Crocodile

There is a picture of Ganga Devi coming into the material world.
Ganga Devi is depicted as riding on a crocodile… the crocodile is representing the material energy because Ganga comes into the material world.
There are many ferocious animals such as tigers.
One can train tigers but one can not train crocodiles - crocodiles are treacherous!
Crocodiles, one can never trust.
There is no such thing as a crocodile being grateful.
One can treat him like a pet, mother over the crocodile, give the crocodile lots of affection but the crocodile will still be totally ruthless!
That's the nature of the crocodile.
So the material energy is like that also.

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Canberra, October 2010)

 

 

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Never blame Krishna for anything.

 

 

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ASK NEW QUESTIONS

You can get new answers only if you start asking new questions.

If you continue asking "Why they are not perfect?", you will continue wasting time and torturing your mind.

If you start asking "How can I make a difference?", you will start focusing on positive future instead of negative past or present.

Create a few powerful daily questions that will help you focus on most important areas of your life, write them down, and use them as an inspiration and guidelines for your daily service or work.

 

 

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YOU HAVE TO FLY

Many times, devotees who join the ISKCON society think, "Oh, I am now in a successful group of spiritualists," and after some time they become a little spiritually lazy because they think that the group will take care of them.

But spiritual life and spiritual advancement is always something very individual.

You have to find your own way in spiritual life.

Prabhupada always gave the example of birds that fly together.

Have you seen those birds that fly in a V-formation?

It is certainly true, there is a strong leader and the other birds follow.

It is easier if you fly in the flock because you don't get so much wind.

You get a little less wind because the others share the wind.

But if you stop flying, you will fall.

You have to fly on your own even if you fly in a group of birds.

The false promise of institutional religions is:

"You just join us, and everything is clear for you. You will automatically make advancement."

Be careful with this illusion.

It is not what Srila Prabhupada said, not what the acaryas say, and certainly not what Krsna says.

He wants that we all individually surrender unto Him.

Our individual surrender will always look different from our neighbor's, because we are different — it's our life.

For this we need a little bit sraddha — faith, that Krsna is there and will accept us if we surrender our life unto Him and invite Him into our life.

- Sacinandana Swami

 

 

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BIRDS

Just like when a bird flies in the sky, so he has to leave behind him everything, and he has to fly in the sky on his own strength.

There is no other help.

Why bird?

Take these airplanes, jet planes.

When we get on the sky, leaving this land, no more we can depend on our strength on the land.

If the plane is sufficiently strong, then we can fly; otherwise there is danger.

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Just like a flock of birds -- although very intimately related, everyone of them has to fly in the sky by individual strength.

If one is less strong, the other cannot keep him in the sky.

That is the law of nature.

So long everyone of us is strong in Krishna Consciousness, there is no doubt, you can fly in the spiritual sky and meet together without failure.

Therefore, individual strength is most important.

And that individual strength is achieved in the association of devotees also.

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We are thinking, "My family, my wife, my children, my society men, my nation will give me protection."

No.

Nobody can give you protection.

It is false hope.

Just like the birds, when they fly in the sky, everyone has to take his own care.

Nobody can help anyone.

One can help only in Krsna consciousness.

Not in the material way.

- Srila Prabhupada

 

 

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