20161228 Address

20161228 Address

Gurumaharaj:

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhutale

srimate bhaktivedanta-swamin iti namine………….nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhutale, srimate bhaktivedanta-swamin iti namine (repeated by devotee)

namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracharine

nirvishesha shunyavadi pashchatya desha tarine….namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracharine

nirvishesha shunyavadi pashchatya desha tarine (repeated by devotee)

Jaya sri krsna caitanya prabhu nityananda

sri advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda……….. Jaya sri krsna caitanya prabhu nityananda

sri advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda (repeated by devotee)

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare….. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare (repeated by devotee)

hari haraye namah krsna yadavaya namah

yadavaya madhavaya kesavaya namah………… hari haraye namah krsna yadavaya namah

yadavaya madhavaya kesavaya namah (repeated by devotee)

Mukam Karoti Vacalam

Pangum Langhayate Girim

Yat Kripa Tamaham Vande

Sri Gurum Dina Tarinam

Paramananda Madhavam

Sri Caitanya Isvaram

Hari Om Tatsat

Gurumaharaj:

So it is very nice to see all of you tonight. I used to travel five or six times around the world a year. Now I have slowed down. I spent most time in Mayapur, and I only go around the world, once or twice a year. I am also a lifetime…. 04.50-54… starline, but that’s not so important. You are important, and I am so happy to see that this temple has developed so much………Haribol (everyone)

The purpose of Krishna Consciousness that Prabhuapada created, he handed it down to us from the previous acharyas. He said that his purpose was to change the way the people thought. Those people think that they are the body, and then when the body is over they are over, but Krishna explained in the Bhagavat Gita, Na hanyate hanya-mäne çarére, that the body dies but the soul doesn’t.

So we are eternal just like Krishna is eternal, but He is maintaining everyone and we are just small sparks. So people would understand that they are not the body and that they are the soul. Then they would think, how I, the soul can be happy? They are busy making the body happy, but the body can never get satisfied. The soul has his own level, its type of happiness, that is spiritual happiness, that we can achieve by bhakti yoga. You are all present here tonight, which means that you are all interested in bhakti yoga.

Krishna has made it very easy for us to reach Him in this Kali Yuga. We can achieve His blessings very easily. Whether we have all desires, desire for liberation or no desire, akämaù sarva-kämo vä

mokña-käma udära-dhéù

tévreëa bhakti-yogena

yajeta puruñaà param

That simply by doing bhakti yoga, we can achieve whatever we desire. We have all material desires or no material desires or desire for liberation. Bhati Yoga is easily done by chanting the holy names of Krishna in this age.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare….. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare (by everyone)

This chanting is the special concession for this age. If we chant, we can experience the spiritual bliss. Many people say, “Oh, if you chant the holy name you will get some offence”

I met one person. He said that, he was chanting Hare Krishna for 26 years, but he said that he didn’t feel any bliss, but I asked him, if he was chanting the names of Lord Krishna? He said, “No, I am from another sampradaya.”, I told him to chant the names of Lord Caitanyna, and then when he chants Hare Krishna, he will feel great bliss. Three months later he called me again. He came running to me, he fell at my feet, he said, “what mantra you gave me, I am feeling so much bliss.” (cheering by crowd), I gave him the panchatattve mantra which I chanted here first,

sri krsna caitanya prabhu nityananda

sri advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda, if you chant that mantra before Hare Krishna, you will get great spiritual bliss. So listeners, this chanting of Hare Krishna was given by Lord Krishna Himself. golokera prema-dhana, hari-näma-saìkértana, the love of goloka, the spiritual planets, that love we can get by chanting Hare Krishna.

Whether one is a grishastha or a brahmachari, they are recommended to chant the Hare Krishna mahamantra.

gåhe thäko, vane thäko, sadä 'hari' bole' òäko.

So this process of chanting is the yuga dharma. In the Satya Yuga it was meditation, in the treta yoga it was homa, yajna, in the dwapara yuga it was worshipping the Lord in the temple where He was personally present, but Kali Yuga process is chanting the holy name kalau tad dhari-kértanät.

So now we are in the Kali yuga. So we recommend everyone, men, woman, children, grihastha’s, sanyasis, to all chant. Chanting for everyone. Now all over the world people are finding that this chanting is working magic. So we are very happy to be here tonight. Nice to see all of you wonderful devotees.

I didn’t expect to see such a big crowd. The vision of the …21.50... Is certainly coming true.

So if you have any questions I would like to hear what you have. One for the lady and one for the men. Question on something related.

Question: How to advance in devotional service?

Gurmaharaj: This is a very good question. Of course if we know at what stage the particular person is at, we can answer in a very personal way. I will just answer in a general way.

So one should hear from the advanced devotees of the Lord, and then apply the teachings of Bhagavat Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam in one’s life. There is a book called the Nectar of Devotion. That’s the Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu, and if one practices that, the first nine chapters tell how to progress in devotional service. Just like in the hospital, there is a diet, there is a medicine, there is a doctor….(inaudible)… so the diet is the take Krishna prasadam, the medicine is the Hare Krishna mahamantra to be chanted everyday, and the doctor is the guru and also the instructions given in the scriptures. So like this one follows the diet, takes the medicine and holds the instructions of the guru. So in this way one can gradually progress.

In the Gita, it is said that the jnani takes many, many births to achieve realization. bahünäà janmanäm ante jïänavän mäà prapadyate. But we can achieve success in one birth, but it’s a gradual process. So that’s how you can progress. Gradually use your activities in devotional service, its called yukta vairagya.

One question from the ladies.

Question from Lady: (inaudible)

Gurumaharaj: You see Lord Caitanya brought Sachi Mata to see Advaita Gosai, because she had offended him, and therefore she was not given the blessing of love of Krishna. So she went to ask him for forgiveness. But when Advaita Gosai heard that mother Sachi wanted her to forgive him, he started to glorify mother Sachi. “Mother Sachi is so great.”, he started to glorify her and glorify her. He became so ecstatic that he fainted.

Lord Caitanya said, “He won’t forgive you. He thinks you are too great. So just take some dust from his feet and that would relieve you.” So she took the dust from his feet. After that she was forgiven for her offense, and she got love for Krishna. So that’s what it literally means, the dust of the feet.

Of course I saw some people take some dust from some shoes. That may be another way.

Hari bol

Thank you all very  much

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Transcribed by: Sadananda Krishnaprem Das

Mayapur, 24.02.2017.