SB 3.6 purport

I do. 100%!! Totally!! Lock stock and barrel!!!

"Every individual soul remains unconscious after the dissolution of the creation and thus enters into the Lord with His material energy."

Wonder what it is like at the time of dissolution. The last day of the universe. The end of the world. (Until it is created again..)

"These individual living entities are conditioned souls everlastingly, but in each and every material creation they are given a chance to liberate themselves and become free souls."
This is serious. Do you get the magnitude of what is being said here? We have this chance now. Human form.

"They are all given a chance to take advantage of the Vedic wisdom and find out what is their relationship with the Supreme Lord, how they can be liberated, and what the ultimate profit is in such liberation."

Profit. Profit. Everyone is looking for some profit. What is the profit?

"By properly studying the Vedas one becomes conscious of his position and thus takes to the transcendental devotional service of the Lord and is gradually promoted to the spiritual sky."

The best Vedas for us now is Bhagavad gita, Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Charitamrta. Made simple for this age which is so very very complicated.

"The individual souls in the material world engage in different activities according to their past unfinished desires. After the dissolution of a particular body, the individual soul forgets everything, but the all-merciful Lord, who is situated in everyone’s heart as the witness, the Supersoul, awakens him and reminds him of his past desires, and thus he begins to act accordingly in his next life."

The Lord respects the individual living entities. Our ability to make our own decisions. It is not His way to try to crush or force anyone into anything. Whatever the entity wants to do it is provided. Good choice. Bad choice. It is not a threat to the Lord in any way. He is making provisions so we can try to fulfill our desires. How great is that!!

"This unseen guidance is described as fate, and a sensible man can understand that this continues his material bondage in the three modes of nature." SB 3.6 purport

He is always giving guidance how to reach Him and not try to find pleasure alone. Without Him..

IN AND OUT OF GROUPS

Wow! Why do You let me see these things? And not only see them but feel the thrill of amazement at seeing them. Are You revealing Yourself little bit little bit?

Waiting at the bank for someone at a desk. All the seats are filled on a Friday afternoon. I am standing. One gentleman offered a seat but I preferred to stand. I had been sitting all day.

The bank workers have been working together for a long time. They are a very pleasant and well-seasoned team. I am thinking about groups.The workers at the bank are united around their service. Banking... and those of us waiting in the chairs are also united. We are a more temporary group of people. We are the waiters.They are a group and we are a group. 

There are these kinds of groups everywhere. For all sorts of things. Some groups are very long term like family groups. Some are very large like a nations. Some are very short lived and temporary like people all waiting in a line.

We travel in and of all sorts of groups constantly. None of the groups are permanent even the long term ones. They are built on activities within the material energy.

But there is another environment. There are groups there and activities but they are eternal. Hard to picture it from here. Going in and out of groups that are eternal. Eternal forms. That don't end. That can always be accessed.
Hare Krishna

HARDLY HUMAN AT ALL

Reality check. I remember in 1st year junior high school English class reading assignment. "The secret life of Walter Mitty" I went into shock when I read that. How he vividly lived out so many scenarios in his day dreaming. I was so covered over and animalistic. Hardly human at all so when we read that.. something happened inside. My outer self was different from my inner self.
Junior high school means 1960..

TV was just becoming available, we had 5 stations... it wouldn't start until we hit it on the back of the picture tube with a shoe brush.   

NOT INTERESTED

I'm really not interested in getting a good position on the heavenly planets. They are very wonderful devotees no doubt. Entrusted by the Lord with so much power and responsibility. After all they manage the affairs of the entire universe... the water department, the air department, the light department... all the utilities and everything else too right down to someone responsible for the blinking of eyelids. Can you imagine? Someone responsible for everyone's eyelids blinking. Or Mitra in charge of the sewage department. 

And they have so much nice facility for living comfortably with opulence and luxury and they are very bodily beautiful.

But no I'm not interested in any management position anywhere. Not here or there.
I can't even manage my own life properly. Let me just leave the whole management thing to those who have the desire to manage, who are eager to control things... for the Lord of course.
But even controlling things for the Lord does not appeal at all to me.

FEVER PITCH...

Caught in a difficult place.
Cancelled Dad's HMO
but can't find his Medicare card or number.
The pharmacy called and they need to bill his most expensive drugs.
Yikes.
For some reason did not record user name and password for SSA.gov. so am locked out.
But Medicare will send a replacement card in 30 days!!!
He takes 3pages of chemicals. On chemical life support.
My stress level is through the roof.
Can't get anyone on the phone, all answering machines.
Krishna's mercy.
I thought to call the HMO we just cancelled with.
They must have his medicare # on file. But will they give it to me over the phone?
Yes. They have it. The young woman on the other end was so understanding.
Yes. She will give it to me.
In great relief I asked, "You believe in God?" She wasn't sure what I was asking. Maybe another number or something. Then she heard the question. "Yes. I do"
I could share my realizations with her as they came flooding in. "What a world we are living in! It is all intangibles. Numbers and files and information. Categories designations. None of it real. It is all in the air somewhere. But we live by them. We accept them as real. So why do people have such a difficult time accepting that God is real?"
She understood what I was trying to say.
"Maybe this is His way of bringing us to Him. One of His ways. Bringing us to such a fever pitch of dealing with things that have no real substance as if they were real. And having it become obvious that that is what we are doing. So that we can accept Him."
And it is a fever pitch. The increased technology and information streams are wild. The sense that we are indeed living in a virtual reality. Something truly incredible is happening all around us. We have to take advantage of the telephone and communication to make the most important call...
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

IF THERE IS NOTHING ELSE...

The great illusion remains very strong. If there is nothing else but the material energy then even though someone knows it is an illusion, it is temporary manifestation, the body will die, because there is nothing else they will cling to the illusion and try to enjoy themselves.

The illusion is preferable to nothingness for most people. But some people actually prefer nothingness rather than the illusion having been so frustrated they will take nothingness as some sort of relief.

Having taken birth in the human form these people are committing suicide. It is like the young man sitting in the sand at the beach smoking a cigarette. My father stopped as we were walking to talk to him. "Why are you smoking? Everyone knows it is not good for health." The young man thought for a minute as he sat there, looked up at us as as we stood there towering over him and looked at the cigarette in his hand, "Because I enjoy it. I'm going to die anyway. Why not at least do something I enjoy."

The only solution is The Supreme Personality of Godhead, neither temporary illusion nor nothingness are any type of solution, although He provides both for those who can't stand it that there really is God and He really is a person.

POUR IT ON...

Lord Krishna knows how much I love stress. I eat it up like nectar. More stress. Give me more. Can't get enough of it. Like really getting off on a creepy movie. Pushed to the brink. Hanging over the edge of sanity. Bring it on. Bring it on. Bring it on.

Know what the jitters are? Whole body shaking.

Dealing with this medicaid, social security, VA, nursing homes, hospitals, Dad a raving lunatic, emergency rooms, ambulance rides, rehab centers... yada yada yada... all the while what little money he had saved up pouring out like through a hole in the bottom of a bucket.. 

A knock on the door. A neighbor. Always hyper...launches into a full account like through a megaphone into my ear all her stress from her father's situation 3 years ago. Relives her emotional nightmare in the kitchen adding untold heaps of more stress on me.

I'm in the middle of a hurricane and she storms in. She really only wanted to use the WiFi.
Perfect timing. Had to be scripted.