Transcribed by Bhakta Frederick(Kadamba Kanana Swami, October 2010, Melbourne)
What is compassion? How can one be compassionate? Is it a sentiment? Hm?
Compassion only really begins if we appreciate that we have something better. If we have something better then we can be compassionate. Otherwise you can go out on book distribution and you can see all your old friends sitting on a terrace somewhere, like drinking outside in the sun, and you can feel compassion for who? Yourself! You have to stand out there with those books in the street, and everyone else is having a good time. Yeah, That's how it is!.
But if we are convinced that we have something better, then we can develop compassion for others...
Then we can experience real compassion.
The more we are relishing Krishna consciousness, the more compassionate we can be; the more we can preach very easily - because we are relishing!
We are relishing our Krishna consciousness; it's so wonderful!
"Please, take some mercy!"
"No no, I don't want to.."
"That's okay!"
Nobody wants it, but they take anyway. Right?
”Take!”
Somehow or other, just give it to them. Right?
When we are full of relishing this Krishna consciousness, then naturally we will want to give it to everyone and then naturally people start appreciating also.
"They have something nice."
It's like,I bought a yellow jacket and someone said:
"Why do you have a yellow jacket?"
I said, "Because it reminds me of the sun, Some bright, positive effulgence in a world where everyone dresses in black and darkness. Krishna is like the sun.”
He brings light in the darkness of this world. That is a fact. That is Krishna consciousness! It brings light in the darkness of this world. Krishna surya-sama maya haya andhakara.
Maya is just bringing us so much darkness in all directions:. suffering, burdens, difficulties, stress, anxiety, - Krishna consciousness is just lightening it all up! So if we get absorbed here in the temple -herewhere we are free to worship Krishna, and if we drink it, then compassion will follow.
Transcribed by Bhakta Frederick
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, October 2010, Melbourne)
