PEDOPHILE RINGS

There is so much talk about pedophile rings in high places of government and business.
Meena Devi Dasi I really don't get the pedophile thing at all. I can't even "imagine" it. It just does not compute. Other disgusting things somehow I can visualize, but pedophilia is a blank. It's like in the same folder as cannibalism or something.
Dean Smith Its quite rife in the UK...dirty bastards should be lynched.
Meena Devi Dasi Hmmm for a second I kinda could see it. Yeah it's right down there with cannibalism. I forget how so many simply awful awful things are going on all around us. I forget the pain of the cows, the brutality everywhere, the misery of drug addiction, the hellish regions on this planet. I am not in direct contact with that now. At one time I had some first hand experiences. I can think back to the misery in the darkness, the despair, the mistakes. I am not there now. But so many people are.

WILD RIDE

The three modes of material nature control everything in the material world. They are literally "the three modes of material energy." They are everywhere and in everything. Everything has a beginning, middle and end. Everything is created, maintained and then destroyed. The three modes are identified as passion, goodness and ignorance. 

Lord Sri Krishna expands to manage the modes. He expands as Lord Brahma to manage the mode of passion, He expands as Himself Lord Vishnu to manage the mode of goodness and from Lord Brahma there is another expansion Lord Siva to manage the mode of ignorance.

In a broad perspective to include seasons like summer, winter, spring and fall and in the birth, death, old age and disease of a life span of our own body it is a great illusion.. A great magic show of, "Now you see it, now you don't" absolutely everywhere you look. On the subtle plane the modes are there... knowledge, remembrance and forgetfulness. 

This makes for a very wild ride for those engaged in trying to master the material energy. They are constantly faced with creation, maintenance and destruction in absolutely every aspect of their experience. A very wild ride indeed.

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IN THE BEGINNING

In the beginning there was only Lord Brahma and Garbhodakasayi Vishnu. Lord Brahma first created sacrifice to Lord Vishnu out of the body of Lord Vishnu.

"When I was born from the abdominal lotus flower of the Lord
[ Maha-Vishnu], the great person, I had no other ingredients for sacrificial performances except the bodily limbs of the great Personality of Godhead." SB 2.6.23

That is why all sacrifices are meant to satisfy Lord Vishnu. He is the very source of sacrifice.

"Thus I created the ingredients and paraphernalia for offering sacrifice out of the parts and parcels of the body of the Supreme Lord, the enjoyer of the sacrifice, and I performed the sacrifice to satisfy the Lord." SB 2.6.28

EARLY MORNING MEDITATION.. WORLD OF REFLECTIONS AND DESIGNATIONS

Early morning meditation:
Without engaging in devotional activities
we are caught in a reflection only.
Eyesight is a good way to try to understand.

I look at a reflection of myself in a mirror
It is not just myself I see but also my surroundings
The reflection has no substance It is a perception only.
I perceive myself and my surroundings on the surface of the glass.
Only my eyesight can perceive it. If I try to touch the images, there is only glass.
If I try to taste or smell or hear... there is only glass. 

For instance...sense of hearing. Consider sounds not aimed at devotional service.
There is the name only in sound. Water, water, water..
There is no water only the sound... water, water, water.
The substance "water" is different from the sound designating it.
If I try to see, touch or taste or smell... water.. There is no water there only the sound water.

The material world is the world of reflections and designations only.
All the sense are like that.
It is a little easier to perceive with sight and sound.
But the mind is also like that. 

Thoughts not engaged in devotional activities
can do nothing more than shuffle the reflections and designations around.
Such thoughts can never reach a conclusion. 
The very best the greatest thinkers can do is to realize there is more than the mind, the reflections, the designations.... but what that "more" is they cannot say without devotional activities.

The great, great, great mercy of the Lord's incarnation in the Hare Krishna Mahamantra:
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
"Oh energy of the Lord, Hare, Oh Lord Krishna, please engage me in Your devotional service."

NOTHING TO EAT IN THE HOUSE

There is nothing to eat in the house.
Three lemons and a grapefruit in the frig.
That's not going to do it.
Oh, wait, what is this yogurt container on the top shelf behind the blender?

Oh, great. I'd forgotten about this. The nuts in a shell my neighbor Gratzinia so thoughtfully brought as a gift for Christmas last year. The walnuts and pecans are long gone but there is at least a pound of Brazil nuts and filberts.
But that was such along time ago. Almost a year. They are probably not any good now. All dried out and rotten. No.. they are good. Just as fresh as if they had been picked from the tree this morning.
What amazing technology. To stay safe and sound like that just inside a little shell. Nothing could harm them.
Now I feel badly. They were waiting all this time that maybe they would become a tree. And instead a big animal has come and broken open their safety shells and is eating them.
Dear Lord Krishna, I wish I didn't have to do these things. Please accept my offering. I thought I could find happiness by trying to enjoy Your external energy.

I HAVE TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO ABSORB OTHER PEOPLE'S "STUFF"

I tend to absorb a lot of people's "stuff" so I have to be careful to not let it stick to me. After all if I am reaching out to them on behalf of guru and Krishna, I have to hear them. What they are saying, how they are feeling, what they are afraid of, what they think they have understood so far in life, etc. It is not impersonal. I am a person and they are a person.

I have stuff too that I am gradually getting rid of, but they have a lot more stuff since they are just being introduced to the process. If I am just running through the streets like on sankirtana throwing pamphlets at people that is one thing. Just keep running and throw as many as you can out to people. But If I am spending time with someone, one on one in my house. That is a different situation. It is more intimate in Krishna consciousness.

CLASH AND FRUSTRATION ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF IGNORANCE

 

Clash and frustration are the symptoms of nescience.... ignorance.

"In the material world, therefore, everyone is engaged in acquiring material opulence to lord it over the material world. Therefore there is always clash and frustration, which are the symptoms of nescience." SB 2.6.21 purport

The striking example of Kamsa and Vasudeva. Kamsa the epitome of "lording it over" was about to run his sister through with a sword to insure his continued supremacy. Vasudeva promised to deliver any children born of Devaki to Kamsa for him to kill if he thought it was necessary. Srila Prabhupada explains that a materialist like Kamsa is capable of doing any hideous thing and a devotee of the Lord is capable of tolerating it [without clash or frustration] by always taking shelter of Krishna consciousness in all circumstances.