15 January 2012

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The element is there

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:30 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta part 6

In the late seventies, I was staying in the Amsterdam temple. My service was to bring the laundry from all the sankirtan devotees in the morning and take them to the laundrette, which was on the corner. So with this huge bundle of dhotis, I felt like a donkey on its last legs – a bundle with legs going to the laundrette, and then I would drop it off. As soon as I left, on the opposite of the laundrette, there was the Dutch society for the sexually reformed, and as they were Dutch – they were into it. They had poster of every type of sex, with a phone number, for you to ring, if you were interested – for more information.

So I had to walk past there everyday, but somehow or other Lord Caitanya protected me! So that element is there, but then we know that there is a fine line:

'I didn't stop. I saw what I saw. What can you do? But I didn't have a good look!'

Nowadays, it's on the Internet, and many devotees have problems with the Internet. They surf and come across something on the wrong site, and before you know it, they keep on doing it! It becomes an addiction. Well then of course, that is very detrimental, and we are really creating a negative sanskaars, which are hard to break! So computers actually are causing many devotees to fall down!


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Fill our life with Krishna

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Mayapur, November 2011) Lecture – Caitanya-caritamrta part 6


One may look at mundane movies and where there is a scene, which is a little bit too much, then one would say:

"I'm not watching those. I am really not affect by that. They don't affect me…It doesn't do anything to me".

They create seeds and will go out somewhere else… later on. So one must be careful about these seed principle……………..in the same way one may study the mayavadi literature just to get some arguments to defeat it! Then there is an element of becoming a mayavadi, but later on they may become one. There is an example of some devotees who did exactly that and later on they did become mayavads.

So the vaisnavas should just fill their time with Krishna, and basically fight with other things, like for example mundane movies – to fight with these things when it is so hard to resist, which basically means that we are not sufficiently preoccupied with Krishna conscious activities! Because if one is sufficiently engaged, then there is no time for such things. See so that is not an issue, but it means that our devotional life and our cultivation are meagre – we haven't sufficiently filled our life with Krishna and that is actually the case of many.

Of course, in many of us there is some Krishna within our life, but we should really add a lot more! There maybe unavoidable issues like work, where it may be a little difficult to always be preoccupied with Krishna, although some devotees do it very well. I know someone who translated books for BBT at work, which were quite a number of books, but not everyone can get away with things like that. But we are not speaking about work, but the rest of the time, when we could fill it with hearing about Krishna more, and remembering about Krishna more, and a then automatically all the other things will disappear!


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