31 December 2011

KKSblog.com - We all fly our own plane

KKSblog.com - We all fly our own plane

We all fly our own plane

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:54 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 28 Dec 2011, Pretoria, SA) One can think about a 100 problems in life which make it very difficult for us to practice this Krsna consciousness. Everyone can write down 100 special difficulties- 'why I have an extra problem in being a devotee…'- like health, relationships with other people (family relationships, marriage relationships, work relationships- where there's a whole field of problems! So in all these areas we can list our problems- then the government problems…it doesn't end! And all these are giving us good reasons why it's extra difficult for us to be a devotee and everyone feels like that. Everyone feels that, 'it's especially difficult for me. It is easier for others but my circumstance is that it's especially difficult for me.' Everyone feels that. It is funny but we always feel that we are the one who somehow or other has it more difficult for us. But that's not a fact. Everyone has the mercy and should think, 'what will I do with it?' We all fly our own plane and we all have this individual responsibility to take advantage of this mercy.

It’s about the viraha-bhāva

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:00 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta Part 4

Snana-yatra is described in the other biographies………..which says:

"The queens used to sit on the roof, right opposite of the bathing ceremony".

And the king this year said:

"I'm giving it to Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates."

The queens were very upset, but later they still saw everything from another roof…. just a little further away. They saw the amazing experience of Snaha-yatra of how people were pouring tonnes of water over Lord Jagannatha, and drops of water were flying in all directions….and they were glittering in the sun.

But there was more water coming from Caitanya Mahaprabhu who was dancing in front of Jagannatha, than compared to Lord Jagannatha….and the tears that was shooting in all directions, and that was more water than all the bathing water that was poured on Jagannatha. So everyone was just amazed!

Then it was Ratha Yatra, and He was just dancing and jumping so high! And spinning around so fast (just like when you have a glowing stick and you move it around very fast and it looks like a fire circle). He was moving so fast that his spinning hands looked like a closed circle! And He would dance so high and crash to the ground, and everyone just could not believe it!
He was calling out:

"Jaga….Jaga!"

So the Ratha Yatra was not an experience of preaching, since it was the most public display of the Lord's ecstasy. Externally, the mercy of the Lord is freely distributed, but internally, it is about the viraha-bhāva of both Sri Caitanya and Lord Jagannatha!

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