Like a building, it´s strength is based on the cornerstone that supports everything in the rest of the building...so our Japa is the cornerstone for our spiritual life...it supports the other processes such as hearing and reading and worshiping the Lord. Without this purification, we will not be in the right consciousness and like a building, the other aspects will not be strong.
There is no culture. There is no attention. Therefore the whole world is in chaotic condition. But if we accept the Vedic civilization which is in nutshell -- everything is there in the Bhagavad-gita -- then the whole world will be Vaikuntha. You haven't got to go in the Vaikuntha. Here you'll have Vaikuntha. And next life will be Vaikuntha. Janma karma ca divyam me yo janati tattvatah. Krsna is giving the civilization, Vedic civilization. And if we thoroughly understand it, then we are fit for going back to home. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti [Bg. 4.9]. So this Vedic civilization is so nice, and it is given in nutshell in simple words by the Supreme Lord Himself. If we take it, then immediately the face of the world will change, immediately.
I'm into a new pattern now. I sleep peacefully at night without a headache, but then when I wake around two o'clock I have head pain. I'm usually able to subdue it with medicine. That's what happened this morning when I got up at two. I've chanted eleven rounds in my mind, and they were not very concentrated. Gunagrahi Maharaja and I are reading from chapter three of the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, "Yamaraja Instructs His Messengers." There Prabhupada states in a purport, "Even if one chants imperfectly, one becomes free from all sinful reactions by chanting" (SB 6.3.24, purport).So even if one chants and is not yet at the offenseless stage, he becomes free from his sins. But one has to chant without offenses in order to increase his love for Krishna. "As stated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, prema pum-artho mahan: one's main concern should be to increase one's attachment to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and increase one's love for Him." Although it is recommended that one should chant, even if one chants offensively, and that will bring one to the stage of offenseless chanting. Gunagrahi Maharaja remarked that it may take a long time. I said it may take lifetimes. So I should not be complacent about the fact that my chanting is not yet at the perfect stage. I have to try to improve. I do my chanting practice very faithfully every day, but I cannot keep the mind fixed, and this is a cause for disappointment. Nevertheless, I have no choice but to continue my quota.
Chanting with offenses, one is recommended to continue and he will come to the offenseless stage. But how long will it take? How can I improve? My friend tells me he chants best when he doesn't move, and concentrates, with his eyes closed. I do best when I also stay in place,
awake and silent. But the mind flits to other things I have
done and cannot stay fixed to the syllables. "Just hear" my spiritual master has advised, and I am working on that.
Prabhupada and Sumati Morarji of Scindia Company sit together giving speeches acknowledging the favors she did for him when he was a poor sannyasi trying to publish his Srimad-Bhagavatam and trying to get passage to America. Acting as a pious lady within the Hindu culture, she received him as a sannyasi beggar and agreed to pay for publishing one of the volumes of his First Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. (He had to wait many hours before she would give him an audience) After she paid for his book, Prabhupada remembered her and approached her again when he had the urgent opportunity to go to America. Without a great sacrifice she gave him free passage aboard a cargo ship, the Jaladuta, headed for New York. At first she did not agree. Her secretaries warned her that Prabhupada, being so old and in fragile health, might die enroute. From a worldly point of view, this was not such a wild speculation. But Bhaktivedanta Swami had his way with Sumati Morarji. He impressed her with his saintliness and his determination. Although she received some conservative advice not to let the old man ride on their steamship, she asserted her authority and gave him permission.
For this act of kindness she will always be remembered by Prabhupada's followers, and she will go down in history as a great benefactor to the world. During the first year in New York, when Srila Prabhupada did not have his own place, and when he did not make any progress in preaching, he thought of using his return ticket and going back to India. He wrote to Mrs. Morarji, and she encouraged him to stay in America until he had completed his mission. This word of support helped his spirit to remain in New York and renew his visa to stay in America.
To write about Krishna is to take water from the Ganges and offer it to the Ganges. He owns the language and controls proficiency and its use, so if you want to praise Him He has to allow you permission.
I bow before Him, a tiny would-be poet, aware of some sastra and siddhanta and gifted with a will of my own.
Down the tree of parampara I have been handed some mangoes of His praise: He is the most beautiful person, the all powerful controller of everything, and I know He should be pleased by what I do.
I may please Him by making an artful ode, shaping phrases of sincere expression. I have to go within myself to find a fire that glows for Him, something that is my own, although it comes from Him.
I may please Him by actual work in spreading His glories, by behaving generously among His devotees and among all the living entities, which are His.
I have to work despite the austerity. I must find words of worth.
Krishna, You have given me the human form of life which is the greatest opportunity to serve You. Please allow me to use it in a way that is pleasing to You.
I am old and physically weak now and feel that hampers me in trying to write something strong and flexible. But did I do better when I was young? I have an opportunity to sum up a life dedicated to You and that can be an advantage.
I cannot strain however, it has to come easily or my head will hurt, You have pinned me down with headaches.
I can smoothly utter pieces of music, mentioning Your pastimes with Radharani and Your mother and the cowherd boys. With Radha, You are best. With Your mother You are her mischievous son who she loves with all her heart, with the boys You are the best friends in sports and games and intimate fun.
With me, I am a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and trying to serve him as my link to You. He is very dear to You because he taught Your holy names all over the world and created a movement of devotees. Only by serving him do I stand a chance of You accepting me.
This poem is written crippled but with a desire to stay in Your company, to be one with You. I cannot reach great heights, but from the Ganges of word choice I offer to You my best foot forward, my dry tears of ecstatic emotion: I love You.
Free write means you write whatever comes to your mind. There are too many people on this train. The government or the railroad should not allow so many people to hang on to the train cars. The people should not be so crazy as to hang on in such numbers and such a dangerous way. It would be very easy for someone to fall off and break their bones or have a concussion. This appears to be in a place like India where people are used to crowding in. They even appear to be happy, with many of them waving their hands for the photograph. It is totally insane. People should not travel this way.
We read of great crowds of people turning out to see Lord Caitanya when He was on His tour of South India (or wherever He went). But I don't conjure up scenes like this. People should move safely. They crowded in boats and swam or waded across the river to see Lord Caitanya. They dug up portions of the road by their footsteps. But they did not crowd onto fast-moving trains and hang on by their hands as the train sped down the tracks. Lord Caitanya's strongly build servant Kaisisvara stood close to Him and kept the crowds from pressing in too close when the Lord went to the temple at Jagannatha Puri. Circles of His followers surrounded Him at the Ratha-yatra procession to protect Him from the crowds. But the Lord exposed Himself to everyone, dancing and chanting down the main road. He splashed the onlookers with His tears of ecstasy. They saw His large golden form leaping into the air, and they heard Him crying out the names of the Lord.
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A one dollar bill met a 20 dollar bill and said, “Hey, where’ve you been? I haven’t seen you around here much.”
The twenty answered, “I’ve been hanging out at the casinos, went on a cruise and did the rounds of the ship, back to the United States for awhile, went to a couple of baseball games, to the mall, that kind of stuff. How about you?”
The one dollar bill said, “You know, same old stuff, church, church, church.”
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