके पास अभी फुर्सत हैं।यह कोरोना की करुणा हैं।वैसे तो माया हमें हर समय दौड़ाती रहती हैं और हम इधर-उधर भागते रहते हैं, जिसके कारण तनाव बढ़ता हैं।

लोगों के लिए भक्ति करने का और भगवान के लिए समय नहीं होता।हरि हरि।आप भी थोड़ा व्यस्त रहते हो,क्योंकि आप गृहस्थ भक्त हो, इसलिए अपने इकनोमिक डेवलपमेंट में थोड़ा व्यस्त हो जाते हो। इसीलिए मैं कह रहा हूं कि यह कोरोना कि करुणा है कि आपके पास समय हैं और आपके पास दूसरा कोई विकल्प नहीं हैं। समाचार पढा कि आज मॉरीशस में 6:00 बजे से सब कुछ बंद हैं। कोई मुवमेंट नहीं कर सकता। यह आदेश वहा जारी कर दिया गया हैं।हमारे प्रधानमंत्री भी कुछ कह कर गए हैं। तो उस चीज का लाभ उठाइए। जो काम व्यस्तता के कारण नहीं कर पा रहे थे,वह कोरोना के कारण कर सकते हैं।सारे संसार को अपने आप को रोकना ही पड़ रहा हैं।सुपर पावर भी पावरलेस हो रही हैं।हीरो सभी जीरो हो रहे हैं।कोरोना अगर माया हैं, तो माया भी भगवान से स्वतंत्र नहीं हैं। लेकिन हमारे प्रधानमंत्री को भी याद नहीं आया कि यहां भगवान का कनेक्शन हैं,भगवान से कोई संबंध हैं। प्रधानमंत्री सारे देश को संबोधित कर रहे थे कि कोरोना आ चुका हैं। यह करो यह मत करो, सावधान रहो। लेकिन भगवान के संबंध में एक शब्द भी नहीं कहा। उन्होंने यह तो कहा कि ऑफिस मत जाओ,परिवार के साथ रहो, बचकर रहो।लेकिन एक बार भी यह नहीं कहा कि भगवान को याद करो।भगवद्गीता पढ़ो या भगवान का नाम स्मरण करो।इस बारे में हमारे प्रधानमंत्री ने एक शब्द भी नहीं कहा। प्रल्हाद महाराज ने कहा हैं और यह सिद्ध हो रहा हैं

अंधा यथा अंधे उपगिय मान(शलोक)
कई सारे अंधे,अंधे नेताओं के आदेशों का पालन करते हैं या उनका अनुगमन करते हैं, अंधे लोगों द्वारा बनाए गए संविधान का पालन करते हैं।संविधान बनाने वाले अंधे हैं,तमोगुणी हैं।उनको केवल लोगों के शरीर की चिंता हैं, बड़े गर्व के साथ कहते हैं कि हमारा सटेट सेकुलर स्टेट हैं, हम धर्मनिरपेक्षता का पालन करते हैं।सेकुलर मतलब हमारी जो भौतिक आवश्यकताए हैं, जैसे रोटी कपड़ा मकान हैं या बिजली-सड़क-पानी हैं, इसका हम ख्याल करेंगे। ठीक हैं,अगर आप बीमार हो तो हमें उसकी चिंता हैं, लेकिन हमें आपकी आत्मा की चिंता नहीं हैं। आपके भगवान की चिंता नहीं हैं।उसकी चिंता हम नहीं करेंगे,क्योंकि हम सेकुलर स्टेट हैं।हम धर्मनिरपेक्ष हैं। हमारा सभी धर्मों में समभाव हैं। ऐसा क्या हैं कि वह निधर्म की बात करते हैं।वह कह सकते थे कि आप अगर सेक्युलर हो तो आप अपने भगवान को याद करो, कृष्ण को याद करो या अल्लाह को याद करो या भगवान को जिस भी नाम से पुकारते हो,उन्हें याद करो। ऐसा भी तो कह सकते थे। तो देख लो ऐसी स्थिति हैं इस संसार की। ऐसे हैं हमारे नेता और अभिनेताओं का तो कहना ही क्या और वैज्ञानिकों का भी क्या कहना।

वह तो यह कहते हैं कि हमें दिखाओ,अगर आप भगवान को दिखा सकते हो तो भगवान हैं, वरना हमारे लिए भगवान हैं ही नहीं।आजकल के वैज्ञानिक परोक्ष वाद को स्वीकार नहीं करते।वैज्ञानिकों का यह हाल हैं तो हमारे नेताओं का यह हाल हैं कि हम सेकुलर स्टेट वाले हैं और अभिनेता का तो कहना ही क्या, वह तो काम और क्रोध का प्रदर्शन करते हैं।हरि हरि और कौन बच गए? ठीक हैं। तो हमारी कुछ माताएं बहुत परेशान हैं कि सब खत्म हो रहा हैं। व्यापार ठप हो रहे हैं। सब कुछ बंद हो रहा हैं। हम काम पर नहीं जा सकते।मुंबई में शायद लोकल ट्रेन भी नहीं चलेगी। बस नहीं चलेगी, यह नहीं होगा, वह नहीं होगा। तो कुछ माताएं हमारी ,कुछ भक्त गोवर्धन इकोविलेज पहुंची हैं और वहां पर भागवतम् का अध्ययन कर रही हैं। हमारी कुछ माता ने लिखा भी हैं जैसे की रामलीला माता जी की बहू हैं या बेटी हैं,वह कह रही हैं कि अब मेरे प्रभु जी रोज सेवा में जाते हैं।

पत्नी को गर्व हैं कि जब हमारे पतिदेव काम पर जाते हैं तो तिलक पहन कर जाते हैं।मतलब प्रचार यशस्वी हो रहा हैं। ऐसा श्रील प्रभुपाद कहा करते थे। न्यायधीश भी कोर्ट में तिलक पहनकर जाएंगे और तिलक पहने हुए ही अपना फैसला देंगे। तो प्रभुपाद कहते थे कि तब मैं समझूंगा कि जो प्रचार हैं वह पूर्ण रूप से सफल हो रहा हैं। हरि हरि। प्रधानमंत्री के नागरिक भी तो बीमार हैं, लेकिन उनको तो भगवान याद नहीं आए। उन्होंने तो नहीं कहा कि भगवान से प्रार्थना करो, ताकि हमारे या मेरे देश के नागरिक ठीक रहे। ऐसा कुछ तो कह रहे थे, साथियों या भाइयों और बहनों। सभी जनता को अपना मान कर संबोधित कर रहे थे, लेकिन उन्होंने कभी यह नहीं कहा कि भगवान से प्रार्थना करो। यही अंतर हैं, कृष्ण भावना भावित होने और कृष्ण भावना भावित नहीं होने में। हमारी कृष्ण भावनाभावित माता जी के पति बीमार हैं, तो वह कह रही हैं कि आप लोग भगवान से प्रार्थना करो। हम लोगों को प्रार्थना करने के लिए कह रही है।और स्वय भी कर रही हैं, लेकिन हमारे देश के प्रधानमंत्री ने तो नहीं कहा कि उनके देश के नागरिक बीमार हैं या उनके बीमार होने की संभावना हैं तो उनके लिए प्रार्थना की जाए। उन्होंने उनका तो आभार प्रकट किया जो लोग कोरोना के मरीजों की सेवा में या देशवासियों की सेवा में व्यस्त हैं, लेकिन भगवान का आभार प्रकट नहीं किया।

कोरोनावायरस से बचाव में जो जुटे हैं, केवल उनका आभार मानो और भगवान को भूल जाओ। भगवान का कोई लेना देना नहीं हैं।हरि हरि।यह हैं दुनिया की हालत।भक्ति सिद्धांत सरस्वती ठाकुर प्रभुपाद कहा करते थे कि दुनिया में वास्तव में कृष्ण भावना का अभाव हैं। किसी चीज का अभाव हैं, तो वह कृष्ण भावना का हैं,बाकी सब तो हैं, हैं तो सब कुछ भगवान का ही,सारा वैभव,सारी पृथ्वी, यह वसुंधरा सब भगवान का ही वैभव हैं।वसुंधरा मतलब वैभव या संपत्ति बाकी सब कुछ उपलब्ध हैं, कम या अधिक मात्रा में।भगवान ने ही उपलब्ध करवाया हैं। अभाव अगर किसी बात का हैं तो यह कि हम कृतघन हैं। भक्ति सिद्धांत सरस्वती ठाकुर प्रभुपाद ने तो कहा कि कृष्ण भावना का अभाव हैं, माया का इतना प्रभाव हैं, कली का इतना प्रभाव हैं। यह सब प्रभाव हैं। लेकिन अभाव किसका हैं? कृष्ण भावना का अभाव हैं, इसीलिए यह अंतरराष्ट्रीय कृष्ण भावना भावित संघ जिस का अभाव हैं, उसकी पूर्ति के लिए प्रयास कर रही हैं।कृष्ण भावना का अभाव हैं और उसी की पूर्ति प्रभुपाद द्वारा स्थापित यह अंतरराष्ट्रीय कृष्ण भावना मृत संघ कर रहा हैं और आप भी सभी कृष्णभावनामृत आंदोलन के सदस्य हो। जैसे अभी 590 प्रतिभागियों ने जप चर्चा में भाग ले रखा हैं। यह एक अच्छा संकेत हैं।

यह कोरोनावायरस का प्रभाव हैं और एकादशी का भी महात्मय समझने वाले लोग आए हैं। हरे कृष्णा आंदोलन के सदस्य कुछ अधिक संख्या में आज जप चर्चा में जुटे हैं और सब ने मिलकर जप किया और अगर जप नहीं भी किया तो कम से कम जप चर्चा तो सुन ही रहे हैं। खैर सभी का स्वागत हैं।अब आप वह करो जो प्रधानमंत्री नहीं कर रहे हैं, या कोई सरकार नहीं कर रही हैं, या सरकार का शिक्षा मंत्रालय ऐसी शिक्षा नहीं दे रहा हैं और ना तो मीडिया ही इस शिक्षा को लोगों तक पहुंचाने के लिए माध्यम बन रहा हैं।अखबार वाले और इंटरनेट सोशल मीडिया कोई भी कुछ नहीं करता हैं। भगवान के संदेश को पहुंचाने का कोई माध्यम नहीं बन रहा हैं। भगवान की याद उनको नहीं आती हैं। वैसे कोरोनावायरस आया ही इसलिए हैं ताकि आप भगवान को याद करो लेकिन संसार फिर भी नहीं याद कर रहा हैं। तो आप सभी कृष्ण भावनाभावित भक्त उन्हें स्मरण करा दो कि सभी समस्याओं का हल तो कृष्ण ही हैं। भगवान के शब्दों में तो समस्या क्या हैं? जन्म,मृत्यु, जरा, व्याधि वास्तव समस्याएं तो यही हैं।

आप कहोगे केवल चार, मैं तो आपको 400 समस्याएं बता सकता हूं।हां वह भी समस्या हो सकती हैं, लेकिन भगवान के शब्दों में केवल चार ही मुख्य समस्याएं हैं। जन्म,मृत्यु, जरा,व्याधि, तो इस समस्या का हल भगवान के पास हैं।

एनॆछि औषधि माया नाशिबारॊ लागि
हरि-नाम महा-मंत्र लओ तुमि मागि(जीव जागो,भक्ति विनोद ठाकुर द्वारा)

भगवान प्रकट भी हुए और प्रकट होकर कह रहे हैं कि मेरे अलावा तुम्हारा और कौन बंधु हैं? तो मैं आया हूं, आपका बंधु, आपका मित्र और साथ में आपकी जो उलझने हैं उसके लिए सुलझन लेकर आया हूं।मेरे पास आपकी हर समस्या का उपाय हैं।केवल मांग लो।

भक्ति विनोद ठाकुर कह रहे हैं कि प्रभु मैं मांग रहा हूं,मुझे दीजिए। मुझे हरि नाम चाहिए। मुझे हरि नाम चाहिए। भगवान ने कहा कि मांगो मांगो। हरि नाम मांगो। तो भक्ति विनोद ठाकुर ने कहा कि मुझे दीजिए, मुझे इसे दीजिए। मुझे चाहिए। ऐसे ही हम सभी को यह मांग करनी चाहिए कि हमें कृष्ण चाहिए। आपको क्या चाहिए?कुछ बोल क्यों नहीं रहे? भगवान चाहिए या माया चाहिए? ओर माया चाहिए? अभी तक पेट नहीं भरा तुम्हारा? आपको कहना चाहिए कि हमें माया नहीं हमें कृष्ण चाहिए। क्या आपकी यह डिमांड हैं कि हमें कृष्ण चाहिए?

कुछ कह रहे हैं कि कृष्ण प्रेम चाहिए। क्या आपको कृष्ण नहीं चाहिए? कृष्ण प्रेम ही तो कृष्ण हैं। संसार की माया चाहिए तो यह जन्म भी तो माया ही हैं। मृत्यु भी माया ही हैं।कोरोनावायरस भी माया ही हैं और सभी बीमारियां भी माया ही हैं। जन्म,मृत्यु, जरा व्याधि माया ही हैं। यह सभी माया की देन हैं, माया की भेंट हैं। हमको कृष्ण चाहिए,माया नहीं चाहिए,नहीं चाहिए,नहीं चाहिए। इसके लिए कहा गया हैं

हरेर नाम हरेर नाम हरेर नामैव केवलम
कलौ नास्त्येव नास्त्येव नास्त्येव गतिरण्यधा
(चेतनय चरित्रामृत आदि लीला 7.76)

तीन बार कहा गया हैं। एक ही बात को तीन बार कहा गया हैं। हमको मुक्ति नहीं चाहिए, भुक्ति नहीं चाहिए, सिद्धि नहीं चाहिए। तीन बार कहा गया हैं कि नहीं चाहिए,नहीं चाहिए,नहीं चाहिए। क्या नहीं चाहिए? जो भुक्ति की कामना हैं, भुक्ति कामी हम नहीं बनना चाहते,मुक्ति की भी कामना नहीं है और सिद्धि की भी कामना नहीं हैं।कृष्ण भक्त निष्काम अतएव शांत। हम कृष्ण भक्त बनना चाहते हैं। हमें कृष्ण चाहिए।हमें कृष्ण प्रेम चाहिए और फिर जब आप सब ऐसे भक्त बनोगे तो आप शांत हो जाओगे। आप संतुष्ट हो जाओगे।

आशापाशशतैर्बद्धा: कामक्रोधपरायणा: |
ईहन्ते कामभोगार्थमन्यायेनार्थसञ्जयान् ||भगवद्गीता 16.12||

दुनिया क्या चाहती हैं?आशा के पाश में बंधा रहना चाहती हैं, आशा के पाश ने हमको बांध दिया हैं। हम सभी बद्ध हैं,किससे?पाश से। आशा की रस्सियो से आशा अर्थात इच्छाओं की रस्सियो से,इच्छाओं की रसियो ने हमको जगड के रखा हैं और कितनी आशाएं हैं, इच्छाएं हैं? सैकड़ों। इन सब से बंधे हुए हैं और कलयुग के लोग बहुत ही एक्सपर्ट हैं? किस में? काम, क्रोध में। काम,क्रोध परायण। काम और क्रोध में निपुण हैं। भक्ति कामी, मुक्ति कामी, सिद्धि कामी, सब कामी ही हैं और कामना कि जब पूर्ति नहीं होती तो क्रोध आता हैं। काम से भोग भोगने का प्रयास तो किया लेकिन समाधान नहीं मिला और कभी समाधान मिलता ही नहीं। जिसका परिणाम होता हैं, फ्रस्ट्रेशन अथवा क्रोध। हम क्रोधित हो जाते हैं। यह सब माया का खेल या माया का चक्कर हैं और हम बढ़िया से मस्त हैं। माया में हम इतने मस्त हैं कि कोरोना आ गया।फिर भी भगवान की याद नहीं आ रही हैं। भगवान ही समाधान हैं।यह हम नहीं सोच रहे हैं।इस कोरोनावायरस का कोई भी इलाज नहीं हैं।कोई दवा कोई इंजेक्शन नहीं हैं।ऐसा कह रहे हैं। वह भी सही हैं।लेकिन जितनी भी बीमारी हैं, उसका अंततः इलाज तो केवल एक ही हैं। हरेर नामेव केवलम। मानते हो कि नहीं? मॉरीशस वाले?3 दिन पहले ही यह मॉरीशस वाले कह रहे थे कि हमारे देश में तो कोई कोरोना नहीं हैं।

अमेरिका इस से पीड़ित हैं, भारत भी इससे पीड़ित हैं, लेकिन हमारे यहां नहीं हैं। हम तो सबसे अलग और बहुत ही महत्वपूर्ण लोग हैं। यहां तो कोरोना नहीं हैं। लेकिन कोरोना ने करुणा कर ही दी और इस देश में अब 6:00 बजे से बंद घोषित कर दिया हैं। भगवान के दरबार में देर हो सकती हैं, लेकिन अंधेर नहीं होती। तो सभी को ही कृपा मिलने वाली हैं। सभी देशों को कृपा मिलेगी। किसी को पहले मिलेगी तो किसी को बाद में। सबसे पहले तो चाइना को मिली। हरि हरि। केवल हरे कृष्ण भक्त बचेंगे और बचना हैं तो हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे इसका जप स्वयं भी करो और औरों से भी कीर्तन करवाओ।

इसी के साथ ही गीता भागवत भी पढ़ो और विचार करो और दिमाग में कुछ कृष्ण भक्ति की बातें डालो। दूसरों की मदद करो। ठीक हैं। यहां समय खत्म होता हैं। आज एकादशी हैं, तो आप सभी व्यस्त रहो। ज्यादा से ज्यादा जप करो। ज्यादा से ज्यादा पुस्तकों का अध्ययन करो और घर बैठे बैठे प्रचार करो और अपने घर को भी वैकुंठ बनाओ। कल आपको गृह कार्य दिया था कि जो जो आपके घर में कमी हैं, उसको पूरा करो। जैसे अगर तुलसी नहीं थी तो तुलसी को ले आओ। आपको एक छोटी सी सूची दी थी, पूरी तो सूची नहीं दी। कुछ छोटी ही दी कि कैसे आप अपने घर को वैकुंठ या गोलोक बना सकते हो। और मुख्य तो आपके जो भाव हैं, उसी को प्रकट करना हैं। उसी का प्रदर्शन होगा, तभी घर बैकुंठ बनेगा। वैकुंठ मतलब चिंता मुक्त स्थान। ठीक हैं। गौर प्रेमानंदे हरि हरि बोल।

19th March 2020

Make your VAIKUNTHA!

Hare Krishna!

Today we have 490 Participants. Welcome, all of you. We have good news or bad news. The people from Mauritius were saying with pride that there were no cases of corona there, but now there are 3 cases. This is certainly bad news. Even though it’s not good news we will still say Hari Haribol!

Dayalu Radha Mataji from Reunion Island, which is next to Mauritius, has written that she is reading Srimad-Bhagavatam for the 2nd time. How many of you have read Srimad- Bhagavatam once? You might be reading one verse, but have you read it completely?

I was thinking that this disease is spreading rapidly and all businesses are being shut down. Governments are saying, ‘Work from home’. All this time, you have an opportunity to read something. We usually don’t have time, even to die. Those who don’t get time, can use this time for reading. It might be the case that if our chanting is not complete then we catch up with our chanting the next day. I have told you about the case of Tamala Krishna Maharaja. He found someone chanting Gayatri Mantra for many hours. He asked, ‘What is this mantra you are chanting for hours?’ He said,” For the last 1 month I couldn’t chant my Gayatri mantra. So, I was chanting for that whole month”.

This is quite an exceptional example. Don’t do this. That is not the best example. Also, this should not have been mentioned. But we say that we find such cases. We should finish Gayatri daily, thrice a day. In case our chanting is not complete, we complete it the next day, but then what about nityam bhagavat sevaya? Srimad- Bhagavat śravan is also essential on a daily basis. If you were not able to do so then you can catch up. Read Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavatam, Caitanya-caritamrta in this free time. If you haven’t read Bhagavatam for the last 20 days then you should read now as you have more time. You can take more benefit. This is one thing you could do among many other things.

One Mataji wrote that they went to an ISKCON Temple, but were not allow inside the temple. Due to coronavirus, darsana is closed and the public is not allowed. Even congregational devotees are not allowed. What’s the solution? You should turn your home into a temple or Vaikuntha. You can try to cover up the remaining things. You should have an altar in your home.

I also said that you should not only turn your home into a temple, but Vaikuntha. Demigods don’t stay in Vaikuntha. If demigods are there, then it is heaven, not Vaikuntha. You Vaisnavas need to understand the difference between Vaikuntha and heaven. Vaikunta Pati, Visnu, Krsna, Gauranga, Jagannatha, Vitthala Rukmini should be there in your home. There should be Tulasi in your home. If the Lord is there, then you have to feed Him also. It’s not enough that you have kept some pictures or Deities. There has to be a kitchen with an altar in which you should cook bhoga for the Lord. Then all the family members can honour prasada singing the glories of Radha Krsna.

sei annamrta khao, radha-krsna-guna gao

Translation
Please eat the remnants of food of the Lord Krsna while singing the glories of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha and Krsna. (Maha Prasade Govinde)

It should not be that you take prasada and sleep. Then it’s not a temple. When we cook and eat for ourselves, then we become bhogis and because of that we become rogi or diseased. Offer bhoga to the Lord and then take prasada. There is a difference between Bhoga and prasada. Bhoga is for the Lord and prasada is for the devotees. Don’t eat bhoga, but eat prasada. It becomes prasada when we offer bhoga to the Lord. Grihastas should also distribute prasada.

Make your home a temple and welcome guests. Remove the board ‘Beware of dogs’. Nowadays terrorists also come as guests. Be careful. We make a home for God and guests and Grihasthas live as servants of God and welcome guests in their home. If you have this mood, then you won’t get any reaction from building a home.

What else can be done to turn home into a temple? You can do kirtana. There has to be Mangal Arati for which you have to wake up early. Grihasthas also have some pets. You can keep a cock, not to slaughter but to wake you up. Feed it also as the cock wakes you up early in the morning. Keep a cow if possible. If you want a dog, then it has its own place that is outside the home. Home can’t be a temple if a dog is sitting in your lap or room. Temple is complete with a cow. Where to keep cow? There should be a separate room for the cow.

What else can we do? Keep various books like Bhagavad-Gita, Srimad- Bhagavatam, Caitanya-caritamrta in your home. Now, Caitanya-caritamrta is also available in Marathi and we were distributing it at some discount at Pune Bhagavat Katha. All initiated devotees of ISKCON must have all Prabhupada’s books and they should also read them. There should be

naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu

bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī

Translation:
By regular attendance in classes on the Bhāgavatam and by rendering of service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact.

When we read sastras, we will become nishthavan or firm in devotional service from sraddhavan. There will be no U-turn once we become nishthavan.

If a temple is there, then the home has to be clean. Not only the altar but the kitchen also has to be clean. We speak not only about external but also internal cleanliness. Few say that if the internal or the mind is clean then what’s the need to take a bath in the Ganga? They are Mayavadis. Some say these incomplete things.

A home must have such an environment which can affect our internal cleanliness so that we can say it’s a temple or Vaikuntha. We must chant 16 rounds daily. Follow 4 regulative principles that is no meat eating, intoxication, gambling and illicit sex. Illicit sex also applies to Grihasthas. One should not cross the boundaries. In other words, Grihasthas are also brahmacari.

Then there is no gambling. If you won’t read and follow or accept scriptures then we will carry on with our manodharma which is called mental speculation. ‘I think’, ‘According to me’ keeps on going. We keep on spreading our thoughts. This is gambling or mental speculation. Lottery is there, but what gambling happens in the field of religion is the highest. Hardly in any other field such gambling would be taking place. Be careful. Preach this regulation to the people beginning with our home.

Keep photos of the Lord on the wall of your home and not of politicians, film stars or demons. You can have pictures of the pastimes of the Lord or acaryas, so that, wherever you see that, you can remember the Lord.

jagannāthah svāmī nayana-patha-gāmī bhavatu me

Translation:
May Jagannatha swami be the object of my vision. (Sri Jagannatha Astakam)

You have some time now. You can complete whatever is left. It’s not just external maintenance of the temple but also internal. We should develop internal emotions, opinions and morality which are favourable for the temple.

je-dina grihe, bhajana dekhi,
grihete goloka bhaya
carana-sidhu, dekhiya ganga,
sukha sa sima paya

Translation
One day while performing devotional practices, I saw my house transformed into Goloka Vrindavana. When I take the caranamrita of the Deity, I see the holy Ganges waters that come from the feet of Lord Vishnu, and my bliss knows no bounds. (Suddha-bhakata vaishnava song)

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur says, when there is kirtana going on along with mrdanga then the home seems to be Goloka.

Preach to everyone not to make their home a heaven or home theatre in which you see naked dances or lusty or greedy scenes. Seeing these we also become lusty and greedy.

dhyāyato visayān pumsah
sangas tesūpajāyate
sangāt sañjāyate kāmah
kāmāt krodho ‘bhijāyate (BG 2.62)

Translation
While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘krsna’-upadesa

Translation
Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Sri Krsna. (CC Madhya- Lila 7.128)

Leave ‘Hi’ and ‘Hello’ and say ‘Hare Krishna’ on the phone. Speak things related to the Lord. You can work or preach from home. The Lord’s service is also your work. Use a computer and send messages on social media. Share your Deity’s darsana. Share your Krishna Conscious thoughts. These things are to be done. You can also report this to your counsellor. Tell them how you transformed your home into a temple, bought scriptures or how you are getting up early even though you don’t have a cock in your home or dancing while performing kirtana at home. Don’t watch Bollywood dancers. Instead dance to please the Lord.

Gaura prema nande hari haribol !!

19 марта 2020 г.

Сделайте свою ВАЙКУНТХУ!

Харе Кришна!

Сегодня у нас 490 участников. Добро пожаловать всем вам. У нас есть хорошие или плохие новости. Люди с Маврикия с гордостью говорили, что там не было случаев короны, но сейчас есть 3 случая. Это конечно плохие новости. Даже если это не очень хорошая новость, мы все равно скажем Хари Харибол!

Дайалу Радха Матаджи с острова Реюньон, который находится рядом с Маврикием, написала, что она читает Шримад-Бхагаватам во второй раз. Сколько из вас читали Шримад-Бхагаватам однажды? Возможно, вы читаете один стих, но прочитали ли вы его полностью?

Я думал, что эта болезнь быстро распространяется, и все предприятия закрываются. Правительства говорят: «Работа из дома». Все это время у вас есть возможность что-то прочитать. У нас обычно нет времени, даже чтобы умереть. Те, у кого нет времени, могут использовать это время для чтения. Может случиться так, что если наше воспевание не завершено, то мы догоняем наше воспевание на следующий день. Я рассказал вам о случае Тамалы Кришны Махараджа. Он нашел кого-то, кто повторял Гаятри мантру много часов. Он спросил: «Что это за мантра, которую вы повторяете часами?» Он сказал: «В течение последнего месяца я не мог повторять свою Гаятри мантру. Итак, я воспеваю за весь этот месяц ».

Это довольно исключительный пример. Не делайте этого. Это не лучший пример. Кроме того, это не должно было упоминаться. Но мы говорим, что находим такие случаи. Мы должны заканчивать Гаятри ежедневно, трижды в день. Если наше воспевание не завершено, мы завершим его на следующий день, но как насчет нитйам бхагават севайи? Шримад-Бхагават-шраван также необходим ежедневно. Если вы не смогли этого сделать, то можете наверстать упущенное. Читайте Бхагават-Гиту, Бхагаватам, Чайтанья-Чаритамриту в это свободное время. Если вы не читали Бхагаватам в течение последних 20 дней, вам следует читать сейчас, так как у вас есть больше времени. Вы можете получить больше блага. Это одна вещь, которую вы могли бы сделать среди многих других вещей.

Одна Матаджи написал, что они пошли в Храм ИСККОН, но им не разрешили войти в храм. Из-за коронавируса, даршан закрыт, и публика не допускается. Даже преданные общины не допускаются. Какое решение? Вы должны превратить свой дом в храм или Вайкунтху. Вы можете попытаться прикрыть оставшиеся вещи. У вас должен быть алтарь в вашем доме.

Я также сказал, что вы должны не только превратить свой дом в храм, но и Вайкунтху. Полубоги не остаются на Вайкунтхе. Если есть полубоги, тогда это рай, а не Вайкунтха. Вы, вайшнавы, должны понимать разницу между Вайкунтхой и раем. В вашем доме должны быть Вайкунта Пати, Вишну, Кришна, Гауранга, Джаганнатха, Виттхала Рукмини. Также должена быть Туласи в вашем доме. Если Господь там, тогда вы должны также кормить Его. Недостаточно того, что вы сохранили несколько фотографий или Божеств. Должна быть кухня с алтарем, в которой вы должны готовить бхогу для Господа. Тогда все члены семьи могут почитать прасад, воспевая славу Радхи Кришны.

сей аннамрита кхао, радха-кришна-гуна гао

Перевод
Пожалуйста, ешьте остатки пищи Господа Кришны, воспевая славу Их светлостей Шри Шри Радхе и Кришне. (Маха Прасаде Говинде)

Не должно быть, что вы принимаете прасад и спите. Тогда это не храм. Когда мы готовим и едим для себя, тогда мы становимся бхогис, и из-за этого мы становимся роги или больными. Предложите бхогу Господу, а затем примите прасад. Есть разница между бхогой и прасадом. Бхога – для Господа, а прасад – для преданных. Не ешьте бхогу, но ешьте прасад. Это становится прасадом, когда мы предлагаем бхогу Господу. Грихастхи также должны раздавать прасад.

Сделайте свой дом храмом и поприветствуйте гостей. Уберите доску «Берегитесь собак». В настоящее время террористы также приходят в качестве гостей. Будьте осторожны. Мы делаем дом для Бога и гостей, а грихастхи живут как слуги Бога и приветствуют гостей в своем доме. Если у вас такое настроение, вы не получите никакой реакции от строительства дома.

Что еще можно сделать, чтобы превратить дом в храм? Вы можете петь киртан. Должна быть Мангал Арати, ради которого нужно рано вставать. У грихастх также есть домашние животные. Вы можете держать петуха, не для того чтобы убивать, а чтобы он будил вас. Кормите его также, поскольку петух будит Вас рано утром. Держите корову, если это возможно. Если вы хотите собаку, то у нее есть свое место за пределами дома. Дом не может быть храмом, если собака сидит на коленях или в комнате. Храм в комплекте с коровой. Где держать корову? Там должна быть отдельная комната для коровы.

Что еще мы можем сделать? Держите в своем доме различные книги, такие как Бхагават-Гита, Шримад-Бхагаватам, Чайтанья-чаритамрита. Теперь Чайтанья-Чаритамрита также доступна на Маратхи, и мы распространяли ее со скидкой в ​​Пуне Бхагават-катхи. Все посвященные преданные ИСККОН должны иметь все книги Прабхупады, и они также должны их читать. Там должен быть

нашта-прайешв абхадрешу
нитйам бхагавата-севайа
бхагаватй уттама-шлоке
бхактир бхавати наиштхики

Перевод:
Благодаря регулярному посещению лекций по «Бхагаватам» и служению чистому преданному все, что вызывает тревогу в сердце, почти полностью уничтожается, и тогда любовное служение Верховному Господу, воспеваемому в трансцендентных песнях, становится необратимым.

Когда мы читаем шастры, мы становимся ништхаванами или твердыми в преданном служении из шраддхавана. Когда мы станем ништхаваном, разворота не будет.

Если там есть храм, тогда дом должен быть чистым. Не только алтарь, но и кухня должна быть чистой. Мы говорим не только о внешней, но и внутренней чистоте. Мало кто говорит, что если внутреннее или ум чист, то зачем принимать омовение в Ганге? Они Майавади. Некоторые говорят эти неполные вещи.

В доме должна быть такая среда, которая может повлиять на нашу внутреннюю чистоту, чтобы мы могли сказать, что это храм или Вайкунтха. Мы должны повторять 16 кругов в день. Следуйте 4 регулирующим принципам, которые запрещают употребление мяса, интоксикации, азартные игры и незаконный секс. Незаконный секс также относится к грихастхам. Не следует пересекать границы. Другими словами, грихастхи также являются брахмачари.

Тогда нет азартных игр. Если вы не будете читать, следовать или принимать Священных Писаний, мы продолжим нашу манодхарму, которая называется умственными спекуляциями. «Я думаю», «По мне» продолжается. Мы продолжаем распространять наши мысли. Это азартные игры или умственные спекуляции. Лотерея есть, но то, что происходит в сфере религии, является высшим. Вряд ли в какой-либо другой области такая азартная игра имела бы место. Быть осторожен. Проповедуй это правило людям, начиная с нашего дома.

Держите на стене своего дома фотографии Господа, а не политиков, кинозвезд или демонов. Вы можете иметь изображения игр Господа или ачарьев, чтобы, где бы вы ни увидели это, вы могли помнить Господа.

jagannāthah svāmī nayana-patha-gāmī bhavatu me

Перевод:
Пусть Джаганнатха Свами станет объектом моего видения. (Шри Джаганнатха Аштакам)

У вас есть время сейчас. Вы можете завершить всё, что осталось. Это не только внешнее содержание храма, но и внутреннее. Мы должны развивать внутренние чувства, убеждения и мораль, которые благоприятны для храма.

je-dina grihe, bhajana dekhi,
grihete goloka bhaya
carana-sidhu, dekhiya ganga,
sukha sa sima paya

Перевод
Однажды, когда я совершал практики преданного служения, я увидел, как мой дом превратился в Голоку Вриндавана. Когда я принимаю чаранамриту Божества, я вижу святые воды Ганги, которые исходят от стоп Господа Вишну, и мое блаженство не знает границ.(Шуддха-бхаката вайшнавская песня)

Шрила Бхактивинода Тхакур говорит, что когда идет киртан вместе с мридангой, тогда Голока кажется домом.

Проповедуйте всем, чтобы они не превращали свой дом в рай или домашний кинотеатр, в котором вы видите голые танцы, похотливые или жадные сцены. Видя это, мы также становимся похотливыми и жадными.

дхйайато вишайан пумсах   сангас тешупаджайате
 сангат санджайате камах   камат кродхо ‘бхиджайате (Б.Г. 2.62)

Перевод
Созерцая объекты, приносящие наслаждение чувствам, человек развивает привязанность к ним, из привязанности рождается вожделение, а из вожделения – гнев.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘krsna’-upadesa

Перевод
Обучайте каждого следовать указаниям Господа Шри Кришны. (ЧЧ Мадхья-Лила 7.128)

Оставьте «Приветик» и «Привет» и скажите «Харе Кришна» по телефону. Говорите вещи, связанные с Господом. Вы можете работать или проповедовать из дома. Служение Господу – это также ваша работа. Используйте компьютер и отправляйте сообщения в социальных сетях. Поделитесь даршанами вашего Божества. Поделитесь своими Сознательными мыслями о Кришне. Эти вещи должны быть сделаны. Вы также можете сообщить об этом своему наставнику. Расскажите им, как вы превратили свой дом в храм, купили Священные Писания или как рано встаете, даже если у вас нет петуха в вашем доме или танцуйте, когда поете киртан дома. Не смотрите болливудских танцоров. Вместо этого танцуй. Вместо этого танцуйте для удовлетворения Господа.

Гаура према нанде хари харибол !!

18th March 2020

Harinama is Ramban Aushadhi for Kaliyug

Hare Krishna

Today we have 516 participants. This is the benefit of the Corona virus. As the Corona virus cases are increasing Japa participants are also increasing. All are sending the score of their countries. Noida – 4, Mauritius-0, USA has 50 states and every state is covered. Corona virus is on the job. With this many temples have been closed. In ISCKON temples gatherings and Sunday festivals are closed. The same is in Tirupati. In Pandharpur also Vitthala darsana is closed. The only thing remaining is the holy name. Darsana might be closed, but Harinama can’t be closed. The same darsana of the Lord is available through the holy name.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that the holy name is available in all situations. As I was saying, as age increases we might not be able to reach the temple to take darsana. We might be bed ridden. We can’t visit the dhama. You might not be able to reach the Deities in your home. But wherever you are, in a village or farm, you can chant the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra. This virus is called COVID-19. What is there in the name? This is making the whole world bend down. Unfortunately the whole world is universally conscious of this talk of town, country, day and night.

Super powers like America, China, India have to bow down. This virus is called Corona and they are bowing down in front of the Corona virus. There is some power stronger than America and that power is Mahamaya.

daivī hyeṣhā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā
mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te [B.G. 7.14]

Translation
My divine energy Maya, consisting of the three modes of nature, is very difficult to overcome. But those who surrender unto me cross over it easily. [B.G. 7.14]

The Lord has said that it’s very difficult to transgress Mahamaya. The whole world is facing difficulties. Normally we say super power. Yes, there is a super power, but we don’t think to whom that super power belongs. Lord is energetic and this is His energy.

mayādhyakṣheṇa prakṛitiḥ sūyate sa-charācharam
hetunānena kaunteya jagad viparivartate

Translation
Working under My direction, this material energy brings into being all animate and inanimate forms, O son of Kunti. For this reason, the material world undergoes the changes (of creation, maintenance, and dissolution). [B.G. 9.10]

‘All of nature moves as per MY supervision.’ Will you believe it now? Some living beings won’t understand with words, but with kicks. Now at least understand that this Corona virus is the energy of the Lord. We can’t control anything. We have to bow down to the lotus feet of God then we will be saved.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “Who else is there other than Me as your brother?”

enechi auṣadhi māyā nāśibāro lāgi’
hari-nāma mahā-mantra lao tumi māgi’

Translation
I have brought the medicine that will wipe out the disease of illusion from which you are suffering. Take this mahā-mantra-Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.”

bhakativinoda prabhu-caraṇe pariyā
sei hari-nāma-mantra loilo māgiyā

Translation
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thākura says: “I fall at the Lord’s feet, having taken this mahā-mantra.”

I have appeared for your sake. Who is your true friend? A friend in need is a friend Indeed. One who helps in need is a true friend. Ultimately the Lord is only our friend.

bhoktaram yajna-tapasam
sarva-loka-mahesvaram
suhrdam sarva-bhutanam
jnatva mam santim rcchati [BG 5.29]

Translation
The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries. [B.G. 7.14]

Caitanya Mahaprabhu has rambaan solution which means whenever Lord Rama targeted something, he never missed. In this way we need to take shelter of the holy names.

All the governments are saying how we can save ourselves. The whole world is engrossed with fear. Eating, sleeping, mating, defending [ahara nidra, bhaya, maithun]. Srila Prabhupada translates Bhaya as defending. All are trying to make some defence schemes, but ultimately only the Lord can help us.

Cause of our fear -> Corona disease.
Causes of this disease -> Our desire for sense gratification.

Diseases will keep on coming. The permanent solution is not to receive another body. If there is no body then there are no diseases.

The ultimate solution is the holy name. Kunti Maharani is a very smart lady. She says keep on sending difficulties.

vipadaḥ santu tāḥ śaśvat
tatra tatra jagad-guro
bhavato darśanaṁ yat syād
apunar bhava-darśanam

Translation
”I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we can see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths.” [SB. 1.8.25]

Whenever You send difficulties we will run to You, pray to You and beg for our health. Keep on sending difficulties so that we will say, ‘Oh My God, Please Help me.’ We run towards Your shelter. Your shelter means we won’t have to face miseries of this material world. Birth and Death. We will not have a material body and hence no Corona virus. Increase your faith in the holy name and experience that the Lord is the holy name.

nāmāśraya kori’ jatane tumi,
thākaha āpana kāje

Translation
This temporary life is full of various miseries. Take shelter of the holy name as your only business.

Harinama in the mouth and work in the hands. This is prescription of the Lord. Don’t just listen to me, but preach this also. When the whole world is in danger all turn towards the Lord. The atmosphere is favourable for preaching and hence take advantage.

Preach Krsna katha via the internet and social media and avoid Gramkatha

Meet you again
Take care
Hare Krishna

17 March 2020

Dukh me sumiran saba kare

Hare Krishna. Today, there are 495 participants, almost 500.

Dukh me sumiran saba kare sukha me kare na koi

In this miserable condition, many devotees are inspired to join this conference out of the threat of Corona virus. They’re chanting in the Japa conference under the influence of fear and not out of love.

yena kena prakarena

It’s fine even though it might have been due to any reason. Ask everyone to chant. Nowadays, people have time. Padmaja reached Mayapur. Someone is going Sukhtal. Someone is going Mayapur. Someone is going for pilgrimage. Now devotees have time. Ganesh Godase Prabhu is saying that he is chanting 51 rounds and reading more. It’s a good idea.

Gradually few things are being shut down. Including the night life in the West like Italy, Germany. Night life is getting closed. It’s good news. Night life is dark business and dirty business like the illicit sex business which is getting closed. This is mercy of the corona virus on worldly people. Everything is closed. What else is getting closed? Eklavya Prabhu is saying that people are forced to follow principles of brahmacarya. Chief minister of Maharashtra shut down the theatres. Hare Krishna devotees are not bothered by this because we don’t watch movies. Shopping malls are closed now. People were thinking that buying more things will make them happy, but it’s not happening like that. Maybe if you have learned, heard or realised that although people think buying more things or more shopping will make them happy, but it never happens. In a survey, it was concluded that more shopping and more facilities to enjoy never gives happiness. Actually this doesn’t increase happiness on earth. On the contrary, people feel more unhappy.

Actually Straight forward thought is there. From bhoga( sense enjoyment) comes roga(diseases). If you go for bhoga, sense enjoyment then get ready to get roga or disease.People sow seeds for miseries and that seed is Bhoga (sense enjoyment). This roga is the result of bhoga. Happiness doesn’t come free. You have to pay for it. Miseries come free.

ye hi saṁsparśa-jā bhogā
duḥkha-yonaya eva te
ādy-antavantaḥ kaunteya
na teṣu ramate budhaḥ

Translation:
An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kuntī, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. [BG 5.22]

Out of compassion the Lord is teaching this to fools like us. Sitting at home we should learn and the Lord is our teacher.

Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum

And we’re all students.

He is teaching us and one of the teachings is about our senses and sense objects of this world. Actually, this world is full of objects for senses and in the malls also. Those who are learned know this. Many people don’t know what are senses.

Sound, touch, taste, smell, form are the names of the sense objects. This whole world , malls and western countries are completely filled with these sense objects. When one gets in touch with, in very close contact to these sense objects they try to enjoy that. Every word has a deep meaning. ye hi saṁsparśa-jā samsparsa means touch with material objects and jā means derived. We have to explain all the details. We don’t understand in Kaliyuga. With a single hint, things should be clear, but we are so dumb that we’ve lost our intelligence. Samasparsaja.. Bhoga or happiness is derived and from that we get dukha. First we derive happiness from sense enjoyment and from happiness comes sorrow or unhappiness. Its not like if we’re getting happiness then it will give happiness forever or there will be never ending happiness. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It’s a law which our scientists also teach. Miseries are result of happiness. It’s not that we will be happy all the time. It’s a must that happiness will result into miseries. This is the rule. This is maya. This is nature. We must apply more intelligence on this verse BG 5.22. Yoni means source from where the child is born. Happiness becomes a womb for miseries. Happiness gives rise to miseries. They are very closely related. This is a very simple thing to understand.

We are so bound that we don’t understand.

tesham pramat nishanam pasyanti yena pasyati

We are so attached and conditioned that even after seeing and explaining, we can’t see and understand. We don’t wake up. The Lord is saying in the same verse that such things have a beginning and an end. Those who take birth have to die, end of happiness is miseries. If there is adi or beginning of happiness and if we try to gratify our senses then we will get happiness then there will be an end to such happiness also. This happiness will surely end. This happiness will last for few minutes or hours or days. Sooner or later, it will end.

na teṣu ramate budhaḥ

Wise people don’t take part in such worldly happiness which is going to end.
This is like aya rama gaya rama. Rama came and went back. Similarly, happiness in this material world comes and goes back. This is the definition of intelligence given by Lord. Who is intelligent? One who doesn’t become involved in the cycle of happiness and miseries. He doesn’t endeavour for getting material happiness because he knows this world is miserable and temporary.

duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam [BG 8.15]

Both happiness and miseries are temporary. Happiness comes and then miseries come and again happiness then miseries and so on. This world is like a fair of happiness and miseries.

One who is steadfast and has surpassed all dualities.

dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ [BG 4.22]

What is dvandva? Duality

Happiness-distress, gain-loss, day-night, national-foreign, success-failure, dark-fair, rich-poor, Hindu -Muslim, BJP-Congress, Fame-Infamy, Earning-Bankrupt. This is duality. This world is full of duality.

sukhe dukhe same krttva labha labho jaya jayau [BG 2.38]

To surpass beyond this duality of happiness and distress, loss-gain, fame-infamy is Krishna consciousness. That is the aim of our life.

We were saying that the appearance of the Corona virus is a blessing in disguise. In distress, many people are chanting in the conference. As the Corona virus is increasing, a number of people joining the conference is also increasing. 400 devotees used to chant for the past few weeks. As the Corona virus is showing its face all are moving to their beads and joining the conference. It’s like a boon. You will not go shopping. You will save your money. You won’t get happiness and hence you will also save yourself from miseries. Hear this. We will save ourselves from the happiness of this world. Those who don’t want to be miserable give up the thought of becoming happy. This is a straight forward thought. If you don’t want to be miserable and want to be happy, still miseries will come for free. Although you want happiness, it will not come alone without distress. We endeavour for happiness and unknowingly without any endeavour we get miseries. Like Buy 2 get 1 free. Shopkeepers advertise that if you buy 2 things you will get 1 free. Buy happiness and get distress free. Shopping which is done for happiness gives miseries. The whole world is getting such miseries every American, Indian, Australian or Canadian. Everyone is shopping for happiness/sense gratification but they are also getting miseries free. So Sadhu beware.

I’m not saying anything new. This is one of the eternal truths. We just have to wake up, understand and realise this truth. Srila Prabhupada started this endeavour to explain to the whole world on behalf of Lord Krsna. You’ve received this message and you’ve understood and are also implementing it in your life. This is the time to get more serious.

This is the karuna of the Corona virus that we are getting more serious. We can preach this. In such situations, people are more receptive. People are ready to listen. Take advantage of this situation. You’ll find more customers now. Remember your friends, business partners. People are free also since everything is closed. If they were not hearing earlier now they may hear. Ekalavya Prabhu was saying that you can preach through the internet, websites and reach out to more faithful people. Take benefit of this situation to read, chant and meditate more and inspire others to follow in same way. Then we can see this as blessing in disguise. We can see it as karuna instead of corona. So stay busy. We’ll meet soon.

Hare Krishna!

16th March 2020

Let us dedicate our prayers to corona affected brothers and sisters

Today there are 470 participants. Muralimohan Prabhu organised a one day padayatra in Ahmedabad and distributed 140 books. It was for the welfare of the Coronavirus affected people. You also can organise such sankirtanas for Coronavirus affected people and keep the theme for the betterment of Corona virus affected people. Our prayers are with them. We want to see them getting well soon. Our sympathy, our prayers are with them. You can distribute prasada and books. It’s a big emergency for humans. We all are one as we are all getting affected by the same disease. Coronavirus does not differentiate between man and woman. It will affect all. I was thinking this disease can affect anyone Easterners and Westerners. This shows we all one and the same and our problem is also same. Pray and also when we chant we all are praying on the zoom conference. We dedicate all our prayers to the affected people all over the world.

ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha–davagni-nirvapanam

The whole world is on fire and affected by problems. para dukha dukhi – that’s the identification of a Vaisnava. As Vaisnavas see others suffering they become disheartened and try to help them whole heartedly. Hare Krishna devotees always try to help others.
There are problems and problems all over. Lord has mentioned four main problems in the Bhagavad-Gita,

janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi- duhkha-dosanudarsanam

There is only one Lord and we are all children of the same Lord and He has given us all the same problems which ever country we belong to, rich or poor. Amongst the list of janma, mrtyu, jara, vyadhi. Now people are affected with vyadhi, a new disease. Getting sick is the dharam of the body.

shariram vyadhi mandiram

This is also said. The body is itself a temple of diseases. If we call body a temple then one deity is installed in this body and given to us. Take this body, which type of body? Who is installed in the body? Vyadhi mandiram. There cannot be a body without vyadhi. If you want a body then vyadhi comes with it. Vyadhi or a disease tag is attached to the body.

We are souls and souls are not affected by any disease. The soul is free. Janma mrtyu, jara, vyadhi is not related to the soul. These don’t affect the soul. Soul never takes birth. The soul never dies. Since the soul does not take birth there is no question of death of the soul. The soul never gets old.

adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca

Lord is Adi-purusha, He is always new and fresh. The same thing applies to the soul also. The soul is as old as the Supreme Lord, as the soul is part and parcel of the Lord.

pura api navam puranam

The soul is old, but still new. There no relation of birth with the soul as the Lord is ajanma so the soul is also ajanma. There is no question of death for the soul. The soul never dies, only the body dies.

na jayate mriyate va kadacin

But who will read Gita and understand the soul. The soul is always healthy. All these problems are due to this body. When one has a desire to enjoy the sense objects, bhoga vancha kare – then take this body and enjoy. Senses are attached to the body and the senses enjoy the sense objects of this material world. Mind and intelligence also enjoy along with the senses.

As we were talking about sariram vyadhi mandiram. Till we have this body we will have disease. After this body we will get another body it will also get affected by diseases. Vyadhi is not only in the human body. It affects all bodies. Luckily there are some bodies, I read somewhere fish suffer only from 8 diseases, lucky fish. We humans suffer from 80 different types of diseases or maybe 8000 types of diseases. It’s better to get a fish body. At least there will be less diseases and also the fish is not affected by the Coronavirus. Till we have this body we will affected by diseases.

Everybody becomes old. Everybody falls sick. Did you ever think? Some diseases affect even the ants and some disease affect elephants. Dogs also become old, get affected by diseases and die. Like that this is the dharma of the body. Sariram vyadhi mandiram. There is nothing to be surprised about. This is bound to happen till we have this body. When we fall sick we go to the doctor and he does the diagnoses. With diseases there are so many arrangements, so many hospitals, so many medical colleges, so many doctors and so many drugs and for their manufacture there is so much research going on and what not. In this way this material world is kept busy managing the diseases. And there are so many arrangements done by human kind to overcome the diseases.

Still even if we recover again after sometime we fall sick. And as we become old many types of diseases attack us and we are always scared of diseases. Birth is related to death. Once a person is born, the fear of death is born. And it’s said, “As sure as death.” We cannot avoid death. We have to die one day. Devotees say, “When one is born he is born with a death certificate.” Birth is related to death. Like that old age is related to death. Old people keep of thinking of death always, young people don’t think of death so much. As one is in his 50s and 60s he keeps thinking of death. Old age is related to death. Disease is also related to death. When one falls sick he thinks that he will die soon. Once he gets admitted to ICU that’s the one way ticket. Nobody comes back from ICU. Birth, diseases and old age all are related to death.

All those suffering from Coronavirus throughout the world are our brothers, vasudhaiva kutumbakam. This is a higher thought, if the Head of the family is the Lord then all those suffering are our brothers and sisters. There was news that just in one day in Iran there were 500 cases. Someone said some treatment fro this disease has been found. But once we get free from this diseases that does not mean we are free. No, some other disease will again take a stand. After feeding medicines to the body one day we die and get a new body. Again that body will be affected by diseases, there is no end to this.

From the life of Buddha Dev also we should learn something. He wanted to go on tour of Bharatvarsha, but his father never wanted him to go, His father knew that if his son goes out, he will see old people dying and affected by diseases and he will become sad. But Siddhartha wanted to go. So his father agreed, gave him a chariot and a driver for the chariot.

As he moved in the chariot he saw a person suffering from leprosy, he asked ‘What happened to him’? The driver said, ‘He is not well.’ Siddartha said ‘Will I also fall sick?’ The driver said, ‘Yes why not.’ Then as they moved ahead he saw an old man with a stick finding difficulty in crossing the road. Siddartha asked ‘Do all become old?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Will I also become old?’. The driver said, ‘Yes, why not.’ Siddartha was noting all this.

Then as they moved ahead and he saw a big procession and all were saying “rama nama satya hai.” He thought why so many be people are walking and one man is sleeping on the bed and people are carrying him. Siddartha said, ‘What is this?’ The driver said, ‘He died and he is being carried to the graveyard and will be cremated. He will not return.’ Siddarartha asked, ‘Will I also die?’ The driver said, ‘ Yes, yes for sure.’ Siddartha said, ‘It’s enough. Let’s go back.’ The driver turned his chariot towards home. He was thinking. I don’t want to fall sick, have disease and become old and die. The same night he left his house, went to Gaya and became enlightened. He became Buddha Dev. “Oh Lord, I want to get free from these problems. Help, help.” The permanent solution is as Lord Buddha did. Becoming spiritual is the only solution. There is no other way, no other way, no other way.

Even if we ever find a cure for this virus again some another problem will come and affect us. In such a situation which the world is facing now, we should become more serious in our devotional life and make people realize and put such thoughts in their mind. We can have sankirtana, distribute books and prasada. We should increase preaching. This is the only solution. Chant Hare Krishna and be happy. The soul becomes happy by chanting. We have to chant and make others chant. We have to honour prasada and give prasada to others. We Rupanugas are spiritual doctors. We have to diagnose the problems and treat them.

yare dekha, tare kaha ‘krsna’-upadesa
Don’t think I can’t do anything. No, that’s not the case. Only you can do as you are devotees. Other fools do not have solution. This is an emergency. And Hare Krishna devotees have the permanent solution. Chant Hare Krishna. You be happy and make others happy.

15th March 2020

We don’t need Maya’s corona, but Radha’s Karuna

Manupriya, listen now. Your chanting is going on. kirtaniya sada hari. It’s difficult to stop you.

We have a Japa talk thereafter we will keep on chanting. We try to hear some inspirational statements which will inspire us to chant. Every day some thoughts arise in my mind which I try to share with you. There are always direct and indirect things related to Harinama. I’m in the countryside. Here cocks woke me up at around 4 o’clock. At least one was on duty. As soon as I leave the city and come to the countryside cocks are doing their natural duty. They get up in Brahma Muhurta and help others to get up also. They do their dharma. Still, some cocks are crowing and waking up the people who are sleeping. God made the country and man made the mess. The Lord created nature and we destroyed it. Cocks are doing their Seva. They keep on getting up and help others to get up also.

This is the dharma of cocks. In the village, people get up like this. It has been mentioned in Krishna Book that in Dvaraka there was space for pet animals such as cocks and dogs in the palaces. When they spoke, Krsna and the Queens also got up with them. Queens did not like the sound of the cocks. For them, it was like a curse. They thought that if the Lord wakes up then they will miss His association as He goes out for Sudharma and daily work. There were so many cocks. And the Lord himself was in the form of the cocks. Now cocks are being killed or made murda. Oh, cock you are disturbing me. I will kill you. Cocks help us to get up early in Brahma Muhurta which is favourable for spiritual advancement. But in this modern world, people are not grateful, They kill the cocks and eat him. He was thinking to help but mankind in Kaliyuga is so ungrateful that they kill and eat such cocks. One thought leads to another.

I had heard in a Western country that a father took his son shopping. The son was looking for various packets with expiry dates. The packets with meat didn’t have an expiry date. The son asked his father that the other packets have expiry dates but why not this? The father replied that this is already expired as soon as it was killed. It is not fit for consumption as it is already expired. If you eat such expired products then there are reactions. These meats, fish, chickens are not fit for consumption as they are already expired.

I was traveling from Moscow to Delhi. Air hostess was serving food. She also asked me whether I will eat fish or chicken? Near to me, two ladies were also sitting. One was an elderly lady and another was her daughter. They were Indians. They ate chicken and fish. Then that elderly lady asked me ” Swamiji do you see hand”.

Can you tell about my future? I did not like someone eating such things near me. I didn’t reply immediately but I thought if she asked the same question again then I will answer her regarding her future. My answer would be that the one who ate chicken will become a chicken and one who ate fish will become a fish. Cocks help us to get up and we become ungrateful and kill them. All animals help us in some way or another in our life. If we eat them then we also become animals. Due to such killing, various diseases spread such as the coronavirus. This gives rise to viruses and bacteria. In this way, fancy diseases are being spread.

kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet

Translation:
My dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.[ SB 12.3.51]

Kali is an ocean of faults. When we eat a meal here is a fault in it. When we drink water, there is pollution within it. Food pollution is increasing day by day. Food is full of chemicals. We eat what plants eat. We eat chemicals. There is food pollution, water pollution and air pollution. The most dangerous is thought pollution. We are polluted by eating, drinking and taking the air. We keep on eating 3 times a day. Few people keep on eating throughout the day. We drink water 10-15 times a day.

We breathe all the time. But thought pollution is so dangerous. Mental speculation of every individual spreads through the newspapers and social networks, through the high-speed internet which is Maya’s naked dance.We keep on eating it day and night. There is thinking, feeling, willing as soon as we think again and again.

dhyāyato viṣayān puṁsaḥ
saṅgas teṣūpajāyate
saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ
kāmāt krodho ’bhijāyate

Translation:
While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.[BG 2.62]

krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ
sammohāt smṛti-vibhramaḥ
smṛti-bhraṁśād buddhi-nāśo
buddhi-nāśāt praṇaśyati

Translation:
From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool. [ BG 2.63]

Bhagavat Gita 2.62-63 says the same thing. We contemplate on what we hear. The most dangerous pollution is sound pollution. Kali is an ocean of faults. One who controls the sound controls the world. The world is governed by the sounds of the world. Maya controls in this way. In this way we are going to hell. Lusty, anger, greedy thoughts are gates to hell. In conclusion, we can say that Kali has an ocean of faults but there is one best quality and it is kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya, mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet.

When we do kirtana, we will become liberated from asat thoughts or you may say bhukti vada, mukti and siddhi vada and then we will reach the topmost planet which is Mayapur or Vrndavana. Keep on chanting. Preach to those who are diseased. Muralimohan Prabhu from Ahmadabad is organising 1-day padayatra to preach against the coronavirus by spreading the Karuna virus. Many ISKCON devotees are saying it as a Karuna virus as I received a letter from Janananda Maharaja. Those who are followers of Gauranga Mahaprabhu can recognize this Karuna of Srimati Radharani.

karuṇāḿ kuru mayi karuṇā-bharite
sanaka-sanātana-varṇita-carite

Translations:
O You who are filled with compassion! O You whose divine characteristics are described by the great sages Sanaka and Sanatana! O Radha, please be merciful to me![ Radhe Jaya Jaya Madhava Dayite verse 3 by Roop Goswami]

We don’t need Maya’s corona but Radha’s Karuna. Do kirtana and spread the holy name. The whole world needs this. Everyone is suffering from diseases. The only solution is :

harer näma harer näma harer nämaiva kevalam,
kalau nästy eva nästy eva nästy eva gatir anyathä

Translation:
“In this Age of Kali there is no other means, no other means, no other means for self-realization than chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name of Lord Hari.” [ CC. Ädi 17.21]

Hare Krishna
Gaur Premanande

14th March, 2020

Think Before You Speak

Hare Krishna. Keep Chanting.

Chittahari Prabhu from Gurugram is inaugurating a new Namahatta. We welcome it. Nowadays there are so many shopping malls, Hyper Bazaars, Super Bazaars, but Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura had a strategy to open a Market Place of the holy name for the welfare of society. We can open shops/malls, but of the holy name.

(śraddhāvān jan he, śraddhāvān jan he)
prabhura ājñāy, bhāi, māgi ei bhikṣā
bolo `kṛṣṇa,’ bhajo kṛṣṇa, koro kṛṣṇa-śikṣā

Translation:
O people of faith! O people of faith! By the order of Lord Gauranga, O brothers, I beg these three requests of you: Chant “Krsna!”, worship Krsna, and teach others about Krsna.[ Nadiya Godrume Nityananda Mahajana verse 2 by Bhaktivinoda Thakura]

Bhaktivinoda Thakura is announcing, ” O people of faith, Nityananda Prabhu has established the Namahatta. Come and take the benefit.

Now such Namahattas are opened worldwide. One such Namahatta has opened in Gurugram. You all can open such Bhakti-vrikshas or Namahattas in your society. You can make your home a shop of the holy name. Nowadays many people work from home, do businesses so make your homes a Namahatta. Many people convert their homes into a home theatre, but you should convert the home to a Namahatta or Temple and preach the glories of the holy name from your place. You all can use modern technologies and make conference calls, Skype calls, invite your friends to attend and you should all preach via these technologies. Purnanandi Radha Mataji from Greater Noida is also reporting that she is also preaching in her area. Ramlila Mataji from Solapur is also reporting that she studies Sastras and preaches.

It will be nice if Matajis can change their gossiping from shopping/social talks to Krsna Katha then they will be able to preach very nicely and their life will be successful. Today phones are very cheap and we all use such cheap phones for cheap talks/useless talks. It is a natural tendency for us to speak, so we must use this in the service of the Lord. You can discuss many spiritual topics like Parenting in Krishna consciousness, Krishna Conscious cooking, offering the food to the Lord, or you can discuss Gita and Bhagavatam. Anything related to Krsna should be spoken.

It is not that we keep talking/speaking all the time. It applies to both ladies and gentlemen. We should think before we speak. We generally speak without thinking and many a time we suffer for what we speak without thinking. It should be changed. We should try to become munis who are very thoughtful. I keep on saying to you all many times to do mananam.

When we read Srila Prabhupada’s books, that means Prabhupada is doing kirtana and we do sravanam. He has not written these books with a pen-paper. He has spoken these books. He has done kirtana.This was recorded and sent for printing and then we got them. Basically when we read his books its sravanam. After sravanam comes manan. We should do mananam and in that, we must retain the subject matter in our mind. This is the process. Many times munis/sadhus are maunis( They do not speak). We Hare Krishna devotees can also become maunis. Then you can do mananam. Assimilate the lessons which you have heard. Make them your wealth and become self-realized. Then apply it practically and preach.

śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam

Translation:
Prahlāda Mahārāja said: Hearing and chanting about the transcendental holy name, form, qualities, paraphernalia and pastimes of Lord Viṣṇu, remembering them, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, offering the Lord respectful worship with sixteen types of paraphernalia, offering prayers to the Lord, becoming His servant, considering the Lord one’s best friend, and surrendering everything unto Him (in other words, serving Him with the body, mind, and words)—these nine processes are accepted as pure devotional service.

After sravanam comes, kirtana and then comes viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ. That is the chronological order, but when we do sravanam, we do smaraṇaṁ. We should meditate on the topics that we have heard and retain them in our minds. We can note them down and then speak. That is kirtana.

Sravanam is a divine word. It is also an action. When we talk about sravanam, we do it only in the relation of Visnu and then we do kirtana and other devotional services of Visnu. [SB 7.5.23]

Like this, we can change the topic of our speech. We also did it like other materialistic people, but now after coming to Krishna consciousness our topics have changed and ultimately our consciousness has been revolutionised and our life is benefited.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

By the mercy of Lord Caitanya, Prabhupada has given us the topic of hearing and reading. He made Krsna our main topic. You all should think what is going on in this material world is Maya. What we were doing was Maya and now we must change our side and come to Krsna. Jiva is a tatasta, which is in the middle of both the worlds. It has a good meaning in English. Part of the shore of an ocean is called a beach. The beach is situated between the ocean and the earth. Sometimes the beach becomes part of the ocean. Or sometimes the beach becomes part of the earth. Tatasta is a very good word which means fixed on the shore. It is a very nice word. Sometimes the shore becomes the part of the ocean or sometimes it becomes land. The same situation is for the jiva. Sometimes the jiva becomes part of Krsna or sometimes of Maya but actually, the eternal real position of the jiva is to be influenced by Krishna consciousness. If the jiva thinks that he is an eternal servant of the Lord, then he will never become sad and will always remain happy.

If the jiva becomes Krishna conscious he is eternally benefitted and then we have a responsibility to bring others to this situation. All this is possible when we talk to others about Krishna consciousness.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa

Translation:
“Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa as they are given in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land.”[CC Madhya 7.128]

Everyone can take this service of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and preach. By doing so we will all come together to go back home, back to Godhead. If we want to go then we need to show mercy towards the suffering people of this material world. As it is said, sadhus should be endowed by many qualities like mercy and tolerance. You all should show mercy towards your family, neighbours and talk with all of them about Krishna consciousness.

(‘radha) krishna’ bolo, sange calo,
ei-matra bhikha cai

Translation:
“Simply chant ‘Radha-Krishna’ and join with us. Those are the only alms we beg. Chant, chant ‘Radha-Krishna!’ Everyone chant!”
Beg from them, ask to chant the holy names.[Gitavali by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura]

Hari Hari
Gaur Premanande

13 March 2020

I EXIST BECAUSE I THINK!

Hare Krishna !

Today we have 460 participants. Many devotees are sending their pranams.

vancha-kalpatarubhyash cha
kripa-sindhubhya eva cha
patitanam pavanebhyo
vaishnavebhyo namo namaha

They are offering pranams to me and also to other devotees. All of you are welcomed and my blessings are with you all who offer pranam and who don’t. Maybe some devotees offer, but don’t write. My blessings for joining this conference and chanting together.

Srimati Radhika Mataji from Delhi has sent a report of her Bhakti Vriksha. Rama Lila Mataji from Solapur has also sent a report saying she has read Srimad-Bhagavatam 3 times, Caitanya-caritamrta once, Caitanya Bhagavat and not only she has read it, but is also actively preaching. She has made many devotees in Solapur. All of you can take inspiration from Rama Lila Mataji and keep studying Srila Prabhupada Books. This is the sravan. By reading these scriptures, our destiny will change. There will be revolution in our consciousness.

During Gaura Bhagavat Katha, I was personally encouraging devotees to read these scriptures. 160 Caitanya-caritamrta sets were distributed during this Katha. It is also available in Marathi now. I was thinking something while chanting. In fact I started my Japa with that thought.

There is one philosopher from a foreign country. He said: I EXIST BECAUSE I THINK. I think therefore I am. You all must also think. It can also be said that we exist therefore we can think. We think because we are the soul.

Christians say that animals have no soul, so we can slaughter them. How can they say this! When this philosopher already said, ‘I am because I think.’ Do animals not think? A cat thinks, “I will drink this milk once the mistress leaves from here. If I drink the milk now, I will get a heavy beating from her. I will have it only once she leaves”. This is the proof that animals also think therefore they also have a soul because they can think.

Srila Prabhupada was once asked, “Swamiji, why have you come to the western world?” Srila Prabhupada said, ‘I want to change the way people think.’ Thoughts can’t be stopped, but transformed. The soul always thinks, but our thoughts are spoilt because of our false ego. Aham mameti . This is Maya.

balavasta krdasakta, yuvavastha tarunirakta
vriddhavastha chintamagna, parambrahmani kaupinasakta

Translation:
Maya has made such arrangements that if you are a Kid, you must play. When you get Young, you must get attracted to the opposite sex. They think because of their False Ego that they are Male or Female. When we get old, we start worrying because all this Programming is already done and according to that, this universe works.

As the Lord says in Bhagavad-Gita:

mayadhyaksena prakrtih
suyate sa-caracaram
hetunanena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate

Translation:
This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again. (BG 9.10)

If we are doing something all the time then we keep thinking all the time. Uninterrupted thoughts are always there. We eat 3 times, drink water 5-10 times, breath 18 times in a minute, but we think every second. All these are intake. Then it is also said that you are what you eat. If we take in polluted water or food, we may get sick. Due to polluted air, our health will get affected, but our uninterrupted activity is thinking. Day and night and even in dreams. Because of all these intakes, we get affected, but we get most affected by our thoughts.

I am because I think, but what we think is also important. You think because you think that you are this body or you are American, women, poor men or bankrupt. But your thinking is based on false ego. In Krishna Consciousness we say,

sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam
tat-paratvena nirmalam
hrsīkena hrsīkeśa-
sevanam bhaktir ucyate

Translation:
“Bhakti, or devotional service, means engaging all our senses in the service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all the senses. When the spirit soul renders service unto the Supreme, there are two side effects. One is freed from all material designations, and, simply by being employed in the service of the Lord, one’s senses are purified.”(CC Madhya-Lila 19.170)

A devotee thinks, I am:

ayi nanda-tanuja kinkaram
patitam mam vishame bhavambudhau
kripaya tava pada-pankaja-
sthita-dhuli-sadrisham vichintaya

Translation:
O son of Maharaja Nanda (Krsna), I am Your eternal servitor, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms at Your lotus feet. (Verse 5, Siksastakam)

I am what I think. He thinks, I am a spirit soul and servant of Krsna. Engage me in your devotional service.

In this World, Pravritti and Nivritti goes on. Pravritti is also right up to some limit. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, ‘Varnasrama Dharma acts as per Pravritti.’ Pravritti is under the 3 modes. I am Brāhmana due to the mode of Goodness, I am Ksatriya (warrior) due to mode of Goodness and Passion, I am Vaiśya (businessmen) due to mode of Passion or I am Śūdra due to mode of Ignorance.

pravritti ittimanani
puneh karmani sarvasah
ahankara mudhatma
karta aham itimanyate

Since we all are affected by these three modes. That is why Caitanya Mahaprabhu said:

nāham vipro na ca nara-patir nāpi vaiśyo na śūdro
nāham varnī na ca grha-patir no vanastho yatir vā
kintu prodyan-nikhila-paramānanda-pūrnāmrtābdher
gopī-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānudāsah

Translation:
“I am not a brāhmana, I am not a ksatriya, I am not a vaiśya or a śūdra. Nor am I a brahmacārī, a householder, a vānaprastha or a sannyāsī. I identify Myself only as the servant of the servant of the servant of the lotus feet of the Lord Śrī Krsna, the maintainer of the gopīs. He is like an ocean of nectar, and He is the cause of universal transcendental bliss. He is always existing with brilliance.”(CC Madhya-Lila 13.80)

When we say we are brāhmana, sannyāsī, etc, it is also considered as false ego. It is not considered as a big false ego, but it has some Dirt. The best or clear thought is that I am the servant of the servant of the servant of the lotus feet of the Lord. This is the right thought.

If we understand that we are servants of Krsna, this is also called Self Realisation. As per this science, our thought process is totally different. So I think I have said the basic point.

smartavyah satatam visnur
vismartavyo na jātucit
sarve vidhi-nisedhāh syur
etayor eva kinkarāh

Translation:
“Krsna is the origin of Lord Visnu. He should always be remembered and never forgotten at any time. All the rules and prohibitions mentioned in the śāstras should be the servants of these two principles.” (CC Madhya-Lila 22.113)

Gopis always think about the Lord. They do not do anything else, They only think and remember the Lord and never forget Him. This is to be done.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

When we chant, along with chanting we learn the right way of thinking. I am a soul and the soul thinks about the Supersoul. This is Bhakti. To think about the supersoul is Bhakti.

sravanam kirtanam visnu smaranam

Chanting of Hare Krishna is Bhakti because we think about the Lord during chanting. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said:

ramyad upāsanā vraja-vadhu-vargena va kalpita

Translation:
“Oh, there is no better worship than that which was contemplated by the gopīs.”

We must think like the Gopis. Then we are Gaudiya Vaisnavas. When we are fixed up with these thoughts, we will have firm faith.

Srimad-Bhagavatam says,

nasta-prāyesv abhadresu
nityam bhāgavata-sevayā
bhagavaty uttama-śloke
bhaktir bhavati naisthikī

Translation:
By regular attendance in classes on the Bhāgavatam and by rendering of service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact. (SB 1.2.18)

We must read Bhagavad-Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, Caitanya-caritamrta, Caitanya Bhagavat and the result will be that our thought process will get revived. There will be revolution in our consciousness. Our consciousness will be purified. We will have spiritual thoughts. So please think.

Think what will go with you!

There is a way to think as per Varnasrama, but there is a thought process even more degraded than Pravritti. Varnasrama thought is not the ultimate. Goloka doesn’t have Varnasrama System. Goloka has Nivritti and not Pravritti. Pravritti means 3 modes of material nature and Nivritti means freedom from the 3 modes of material nature. We must have even higher thoughts than Varnasrama.

Please think on this. This is the food for thought. Don’t just think and then forget otherwise I have to remind you again. Remember what all has been said today.

Do not stop thinking. Think the right thinking.

Haribol !

12 March 2020

STEPS IN PLANNING!

Hare Krishna !!
Today we have 440 participants. Don’t you want to stop chanting? This is a good sign. If you want to keep on chanting then this is a good symptom.

kirtaniyah sada harih

One should chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.

Someone said that the katha and chanting should keep on going. For 7 days, the katha program was going on in Pune. Some devotees are missing katha. Panchali mataji was saying that the temple looks empty without the katha.

I am sure Bhagavat katha must be going on in the temples. Take advantage of that. Keep on hearing katha. You can also do manan (contemplate) on what you heard. Which katha attracted your mind? Remember that. This is called manan. We keep on repeating the importance of manan. Manan means continue sravana. It’s remembering what we have heard. This is called reflecting or contemplating. By this, those tattvas and siddhantas (principles) will get fixed in your mind and they will become your wealth.

I also said during this katha that if you are reading or hearing Gita, Bhagavat or Caitanya-caritamrta you must start thinking that about sharing this with your friends or counselees, like the mitra sanga is going on in Mauritius. Or you must do

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘krsna’-upadeśa

on the weekend. If you hear with such intention, appreciating how sweet these things are then those readings will easily be remembered and retained by you. You will get a better memory, power to remember. You can preserve those kathas and incidents.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘krsna’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa

Translation
Instruct everyone to follow the orders of the Lord Śrī Krsna as they are given in Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land.(CC Madhya-lila 7.128)

I also said yesterday that many devotees were appreciating and thanking me for Gaur Bhagavat Katha. The Lord and I want that people should thank you. Thus, you should do such an endeavour which will please other devotees. By doing this Krishna consciousness will spread.

New Gaurabhdha has begun with Gaur Purnima. This is the 535th year of Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s appearance. Happy New Year to you! This is New Year for Gaudiya Vaisnavas. For Christians, it is Christabhdha. For Gaudiyas, it is Gaurabhdha. You may take some personal or national resolutions for devotees, friends, counselees, temple or community as per your post, field. You may have some new plans. New doesn’t mean mental speculation. Those thoughts only which are eternal or true and which haven’t been presented yet and we have realised may be after hearing Gaur Purnima katha or hearing something.

Make new resolutions for the New Year like if you have understood something then you will share with others, attentive chanting, complete chanting in early morning, giving up laziness, etc.

There can be family istagostis. You can gather your family and discuss pros and cons of what to do and don’t. This is also called Simhavalokan. Simha means Lion and avalokan means to overview. Lion, as king of the forest, while roaming in the forest, sees and looks around, goes back, thinks and reviews what has been done and needs to be done then goes ahead. We can’t share everything as we are not lions. Other animals don’t think or review their actions and just keep on jumping up and down, round and round. They just keep acting. Their life itself is crisis management. They do not go for planning.

While planning we have to think of obstacles we may face while doing something and then finding a solution to that obstacle in advance. This is called proactivity, not reactivity. We have to think what challenges we may face while executing our plans and plan how to get out of that challenge. This is called proper planning. This is just a hint and guidelines. From next year or Gaurabhdha, what will you do from a sadhana or preaching point of view, family planning or job. How can you make your job convenient for sadhana? You might be having night shift or double shift. Today youngsters keep on working hard like donkeys. They are determined to earn more and enjoy more. You have to introspect whether you are not going mad for money or you are following simple living and high thinking.

Nowadays, people preach ‘Just Do it’ and do not think. We don’t have to work like worldly people. Think on this. A whole year has been spent. Think of the mistakes of the past year and how can they be improved. Develop vision, make a list of obstacles, make strategies to remove obstacles, look out for resources like money, time, manpower, assistance. Time is a big resource. Find out how to utilise time and money. Then drawing up a timeline or time management is there. It’s an universal formula. These are 5 steps in planning. Vision, obstacles, strategy, resources-human or capital and timeline.

Wish you a Successful and Happy New Year.

Hare Krishna !

9th March 2020

Lord is Ajanma

Gaura Purnima Mahotsava ki jai

Happy New Year will begin from tomorrow.

Today is the happy birthday of Gauranga Mahaprabhu. There is a lot of difference be-tween our birthday and the birthday of the Lord. In fact Mahaprabhu does have a birth-day.

Our birthday means our body is born. When we take birth our body takes birth. Our soul never takes birth. When we ask how old are you? That means how old is your body? That’s related to our body. I am 5 years old. I am 20 years old. I am 50 years and I am a 70 year old man.

It’s said sri krsna caitanya sarira dhari

He does have a body. His soul is His body. There is no difference between His body and His soul. He is ajanma. He does not take birth like we take birth and our body is born. Before taking birth Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was also there. Caitanya Mahaprabhu ap-pears on this day in His manifest or prakat lila.

There are many forms (svarupa) of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

His rupa is one of His form or svarupa. He appeared in the evening at moon rise. I was saying in Gaura katha that’s going on that before the Lord’s appearance, during the day He appeared in the form of His name. That’s also one form of the appearance of the Lord. This is a mystery. When the Lord appears as His own form it’s very easy to un-derstand that the Lord has taken birth. But when Lord appears in the form of the maha-mantra,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

kali kale nama rupe krsna avatar

This is the nama-rupa of the Lord and the other form we can see with our eyes. We can only have a realization of the holy name when we chant the holy name. That time we can meet the Lord. It’s the understanding that from the name comes form. Before the form is the name of the Lord.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

When we chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and hear, listen and meditate (mananam) on the holy name, then we can realize the presence of Sri Krsna Caitanya. I was think-ing we can’t take the Deity of the temple and move all over, we can just have darsana and move ahead. But we can take the Lord’s name with us and walk and lie down. Dur-ing old age it’s very difficult to climb the steps of the temple like we have in Noida and then there is darsana. Who will climb? Nowadays people have knee problems. We can carry the holy name anywhere and it will always be with us wherever we are. As I said, it’s the form of the Lord. The Lord’s Deity form is not only His form, but His holy name is also His form.

jiv jago, jiv jago, gauracanda bole
kota nidra jao maya-pisacira kole

Lord Gauranga is calling, “Wake up, sleeping souls! Wake up, sleeping souls! How long will you sleep in the lap of the witch called Maya?

bhajibo boliya ese samsara-bhitare
bhuliya rohile tumi avidyara bhare

When you were in your mother’s womb and were distressed that time you had prayed to Me, ‘Oh Lord, please help me, please remove me from here. I will worship You I promise.’ So the Lord helped you to come out from the sufferings of the womb. But your mother, father and your friends brain washed you that you forgot your promise.

tomare loite ami hoinu avatara
ami bina bandhu ara ke ache tomara

For you I have taken avatar but you have forgotten so to remind you I am taking birth on Gaura Purnima.
Other than Myself you have no friend in this world. Do you have any friend like Gau-ranga Mahaprabhu? We shake our heads and say yes, but we do not realize this fact. We have made many friends.

dehapatya-kalatradisv
atma-sainyesv asatsv api [SB 2.1.4]

We have so much faith in our body, children and wife. We feel they will help us in need, but Sukadeva Goswami says it’s asatsena. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is saying, “I have tak-en this avatar for you. I have brought harinama medicine for you.” Caitanya Mahaprab-hu has prescribed this medicine for us. “You are not well so take this medicine. Which is that medicine?

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Even if you understand this much it’s enough to move out of this material world. I have filled this sagar in gagar for you meaning I have filled an ocean in a pot for you.

Today is day of chanting and praying to the Lord. It’s also a fast so you can have the feast of harinama. Our aim to meet the Lord. I wish you all a happy Gaura Purnima.

Gauranga Gauranga.

8th March 2020

The Real Meaning of a Blessing

Hare Krishna.

We are preparing for Gaura Purnima which we are going to celebrate tomorrow. ISKCON Thane is celebrating Gaura Purnima Festival today as it is Sunday. Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaj is in Dubai. Every member of ISKCON is getting ready for Gaura Purnima. Parikrama has also ended and devotees are returning to their places and temples. Few are saying that we have taken our bodies to Greater Noida, but as we are getting to hear Gaura Katha we are feeling that we are in Mayapur. Devotees are saying that they like the Katha. You like Katha means you like Gauranga. Katha and Lila itself represent Gauranga. If you like the holy name then you like Gauranga. Loving is better than liking. May you all love Katha! Some devotees keep on writing in chat. Maharaja, please bless me!

Subalaxmi Mataji from Ahmedabad is asking a blessing on the occasion of her 28th Marriage Anniversary. I was thinking that if we are chanting with you and making you hear Katha of Gauranga Mahaprabhu then isn’t it a blessing. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is also asking for a blessing in Śikṣāṣṭaka.

na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ
kavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye
mama janmani janmanīśvare
bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi

“O Almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy beautiful women. Nor do I want any number of followers. What I want only is the causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth.” [Cc. Antya 20.29, Śikṣāṣṭaka 4]

Caitanya Mahaprabhu is teaching us that we don’t ask for the blessing of happiness, wealth in-home and comfort. All of these are Bhukti items. He says that I’m ready to take birth again. He just wants to remain the servant of the Lord.This is a blessing. Learn to ask for blessings. We are new in this field of religion and Caitanya Mahaprabhu is teaching us what kind of blessings we should ask for.

anarpita-charim chirat karunayavatirnah kalau
samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam sva-bhakti-shriyam
harih purata-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandipitaha
sada hridaya-kandare sphuratu vah shacinandanaha

Translation:
“May that Lord, who is known as the son of Srimati Sacidevi, be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold. He has appeared in the age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant spiritual knowledge of the mellow taste of His service.” [Cc. Adi, 1.4.]

Krsna Das Kaviraj writes in his mangalacarana at the start of Caitanya-caritamrita that may you get darsana of Sacinandan where the soul lives in a cave of the heart. May all of us get blessed by the Lord!

All this is possible by the prayers of Srila Advaita Acarya. He asked the Lord to appear on earth and the Lord responded. On behalf of all Advaita Acarya called the Lord. His appearance is a grand blessing for the whole creation and He is manifesting His mercy by making this forest-like world an auspicious place.

ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaḿ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaḿ

Translation:
Glory to the sri-krsna-sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. [ Ceto Darpana Marjanam verse 1]

He is extinguishing a forest fire with the holy names. Go for real gold! Gauranga!
I am breaking the news from Amravati. Every dog has its day. Today is woman’s day. There is also father’s day, mother’s day and so on. Today ISKCON Amravati is celebrating Women’s Padayatra. We will get reports from them. Prasanta Mataji from Vrindavan is also about to reach Amravati to celebrate the Padayatra.

Hari Hari

7th March 2020

Goloka is our final destination

Hare Krishna.

gaurangera sangi-gane nitya-siddha kari mane
se yaya vrajendra-suta-pasa
sri-gauda-mandala-bhumi yeba jane chintamani
tara haya vraja-bhume vasa

Translation:
One who considers Sri Gauranga’s associates to be eternally liberated reaches Krsna. One who always thinks about the holy land of Gauda resides in the land of Vraja. [ Song by Narottam Das Thakur, Verse 3]

Those who have this realization that the associates of Caitanya Mahaprabhu are Nitya Siddha and they take inspiration from their lives and teachings, such people will reach Krsna. This is the Sruti phala. Yesterday’s discussion was presented from Gaura Ganodesa Dipika by Kavi Karnapura who is the son of Sivananda Sena. He reveals the identity of Gaur Parsadas (associates of the Lord). There is also talk of associates of the Lord in Christianity.

Just like one is Jesus Christ, the son of the Lord. Unfortunately, people believe him be the Lord. In Hinduism, such gods wander in the streets. Today’s swami is becoming to-morrow’s Narayana. There were such roaming in Pune and other cities. Jesus Christ is recognised as the son of the Lord. He was the true devotee of the Lord. Jesus Christ was just one son of Lord.

But look at Gaudiya Vaisnavism. There are so many sons and daughters of the Lord. It’s not a question of ours and theirs. Jesus Christ is also ours. He is the son of the Lord. We can take inspiration from him. The whole world can take inspiration from the associates of the Lord. In terms of numbers, Christianity has very few Saints from which they can learn the teachings and take inspiration to do Bhakti. But our parampara has so many associates of the Lord. We can understand a lot regarding devotional service from Gaura Parsadas. Even if you say in terms of quality, they are the topmost devo-tees. They can’t be compared to Jesus Christ or others. They were devotees of Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Raga Marga. They were given Madhurya or Srinagar Rasa by Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In Hinduism, Christianism, Islam or Buddhism, the problem is that they don’t understand that they are nitya -siddha.

kṛṣṇa-bhakta–niṣkāma, ataeva ‘śānta’
bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī–sakali ‘aśānta’

Translation:
Because a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is desireless, he is peaceful. Fruitive workers desire material enjoyment, jñānīs desire liberation, and yogīs desire material opulence; there-fore they are all lusty and cannot be peaceful.[ CC Madhya 19.149]

Three kinds of people are found in this world – bhukti-kami, mukti-kami and siddhi-kami. They are found to be restless. But the devotees of Krsna are always peaceful.

Bhukti-kami worship demigods and keep on doing sacrifices. They are very large in number. Some of them might go to Heaven. Many people would be going to hell be-cause Kama, Krodha , lobha have been said to be the gates to hell. Amongst those who are in the mode of goodness will go to the planets of demigods. I’m telling you that the number of people going to Vaikuntha is very less. When a person dies people write on his photo frame that he is a swarga vasi.

But heaven also is itself a first-class prison. Mukti-kami means Advaita vada. They be-lieve that the Lord doesn’t have any form. They are not only Hindus, but also Muslims and Christians who are Mayavadis. In truth, they want to become Supreme. They want to merge in the Lord. They don’t want to do anything after liberation.

mayavadi-bhasya sunile haya sarva-nasa

Translation:
Anyone who follows the principles of Mayavada philosophy is certainly doomed. Such a fool needs to be reformed by punishment. [CC Madhya 6.169]

They don’t go to Vaikuntha or Goloka. There is no question of nityalila pravishtha. When we become sadhana siddha, nitya siddha then we can enter in eternal pastimes of Lord. This is a very high level thought. There are very few who try this.

manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu
kaścid yatati siddhaye
yatatām api siddhānāṁ
kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ

Translation:
Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.[ BG 7.3]

We need to understand the Lord as He is. There are many things to know. Bhukti kami are known as dharmic. They also follow dharma. But they don’t have any relationship with Vaikuntha. They don’t even know about Vaikuntha. Heaven is the final destination for such people. Few want to go to heaven and few want to become Supreme or some keep on hanging in between. Such who enter spiritual planets don’t meet the Lord. They don’t do bhakti. They want to merge their existence in the Lord.

bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
jñānavān māṁ prapadyate
vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti
sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ

Translation:
After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare. [BG 7.19]

He did this and that and after many births, he got to realize that Vasudeva is all in all. Others don’t understand Vasudeva. Vaisnavas understand Vasudeva or Visnu and they take His shelter, worship Him and go to Vaikuntha.

Such sadhakas keep themselves engaged in sadhana. Those who worship Visnu are called Vaisnavas and those who worship Krsna are called Karsnas and worshippers of Radha are called Gaudiya Vaisnavas. The specialty of Gaudiya Vaisnavas is that they worship Radha.

aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam
ramya kacid upasana vraja-vadhu-vargena va kalpita
srimad bhagavatam pramanam amalam prema pum-artho mahan
sri-caitanya mahaprabhor matam idam tatradarah na parah

Translation:
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is wor-shipped along with His transcendental abode Vrndavana. The most pleasing form of worship for the Lord is that which was performed by the gopis of Vrndavana. Srimad Bhagavatam is the spotless authority on everything and pure love of Godhead is the ul-timate goal of life for all men. These statements, for which we have the highest regard, are the opinion of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. [Caitanya-matta-manjusa by Srila Viswa-natha Cakravarti Thakura]

A Gaudiya Vaisnava doesn’t go to heaven, or merge in brahmajyoti or go to Vaikuntha. They go to Goloka.

Before Gaudiya Vaisnavas, there was first Acarya Madhavendra Puri. That’s why devo-tees go to Santipur in 30-40 buses. Madhavendra Puri went to Santipur and gave initia-tion to Advait Acarya. Today is the disappearance day of Madhavendra puri. Those who go to Santipur and honour prasada there get Krsna Prema. Those who are in Mayapur are surely requested to go to Santipur. Today is his disappearance day and he entered the eternal pastimes of the Lord. If he wouldn’t have been there then there wouldn’t have been Isvara Puri.

Discuss the glories of Madhavendra Puri and pray that we also may become eternal as-sociates of the Lord at the end of this life.

Thank you
Madhavendra Puri ki Jai!

6th March 2020

Time is Krsna

Hare Krishna

We are beginning the japa talk early and ending early.

I don’t know how many of you are listening to Gaura Bhagavat katha from 8 am to 9.30am. In the evening, it takes place between 6 to 9pm.

I am very busy. Telecast is happening on Youtube and Facebook. This japa talk and then morning and evening sessions are keeping me engaged. Preparing a presentation of what to say and then to present it. This way I am engaged 24 hours. I also have my sadhana besides the japa talk. I chant my extra rounds too. Also, communication, correspondence, meeting devotees, answering their questions and giving comment is also there. In this way, by the Lord’s mercy time is going on. Srila Haridas Thakur has said, ‘Either you do anything or not, Time will go on.’ Time and tide waits for none. Time keeps on progressing. Whether you are sleeping or chanting the holy name, time is going on. It’s good that we remain with time. Stay on time and with time. Also, we should make the right use of time as time is also the Lord. The Lord has said, ‘Kalosmi’. Kala means time. If we abuse time, then the Lord will appear as kala or death.

akala mrityu haranam
sarva vyadhi vinashanam
vishnu paadodakam pitva
Shirsha dhaara-yaamyaham

Lord can appear in two forms. As the form of death since He is the superintendent of death. On behalf of the Lord, Yamaraja does the duty or Lord Himself comes. It depends on how we utilise the time. (Charan’amrit Mantra)

vinash kale vipreet buddhi

Translation:
When faced with destruction, our minds often become abnormal.

Srila Prabhupada would say, ‘Stay busy 24 hours a day in devotional service of the Lord.’ We need to plan out our day. We call it time management. Isn’t time valuable? Few people say time is money. They say that if you don’t utilise your time in earning money, then you are wasting your life. For some people time is money. They relate time with money. But those who are Krishna Conscious or want to be Krishna Conscious, they understand time is Krsna. Some think that time is money and Hare Krishna devotees or sadacaris think that time is Krsna and It should be engaged in earning Krsna or the wealth of Krsna. Like when we chant, we earn Krsna.

golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-sankirtana

Translation
The treasure of divine love in Goloka Vrindavana has descended as the congregational chanting of Lord Hari’s holy names. (Verse 2, Hari Hari Bifale)

We start depositing this treasure early in the morning compared to those money makers, who start earning from 10 or 11 am. Hare Krishna people are very smart. Their earnings begin early in the morning like at 4 o’clock.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

This way, They start earning immediately. One’s time is money and another’s time is Krsna. Understand this. When we go away from home and develop renunciation, then we get knowledge or wisdom.

Utilise time in the right way. It’s fine to earn money But it can be purusārtha only if it is used for dharma. There are 4 purusārthas:
1. Dharma (righteousness)
2. Artha (prosperity)
3. Kama (pleasure)
4. Moksha (liberation).
If one utilises earned wealth for dharma, it is purusārtha then it’s fine. Then you have not wasted your time. But if someone utilises earned wealth for sense gratification or pleasure, then it is a waste of time.

hari hari! bifale janama gonainu
manushya-janama paiya, radha-krishna na bhajiya,
janiya suniya visha khainu

Translation
O Lord Hari, I have spent my life uselessly. Having obtained a human birth and having not worshiped Radha and Krishna, I have knowingly drunk poison. (Verse 1, Hari Hari Bifale)

If one gets the human form of life and do not become devotees of Radha Krsna and misuse the wealth for shopping and fulfilling lusty desires, then it’s wrong.

Think about this. This is food for thought. Keep chanting and make others chant. Hear Gaura Bhagavat Katha and distribute books.

Earn wealth. We are distributing Caitanya-caritamrta sets these days. Utilise earned wealth to purchase Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavatam, Caitanya-caritamrta. Rightly use your wealth and go on yatra or a spiritual retreat. Use it to purchase vegetables and offer that to the Lord and honour prasada. If we utilise earned wealth for seeing movies, eating meat, then we are wasting our life, time and money. This is going on everywhere. They are not just wasting some time or a few minutes or a few hours or a few days but their whole lifetime from beginning to finish. Come to the senses.

jiva jago, jiva jago, gauracanda bole
kota nidra jao maya-pisacira kole

Translation
Lord Gauranga is calling, “Wake up, sleeping souls! Wake up, sleeping souls! How long will you sleep in the lap of the witch called maya? (Verse1, Jiva Jago, Jiva Jago)

Gauracandra is calling us as Gaura Purnima is approaching. How long are you going to sit in the lap of a witch named Maya? Wake up! This human form of life is a blessing and it’s very rare. Understand and realize this and use every moment of your life in devotional service of the Lord and also making others devotees which include family members also. Charity begins at home. It can be neighbours, friends, bosses or servants.

yāre dekho tare kaho, ‘krsna’ upadesa

Translation
Instruct Everyone to follow the orders of the Lord Srī Krsna. (CC Madhya-lila 7.128)

āmāra ājñāya guru haña tāra’ ei deśa

Translation
One should become a guru and spread Krishna Consciousness all over the world, simply by preaching the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā. (CC Madhya 7.128)

Ok… I will leave you alone. I have to get ready.

Gaura prema nande hari haribol!

5th March 2020

SADHANA – A TASTY SANDWICH!

Hare Krishna !
Regarding Navadvipa Dhama, today is the last day of Navadvipa-mandala Parikrama. There are 7 different kirtana parties on Parikrama. Today they will return to Mayapur Chandrodaya Temple. Before that, they will gather at Yogapitha and the 10,000 devotees will perform kirtana together in a maha-sankirtana. They will meet and embrace each other.

vancha-kalpatarubhyash cha
kripa-sindhubhya eva cha
patitanam pavanebhyo
vaishnavebhyo namo namaha

They will be offering obeisances. There will be a festival of reunion of Parikrama devotees and also a festival of kirtana mela just like Kumbha-mela.

Navadvipa is famous for kirtana. Caitanya Mahaprabhu always performs kirtana in Navadvipa. kirtaniyah sada harih. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is constantly chanting the holy name of the Lord.

siksharthamekah purushah puranah

To teach and inspire the whole world, Caitanya Mahaprabhu always performs kirtana and He is performing kirtana today also.

adhyapi ha lila kare gaurara, kon kon bhagyawan

Today Caitanya Mahaprabhu is also performing kirtana and dancing. There is a possibility that Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s kirtana party and the Navadvipa-mandala Parikrama party would have combined together. I hope the Parikrama party has experienced that Gauranga Mahaprabhu has come. Parikrama devotees are also giving darsana on the zoom conference.

We could have made this japa talk available to the Parikrama devotees, but couldn’t.

This is the time of kirtana of Caitanya Mahaprabhu as we hear in:

Udilo aruna pūraba-bhāge,
dwija-mani gorā amani jāge,
bhakata-samūha loiyā sāthe,
gelā nagara-brāje

Translation:
When the rising sun appeared in the East, the jewel of the twice-born, Lord Gaurasundara, awakened, and taking His devotees with Him. He went all over the countryside, towns and villages. (Verse 1, Udilo Aruna, Arunodaya kirtana song)

Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is best among the brahmanas, goes out for kirtana as the sun rises. We need to realise this. Wherever kirtana goes on, the Lord appears there. His party keeps on chanting and His eternal pastimes keeps on going.

Lord has also said:

naham vasami vaikunthe yoginam hridaye na cha
mad-bhakta yatra gayanti tatra tishthami narada

Translation:
Neither do I reside in Vaikuntha nor in the hearts of the Yogis, but I dwell where my devotees sing my name, O Narada.(Conversation between Lord Visnu and Narada Muni)

Wherever Gauranga’s devotees sing His glories, all of you are Gauranga devotees, at all such places, the Lord resides. When we chant then we should understand that the Lord is with us. The goal of chanting is to get the association of the Lord. Yoga means when we, bewildered humans, reestablish our lost connection with the Lord.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

We will experience intimate association with the Lord when we chant or hear with this mood.

mac-cittā mad-gata-prāna
bodhayantah parasparam
kathayantaś ca mām nityam
tusyanti ca ramanti ca

Translation:
The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about me.( BG. 10.9)

This is the identity of a devotee. We might not be like that or durdaivam idrisham ihajani nanuragaha (Verse 2, Siksastakam) we might not be having that attraction for the Lord’s holy name.

The Lord said, “One whose intelligence and life is focussed on Me, and They keep on discussing about Me and enlightening each other, They get satisfied by doing so.”

dadati pratigrhnati
guhyam akhyati prcchati
bhunkte bhojayate caiva
sad-vidham priti-laksanam

Translation:
Offering gifts in charity, accepting charitable gifts, revealing one’s mind in confidence, inquiring confidentially, accepting prasadam and offering prasadam are the six symptoms of love shared by one devotee and another. (Upadesamrta,4)

Such souls get satisfied and become calm.

sa vai pumsām paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihatā
yayātmā suprasīdati

Translation:
The supreme occupation (dharma) for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendental Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted in order to completely satisfy the self. (SB. 1.2.6)

While practicing devotional service, if one doesn’t have any ulterior motive (mukti, bhukti and siddhi i.e. salvation, dedication and enlightenment) and interruption, then from such devotional service, our soul experiences bliss. Lord is saying this in the 10th chapter of Bhagavad-Gita also. Devotees get absorbed in katha, kirtana, Nabadvipa-mandala Parikrama, morning evening program, services, taking prasadam or yāre dekho tare kaho ‘krsna’ upadeśa. (CC Madhya 7.128)

Some devotee was pointing this out. That morning and evening program is like a sandwich. Just like we have 2 slices of bread and there is butter, tomato, cheese, e.t.c. in between 2 slices of bread. In the same way, there is a morning and evening program, Deity worship and lots of services in between. This combination of the morning and evening sadhana with services in between is just like a tasty sandwich. Devotees relish in this way. Don’t you like this kind of sandwich? This complete sandwich is similar to complete life which is full of bliss.

We will stop now. There are 465 participants. If possible, please see if you can hear Gaura katha in morning 8 am and evening 6 to 9 pm in YouTube and Facebook.

Gaura premanande Hari Haribol!

04 March 2020

Sarvatra prachara haibe mora nama

Today we have participants from 460 places. On one day in how many places chanting will take place? It is because of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma
sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma

Translation
In every town and village, the chanting of My name will be heard. [Caitanya Bhagvat]

There will come a time when chanting will be taking place in all the places of the world. This is the prediction for this world. This was started 500 years ago. The Golden period started with the appearance of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and it will last for 10000 years.

My name doesn’t mean My name, but it means the names of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. But we chant Hare Krishna. Lord Caitanya said that His name will spread all over the world then how this is possible?

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya, rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya

Translation
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, being a combination of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā, is non different from Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa combined. [Caitanya Bhagvat]

He is not only Krsna, but He is Radha also. These are names of Radha and Krsna and Ra-dha’s name is first in that.

Harinama has reached millions of places . This seems to be a little impossible. How is this possible in the Middle East, China where there is Atheism and Communism? The answer to that is that Srila Prabhupada went to a foreign county in 1965 as instructed by his spiritual master. Who would have believed it if in 1964 or ’65 someone have said that in the next 40-50 years this Harinama will reach various towns and villages. In 2020 there will be a Gaura Purnima festival and there will be 10000 devotees on Parikrama. Many devotees will chant on the zoom conference. There will be Ratha-yatra not only in New York, but many other places. All these things are happening. As the zoom conference is going on, devotees are walking on Parikrama and there are 700 Ratha-yatras. So many books are be-ing distributed. All such people will follow four regulative principles and Chinese people will also eat prasada. If only all such news would have been told to you in 1964 before Srila Prabhupada left for overseas, then would you have believed it ?

What if we were told a few years back that in future on mataji from Noida will go to Ma-yapur and participate in Parikrama. Would you have believed it? When we go for preach-ing many youths say that they will join this Krishna Consciousness movement once they get old. But the Lord is attracting youths only and they have a bead bag in their hand. Ratha-yatra will take place in New York and how uncivilised the people of New York were? They were saying that the Lord is impersonal and so on. But now worship of Radha Krsna is taking place over there. Some Parikrama devotees are also attending zoom con-ference and hearing the japa talk.

When Srila Prabhupada reached New York and was preaching over there, then a few peo-ple would gather around him and ask to show the image of Krsna as God. They would en-quire about the girl standing next to Krsna. They did not know about Radha Krsna and Si-ta Rama. They were so degraded that they were eating cow flesh, but after worshipping Radha Krsna, cow eaters have become cow protectors. Cow worshipping is taking place. Instead of drinking cow blood, now they are drinking cow urine.

This all seems to be beyond our imagination. But by the mercy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu all these things are going on. So we have firm faith that in every village and town Harina-ma will spread out as the Lord earlier predicted. Harinama will spread in all towns and vil-lages and people will come from various places to Mayapur.

Nama se Dhama tak

Translation
Name takes us to the Lord’s abode.

We are transported back to Godhead and the Lord in the form of the holy name takes us back. Has it all come true? Yes, because it is the prediction of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The impossible is already made possible. Impossible is a word in a fool’s dictionary. Therefore the Lord is making some prediction and He only make everything possible.

We just gave a seminar at Mayapur ILS and the topic was the Bright Future of ISKCON and it was guaranteed. This is possible because it is the Lord’s prediction and it will sure-ly happen. This is the golden period. We need to take benefit of it. We need to jump in the street of Krishna Consciousness or Bhakti.

jyot se jyot jaalatey chalo
prem ki ganga bahatey chalo

Light many lamps with the lamps you have and let this love of Ganga flow everywhere.

Yesterday the heart surgery of Yasomatinandan Prabhu took place. Yesterday we had asked you to chant and pray so by your prayers the Lord has made his operation success-ful.

Today is the first day of Gaura Bhagavat Katha. You can follow on ISCKON Pune.com , Facebook, YouTube. Many devotees are coming to Pune. Jay Panchali Mataji is reporting that her home is filled with guests. Many keep on doing something and don’t leave their homes. They don’t leave their comfort zone. There will be Katha in the morning and even-ing. Japa Zoom sessions will continue to take place. Instead of Japa talk Katha will take place at 8:00 AM. Prepare your consciousness to welcome Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the courtyard of your heart.

Gaur Premanande
Hari Haribol

03rd March 2020

Memories of Mayapur Dhama

Hare Krishna. Today there are 441 participants. We spent a lot of days in Mayapur and during japa time, we were making a local call. We were residing in the same place where the Lord resides. It is the Lord’s abode. That abode where only dhamvasis (residents or pil-grims) can live. Gauranga Mahaprabhu is the resident of Navadvipa Dhama. Not only Gau-ranga Mahaprabhu, but Lord Nityananda, Sri Advaita Acarya, Sri Gadadhara, Srivasa are also there.

panca-tattvatmakam krishnam bhakta-rupa-svarupakam
bhaktavataram bhaktakhyam namami bhakta-saktikam

Translation:
I offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, Krsna, who is non different from His fea-tures as a devotee, devotional incarnation, manifestation, pure devotee, and devotional energy.

Radha Madhava and Ashthasakhis were there. Because Vrndavana and Navadvipa are non different from each other, Gaura Nityananda is also there. Parikrama is still going on in Navadvipa Dhama. This is what I am missing. Some devotees of the zoom conference are present in the Parikrama. We spent a lot of days in the Dhama and we had many expe-riences. We can have these experiences as wealth. We had a local call there. Now we’re in Pune and doing Japa, but the memories of Navadvipa Dhama are affecting me. Like the darsana of Navadvipa Dhama. I stayed near the Lord’s place. I worshiped Sri Sri Radha Madhava with Ashtasakhis, sometimes Sri Pancatattva and sometimes Sri Prahlada Narasimha. There was a lot of kirtana in the Kirtana Mela. All of you must have seen the Kirtana Mela. There was sravanam, kirtanam and smaranam.

Then there was Sravan Utsava and I have memories from there. It is not possible to re-member (smaranam) the Lord without kirtana. First is hearing ( srvanam) then chanting the glories of the Lord (kirtanam) and then remembering the Lord (visnu smaranam). But Kirtana also requires smaranam ( remembering the Lord).

Many rituals were made after Sravan Utasava. The memories are still fresh. Whatever we heard. Hindi Bhagavatam classes were held there. Initially only Bengali classes were held, but then they started English Bhagavatam classes also and then further classes in Russian also. I am telling you all the important things which happened there.

There was ILS( ISKCON LEADERSHIP SANGHA). 1000 -1500 preachers and managers were assembled. Many senior leaders presented their seminars including me. I gave a presentation on “The bright future of ISKCON”. We were preparing for the seminar and then I gave the presentation. Whenever we prepare for the seminar and give presentation, we get refined. This is going on for so many years and this year it was ILS and then Navad-vipa-mandala Parikrama. We did Parikrama also. It was a walking Parikrama. Thirty years ago, we were fortunate to get this Padayatra, walking Parikrama. This was the 30th Anni-versary of Navadvipa-mandala Parikrama. It is still going on. I left it in between.

There was a time when only we used to do Parikrama. But gradually everyone started or-ganising Parikrama. The devotees of Bengal and then Russian devotees also started and called it ” Russian Parikrama”. Hindi people also started their Parikrama 5-6 years ago. This year because it is 30th Anniversary, Parikrama will be completed exclusively for the devotees of South India.

Bengali devotees and devotees from Orissa are doing Parikrama. Different Parikramas are going on together. 3 Parikramas are held only by Hindi people. In total, there are 7 groups of devotees doing Navadvipa-mandala Parikrama together. One group is in Simantadvipa while the other is in Godruma dvipa. Third party in Madhya dvipa, fourth in Kola dvipa, fifth in Ritu dvipa, sixth in Jahnudvipa, seventh in Rudradvipa. It is a beautiful scene. Some can have darsana of this Universal form together. We can have door darsana.

7 parties together in different dvipas are doing Parikrama. It’s very brightening. You are not leaving your homes. But some devotees who left their homes are laughing from Parikrama. Devotees don’t want to leave the comfort zone of their home. More than 10,000 devotees came for Parikrama. But most of the people of this world didn’t come for Parikrama. Not from Solapur also. They’re laughing. They didn’t come that’s why laughing. Everyone should come in Navadvipa-mandala Parikrama or Vraja-mandala Parikrama. For the last 16 years, Parikrama in Jagannatha Puri is also started. Bhakti Purushottama Maharaja declared it’ll be 16th Parikrama in Jagannathaq Puri. This year they’re expecting 16,000 devotees in Jagannatha Puri Parikrama. Try to join the Jagannatha Puri Parikrama which is always held just after Kartik month. In Mayapur darsana of the Lord, aartis, kirtana, kirtana mela, Bhagavad classes, Srvana Utsava, ISKCON ILS and Navadvipa-mandala Parikrama are held. Finally, there’ll be Gaur Purnima on 9 March.

Now we’re in Pune. On the day of Gaur Purnima Gauranga Mahaprabhu will appear. We are preparing to bring the mood that the Lord is going to appear soon. Like Krsna, demi-gods appeared before Gauranga Mahaprabhu was going to appear. They were waiting for Mahaprabhu’s appearance. Demigods were praying to the Lord. In the same way, all IS-KCON temples are preparing for Gauranga Mahaprabhu’s appearance. This year we’re pre-paring for Gaur Purnima in Pune. We’ve organised Gaur Bhagavad classes.

śraddhāvān jan he, śraddhāvān jan he

O faithful people, O faithful people, Please come!

Srila Bhaktivinoda declares

nadiya-godrume nityananda mahajana
patiyache nama-hatta jibera karana
(śraddhāvān jan he, śraddhāvān jan he)

Translation:
In Nadiya Godruma the great soul Lord Nityananda has opened a marketplace to sell the holy name to the conditioned souls.O faithful people please come and take advantage of it.

In the same way, we can also say that in ISKCON Pune Radha Vrndavancandra ISKCON NVCC Pune has organised Gaur Bhagavad Katha which is started already. All the prepara-tions are made to welcome all the people, guests and devotees. Everyone come in large numbers and hear Gaur Bhagavad katha. All of you are welcome. I, the speaker of Bhaga-vad katha, am inviting all of you for this on behalf of this Bhagavad Katha committee. Again, of course if you’re not able to come for Katha then sit into your comfort zone and at least hear Bhagavad katha on Facebook or any other social media. So that you can have darsana and sravan of Bhagavad katha.

Nitya Sakhi Mataji from Greater Noida has organised padayatra or Nama Sankirtana for more than 100 children. This is a part of Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s programme. By doing this service, you made Caitanya Mahaprabhu, all the acrayas happy and I am also very happy to hear this.

I am praying to all of you, to pray that today my god brother Sriman Yasomatinandana Prabhu has open heart surgery. We should pray together for him so that he can have a suc-cessful surgery. He is the zonal secretary of all the Gujarat temples. He is a very dear dis-ciple of Srila Prabhupada and one of my dear godbrothers. We can chant together for him once. This chanting is the only prayers we can do. Please join me, chant out loud, cry and pray.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

So we’ll meet soon again.

Hare Krishna!

जप चर्चा
02 मार्च 2020
पुणे के रास्ते से
रिकॉडेड टॉक

आज हमारे साथ 487 स्थानों से भक्त जप कर रहे हैं जिनकी संख्या लगभग 1000 है | यह हमारे जप करने का पूर्वाभ्यास होता है कि प्रत्येक सुबह जब हम जप करते हैं तो उसकी तैयारी हमें पिछले दिन करनी होती है क्योंकि पिछले दिन का जो हमारा जीवन रहता है जो भी हम करते हैं उससे हमारा जप काफी प्रभावित रहता है | तो मैं ये बताना चाहता हूँ कि आज सुबह जप करने से पूर्व हमने कैसे तैयारी की है |

कल हम तुकाराम महाराज के देहू गांव गए थे, वहां जाकर हम तुकाराम महाराज से संबंधित विभिन्न स्थानों का भ्रमण किया, दर्शन किया, तुकाराम महाराज के विषय में सुना, तुकाराम महाराज के विषय में, उन स्थानों के विषय में, उन स्थानों में घटित लीलाओं के विषय में अधिक से अधिक सुना | इस प्रकार आज सुबह के जप के लिए ध्यान कल की देहु यात्रा से प्राप्त हुआ |

निश्चित रूप से यह भगवान की व्यवस्था है कि भगवान अपने शुद्ध भक्तों को इस संसार में भेजते हैं और जिस प्रकार से भगवान के शुद्ध भक्त व्यवहार करते है, आचरण करते है, खाते है, सोते है, वह वास्तव में अन्य जीव आत्माओं के अनुकरण करने के लिए एक उदाहरण होता है |

कई बार हमारे मन में शंका आती है कि क्या वैकुंठ है, वह कौन सा स्थान है जहां पर भगवान रहते है | तो कल जब हम देहु में उस स्थान पर गए जहां से तुकाराम महाराज सशरीर बैकुंठ धाम गए थे | तुकाराम महाराज ने 4000 अभंग अपने जीवन काल में लिखें| उसमें से आखरी अभंग उन्होंने तब गाया जब वह साक्षात गरुड़ के ऊपर आरुढ थे, जब बैठ गए थे तब उन्होंने अपना आखिरी अभंग गाया

आम्ही जातो आमच्या गावा, आमच्या राम राम ध्यावा

इसका अर्थ है कि मैं अपने गांव जा रहा हूँ और आप सब को मेरा आखरी राम राम, आप कृपया इसे स्वीकार कीजिये और इस प्रकार से सब के देखते देखते वह बैकुंठ यान में बैठे और वह बैकुंठ यान वहां से जाने लगा तो कुछ गांव वालों ने सोचा इनका गांव तो यही है निश्चित रूप से यह कुछ आकाश में भ्रमण करके कुछ सैर सपाटा करके वापस आ जाएंगे परंतु यह उनका भ्रम था क्योंकि तुकाराम महाराज तो अपने गांव, अपने वास्तविक गांव, अपने वास्तविक घर वापस चले गए थे और वहां गांव वाले घंटों इंतजार करते रहे, कई दिन इंतजार करते रहे, कुछ महीने इंतजार करने में निकल गए लेकिन तुकाराम महाराज वापस नहीं आए तो भगवान इस प्रकार से जो हमारे संदेह होते हैं जैसे कि
बैकुंठ क्या है?

क्या भगवान का क्या कोई धाम है?

इस प्रकार से इन सब प्रश्नों का प्रत्यक्ष प्रमाण अपने शुद्ध भक्तों के माध्यम से देते हैं जैसे हमने देखा कि तुकाराम महाराज सशरीर भगवत धाम गए |
देहु मे तुकाराम महाराज की कोई समाधि नहीं है, हमें उनके किसी समाधि के दर्शन नहीं होते, वे स्वयं अपने शरीर के साथ बैकुंठधाम को चले गए |
कीर्तनीय सदा हरि

संत तुकाराम महाराज हमेशा जप करते रहते थे कीर्तन करते रहते थे |

पांडुरंग पांडुरंग
जय जय राम कृष्ण हरि
जय जय राम कृष्ण हरि

इस प्रकार हमेशा हमेशा वे भगवान के नाम का जप करते रहते थे | वास्तव में उनके लिए जप को रोक पाना बहुत ही कठिन होता था जबकि अधिकांशतः तो हम लोगों के लिए जप करना बहुत कठिन हो जाता है | जब वे जप करते थे कीर्तन करते थे तो घंटों नृत्य करते थे, उच्च स्वर में कीर्तन करते थे और उनका कीर्तन कभी रुकता नहीं था |

गौरांग महाप्रभु चाहते थे कीर्तनीय सदा हरि हमेशा हरि नाम का जप करते रहे |
तो तुकाराम महाराज के जीवन से ये पूर्ण रूप से परिलक्षित था| वे कभी भी नाम का जप छोड़ते नहीं थे |

एक सुबह एक अपराधी तुकाराम महाराज के निवास पर आया | उन्होंने घर के बाहर से आवाज लगाई “तुकोबा तुकोबा कहां हो तुम, तुम कहां गए हो “|
तुकाराम महाराज के घर के अंदर से किसी ने कहा “बैठो, वह कहीं गए हैं, थोड़ी देर में आएंगे”|

वह व्यक्ति वहां पर बैठे थे | उन्होंने कुछ समय पश्चात देखा कि जब तुकाराम महाराज वापस आए तो उनके हाथ में लोटा था और वह शौच आदि क्रियाओं से निर्वित्त होकर आ रहे थे |
जो व्यक्ति थे वो एक वैष्णव अपराधी थे, तुकाराम महाराज के अपराधी थे |

उन्होंने उस लौटे को देख कर के कहा – “क्या तुमने अभी तक स्नान नहीं किया है? क्या तुम नाम का जप कर रहे हो? क्या तुम इतने मूर्ख हो कि तुम्हें यह भी नहीं पता कि बिना स्नान किए बिना शुची हुए नाम का जप नहीं किया जाता है? अन्यथा कोई धार्मिक क्रिया नहीं की जाती है, हमें पहले स्नान करना चाहिए फिर हमें किसी धार्मिक क्रिया या अनुष्ठान करना चाहिए” |

तब तुकाराम महाराज ने कहा कि मेरे लिए नाम को छोड़ना बहुत कठिन हो जाता है और मुझे नहीं पता कि स्नान के पहले मैं अपने भगवान का ध्यान नहीं कर सकता या जप नहीं कर सकता उनके नाम का कीर्तन नहीं कर सकता | यह याद रखना मेरे लिए बहुत ही कठिन हो जाता है बहुत ही मुश्किल हो जाता है |

तुकाराम महाराज ने कहा कि मुझसे जप बंद नहीं होता और यह मेरे बस की बात भी नहीं है | मेरे भीतर से कुछ होता है कि मैं अनायास बिना किसी प्रयास किए जप करता रहता हूँ | वो जो पाखंडी अपराधी था उसने बलपूर्वक तुकाराम महाराज के होठों को अपने हाथों से बंद कर दिया और उसने जोर से तुकाराम महाराज का एक प्रकार से मुंह बंद करने का प्रयास किया पर तब उसने देखा कि तुकाराम महाराज के पूरे शरीर से हरि नाम जप निकल रहा था, उनके एक एक रोम कूप से हरि नाम का उच्चारण हो रहा था और तब उसने देखा कि तुकाराम महाराज वास्तव में सिर्फ मूँह से ही जप नहीं कर रहे थे, उनका पूरा शरीर उनकी आत्मा जप कर रही थी क्योंकि जप तो आत्मा करती है, ना कि यह शरीर | एक प्रकार से तुकाराम महाराज की आत्मा हर समय निरंतर जप करती थी |

जब कल मैंने यह देहु मे सुना, तो मैंने इस बात का स्मरण किया कि किस प्रकार से तुकाराम महाराज बिना किसी प्रयास के बिना कोई बल लगाएं हरिनाम का निरंतर जप करते थे जैसा कि गौरांग महाप्रभु ने कीर्तनीय सदा हरी करने के लिए कहा है तो इसका हम ज्वलंत उदाहरण तुकाराम महाराज के रूप में देख सकते हैं |

तो मैंने यह भी स्मरण किया था कि यह जो कर्मकांडी होते हैं पाखंडी होते हैं, वैष्णवो के अपराधी होते हैं, किस किस प्रकार से अपराध करते हैं |

जब तुकाराम महाराज अत्यंत ख्याति प्राप्त कर रहे थे और सभी जो उनके गांव के निवासी थे, उनसे बहुत प्रेम किया करते थे | जिस प्रकार से हमने देखा कि नामाचार्य श्रील हरिदास ठाकुर के जीवन में भी यही हुआ कि सब लोग उनसे बहुत प्रेम करते थे तो कुछ लोग उनके प्रति बहुत ईर्ष्या रखते थे |

इसी प्रकार तुकाराम महाराज के भी जीवन में हुआ कि कुछ लोग उनसे ईर्ष्या करने लगे थे |
उन लोगों ने एक वैश्या को तुकाराम महाराज को आकर्षित करने के लिए तुकाराम महाराज के पास भेजा और हमने सुना कि तुकाराम महाराज के पास जो वैश्या आई तो जिस प्रकार से तुकाराम महाराज निरंतर कीर्तन कर रहे थे |
जय जय राम कृष्ण हरि
जय जय राम कृष्ण हरि

उनके पास उनका तंबूरा और उनकी चीपड़ी थी, चिपड़ी एक प्रकार से करताल की तरह होती है, तुकाराम महाराज उसे बजा बजाकर अत्यंत भाव के साथ हरि नाम का कीर्तन कर रहे थे और नाच रहे थे तो वह बेचारी वेश्या क्या करती वहां बैठी थी और अपना कार्य कर रही थी नाच रही थी और इस प्रकार से कुछ विभिन्न तरीकों से उनका ध्यान अपनी और आकर्षित करने का प्रयास कर रही थी परंतु तुकाराम महाराज को पूर्ण रूप से ध्यान मग्न थे उनके अंदर तो कोई ऐसा रिक्त स्थान ही नहीं था जहां पर कोई वाह्य वस्तु, कोई बाहरी भाव प्रवेश कर सके तो इस प्रकार से तुकाराम महाराज और उस वेश्या के बीच में कुछ वार्ता भी हुई और उसने तुकाराम महाराज के समक्ष अपने को पूर्ण रूप से समर्पित कर किया, उनके चरणों में गिर गई | तुकाराम महाराज तो अच्युत थे क्योंकि वे भगवान अच्युत के पूर्ण शरणागत थे इसलिए कोई भी संसार की वाह्य शक्ति उनका पतन कर ही नहीं सकती थी जिस प्रकार से नामाचार्य श्रील हरिदास ठाकुर के जीवन में हुआ वैसे ही हमने कल देहु गांव में संत तुकाराम महाराज के विषय में सुना कि किस प्रकार माया ने वेश्या के रूप में उनपर अपना प्रभाव डालने का प्रयास किया |
यह घटना यहां से कुछ ही दूर देहू गांव में घटी थी | तो हम सभी माया को पूर्ण रूप से परास्त कर सकते हैं यदि हम हरि नाम में पूर्ण शरणागति लेते हैं तुम्हारा माया कुछ भी नहीं कर पाएगी जैसा भगवत गीता में कहा है

यत्र योगेश्वर कृष्ण,
यत्र पार्थो धनुर्धर

इस प्रकार से हम विजयी होंगे, हम माया को जीतेंगे | जिस प्रकार से नामाचार्य श्रील हरिदास ठाकुर ने माया को जीता था, माया के युद्ध को जीता था और वह वैश्या जो आई थी वह भी एक प्रकार से माया से जीत गई थी वह भी विजयी हुई थी क्योंकि उसका आगे का जीवन बहुत ही सुंदर हो गया था और उसने हरि नाम को ग्रहण किया |

1st March 2020

The right Consciousness while performing Deity Worship

Today is Sunday and hence there are fewer participants. So many devotees are writing reports. Morning Sankirtana is taking place in Bhubaneswar. In Delhi, there are a few festivals and they are going to watch the Hare Krishna Movie. This is good that Hare Krishna people are going to see the movie. Ramlila Mataji is celebrating a birthday and she is doing Parikrama. She is asking for blessings. Doing Parikrama is in itself a blessing. She came from Solapur to Mayapur for Parikrama. So without blessings, it is not possible. Around 1500 Hindi Speaking devotees are attending the Parikrama. I also got an opportunity to offer Aarti to Radha Madhava and Asthasakhis. Once in a year or sometimes twice, I get this opportunity. When I was offering aarti, I was reminded of days in 1973-1975 when Prabhupada was there in Mayapur. Those days I was Head Pujari of Radha Rasabihari Temple, Juhu. Jananivas Prabhu, Head Pujari of Radha Madhava would offer me the opportunity to serve Radha Madhava behind the curtains. He served Madhava and offered me an opportunity to serve Radharani.

sri-vigraharadhana-nitya-nana
sringara-tan-mandira-marjanadau
yuktasya bhaktams ca niyunjato ’pi
vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

Translation:
The spiritual master is always engaged in the temple worship of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna. He also engages his disciples in such worship. They dress the Deities in beautiful clothes and ornaments, clean Their temple, and perform other similar worship of the Lord. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master. [ Mangala Aarti Verse 4]

When we worshiped Sri Radha and Krsna and cleaned the temple, Srila Prabhupada would go on morning Parikrama on Bhaktisiddhanta Road. Whenever I served Radharani I remembered that Prabhupada has gone on his morning walk and he is about to return.Those days when Prabhupada returned after the morning walk around 300 devotees welcomed him with kirtana. Then we would get a signal that sringar darsana is about to happen and we have to be ready quickly. That Deity of Radharani Whom I worshiped was stolen by some Muslims thinking She was real gold. Taptakancan Gaurangi.

arcye viṣṇau śilā-dhīr guruṣu nara-matir vaiṣṇave jāti-buddhir
viṣṇor vā vaiṣṇavānāṁ kali-mala-mathane pāda-tīrthe ‘mbu-buddhiḥ
śrī-viṣṇor nāmni mantre sakala-kaluṣa-he śabda-sāmānya-buddhir
viṣṇau sarveśvareśe tad-itara-sama-dhīr yasya vā nārakī saḥ

Translation:
One who thinks the Deity in the temple to be made of wood or stone, who thinks of the spiritual master in the disciplic succession as an ordinary man, who thinks the Vaiṣṇava in the Acyuta-gotra to belong to a certain caste or creed or who thinks of caraṇāmṛta or Ganges water as ordinary water is taken to be a resident of hell. [ Padma Purāṇa]

Having such kind of thoughts of a Deity is hellish. Today morning while doing aarti my assistant was taking photographs , I was thinking that when viewers will see the video and photographs then they will say, “See Maharaja, he is with the Lord”. I was also thinking that I have reached the abode of the Lord. Being on the altar is the same as being with the Lord. Such feelings are needed.

bhaktyā mām abhijānāti
yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ
tato māṁ tattvato jñātvā
viśate tad-anantaram

Translation:
One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God. [ BG 18.55]

We are trying to understand the Lord as it is. Wherever the Deities are, that place is the abode of the Lord. If we are on the altar of Radha Madhava, that place is Goloka. If the Deity is Laksmi Narayana, then the place is Vaikuntha. If it is Sita-Rama, then the place is Ayodhya or Saket Dham. Similarly, if we are on the altar of Rukmani Dvarakadisa, that place is Dvaraka. If we have such feelings then we are also with Them. Worship of Radha Madhava and Ashtasakhis is topmost worship.

dīvyad-vṛndāraṇya-kalpa-drumādhaḥ-
śrīmad-ratnāgāra-siṁhāsana-sthau
śrīmad-rādhā-śrīla-govinda-devau
preṣṭhālībhiḥ sevyamānau smarāmi.

Translation:
In a temple of jewels in Vṛndāvana, underneath a desire tree, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govinda, served by Their most confidential associates, sit upon an effulgent throne. I offer my humble obeisances unto Them. [ CC Antya 1.6]

This is meditation. There is Vrindavan. Vrindavan is kalpavriksha. Below that tree in Vrndavana Radha and Govinda are sitting on the jewelled throne and the Gopis are serving Them. I remember that there is such a desire tree. And Asthasakhis are serving Them. If Ashtasakhis are serving then the pujari also reaches there and under the guidance of Lalita and Vishakha, the pujari also starts to serve.

lalita vishakha adi jata sakhi vrinda
agyaya koribo seva charana arvinda

Translation:
With the permission of all the sakhis, headed by Lalita and Visakha, I will serve the lotus feet of Radha and Krsna.[Radha Krsna Praan Mora verse 5 by Narottama Das Thakur]

If one has to serve then one has to take permission of Lalita Vishaka and serve Them under Their guidance. When the time came to offer camara I saw Lalita and I saw she was also holding a camara. I’m also offering a camara and she is also offering a camara, but there is a huge difference between our emotions. I was praying that I may also learn the devotional service the way Radharani, Asthasakhis and Gopis do.

aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam
ramya kacid upasana vraja-vadhu-vargena va kalpita
srimad bhagavatam pramanam amalam prema pum-artho mahan
sri-caitanya mahaprabhor matam idam tatradarah na parah

Translation:
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is worshipped along with His transcendental abode Vrndavana. The most pleasing form of worship for the Lord is that which was performed by the gopis of Vrndavana. Srimad Bhagavatam is the spotless authority on everything and pure love of Godhead is the ultimate goal of life for all men. These statements, for which we have the highest regard, are the opinion of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. [Caitanya-matta-manjusa by Srila Viswanatha Cakravarti Thakura]

This is the instruction of Lord Caitanya that if you want to worship then follow in footsteps of the Damsels of Vraja. This is the opinion of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. There are many sakhis. But 8 are the topmost Sakhis. In the time of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, many devadasis dance in front of Jagannatha and they try to please Jagannatha while singing Gita Govinda. Ramananda Raya would dress those ladies and prepare them for dance. He had to touch their bodies, but there was no thought of lust while serving them. This is the bhava of Ramananda Raya. People having such consciousness can serve Radha Madhava. We can think like that for Ramananda Raya. It was not bewildering to associate with such ladies as he was the incarnation of Sri Vishakha. It was no problem for Vishakha to prepare devadasis.

nirodho ‘syānuśayanam
ātmanaḥ saha śaktibhiḥ
muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ
sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ

Translation:
The merging of the living entity, along with his conditional living tendency, with the mystic lying down of the Mahā-Viṣṇu, is called the winding up of the cosmic manifestation. Liberation is the permanent situation of the form of the living entity after he gives up the changeable gross and subtle material bodies. [SB 2.10.6]

The perfection of Deity worship is muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ. One has to reestablish oneself in one’s original identity and understanding that we are not this body and get fixed in the mood and bhava of that Svarupa. Then we can exchange our feelings and emotions with the Lord.

In the earlier days people asked, ‘Are you Svastha?’ Is your soul situated in the service of the Lord? People would ask in this way. Sva means the subtle body, the soul. Is your soul engaged in the service of the Lord? Nowadays people ask, ‘Is your health good?’ Sva means soul. We should ask about the soul.

ayi nanda-tanuja kińkaraḿ
patitaḿ māḿ viṣame bhavāmbudhau
kṛpayā tava pāda-pańkaja-
sthita-dhūlī-sadṛśaḿ vicintaya

Translation:
O son of Maharaja Nanda (Krsna), I am Your eternal servitor, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms at Your lotus feet.
The soul is kinkara. Body is an instrument. [ Siksastakam Prayers verse 5]

sharira madhyam khalu dharma sadhanam

Translation:
The physical body is the medium for righteous action.[ Mahakavi Kalidasa in his work Kumarasambhavam]

The soul uses the body as an instrument in the service of the Lord. The soul uses its senses in the service of the Master of the senses.

sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ
tat-paratvena nirmalam
hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-
sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate

Translation:
Bhakti, or devotional service, means engaging all our senses in the service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all the senses. When the spirit soul renders service unto the Supreme, there are two side effects. One is freed from all material designations, and, simply by being employed in the service of the Lord, one’s senses are purified. [ CC Madhya 19.170]

Deity worship is one of the angas of devotional service. The goal is to situate oneself in one’s own identity.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

There has to be kirtana while worshiping the Deities then it’s complete. In this way, this is our final Japa session from Mayapur. We are now going to stop our speech. We will leave for Pune tomorrow where there will be Gaura Bhagavad Katha from 4th March to 10th March. The chanting session will keep going on.

Gaur Premanande
Hari Haribol