Anger pride envy madness greed lust are all friends with each other. So think well before allowing anyone of them into your system. If you give place to one of them they will bring their friends also one by one.
Dinesh
Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna
Gopis performing Devotional Service to the Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna
When the babies first learn to walk they slip and fall down quite a few times until their bodily limbs become strong enough to attain stability.
Similarly with our weak faith in Krishna, we fall down many times becoming prey to the glamour of the material energy and get stuck.
We can make progress with a little support from our spiritual master, the father, the baby learns to walk steadily despite the impediments on the way.
Srila Prabhupada said he has given all his mercy to his disciples. If you voluntarily put knife on your neck nobody can help you. Similarly we voluntarily associate with the modes of material nature and get contaminated despite the mercy of Guru and Lord Caitanya that protects us from illusory energy.
We have taste for Krishna's names and His mercy in the form of Prasadam. And it grows as long as we don't offend the Vaishnavas and The Lord. Similarly the taste for offensive attitude also grows with someone who already has begun offending. It needs correction before it grows bigger and bigger. We see from Caitanya Lila that there was one who went to extent of offending even Lord Caitanya for eating more as a sannyasi.
In Krishna Lila, Rukmi, Jarasandha, Sisupala all of them offended Krishna and their offenses had to be stopped at some point otherwise it was not good for them. So The Lord punishes miscreants as a father for the benefit of the child.
A big ship is held at the port by a small iron part. Similarly our soul can be saved by simply controlling the small part in our big gross body - tongue in our speech and eating remnants of food offered to Krishna.
Dinesh
From: bhakti.vikasa.swami
Srila Prabhupada said:
So you have to fight. Krsna never said, 'Arjuna, oh, you are My devotee, you
sit down and sleep, I shall take care of . . . ' He never said that. So if
you take that position -- we are devotees, non violent, and let us sleep ..
. . Fight! With all the resources that we have got. That is wanted.
So prepare for fight. Don't be afraid. Arjuna, they were five brothers and
the other party, one hundred brothers. Therefore Dhrtarastra was confident
that 'What are these five brothers without any help? We have ruined them.
They were in the forest for thirteen years. Lost all connection, no kingdom.
I have got government in hand, and my hundred sons, and we are well
equipped.'
You must come forward to fight. If you simply sit down in Vrndavana, then
Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission is not being carried. He says, prthivite ache
yata nagaradi grama. [CB Antya-khanda 4.126] That is His mission. I am a
teeny person; single handed we shall fight? Why you should see the fun and
do not fight? That I am asking you. I shall fight and you shall see the fun?
Come with me to fight, because there is a world fight now.
It is a serious situation; you should not see simply the fun and claim to
belong to Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Now you should come out to fight. Am I wrong
or right?
Now we should combine together and fight. As soon as you introduce something
strong, there will be fight. There will be fight. Even Krsna had to see the
fight, Kuruksetra. Dharmaksetre kuruksetre samaveta yuyutsavah [Bg. 1.1].
The fight must be there, yuyutsavah. So if you belong to Caitanya
Mahaprabhu's party, then you should come out to fight. Whatever's done is
done, and it is done single handed. Nobody has helped me. Even not my
Godbrothers. These American boys, they have helped me. They understood the
philosophy and they helped me.
Now you should come forward, all combine together. There is a great fight.
We are just planning how to fight. Now when there is fight, it requires real
strength. Now their fight is confronting us because they are feeling the
strength. Their whole civilization is threatened. We are recommending no
illicit sex, no intoxication, no gambling, and no meat eating. This is the
basic principle of modern civilization. So the foundation is threatened.
Theoretically they are taking that 'If these four things are stopped, then
where is our civilization?' The millions of liquor manufacturers, breweries,
millions of gambling houses, cigarette factories, so theoretically if this
movement is successful, then whole civilization is finished. Because these
young men have taken seriously, so they are threatened and they are making a
strong party to fight with us."
We should gather our strength. Fight. Krsna never said that 'Don't fight.'
Never said to Arjuna that 'You are My devotee; you don't fight. You are very
good gentleman, nonviolent, and I shall do everything for you.' Never said
that. He said, 'Now there is a great dangerous fight. Why you are saying
like a nonsense?' anarya justam, like non Aryan. This fight is another good
news that they are feeling the strength.
Fight! Without fight, where is life? If there is no fighting, then what is
that life? That is dead stone. Fight must be there. Krsna's whole life is
fighting from the very birth. His father carried Him to Gokula and He fell
down in the Yamuna and . . . Just born, the fighting began. Just born. And
at Yasodamayi's house, Nanda Maharaja's house, so many demons daily coming
-- Sakatasura, Aghasura, Bakasura, Putana, so on, so on, so on. Ultimately
Kamsa, when He was young boy. Vrndavana, so many asuras came. You have seen
the pictures? Krsna is fighting with the horse demon, with the bull,
fighting. If Krsna is fighting, why not Krsna consciousness the same thing?
You cannot expect peaceful life. No, there must be fighting; then think,
'That is Krsna's presence, His fight.' So this fighting means they're
feeling the presence of Krsna consciousness movement. Otherwise why they're
making fight? Had it been an insignificant thing, there was no question of
fighting."
(Excerpts from Transcendental Diary)
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Each one of us is alone in this World in reality therefore no one conditioned soul can give shelter to another conditioned soul. It's like each one of us trying to swim in the ocean and since everyone is drowning, no one can save anyone else.
Dinesh
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