(Quotes from the lecture this morning at Cape Town 23rd September 2010)Kadamba Kanana Swami:
“In our present state many of us are not fully awake and therefore while walking around awake we are still dreaming, like in the middle of the night, you go to the bathroom after waking up from a big dream, and you are still half dreaming while you are walking - and then you go back to bed and you continue to dream where you left off” ...
More Quotes from the Lecture
“Thinking, feeling and willing are the functions of the soul which are temporarily taken over by the mind while we are in the conditioned state.”
“Devotional service is touching the soul - it is in devotional service that the soul actually becomes enlivened and therefore devotional service goes very deep”
“Whatever pleasure we are experiencing in devotional service touches us on a very deep level, it is very difficult to walk away from Krishna - it doesn’t quite work!”
“The living being is eternally a resident of the spiritual world but when the living being comes into this material world one becomes covered but by the process of devotional service his original consciousness becomes awakened.”
“The consciousness has become covered by Krishna’s illusory energy and we have forgotten Krishna”
“The benefit of devotional service is never lost”
“The only thing that is meaningful in our life is devotional service”
“At the end of our life, there are so many things that we have done and so many experiences, feelings - they have no meaning if they are not related to Krishna -nothing that we do, even if you take care of your mother and driving her up and down!”
“Our real progress is whatever we do for Krishna, gradually as we awaken we become aware of it:
‘ Yes , this is the only real thing that I am doing with my life’”
“We must invest in whatever is needed for Krishna”
“Wherever we may be in life in terms of an ashram, one chooses one that is comfortable and then one must engage in devotional service with great force and great vigour and with great input!”
“Sooner or later we all get to the same point where we say only Krishna and nothing for me - All for Him and nothing for me”
“When we think that something in the material energy is good, then we are drawn to the material energy”
“Krishna may repeatedly send us inspirations to surrender but then if we ignore it then..Krishna will help us forget:
‘Ok you go and enjoy’
so then He will give us forgetfulness of Himself. Yes so, Krishna gives us rememberance and forgetfulness.”
“Forgetfulness, He does not give with pleasure, it’s painful for Him, He gives it with reluctance but ‘what can He do?
He has gave us independence and if we want to misuse it, what can He do?:
‘Then go do it’”
“no dad I have to do it, I’m not going to finish my education, I’m going”
“don’t do it son, one day you will need it, listen to your father”
“yeah yeah yeah…old man, here we go again, the same old song, heard it so many times…yeah yeah yeah yea yeah, thank you”
Then we go and And then ten years don the line you then think after we have suffered in the material world and you think that:
‘maybe the old man wasn’t as crazy as I thought he was, may be he had a point after all, I have to admit it but maybe he did”
“Adolescent rebellion, not hearing good advice!”
“Krishna helps us forget…but not completely, while living in happiness in forgetfulness of Krishna,He makes arrangements for us to remember again”
“One of his (Hayagriva’s) final words, before he gave up his body was:
‘I wish I had only taken more advantage of what Prabhupada gave’”
“In our present state many of us are not fully awake and therefore while walking around awake we are still dreaming, like in the middle of the night, you go to the bathroom after waking up from a big dream, and you are still half dreaming while you are walking and then you go back to bed and you continue to dream where you left off”
“We are still dreaming, We are walking around like sleep walkers, we are still in maya – we’ve heard about Krishna, we like Krishna, we know Krishna is the Supreme Lord but we’re still in maya at the same time… dreaming state.”
“Krishna makes arrangements for our forgetfulness and our rememberance, so it is personal not just impersonal energies”
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cape Town 23rd September 2010)
