Chiang Mai 2019 - To stay in a proper spiritual condition
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To stay in a proper spiritual condition
The disappearance of Srila Abhiram Thakur
Q: Sometimes when we do something on a regular basis in our everyday practice we get used to it, it becomes our daily routine and the depth of awareness starts varying. On what does it depend? – No one can be Krishna conscious for you. – Personal interest, individual hunger. – Athletes: life dictated by a pursuit; disciplined to stay in a proper condition. – In all field of life: dedication to a particular end., repetitive things to achieve perfection. – Krishna-bhakti: when the Infinite is genuinely attracted to the finite. – Ashram is a seedling for the creeper of devotion. – Why do people do yoga? – Revelation leaves hankering. – Avoid step-and-repeat process. – Separation makes the heart grow fonder. - Krishna consciousness is realized in the search for Sri Krishna. – About the time well spent. - A cure for material existence. – Level of commitment. – We are our own obstacles. – Kaliya gets lotus feet of Krishna on his heads. - Sacrifice of Sri Lakshmi Devi. – Risks in spiritual life. – A fit receiver puts all his faith in Guru and Vaishnav and in his mind. – Abhiram Thakur is Sridam in Krishna-lila. – Shivananda Sen takes 200 mahabhagavatas to Puri. – Jay Mangal – a whip that gives Krishna-prem. – Spiritual knowledge takes you out of your comfort zone. - A complete transition from an exploiting unit to a dedicating unit. – A process to achieve what is innate. – Seeing by hearing and reconceiving what is before you. – Constant vigilance and avoiding complacency. - Srila Swami Maharaja’s source of vitality: Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita. – You become enlivened through superior association.
Author: Bhakti Sudhir Goswami
Cycle: Chiang Mai 2019
Uploaded by: Priyanana
Created at: 27 April, 2019
Can we imagine that Krishna, the Infinite, could actually be genuinely attracted to the finite? – It seems almost absurd.
Ruci means: those activities that not only were tasteless, but maybe even painfully executed reached the point where there’s some genuine taste for doing that.
The finite achieving the Infinite: this is so noble, so high, so inconceivable to achieve and so compelling that if after innumerable lifetimes of the attempt - that one cannot give up the pursuit – that’ the point.
If it’s all: what we can get in this lifetime? What I can get during this morning reading? What I can squeeze out of this mala – by taking Krishna-nam? – It’s not the proper approach and it’s so short-sighted.
The finite is going to capture the Infinite. So Guru Maharaja’s saying, “It’s that high, that noble and that compelling that you can’t give it up – even after lifetime, after lifetime, after lifetime of pursuit and apparent non-achievement.” So we will see, actually, Krishna consciousness is realized in the search for Sri Krishna.
Within Krishna consciousness there is such variety, there is so much variegatedness in terms of what one can focus on, in terms of service and things like that. But it requires being attentive.
We are dealing with the Infinite. That means: if we’re in a proper mood and mode of thinking there will be no end to what can be discovered, no end to what can be a source of enlivenment. But the obstacle is, actually, ourselves: complacency, stereotype, thinking that we know [what Krishna consciousness is].
What appears to be “All risk and no gain” in its final and ultimate expression is “All gain and no risk”: you didn’t risk anything - because all the so-called risk was of things that are insubstantial, temporary to begin with.
Repeated hearing is more important than so-called understanding.
We are ready for total transformation, a complete transition from wherever we were previously to the new servitor identity. From an exploiting unit to a dedicating unit.