(KadambaKananaSwami , 17th September , Pretoria)We worry about everything:
‘What will go wrong? –what doesn’t go wrong?”
“Why isn’t it going wrong?”
“Can’t be already three days and no problem! Nothing is wrong- There must be a problem! There must be something to be in anxiety about!”
“There must be something to disturb me”
“There must be something, there must be something I urgently need to discuss."
There must be a problem that I need counselling for, there must be - it’s urgent. And if it’s not here today then something is wrong”
“Can I speak to you, something is really wrong, I have no problems today!! What do I do about that?!” ...
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Kadamba Kanana Swami: The key to success in spiritual life is not : so much fighting and fighting with our lower nature, fighting and fighting with our material desires, fighting and fighting with our senses -that’s not really the issue.
That we do by regulation, by situating ourselves in a good regulated programme – then the senses and the mind come under control, by being in good association… Our focus is to put as much Krishna or as much service to Krishna as possible in a day – and if we simply do that then that will carry us to the spontatneous platform and that is what is going on.
Therefore there is no need to worry – where am I, how free am I from material desires, this and that…Don’t worry about it! Just don’t make time for material desires.
Just create more and more opportunities for serving Krishna and everything will come automatically. So there is no need for anxiety. Automatically..(Sanskrit) Everything will be revealed.
There is no problem at all. Automatically attachment to Krishna will come. Automatically taste will come. Automatically the desire for devotional service will increase. Automatically we will become more detached from material things and attached to Krishna.Automatically we will get more and more knowledge and deeper understanding of Krishna. Automatically.There is no need for anxiety.
All this anxiety is an old habit. We bring it from the material world. Instead of being very optimistic we always worry, we worry about everything:
‘What will go wrong? –what doesn’t go wrong?”
“Why isn’t it going wrong?”
“Can’t be already three days and no problem! Nothing is wrong- There must be a problem! There must be something to be in anxiety about!”
“There must be something to disturb me”
“There must be something, there must be something I urgently need to discuss. There must be a problem that I need counselling for, there must be -it’s urgent! And if it’s not here today then something is wrong”
“Can I speak to you, something is really wrong, I have no problems today!! What do I do about that?!”
In this way we are addicted to finding problems, making problems and bringing problems up for discussion instead of saying, you know:
“Forget problems, forget them!”
The best way to deal with problems is to just forget them. Don’t bother with them. Let them be, let them be. Be what they are:
“We don’t have time for them.”
Fixing the material situation…well that may not work so let’s just tolerate. If it’s really that bad that we do have to do something, well do something quick and get back to serving Krishna.
Don’t waste too much time with these material problems. They are not worth it. They won’t bring any good result. They will never be solved, just when one is solved another one is already there so then you can talk about that and then all that you do is just talking about problems. So that we won’t do.
We are optimistic, we are saying that everything is really nice, everything is really wonderful because all the blessings are there. Everything is here.
We have the Holy Name and surely it will be successful and without a doubt because the Holy name is so powerful, nothing ..Nothing can obstruct it because the Holy Name is Krishna…and what in the world can obstruct Krishna…Nothing!!!
He is Supremely powerful and the Name is non different from Him, so the Name is supremely powerful so what are we worried about:
Chant Hare Krishna and everything will be great!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami , 17th September , Pretoria)
