Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna
Gopis performing Devotional Service to the Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna
If we are not acting properly,we will be forced to act in abominable ways by the modes of nature
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This is a very important thing that as most of us are born in the mode of ignorance in kali yuga. The Vedic samskara,marriage,a purificatory rite is performed in name only today. But no one knows the real purpose of these ritualistic principles. It's the duty of the couple to ensure that good progeny is produced for the benefit of the society.
Here we can link this sloka in Bhagavad Gita,whatever state of being one remains when quiting the body,that state one is sure to attain without fail. So it's not only the responsibility of parents to act properly to conceive children of good quality,but also ours. Not to blame the parents only but children as well.
It's by our state of consciousness we are forced to enter into the womb of a mother of similar consciousness.
Canakya Pandit says we can know the quality of a girl by the conduct of her mother.
So sacrifice is an intrinsic part of our life from the time we are born to the time we give up the body learning our lessons in every life as we go through a countless number of bodies.
Already we should not have taken this body. The presence of body itself shows that we are in the diseased condition of life. In other words, we are talking non-sense like the ones who are possessed by ghosts. They dont know what they talk or what they do. Our condition here in this world is like this. All the time we talk nonsense.
Although the living entity cannot enjoy anything separately from the Lord,he foolishly thinks that he can be happy by being independent of God. Even to do sense enjoyment which is miserable in the beginning middle and end,we need these elements provided by Krishna to us. Ghostly beings dont have the gross bodies to enjoy the senses. So they are always anxious to enter the bodies of other people to get whatever they desire. But today because the husband and wife unite at inappropriate times and improper consciousness,the ghostly beings are entering the womb(by the grace of Bhutanatha,Lord Shiva). Lord Shiva is very merciful that he gives a chance even to ghosts to take bodies. Most people get human body very easily in kali yuga by the mercy of Lord. But think about the society of ghosts. It's the one we are today.
The intricacies of action are very difficult to understand. Even the learned are bewildered to understand what is action and what is inaction. A person who sees action in inaction and inaction in action(Krishna consciousness) really sees. The impersonalists see that the souls are bound by the action and therefore they think that by stopping the action of senses we can stop getting bound by the reactions. But it's not possible to stop actions of the embodied soul. Even to maintain one's physical body one has to do some work. While doing so there are micro organisms,ants and other minute beings are killed. So we cant stop sinning but only minimize the sins. It's the sins that separates us from God. Atleast people some years ago atoned for their sins. Now it's even more worse. Now people say it's good to be bad. Even if we talk about the good and bad,people are so badly stuck by the influence of kali and with their sophisticated sudra minds,they are unable to understand God.
They think they are happy. The first step in self and God realization is to understand that we are suffering. Another miserable thing is everyone is thinking that they are not responsible for their actions and say only God is responsible for their miserable condition. The same people wont think of God when they are enjoying the senses. It's true that these material elements of senses mind intelligence are provided to us by God only. But it's upto us to make proper use of these things to the benefit of the self and the whole. It's easy to go along the stream but we to make a conscious effort to go upstream in a river. Likewise it's easy to go along with the way the world is but difficul to check our own life needs conscious effort.
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(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February, 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19
We cannot trace out how long we have been in the material world. Life after life, we are changing bodies – that is to say we are changing the gross bodies but the mind (or the subtle body which is made up of mind, intelligence and false ego) is travelling with us life after life as long as we are taking bodies into the material world. Therefore, the impressions of so many lifetimes are stored in our consciousness, but by the arrangement of the Supreme Lord we have forgotten these previous lives. But all the memories of the previous lives are stored within the sub-consciousness, and subconsciously they are influencing us….. so many lives. Therefore a cute little child is not just totally innocent, because there is a whole history there that my not just be manifested yet, but it will come out after a little while. And then you think:
'Well how is it possible that my little darling is doing such a thing?'
But your little darling has already done these things in unlimited previous lives. So in this way we are very much influenced by the three modes of material nature, which spread out over many, many lifetimes.
Srila Prabhupada is mentioning that we should associate with the mode of goodness. He doesn't say that we should be in the mode of goodness, since he says that we should associate in the mode of goodness, which I think is an interesting point. I guess if someone says:
'You must be in the mode of goodness.'
Then we are all trying:
'Goodness….goodness. How am I ever going to be in the mode of goodness? It's so not easy!'
Just by determination and endeavour we cannot really change our heart. But by associating with the mode of goodness, then one gradually develops the qualities of goodness. However, here in the Srimad Bhagavatam, the transcendental process of devotional service is described. It is said that:
'By devotional service, automatically the influence of ignorance and passion disappears. Then eventually one becomes fixed in goodness and even in pure goodness!'
Unalloyed goodness – known as 'viśuddha-sattva' – transcendental goodness. Meanwhile we are in the process of purification and the influences of the lower nature are still there. And due to the influence of the modes of lower nature, some bad habits may still be there……………………..Because we were already afflicted with sinful behaviour from previous lives the tendency is there once again. And then when we are in an environment where such association is there then the inclination to act in a sinful way is very strong!
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Gorilla made me laugh here.....I was laughing alone here.. reading this..
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(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February, 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19
Our true identity remains hidden underneath all these layers of material conditioning. That true identity is not something we cannot access at the present. We have no idea who we really are in the spiritual world. What our eternal identity truly is, since it is hard to say. For that matter a truck driver who is covered with tattoos might be a gopi in the spiritual world! It's possible, and the ballerina could be a cowherd boy in the spiritual world. Our current situation is not necessarily the same! It's hard to say….a gorilla may not be a gorilla in the spiritual world.
So therefore in our current condition in devotional service, we are not taking our material desires so seriously. We are observing them and judging them:
'Are these going to get me into trouble ? Or not? If they are not going to get me into too much trouble, then alright maybe, I'll pursue them. But if they'll get me into trouble, no then I will definitely have to give them up.'
That is the practice of devotional service, one has to have that willingness to say:
'Some of my desires I will forego.'
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(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 9th February, 2012, Leicester, England) Lecture: SB 1.2.19
Then again, you get kids in your school who say:
'Come on…….come on, don't be a square! You try this?'
And they try to convince you to take drugs! At that point someone might think:
'Yeah well…..I guess….yes!'
Whereas anybody with a little bit of intelligence can appreciate that these things are bringing only misery! So the modes of ignorance surround us. There are traces of the modes of ignorance within us. At an early age we are being influenced before we can even fully make informed decisions….mature decisions. We are already influenced by our environment!
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