Tuesday, October 28, 2014

NO REAL VALUE


Narendra Tirumale
30 mins ago
Dear Meena Ji
Hare Krishna

Let us not confuse Garbhodakasayi Vishnu for The Supreme Personality of Godhead.
He is the 8th level plenary expansion of the plenary expansion of The Supreme Personality of Godhead.

As the Lord of the material worlds He emanates Jivas exclusively in the proximity of maha maya and ensures their entrapment consumption by masking the favorable potencies (Chit, Hladini, Samvit, Sandhini which will divert and prevent this abuse

He allows these favorable potencies to act upon the conditioned souls refracting them through the Gunas and they manifest themselves as lust, mundane knowledge and material macrocosm and filthy material bodies with skin disease.

Radhe Radhe
Meena Devi Dasi
A min ago
Whatever it is that we "think we know," if it is not leading us to "love" of Godhead it is of no real value...

NO SENSE LAMENTING

Narendra Tirumale
51 mins ago
Dear Meena Ji
Hare Krishna

Even in the mundane a new born is well taken care of loved, inoculated for disease prevention etc.
It is so unfortunate that in our case immediately upon being bestowed with individual consciousness we have been ensured contact with the mammoth disease of materialization instead of being loved and taken care off.

What a plight / pathetic condition of the the Jivas emanating at the Tatastha by the agency of Garbhodakasayi Vishnu in tandem with Jiva sakti (developing potency)

It is said that in the entire Transcendence it is only Garbhodakasayi Vishnu who binds the emanated Jivas in samsara (entrapment consumption by maha maya) and then releases them (hardly)
Meena Devi Dasi
1 min ago
Whatever the situation that has put us in maya... the door is now flung wide open. Lord Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy is pouring like torrents of rain. No one can escape the mercy. Some will swim, some will float and some will drown.
We are always helpless living entities. No sense lamenting. We are always tiny and Krishna is always great. If we are surrendered it is great fun.
If not it is unhappy situation.
Lord Chaitanya prays... He has personally composed only 8 slokas.This is the 8th...

ashlishya va pada-ratam pinashtu mam
adarshanan marma-hatam karotu va
yatha tatha va vidadhatu lampato
mat-prana-nathas tu sa eva naparaha

I know no one but Krishna as my Lord, and He shall remain so even if He handles me roughly by His embrace or makes me brokenhearted by not being present before me. He is completely free to do anything and everything, for He is always my worshipful Lord, unconditionally.

http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/page/shikshashtaka m-1

Monday, October 27, 2014

SKIN DISEASE


It is all a matter of skin disease.
Skin is the organ of touch.
All the senses are modifications of the sense of touch.

Touch means to come into contact with....

Hearing means to come into contact with sound. 
The ear a modification of skin.

Seeing means to contact light.
The eye a modification of skin.

Tasting.
The tongue a modification of skin.

Smelling.
The nose a modifications of skin.

All modifications of skin.

The nose, the tongue, the ear, the eye.
All skin disease. 

Sex agitation is also skin disease.

To remain undisturbed by the agitations of skin disease
in it's varied forms is the transcendental position.

I am not this body. 
I am not this skin disease.

It is all skin. 
Inside as well as outside. 
throughout.
Nothing but skin.
And modifications of skin.

Such an amazing construction.

A bag.

I am not a bag.

I am not skin.

Skin meant for contacting material energy. 

I am spirit. 

Meant for contacting spiritual energy.

Friday, October 24, 2014

JUST SMILE


A poor destitute man stood on the divider at the traffic light.
He held a sign "just smile."
I found there were tears in my eyes.

The clerk who handles returns was struggling to figure out my refund.
It took a very long time to straighten the paper work out.
It turned out I was at the wrong store.
I sighed. 

She said, "There's a reason for everything"

I said, "Yes... so I could meet you."

She told me a story:
Her daughter's boyfriend kept trying to rush her daughter through a check out line at the supermarket.
But she couldn't go any faster...stuck in line.
Just then drunken teenagers crashed through the front glass of the store in their car out of control.
If her daughter had been able to rush through the line she would have been killed.

I told her, "Yes... if it has your name on it, you cannot avoid it,
if it is not for you then there is no danger for you."

She said, "Yes. We know and the Lord is not knocking on our door anymore.
He is knocking on the doors of the nonbelievers."

I said, "They think they will find some enjoyment in the temporary things."
I found there were tears in my eyes. 

EVERYONE ELSE


So unhappy today.

Everyone is serving Krishna except for me. 

I don't see what service I am doing. I am not helping anyone. 

All I do is find fault with everyone else's service because I am envious that they are doing things to help others. 

Everyone else is serving Krishna by helping other people...helping the environment... helping the animals...

I am so unfortunate all I can do is chant and hear and remember Krishna. Living in a cave.

How is that helping anyone? 

I am so unfortunate. And selfish. But what can I do? I am not allowed to do anything else. 

The acaryas say that this is service...to hear and chant and remember Krishna. 

If that is so then it doesn't matter what someone does...a doctor...a carpet cleaner...a musician...a clerk.  

If devotional service means to hear and chant and remember Krishna then I am engaging in service. 

So I should just be happy with that...hearing chanting and remembering Krishna.

And just be appreciative that everyone else is doing all the helping others. 

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

WHAT DOES "INITIATION" MEAN?

Sometimes there may be some confusion in transcendental cultures as to what is initiation and who can give initiation. Much of the confusion comes from the word "initiation" itself. The English language definitely has its limitation when trying to convey the deep Sastric meanings Sanskrit is designed for.
The actual word is "divya-jnan."

3. cakhu-dan dilo jei, janme janme prabhu sei,
    divya-jnan hrde prokasito
prema-bhakti jaha hoite, avidya vinasa jate,
    vede gay jahara carito

Translation:
3. He who has given me the gift of transcendental vision is my Lord, birth after birth. By His mercy Divine knowledge is revealed within the heart, bestowing prema-bhakti and destroying ignorance. The Vedic scriptures sing of His character.

The essence of what is initiation is here: “…Divine knowledge is revealed within the heart.”

There are different levels of progress in the bhakti yoga process. The problem is to distinguish who is at what level of realization...the neophyte who is very much materially attached, the intermediate who has firm faith but is not able to present the philosophy very well and the uttama adhikari...that rare soul who has developed full Krishna consciousness in ecstatic love of Godhead.

As the system within ISKCON is set up at present it is relatively easy for someone who is at an intermediate stage of realization or a neophyte or even an unqualified person who merely appears qualified to external vision to assume the position of "guru" and receive the blessings of the Governing Body Commission. This is simply based on visible performance. This is largely an external consideration with no real capacity to measure whether there is empowerment fordivya jnan or not.

To safeguard against the degradation of the ISKCON institution Srila Prabhupada has set up a system of checks and balances. Where devotees who are seen to at least externally appear to be following the rules and regulations for behavior... 16 rounds and following 4 regulative principles are scrutinized by the Governing Body Commission and can be authorized to act on behalf of Srila Prabhupada as an officiating acarya. That is, they initiate on behalf of Srila Prabhupada not on their own. Certainly a very responsible position within ISKCON. They are held accountable for their actions by the GBC and the Vaishnava community and if there is some deviation they can be chastised.

Who has ever heard of “initiating gurus” being subject to a Governing Body Commission?" Just replace the words “initiating guru” with “one who transmits divya jnan” to see the absurdity.
What kind of guru is that? 

Ritvik system is authorized and is a recognized form of management within a disciplic succession.
This is indeed the system Srila Prabhupada put into place and to continue indefinitely.


The present system is dysfunctional and is an offense to Srila Prabhupada.