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| Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:49 PM PST (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, June 2011)
'Karma-unmukhī sukṛti'. There is 'mokṣa-unmukhī sukṛti' and, ' bhakty-unmukhī sukṛti' He said: "There are pious activities for which you will get material benefits. For example, if you are giving in charity for the poor. Or if you make wells for people to drink along the way. Or if you are making arrangements to take care of elderly people. All such kind of activities are pious activities, and such pious activities will give one a lot of advancement in the material world. Maybe not right away, but maybe in the next life, but one will benefit from that! That is 'Karma-unmukhī sukṛti' – good karma, but more than that is, 'mokṣa-unmukhī sukṛti,' that one can engage in activities to become liberated from this world, especially by realising transcendental knowledge. If we have knowledge and understand that there is a beyond this temporary material energy, and that there is spirit….and that this spirit is more important, then when we are becoming fixed in such knowledge –'mokṣa-unmukhī sukṛti'.'Suktri' – means benefit. So then we get the benefit that will lead to liberation. Vaisnavas don't care! They don't care for the temporary benefits of good karma. They say: "I have no time for such benefits". They have to come back in the next life and be rich. "I don't have the time for that! Do I really have to come back to the next life and just get a beautiful home and beautiful things, and all these opulence? I have no time for that. I'm too busy in serving Krishna!"
"mukulitāñjali sevate" SB. 3.25.32) – when liberation comes with folded hands and says: "Please accept me?" "Sorry I have no time for you now. I am serving Krishna….I have no time!" A vaisnava has no time. If you ask us: "Do you have any time?" "Sorry for what?" "To come to a party on Saturday night?" "Sorry, I have no time." "Anytime to work in my company?" "Sorry no time. We have no time". We only have time for devotional service and if we work in your company then with all that money, I will spend it on Krishna! The point is that a vaisnava has only time for devotional service!   |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:36 PM PST (Kadamba Kanana Swami, June 2011)
"Who am I? Contaminated as I am with all the vices of the world – lust, greed, anger and envy. All these qualities are in me. Who am I to go before the Supreme Lord? Therefore I will serve His devotees who are very pure and fully dedicated to His pleasure. If they pray for me to the Lord, then surely the Lord will bestow His blessings upon me! Will He hear my prayer? I don't know. Maybe if He hears it, then will He answer it with what I have done?" And everyone for himself knows the truth about himself – yes he knows, since we all know about our shortcomings! Therefore, it is quite natural to turn to the devotees of the Lord(who give their life in service to the Lord) and then please these devotees, somehow or other. And if we please them somehow or other, then surely they will, pray, they will invoke the blessing of the Lord! The Lord will say: "Oh they pleased My devotees, so nicely!" Then the Lord will certainly give me His blessings! So this is the way to really get the blessings of the Lord by serving His devotees!  |
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