27 August 2011

KKSblog.com - Conquering Maya

KKSblog.com - Conquering Maya

Conquering Maya

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 09:23 PM PDT

If the whole day instead of ‘Hare Krsna Hare Krsna,’ we chant ‘no Maya, no Maya, no Maya, no Maya…’ then that would be difficult. So the more we are busy in service to Krsna the less opportunity there is for Maya. That is the way to conquer Maya. The only way to conquer Maya is by becoming absorbed in service to Krsna. You cannot conquer Maya in any other way. It’s not, ‘first I’ll conquer Maya and then I’ll serve Krsna….,’ but it is serve Krsna and Maya will be conquered.(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, June 2011, New Ekachakra, Slovakia)

To see with a more sharp focus!

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:30 PM PDT

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011)

We are trapped in birth, death, old age and disease. So these are the real traps and no matter how you arrange the society…no matter where we live or how comfortable one lives, no one can overcome these basic problems.

Birth, disease old age and death, will always re emerge no matter what and there we are really trapped -trapped in suffering. So this understanding comes gradually. In the beginning one thinks:

'That in the world there is happiness and distress….there is enjoyment and suffering….and if only I could get all the enjoyment and avoid the suffering then everything would be great! And that's all….and its just a matter of figuring it out. Eventually somehow or other doctor it out. A little suffering – alright we can take, but if it's mostly enjoyment then my life is a success!'

Gradually we realise that whatever enjoyment there is in the material world then it is very meagre…very limited and that basically it can never fulfil our need for enjoyment! We may enjoy but there is no fulfilment…and between the two there is a big difference. Yes enjoy but still unfulfilled. That is the best we can get out of material enjoyment. So what to do! And that is temporary also! Therefore, gradually we begin to see with a more sharp focus!

Making advancement all the time

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:23 AM PDT

The real progress that you make is from the first little bit of service to Krsna and it gets more real day by day. But we don’t realise it yet. I compare that to growing old. Growing old is such a thing that it happens slowly, you don’t notice it until one day you look in the mirror and you think, ‘my God! Do I have a lot of lines!’ I never had those before.’ That’s how growing old is, you grow old everyday but you don’t see it everyday. We make spiritual advancement everyday but we don’t see it but sometimes we have a moment where we feel, ‘I’m actually getting something…’ But we are making advancement all the time….
(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, June 2011, New Ekachakra, Slovakia)

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