All fired up – Part 1

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta Part 2

So the Khetari festival (besides it being a transcendental experience) had established Gaudiya Vaisnavism clearly in Bengal. Before that, Nityananda had preached in Bengal (by the order of Caitanya Mahaprabhu) and had created a lot of enthusiasm. The Caitanya Bhagavata describes how there were kirtans that were so ecstatic that everyone just joined in….the whole village is emptied out and old men begin to jump up high….. so high that they jumped up right into the trees! And they begin to dance on the branches of the trees…even from the tips of the branches and those branches don't break!

The young boys were in the kirtan for thirty days. These boys got so fired up…..and more and more fired up that they didn't even get any prasadam or nothing to eat, but just kirtan non stop for thirty days! In the end they were just mad….totally mad and so fired up that they ripped trees out of the ground!

So it was a fired up kirtan – Nityananda's kirtan. People were just seeing the kirtan and disappeared right into it! People lost their relatives and so they went looking for them! Whilst looking, they merged into the kirtan, and they too had disappeared! The whole villages and families from those villages had disappeared. Several village leaders would go looking for them and in this way the whole village would disappear into the kirtan of Nityananda. So the kirtan of Nityananda was conquering Bengal…………………………………….The Khetari festival was a festival that brought structure in Bengal where Nityananda brought out the enthusiasm in the people, and ecstasy in the people. There was not much philosophy behind it, but Khetari brought ecstasy and philosophy. So Khetari was very significant!

All fired up – Part 1

Our shelter

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(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 21 December 2011, Cape Town, SA)

Sometimes I come on this point of taking shelter and how no one on his own is spiritually strong. It's just by taking shelter that one becomes spiritually strong. So yes, again and again we must take shelter. The mind says, 'no!' the body says, 'no!' that may be…and even people around us might say, 'what are you doing? Come on!' maybe those who are close to us will shake their heads and say, 'you're gone! You're lost! You're totally impractical! Be more practical! I mean how are you going to deal with life like this? Now you're young, and you think you are going to last like this your whole life? And what will you have later on, when you'll need it to fall back on? Nothing! You're wasting the best years of your life!' In this way we hear and seeds of doubt are planted in our consciousness by the environment, by family, by friends, by the media, by our own minds…

So how do we counteract all these mundane influences that are somehow or other entering our consciousness? By just turning back to the devotees.

Our shelter

If we are not serving the Lord

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta Part 2

"Anything religious, or irreligious, which is not pure devotional service to the Supreme Lord is sinful!"

As stated by Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami. When you hear things like that then you think that he is a fundamentalist. Some might say that he is a bit on the fundamentalistic side every once in a while. But no, it is not at all about fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is a type of reductionism – it is a type of trying to simplify the diversity of arguments and reasons in an entire paradigm to just a limited number of elements, and therefore everything is made to be black and white – it is either good or bad.

But that is not what Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami was doing. When I read the verse:

"Anything religious, or irreligious, which is not pure devotional service to the Supreme Lord is sinful!" Then I take that as a symptom of Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami's ecstasy…. I think that he is in ecstasy! He is in ecstasy about devotional service and that anything that is not devotional service, then it is useless! What do we benefit from it? All right we are religious, but it is not devotional service. So we are acting according to pious standards and so on. We pray and give to the poor, but we are not serving the Lord. So what is the point?

If we are not serving the Lord

An oversexed world

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(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 20 December 2011, Cape Town, SA)

Sex life is not something which comes forth the soul but that it is simply imposed upon us by the body. Of course when one comes to that age then it goes on. I remember my father had a joke book and most of them were stupid but there was one joke and it was about an old man. So they asked him, 'what are you thinking about?' and he said, 'sex!' and they said, 'even at your age?' and he said, 'I'm always thinking about sex…' My father thought it was a joke and I thought it was serious! It's a serious case and there is an element of truth in it that even in old age the thought of sex life remains. When we speak about the train of thought then the image of the train of thought is that one thought is connected to another and so on…and the large coach on that train is inevitably sex life if you go down all the coaches. That is the tendency in material life. So it is very strong and very deep and very much at the roots of our existence. Some may deny that and say, 'naah, that's not at all true actually' but they are simply not aware of how much they are controlled by sex life. Brahmananda was also bringing this up to Prabhupada and is saying how a foolish professor at university and that once Brahmananda had written an essay about how people are inherently, deep down driven by spiritual interest. And this foolish professor couldn't see it and gave a low mark for the essay because he said, 'no, everything in this world is driven by sex.' 'Just see,' Brahmananda was trying to say to Prabhupada, 'just see how foolish these karmis are…' and Prabhupada said, 'your professor was right!' Prabhupada had his way of exposing things! Hayagriva had a picture of a girl in wallet, who was his previous girl friend and he said to Prabhupada that he was still attached to her and then he showed Prabhupada the picture and Prabhupada said, 'Oh, she's not very beautiful!' And like that, all attachment was finished, just like that!

An oversexed world

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The animal did not understand anything

Prabhupada graphically described how the material world was a
miserable place, replete with anxieties. From the big controllers,
down to the insignificant ant, Prabhupada said, life was a struggle.
"Even President Nixon, he is also full of anxieties: 'When shall I be
dethroned? Let me take protection.' And the ant -- the ant is going,
you stop it by your finger. He will struggle: 'Why you are stopping?'"

Why so much anxiety? The reason, Prabhupada pointed out, was due to
misplaced love and affection. "Because we are missing God, we are
loving this thing, that thing and then frustration. That very love
which is reserved for God, we are applying it to this material world.
'I love my country. I love my society, I love my family, I love my
dog, I love my ' I love. But I'm missing whom to love. That is the
point. I'm placing my love in so many things, and I am becoming
frustrated. So when we understand that love is meant for God, that is
our perfection of life, and if you love God, then you love everyone.
That is perfect love. Without loving God. Just like you are the son of
your father. So when you love your father, naturally you love your
brothers also because you know, 'My father will be pleased'. So this
is love. That universal love can be possible when you actually love
God, samah sarvesu bhutesu.

"On the material platform that is not possible. But a devotee, a pure
lover of God, he loves everyone. Just like we are. Because we have
tried to love God, therefore we are wandering, touring all over the
world, with the same message, 'Please try to love God'. We have no
other message because we have understood, to some extent, that without
love of God, they are suffering. So they will be happy when they begin
to love God. This is our mission."

During question time a spokesman from a popular yoga group that
claimed that their guru was God asked Srila Prabhupada a "loaded"
question.

"Prabhupada, Lord Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that when there is a
decline of true religion and when evil increases in the world, that He
manifests Himself in a body, a human body, and comes to earth to
rescue the human beings from their illusion. Now these conditions
exist today. Is He here in the human form or is He still to come?"

Prabhupada answered gravely, "God has already come".

"In what form?"

"In the form of His name, Hare Krsna."

But the man was argumentative. "No. No. He said he manifests in a human form."

Prabhupada took pains to explain further. "God has a human form. And
God is everywhere. So if He comes in the form of sound, what is the
objection. Because what is this human being? You are seeing a human
being, this flesh. That is combination of matter, earth, water, fire,
air, ether. That is the combination. What are you seeing? Your eyes
are also the combination, but the sound is ether. So if you accept
earth as the form, where is your objection to accept ether? Because
they are all material."

The man persisted in arguing. "There are two objections," he said,
"One is that He said: 'I manifest in the human body', in the human
body such as we have here .."

"So that requires a little intelligence. That anyone who is preaching
the holy name of God, he is also God."

Prabhupada paused. The hall was silent. Prabhupada repeated the point.
"Anyone who preaches the glories of God, he is also God." More
silence.

Man: Are you God?

Prabhupada: I am servant of God.

Man: But you're preaching the holy name of God?

Prabhupada: Yes, that is my business.

Man: But then, by your own words, you are God.

Prabhupada: But that does not mean that I am God, but I am equal to God.

Long silence.

Prabhupada: Or at least you should see like that. That is explained:
saksad-dharitvena samasta sastrair uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih,
kintu prabhor yah priya eva tasya vande guroh sri-caranaravindam.
Guru's position is like this. What is that? Saksad dhari. He is God.
Saksad dhari. How he is Hari, God? Samasta-sastraih: 'It is said'.
Tatha bhavyatha eva sadbhih: 'Those who are intelligent, they accept
like that'. Then the next line says kintu. Why he is God? Kintu
prabhor yah priya eva tasya. 'He is God because he is very, very dear
to God.' So as I said, in the absolute world, God and a person very
dear to God, he is also God, but he does not think that he is God. He
knows that he is a servant of God. It requires a little spiritual
intelligence to understand how the servant of God and God is the same.

A Christian lady asked whether Srila Prabhupada believed in the Bible.

"Why not?" Prabhupada laughed along with the audience. "It is holy.
God's message. Why shall I not believe?"

An aspiring devotee in the audience asked Srila Prabhupada how to
develop enthusiasm. Prabhupada gave the example of a drunkard. "If you
want to become a drunkard," he said, "you mix with people who drink.
Then you drink little, little, little. Then you become a big drunkard.
Similarly, if you have got little sense, that 'I shall understand what
is God', this is very much the qualification. If anyone also wants
sincerely that 'I will understand what is God', then your 'drinking'
business begins immediately. Then, if you continue, just as the
drunkard becomes a bigger drunkard, then you become a big devotee."

Finally, a man stood up and asked Prabhupada's opinion of the recent
news article that misquoted Prabhupada as saying that he planned to
return to earth as a dog. Prabhupada answered with a grin. "The animal
did not understand anything," he said, referring to the reporter. The
audience erupted in laughter and applause.

"Because he is an animal, he is thinking like that. Everyone thinks
others are like himself." Prabhupada explained his observation by way
of an amusing story: A man who was hard of hearing called his wife,
asking her when dinner was ready. She answered him saying, 'Yes, yes,
I'm coming as fast as I can'. Because the man was deaf, however, he
could not hear his wife answering. Therefore he considered that his
wife was deaf and could not hear his question. In actual fact, the
reverse was true: he was deaf and he could not hear her answer. In the
same way, Prabhupada said, the person who wrote the article was
thinking that Prabhupada was like himself.

- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu

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