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Simplifying life Posted: 29 Jan 2012 02:45 PM PST (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, January 2012) Lecture: SB. 5.9.4 The devotee in his private life will be inclined to minimise the involvement with material matters. For example the purports in the Caitanya-caritamrta, in the instructions to Sanatana Goswami, the gṛhastha-āśrama is described, and there Srila Prabhupada explains: "Yes, and those who are initiated gṛhastha devotees, should not desire to have the same standard of life as those who are in the world!" That is interesting because, when looking at the gṛhastha, then sometimes I give the example of the difference between the gṛhastha-āśrama and the brahmacārī-āśrama. And how in the brahmacārī-āśrama, the brahmacārī every once in a while should clean his room….and should put everything outside room…clean out the whole room, and before he puts it back inside, then ask three times: "Do I really need this?" And if the answer is no three times, then do not put it back. Whereas in the gṛhastha-āśrama the mood is more of: "Well, if you can use it, and it is allowed, then why not? It can come in handy." So the whole house fills up with boxes stacking up, and accumulating – you never know: "I think we got one of those things! No, I think we do." It takes more time to find it, then to buy it! But we've got one somewhere stashed away. So this contrast is interesting between the two. So vaisnavas in their private life are generally not accumulators – they are generally also careful and inclined towards simplifying life, regardless of āśrama! Rating: 0.0/7 (0 votes cast)

Kirtana Mela in Mayapur Posted: 29 Jan 2012 02:50 AM PST “The holy name was bouncing of the walls continuously. At night it continued in our dreams and at times I woke up and just started kirtana. It bounced against the wall of our false ego, making cracks and gradually breaking it. In the Caitanya Bhagavata it is described how Lord Nityananda engaged a group of young boys for one month in continuous kirtana. They didn't even stop to eat or sleep and at the end the boys in their ecstasy ripped entire trees out of the ground. During the Kirtana Mela, sometimes the kirtanas were wild and intense, other times mellow and meditative, an ocean of so many rasas, so many different types of taste. Some danced the whole week….” Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, “First Kirtan Mela- 2011″ From the 22nd – 25th of February the second Kirtan Mela will be organised by Sacinandana Maharaja. This time it will not be in Germany, but in Sri Dhama Mayapur, India! Even though Kadamba Kanana Maharaja initially planned to take part in the Kirtana Mela, he now decided not to do so. Still, for all the devotees who will go there, we wish a lot of inspiration and taste for chanting the holy name. Rating: 0.0/7 (0 votes cast)

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